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Old 07-20-2010, 08:30 PM

A moment of grace is a point in time when you realize that someone will listen, without judging, and accept you for exactly who you are. For many folks, this happens on the net, a place where anonymity protects the user even as it offers the freedom to bear their soul wil little to no negative consequences. Sure, there are those few arsehats who troll, egging on those who deserve so much better, but the amount of support one can achieve from the community at large can make it all worthwhile.

We here at Seaside Confessions invite you to make yourself heard. Pour out your secrets through text, pictures, confessions, and letters you may never send. Cloak yourself in anonymity and converse with those who realize how special you truly are.


Also, have something you don't want to be traced back to you at all? Send it to me in a PM and I will post it here and no one will be any the wiser about who it came from.

Inspiring Websites:

Six Billion Secrets
Post Secret
Mystery Missions


Inspiring Videos:




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Old 07-20-2010, 08:45 PM

This is a great idea, Seri.

Um. I used to steal the other kid's pencils in third grade? I couldn't help it, they were so colourful and glossy :drool:
I got my comeuppance, though. I'm fourth grade I was pushed onto a pencil that happened to have it's freshly sharpened end up. I still have the graphite mark on my hand.

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Old 07-20-2010, 08:49 PM

This looks great. :3 I like those sites you posted!

umm..hm...>.> I'll get back to ya on a confession. I'd feel bad if I put something too depressing up...:ninja:

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Old 07-20-2010, 08:51 PM

Danke, Biggles, I thought it might help some folks open up. I noticed a while back that there was a very popular Unsent Letters/Letters to no on type thread on here and wondered what something like that on a larger, more open scale would be like. Hopefully it will turn out to be beneficial to the community as a whole. One can hope, no?


@HappyStarr - Don't worry about being depressing. This is a thread simply for getting things out in the open, and we're hardly expecting them all to be pranks someone played as a child. Hopefully this thread will get enough attention to allow others to see that no matter how dark their experience, others have been somewhere similar and people are here for them.

As for those sites, I've always admired them. Even anonymously, it takes a great deal of courage to put yourself out there and the people on each of those sites are some of the most supportive and understanding folks around. And personally, I think Mene has just as many wonderful people.

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Old 07-20-2010, 08:56 PM

haha It's kind of a weird guilt thing I have. I like to be more supportive, and I'd rather make people smile instead of make them feel sympathetic. ...>.> Though, that's had its own backfires...

I remember the Unsent Letters thread. I posted a couple times on that. ^_^" But I love those kinds of sites. I think it's great that people are able to find some form of support and give support to those they don't even know. It's something practically unheard of where I live, and it just gets more and more depressing. =/

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Old 07-20-2010, 08:57 PM


I thought I'd post this, as it uses postcards from Post Secret. I hope that is alright....

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Old 07-20-2010, 08:58 PM

aww! I love that video. It's how I learned about PostSecret. >.>

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Old 07-20-2010, 08:59 PM

@Happystarr - It's starting to seem like something practically unheard of in most places, which is quite sad. We all tend to be too busy moving from point A to point B, or too unsure of ourselves and our place in the world to reach out to someone who looks down, fearing that we'll say or do the wrong thing by approaching them and talking. However, on the internet it's starting to become a tad more common in various ways. For example the site Mystery Missions (though it's falling apart a bit) is dedicated to giving things, hugs, and complements to random strangers in the interest of making them smile.

@Biggles - Course it's alright, I'll add it to the main post, in fact.

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Old 07-20-2010, 09:00 PM

I saw the book they made in the bookstore first, I think. Do you know Found magazine? It's really quite awesome. Hang on a mo...
FOUND Magazine | Find of the Day

@ Seri: Oh, ok :3

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Old 07-20-2010, 09:05 PM

Hmm nope, that's one I've never seen. Also someone just sent me a PM so I'm forwarding their unsent letter.

Distance now forces us to confuse the lines that make up love and hate, blurring them together, though hitherto we had known only the former. Now they work in tandem, choking us, ripping into us, squeezing the life out of us through misunderstanding after misunderdtanding...yet they say that you cannot have one without the other, and there is still some comfort to be found in the fact that from confrontation comes a greater understanding than ever before, and yet the pain that we would cause one another is like nothing ever felt. Distance is fast becoming the death of what once was. I implore you not to allow it to be the death of what is and what will be as well....for, in the end, though the melody that defines us always seems to play slightly out of tune, I doubt I'll ever tire of hearing it. And I doubt I shall ever tire of seeing you smile, making you laugh, kissing you, dreaming of you, waking up beside you, touching you, loving you, or knowing you. And to think that now I am pressing you to hate me....well it does all but shatter my heart.

I hate me, I couldn't bear to have someone as lovely as you doing it too....So I shall shed all of my tears in the hopes that they might become tears of renewal, because I don't want to lose one of the best things that has ever happened to me....

Love A.

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Old 07-20-2010, 09:06 PM

ahhh! I remember Mystery Missions! They had to make that because people were abusing Mystery Google with too many good things (giving away people's telephone numbers for cheer-up calls/texts XD). I haven't really used it too much, though. It just never seemed to be well organized. Some of the missions people made were great, though.

I definitely agree with the bit about people being too rushed and such. It gets really hard to reach out if you're always being ignored. And people here are extremely selfish. They don't want anything to do with anyone, and I really can't blame people for not wanting to speak up, because when they do they get sent to a counselor and prescribed a ton of pills to fix the way they think (which can be alright in some extreme cases, but I kind of wonder if it ever actually solves anything...>.>)

lol Maybe I'll post up a not so-serious confession?

I feel so unloved when my cats ignore me. :lol:

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@ Seri: Oh, ok :3
I've seen that! I stumbled upon it a while ago and bookmarked it, but I lost all my bookmarks (I had..like..over 100 recipe sites saved...:gonk:) when my computer got a virus and I had to wipe the harddrive.

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Old 07-20-2010, 09:10 PM

What an eloquent letter. I hope things work out for them.

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Old 07-20-2010, 09:11 PM

Yeah, me too.

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Old 07-20-2010, 09:13 PM

Wow. That was very beautifully written. *hugs anonymous person*

Here's another video...>.> And I'll be honest, my initial draw to this song was the cello. :ninja:


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Old 07-20-2010, 09:17 PM

This is such a pretty song. Also going to add this.

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Old 07-20-2010, 09:19 PM

I know yet another song about secrets, but I'm not sure it's backing up the message we are espousing... I'll post it anyway, because I'm a great admirer of the artists:

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Old 07-20-2010, 09:20 PM

Yeah, not quite the message we're trying to give, but a good song nonetheless. Not going to add it to the main list for that reason, but may add it to my ipod. o.o

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Old 07-20-2010, 09:22 PM

I'd recommend the entire album, Thirteen Stories of Love and Revenge. I believe it's on iTunes.

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Old 07-20-2010, 09:22 PM

Hmm, will definitely have to check it out some time. Will pull it up on grooveshark and listen to some of the songs.

Also throwing something into the pot myself since it would seem a bit odd/hypocritical if I weren't willing to contribute something of my own.

I absolutely love to sing but fear my voice is terrible and don't believe friends when they say otherwise simply because they're my friends. And then I wonder, what does it mean that I can't trust them to be completely honest with me about something so simple? Yep, I have trust issues.

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Old 07-20-2010, 09:23 PM

Alrighty. I don't think I've met anyone yet who, upon hearing on of their songs, disliked it :)

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Old 07-20-2010, 09:27 PM

I can totally see why. ^.^ Which is great because I'm a music junkie and am always on the lookout for more stuff.

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Old 07-20-2010, 09:29 PM

^_^ Isn't it? I love it! haha

OKAY! I'm totally going to post a real confession now. >.> Sort of. It's real to me. DX

Everybody just kind of assumes I'm super perfect, and that I have no fears or problems. I like to see other people happy, but have always ignored myself. So to other people, I'm just some crazy girl with all the happiness in the world. Nobody knows how guilty I feel that my mom's mother died on my first Easter and the reason she never got to say goodbye was because she had to take care of me, or how badly my parents' divorce hit me, or how I've been terrified of dying for as long as I can remember, or how afraid I am of tornadoes and wasps, or how right now the fact that I've been told I have a swollen retina is scaring the crud out of me and I don't even want to call the specialist because I'm afraid they'll tell me I'm going to go blind. My own parents didn't even notice when I was depressed and I had to pull myself out of it and move on. I've been stuck with everyone's false ideas of me that I can't even figure out who I am and because they all trust me so much to be able to take care of myself, being upset is a disappointment to them..and I don't really have anyone to go to. They all want to be just like me, and I can never understand why. Being me is actually really really tough.

*closes eyes and clicks the submit button*

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*deep breath* There. It's done. :gonk:

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Hmm, will definitely have to check it out some time. Will pull it up on grooveshark and listen to some of the songs.

Also throwing something into the pot myself since it would seem a bit odd/hypocritical if I weren't willing to contribute something of my own.

I absolutely love to sing but fear my voice is terrible and don't believe friends when they say otherwise simply because they're my friends. And then I wonder, what does it mean that I can't trust them to be completely honest with me about something so simple? Yep, I have trust issues.
It's okay. I'm like that, too. Though...I've actually been told my voice was horrible for so long..and now people are trying to convince me otherwise. I just can't believe them. XD

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Old 07-20-2010, 09:34 PM

And Starr takes the cake for bravest soul here. I have found that it's often those who take the time to help everyone and whom everyone feels the need to go to with their problems and look up to that have it the worst, because it makes it instantly impossible for them to go to most folks. After all, there's this unspoken idea that nobody wants the person their aspiring to be like or the one who serves as their rock of reason in a river of uncertainty and confusion to admit that they, themselves, are just as human, just as conflicted and prone to bouts of weakness, because if so they'd be uprooted right along with them and both would start to doubt. And in actuality, those who seem like beacons are often the ones waiting for someone to ask them what's wrong instead of telling them.

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Old 07-20-2010, 09:37 PM

T_T ...you're doing it...though you're kinda right in the last sentence...=/

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Old 07-20-2010, 09:38 PM

*hugs* Sorry dear. Bad choice of words in places? My ability of explanation and understanding tend to make more trouble rather than less. Forgive me?

I'd simply meant that you'd thrown out the most personal secret thus far, and I hope that it shall encourage others to get things off their chests as well, especially if we seem encouraging.

 


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