Originally Posted by hummy

actually that is what i meant
it is 750 people that we need to post 100 time
my mistake, i'm sorry, Kat

ah hummy. I see. now we're understanding each other.

Originally Posted by Ikuto Akihiko Hasegawa

You're welcome Clock and Spunk! :D

@Nemo: You took that way too personally.

Well, I was the one who started this... so therefore, I was the one who brought in the bad feelings...

Originally Posted by ClockReject

Clocks been trying to post more

clockie has been doing a great job!
i loved the video

Originally Posted by nemo.love_22

I don't drive period, I don't even have my license, but that has never been an issue for me, because I do have friends who drive. But I've been dealing with crap from my parents about being more social and mom is determined something is wrong with me because I'm not more active and blah blah blah.. I'm not depressed... although if she keeps on saying things like that, I will start believing it. >.< *sighs* I just hate it, because I'm sick of trying and just having it feel like no one wants to talk to me. It's a surprise, even to me, that I keep on trying - especially when I just expect to be rejected now. Just with everything combined... doesn't make for a very happy me right now, and I have to pretend like everything is fine, because my parents will start to question everything... and that'll just make everything worse.

And sometimes guys just don't understand that they actually need to work on trying to be sensitive. *hugs* But I can see that, and I know how that is - needing support and encouragement from people online. That's how it is for me too. I mean my parents are supportive, but lately, they've not really been helping any. :(

Ugh, self-fulfilling prophecy. No, no, no , no, no. <---sorry, I just get all up in arms when someone repeatedly tells another person something that brings them down. My parents are famous for it, or they were before I started associating with them less and less. Now I try to let anything they say roll off of me like water off a duck with varying degrees of success.

I wish family members weren't particularly well equipped to hurt us, whether intentionally or unintentionally. There's nothing quite like being in a house filled with family and thinking to yourself 'they ought to love and encourage me, and realizing that they do and probably mean to, but that everything they say seems to contradict that notion. It's much like feeling alone in a crowded room. There are people there, and they're talking with you, but they're not really there for you.

Originally Posted by hummy

clockie has been doing a great job!
i loved the video

it made Clock tear up, to see such nice things.

Originally Posted by ClockReject

I mean, they are who they are, and that's completely okay, right. but who they are doesn't mesh well with who I am. And I definitely wont be rude to them or anything. I just find it hard to stay in a thread once they show up. is that bad?

Nope, it's not bad at all. Everyone deals with unpleasantness in their own way.
Clockie shouldn't have to stay in anywhere that makes her feel uncomfortable.

Originally Posted by nemo.love_22

Kat: Because lately, I feel like Mene, for me, has lost that homey feel that it used to have, and it feels like people have Cliques and if people who aren't in their group come in to talk they tend to get overlooked or ignored, and honestly, it makes me sad and makes me feel like 'what's the point?'

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Because I ALMOST always get overlooked and ignored...

i always try i talk to everyone
i know hen i joined i felt left out and left the site for almost 4 years
i joined because a friend wanted someone to hang around with and then she left

Originally Posted by nemo.love_22

I'm sorry. I can just leave... there are times that I need to find a way to get the bad feelings out of me. And I'm tired of having to hide who I am from my parents... so I have to act all happy and joyful at home... because I live with them. But I can just leave and take the bad feelings away. I'm sorry.

I am shocked to hear about your situation at home and your parents like overworrying about you.
My parent should be more worried than yours. As I don't even keep in contact with my real life friends. I am sure you are definitely no trouble in socializing.

Although it is easy to say because I am not in the same situation, but. Have you try telling your parents about how you feel?

Just to be positive example. I branched out. My group of friends, other than Seito.
Are different. My 07 and 08 era friends are totally different with what I am more together with. I branched out. No problem.
My old mene friends are all quit or forgotten or hiatus or just seldom come around.

Originally Posted by Seridano

Nope, it's not bad at all. Everyone deals with unpleasantness in their own way.
Clockie shouldn't have to stay in anywhere that makes her feel uncomfortable.

-nods- it just sucks when they are in the major thread like this one.

Originally Posted by Kat Dakuu

that would be way too much effort for a 6 question take home quiz.



I haven't noticed any cliques. the problem is, so many people are leaving and then people leave because their friends leave. People aren't willing to stay and try to make the new friends and the site better.

why is your professor against pencils?
a lot of people have left lately, it's sad

Originally Posted by Seridano

Ugh, self-fulfilling prophecy. No, no, no , no, no. <---sorry, I just get all up in arms when someone repeatedly tells another person something that brings them down. My parents are famous for it, or they were before I started associating with them less and less. Now I try to let anything they say roll off of me like water off a duck with varying degrees of success.

I wish family members weren't particularly well equipped to hurt us, whether intentionally or unintentionally. There's nothing quite like being in a house filled with family and thinking to yourself 'they ought to love and encourage me, and realizing that they do and probably mean to, but that everything they say seems to contradict that notion. It's much like feeling alone in a crowded room. There are people there, and they're talking with you, but they're not really there for you.

Oh, I agree, and I do my best to try to avoid it but when my mom just keeps bringing it up over and over and over and over again.... Basically now she thinks that there is something wrong with me because I'm lazy and lethargic... which I'm not. I'm just not as active as her! D: I don't normally spend this much time with them... I'm home for an extended period of time for one semester -- I so can't wait to move back out for school! D:

Oh, I agree! Like they say that they're here to help, but when I tell them something about how I don't want to volunteer at the barn I've been volunteering at because of how I've been treated by people there - she acts like I'm depressed. Um, no... I just don't want to be treated like crap with underlying insults about how I'm not doing things right... from the people I'm working with, thank you very much!

aaaaand we have xuv and hummy for the optimism win!

Originally Posted by Seridano

I've felt like that a time or two, but I've never actually been able to stay away for long for...whatever reason.

Sorry you've not been feeling as comfortable here as of late.
/hugs

same for me, nemo
*hugs*

Originally Posted by hummy

why is your professor against pencils?
a lot of people have left lately, it's sad

he says that pencil smears while he's grading so we're not allowed to use them
it's very sad that so many people are leaving. I've lost so many friends.

ClockGram only has gross creamed corn.

Originally Posted by xuvrette

I am shocked to hear about your situation at home and your parents like overworrying about you.
My parent should be more worried than yours. As I don't even keep in contact with my real life friends. I am sure you are definitely no trouble in socializing.

Although it is easy to say because I am not in the same situation, but. Have you try telling your parents about how you feel?

Just to be positive example. I branched out. My group of friends, other than Seito.
Are different. My 07 and 08 era friends are totally different with what I am more together with. I branched out. No problem.
My old mene friends are all quit or forgotten or hiatus or just seldom come around.

Nothing new with my parents, honestly. And they're not really this bad all the time. Doesn't help that this is the first extended stay I've had at home since I moved out for college years ago. Oh, you see what you want to see - I really do struggle with offline socialization. I usually hide from people.

Yes, I have tried to tell my parents, and they say they're trying, but I don't believe the, because they keep doing things that they said they'd not do.

I've tried branching out, but that's not really who I am. I can... but then the friends I made all don't want to drive this far... it's not really that far but to them it is... so I'm stuck here...... D: And I've tried to branch out on here... that's when I keep hitting rejection after rejection.

Originally Posted by nemo.love_22

Oh, I agree, and I do my best to try to avoid it but when my mom just keeps bringing it up over and over and over and over again.... Basically now she thinks that there is something wrong with me because I'm lazy and lethargic... which I'm not. I'm just not as active as her! D: I don't normally spend this much time with them... I'm home for an extended period of time for one semester -- I so can't wait to move back out for school! D:

Oh, I agree! Like they say that they're here to help, but when I tell them something about how I don't want to volunteer at the barn I've been volunteering at because of how I've been treated by people there - she acts like I'm depressed. Um, no... I just don't want to be treated like crap with underlying insults about how I'm not doing things right... from the people I'm working with, thank you very much!

Makes sense to me. Volunteer work should be about helping out and making a difference in a way that lifts you up and make you feel good. I helped out in two different animal shelters during college and the first one turned me off something fierce (the could care less attitudes of the staff and the conditions were appalling), but the second one was like a second home.

Originally Posted by ClockReject

o no
nuuuuuuu!

95% of the time I disappear cause I get distracted!

You should say that:
"That is because you are online three times more than I do! Many others disappearing on you too, your own fault!"
8D

and then, and then, I can blame you back, we can have blame wars!

Originally Posted by Kat Dakuu

ah hummy. I see. now we're understanding each other.

this keyboard is way too touchie and i forget to read what i type when i'm trying to post quickly

Originally Posted by xuvrette

You should say that:
"That is because you are online three times more than I do! Many others disappearing on you too, your own fault!"
8D

and then, and then, I can blame you back, we can have blame wars!

no blame wars. it's no ones fault!

Originally Posted by hummy

i always try i talk to everyone
i know hen i joined i felt left out and left the site for almost 4 years
i joined because a friend wanted someone to hang around with and then she left

You are very great with doing your best to talk to everyone, you're in that handful of people who will say hi whenever I come into a thread and you're there.

Zumba wears me out..

Originally Posted by nemo.love_22

Well, I was the one who started this... so therefore, I was the one who brought in the bad feelings...

oops, i think i missed a page
anyway i don't think these are bad feelings
i think it's good to get your feelings out there, nemo
*goes back a page*

Originally Posted by hummy

this keyboard is way too touchie and i forget to read what i type when i'm trying to post quickly

I would hate a touchie keyboard. my mouse/touch pad thingie is getting to be like that and it makes clicking on things very hard.

i have noticed that a few active people haven't been that active lately.