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I'm really interested in like, "Board Theory" these days

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valley_parade:
4? 5 times maybe?

I was astonishingly drunk for good portions of 2010.

Professor Snuggles:
 And I do not at all mean to say that the majority of people on this board are fucked up like 'social misfits' or something, it's just that something has to attract us all to the internet as a viable alternative for socializing as opposed to doing it all in the real world exclusively. I talked to this girl from the old Dumbrella boards about it a couple years back, and mentioned how I felt I'd used the internet as a social crutch when I was younger, and she said that for her it had always just been the fact that she honestly feels slightly more comfortable online than she does in real life, and I bet that's true for more people than I realize, I guess.

So really I feel like this board is an old friend, or you guys are all old friends to some extent (I even remember when you and I were cool, khar, or maybe that's a rose colored glasses thing, but I think I remember that) and I keep trying to reconnect in some way, but its a lot like when you go off to college or leave town for a year or so and then you come back and all your friends are still your friends but you're surprised that their lives have continued on as opposed to holding still, so you try to fall back into the old patterns, try to make it be the same as it was but it's not and things change and I am, I suppose, having trouble accepting that.

Professor Snuggles:
And lastly cuz I have to go to the dentist as much as I'd love to listen to the insults I know are gonna fly at me after this series of posts from whoever feels like taking the easy shots at my ego or whatever, the reason I come in and make my own threads, not always about the board but probably mostly, is a combination of the fact that yeah, I'm still trying to understand how this board has changed in my time away, but also the fact that most of the threads on here are 100+ pages is actually a little intimidating. It's hard to just jump into the relationship thread and start reading about someone's most recent problem with their boy/girl/feelings if you haven't heard about what went wrong before, and what went right before that, and so the only reference point I have is replies to posts I made. I don't know enough about a lot of posters on here to really seek out their opinions in most cases, with a few obvious exceptions, so I'm not trawling through those threads for the awesome jokes that I look for on other boards, and a lot of them time when they are there they're just comments that I don't really understand or jokes I'm not in on anymore ( :psyduck: ) so it's just kind of hard to grab a foothold, and then I do through threads like these but then I'm back off to school again or something to that effect and I'm busy and I slow down on the internet front once again.

It's kind of a cycle.

Lunchbox:
Dude, like, the only person I am friends with IRL is my boyfriend. Luckily he has friends that I can hang around so I don't look that hopeless.
Internet is my social life, I am so bad at talking to real life people.

pwhodges:

--- Quote from: Professor Snuggles on 03 Jan 2011, 13:21 ---you're surprised that their lives have continued on as opposed to holding still, so you try to fall back into the old patterns, try to make it be the same as it was but it's not and things change and I am, I suppose, having trouble accepting that.
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In a nutshell...

Learning to accept and handle change is not just a matter of dealing with one great growing-up experience - it's actually a necessary skill for happiness at all stages of life.  And it's not just a matter of letting the past go, but also of finding what can or should be carried forward.

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