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A day that was somewhat wasted in-terms of personal-gain, but I took a two-and-a-half hour drive to where my older brothers will be living. One of them is going to college, and well, the other one is there is to help him financially and babysit his kid. I left at 10am and only just now got back at 7pm. It kind-of sucks having both of them gone, I have two foster-siblings, but they're hardly the same, and are much too young to get much out of socially. So, I feel basically alone, which is, although a familiar feeling, a very bad one for me. We'll be trying to move closer to them in a month or two, but we'll still probably be an hour or so away, so it will faintly help matters. The only thing that will really change is that I'll lose the friends that I've made from in this village, and will have to learn to adjust from being in a place with a population to one-thousand, to a much bigger place, not too far from Chicago. I suppose that it's all for the best, and is the best thing for me. Being forced to branch out and meet new people. I'll be going to college in about a year or two, and it's pretty near where that is as well.
Boohoo! Lemme play a song on the world's smallest violin? Seriously though, one of my loved-ones just died, my parents are on the brink of a divorce, and two people that I am closer to than anyone else in the world basically just left my life. And I was never complaining or making my life out to be bad, I don't need people to think my life has "extreme loneliness". So, I think you should buck off. (For lack of a better word)Nebulous said:You live with your parents and foster siblings and feel alone?
...Try living alone and working a job where you're all by yourself most of the day. That's extreme loneliness and that's my life
I'm sorry if I was rude, but unfair assumption kind-of sets me off, especially when it was unprovoked.
What was the assumption I made about you? You shared something about yourself so I shared something about myself that related to it... I'm sorry my reply was lacking remorse and seemed uncaring. The point I was trying to convey is that I can relate to feeling alone. I can also relate to losing loved ones and divorce. In the past few years my family has been pretty much cut in half because of all the people who have passed away. My mom and dad divorced when I was 9 because my dad was an abusive alcoholic. But then again, this isnt the "who has the bigger sob story" game so I'll just offer my sympathies for the troubles you are currently experiencing.Nicholas McConnaughay said:Boohoo! Lemme play a song on the world's smallest violin? Seriously though, one of my loved-ones just died, my parents are on the brink of a divorce, and two people that I am closer to than anyone else in the world basically just left my life. And I was never complaining or making my life out to be bad, I don't need people to think my life has "extreme loneliness". So, I think you should buck off. (For lack of a better word)Nebulous said:You live with your parents and foster siblings and feel alone?
...Try living alone and working a job where you're all by yourself most of the day. That's extreme loneliness and that's my life
I'm sorry if I was rude, but unfair assumption kind-of sets me off, especially when it was unprovoked.
But that's not what you said, you told me that I should "try living with this," as if my problems were insufficient and thus not worth acknowledging. You may have meant something else, but it's what you said that struck me the wrong way. I suppose it's a matter of emotion not being conveyed online, my apologies.
I think that I am starting my senior year on the twentieth, but it's troublesome because I might be moving at the end of the month as well. So, it'll probably be me going to school for ten-days, then uprooting to go somewhere else.
I figure that it'd probably be best this way. After all, I've went to this school for the last twelve-thirteen years, might as well see it off, I guess. There's always a chance something goes haywire and we don't move as well. This one will be weird for me. I never actually knew where you were from, (I always assumed New York) but I grew up in a small village in Illinois.
The place has one gas-station, and one cafe, but that's all that it has. The high-school is the second floor and the elementary is the first. There's less than eight-hundred people in the entire town, and you can walk around the entire place in less than two hours. Where we're moving isn't like that. Where we're moving is about an hour away from Chicago, and albeit, not as big as the windy-city, is pretty huge. It'll be tricky to adjust.
The place has one gas-station, and one cafe, but that's all that it has. The high-school is the second floor and the elementary is the first. There's less than eight-hundred people in the entire town, and you can walk around the entire place in less than two hours. Where we're moving isn't like that. Where we're moving is about an hour away from Chicago, and albeit, not as big as the windy-city, is pretty huge. It'll be tricky to adjust.
Close, but on the opposite side of the country. 
Im in California and I live in a city with 300,000+ people, which sounds big but its not like a metropolitan city with tall buildings, its all spread out... But there is still way too many people around. There is a few medium to tiny towns (like you described) and I've often thought about moving to the country because sometimes it takes me 15 minutes to back out of my own driveway because of all the traffic. I'd like to live somewhere quiet and peaceful, where I dont have to worry about locking my car or house immediately upon leaving them unattended.
Anyway, that sucks that you have to move. Being the new kid is easy when you're a kid (like in 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade) because all the kids are friendly and sociable at that age. I'd imagine being the new kid when you're a senior in high school would be extremely tough... But then again, you might meet the new love of your life or your new best friend. You never know.
Im in California and I live in a city with 300,000+ people, which sounds big but its not like a metropolitan city with tall buildings, its all spread out... But there is still way too many people around. There is a few medium to tiny towns (like you described) and I've often thought about moving to the country because sometimes it takes me 15 minutes to back out of my own driveway because of all the traffic. I'd like to live somewhere quiet and peaceful, where I dont have to worry about locking my car or house immediately upon leaving them unattended.
Anyway, that sucks that you have to move. Being the new kid is easy when you're a kid (like in 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade) because all the kids are friendly and sociable at that age. I'd imagine being the new kid when you're a senior in high school would be extremely tough... But then again, you might meet the new love of your life or your new best friend. You never know.
I figure it'll be odd considering that I'll only be there for a year then immediately after that I'll be starting college, and be in the same-boat. It doesn't sound very fun, but I think that a bigger school would be a good way to ready myself for college.
We're kind-of in opposite-boats, you and me, you want to be in a smaller city, and I think that I'd be better off in a bigger city. I think that it'd be easier for me to live, more people, and if I screw-up with one set of people, there will always be another.
We're kind-of in opposite-boats, you and me, you want to be in a smaller city, and I think that I'd be better off in a bigger city. I think that it'd be easier for me to live, more people, and if I screw-up with one set of people, there will always be another.
