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Friday, June 23, 2006

Question of the Day: Day 174

Can a person live without any friends or loved ones at all? How do you imagine that would feel?

6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've thought about this before. It breaks my heart to even think of it hypothetically, and knowing that it is someones reality at any given moment rips away my little problems.
There's a part in each of us that lives this way but for the touch and words of others. Emily Dickinson writes this in "Not In Vain"...

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain:
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

Self awareness is understood best from the outside in.

6/23/2006 9:09 AM  
Blogger Mermaid Melanie said...

I have often isolated myself from friends and family. Wanting to be a hermit. It doesnt work well. There is a part of each of us that longs for connections. People that make us feel better about ourselves. And people that we can make feel better. Its the evolution of our species. We are socialized. We thrive when we socialize.

Once in school we watched a video of chimpanzees in captivity that had been left/abandoned by thier mother. They did a cruel experiement, leaving one of the chimpanzees totally alone, no contact, and one that had human contact. While the one that had been handled thrived, the isolated chimpanzee wouldnt eat or drink, became withdrawn and sickly. I think that pretty much describes how we are as humans if isolated. Sickly withdrawn, no desire for life. just existing.

No one should have to deal with that. And it doesnt choose you, you choose it. There are caring people in this world you just have to open your eyes and look for them.

6/23/2006 9:25 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

No, I don't believe so. We all want to feel connected to another(others) &
also feel a sense of belongingness.
I think that it is possible, short term, perhaps a week or two spent with self... but not much longer than that.

I've know a few, diagnosed with SEVERE autistism, who appear to be comfortable with being mostly isolative & choose to be pretty much mute; even they, sometimes, initiate contact with others.

But for the average person, isolating frequentl leads to depression, excessive drinking, sadness, etc. I almost hate to make mention of this but even sociopaths & psychopaths do seek (although often times warped & sickening) human contact with others.

6/23/2006 11:07 AM  
Blogger Michelle said...

CIPHER IN THE SNOW
by Jean E Mizer

This story is true, but the names and the location have been changed.

"It started with tragedy on a biting cold February morning. I was driving behind the Milford Corners bus as I did most snowy mornings on my way to school. It veered and stopped short at the hotel, which it had no business doing, and I was annoyed as I had to come to an unexpected stop. A boy lurched out of the bus, reeled, stumbled, and collapsed on the snowbank at the curb. The bus driver and I reached him at the same moment. His thin, hollow face was white even against the snow.

“He’s dead,” the driver whispered..."


The story goes on. But basically it is about a boy who gave up the will to live because he had not one connection to another living being. His existence, in his mind, did not make a difference to anyone and he simply (or not) ceased to exist one day.

It is a profound story and it reveals my thoughts on this. We NEED contact and connections. We need to know that our existence makes a difference, no matter how small, in the world as we know it.

6/24/2006 6:41 AM  
Blogger b said...

Not for long!

6/25/2006 11:18 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

well again i say that it depends on the indvisual because some people like to be alone. there is also people that carve to be loved by someone. to me friends sometimes make things diffcult and that could not make you want friends but what fun would that be. i like meeting differnt peolpe becoming friends with them and being able to have the drama and the fun and the crazy other stuff. being loved is a wonderfull thing as well.

7/24/2006 12:06 PM  

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