'how do you fight, when pushed?  I'm interested... I feel I have to fight in some way with a person who is overstepping my boundaries. I hate to do it; I'd much rather form a kind of alliance, work...|||smells a bit|||I found this video of some words from Rupert Spira helpful... he asks, 'does a storm ever overwhelm the sky?'. A feeling can never overwhelm who you are... feelings come and go, you remain...  Hope...|||pain... pain...   open... emptiness.|||heh!|||be happy in your weirdness, it's the perfect expression of all the love in the universe|||I always know if someone isn't being genuine. it sounds a 'clanger' in me.|||just happy to be alive. can't beat it|||I'm not surprised you are thinking about quitting. This woman is openly rude to you. She doesn't rate or respect you.   Who has spent the time training you? Is it possible to speak to someone above...|||Your boss sounds like a knob.  (I don't know if that's just British slang. It's basically an insulting way of saying 'an idiot')|||Probably introverts. I like extroverts, but I think I'm too boring (in their opinion) to stick around. They're like a beautiful exotic bird that lands in your garden, struts around for a bit and then...|||I think that starting and reading this thread has helped me to do that. Rationally, I knew it didn't matter, but emotionally I was still responding to it. I guess one problem I have is a lack of...|||I don't especially like or dislike Harry Potter. I don't like fiction generally- it doesn't feel rooted in anything. An author can just make something up, and present it as fact. I like to read about...|||well, I like to understand things. I like to get to the bottom of a situation and understand it. When I understand a situation, it diffuses it for me.   It's something I find interesting. I'm not...|||I feel troubled when someone doesn't like me. I feel the need to understand it, and it troubles me. Sometimes it makes no sense to me, so I puzzle over it. Other people don't seem too troubled, and...|||Polly Scattergood- other too endless   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ecR6QIwifw|||Well, sorry but it sounds to me like he's not interested. Either that or he's lost his phone and your number... it seems a bit unfair of him to just not reply. If he says he's going to be out of...|||I googled some old usernames... I like the pictures that come up, reminds me of old times. Not just my own photos, other pictures of people who I'd had conversations with and pictures associated with...|||I don't know if the difference is, I don't want to tell anyone else what to do either. Some people get right into being the one with authority; they just don't like being on the sharp end. I don't...|||comedic porpoises?  478274|||I hate it! I mean, really hate it. Do you?  The other week at work I got mildly told off for arranging the DVD's for sale into a neater pile. The manageress doesn't like it apparently, and this got...|||David Bowie- Blackstar    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kszLwBaC4Sw|||a photo of trees from my bedroom window  388474|||I'm interested in this way of being. I do my best to tell people nothing about myself most of the time. I hide a lot behind a cloak of blandness, it feels scary to be openly my full self. I'd prefer...|||best of all the animals ;)|||I realised a few months ago, many of my interests are invisible. I love fragrances, I love music. Feelings interest me, and certainly psychic connections between people who are intimate I find...|||No, me neither. I don't want to quit the group though, as I do get benefits from it, and some people there are lovely, particularly Jen (not real name). She's a very loving person, and I always like...|||Oh, I am a 4, with a 5 wing. I tend to feel socially clumsy, but I am genuine with my feelings...     Well, it certainly introduces another element into the mix. I always wondered how people cope...|||Yes, that's right... I feel like I've loosened up a bit since going twice... I'm typically British and repressed, but I'm finding it a bit easier to hug people if I'm pleased to see them. I suppose I...|||well, some of the problem is occuring at a cuddle workshop. I get a lot of benefit from it, and don't want to leave, but I sense some dislike, and hostility from a couple of men in the group. Part of...|||I occasionally meet people who seem to hate me for no reason I can see, nothing I have done or said to them. It's a lasting hate, and I wonder what on earth it means. Some people just seem to want to...|||What's this thing about being useful? Sounds awful!  I seem to be unusual without trying, so even though I feel quite ordinary, I don't think others see me that way. I'm going through a phase of...|||This is a bump, for those who are interested. I went down there to see her last weekend. Turns out she's a klepto. She told me that one time she got hospitalised because she was shoplifting so much. ...|||I kind of swing between raw vegan/ fruitarian and cooked vegetarian. I went vegan for health reasons- I don't believe meat is healthy, and dairy is pretty nasty stuff too. I feel cleaner inside...|||Sometimes it feels like we introverts spend half our time talking about extroverts... how much time do extroverts spend talking about us? Naff all!   I feel if I was extrovert, and also if I was...|||I'm interested most in type three, I wish I knew where to meet some.|||Right now I'm really tired of my own neurosis|||Wilson Dixon- Sticks & Stones :D  Vocaroo | Voice message|||My family are all silly gits I hope they stub their toe, the twits They should pay me more attention Being mean is their invention I would kick them up the bum All my siblings and my Mum I'd...|||I'd do the mash I'd do the monster mash (He'd do the mash) It was a graveyard smash! (The monster mash) It caught on in a flash! (He'd do the mash) I'd do the monster mash!|||I was angry at the time I made my original post. I was also aware that I was being triggered, and that I was reacting more strongly than the situation warranted. I needed to write out the anger to...|||This might give someone a good laugh ;)    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xebSF8vRvZI|||Thanks so much for this, it makes a LOT of sense. I do feel she's done it without any thought, and that there's a lack of boundaries, and some impulsiveness at play. It doesn't feel malicious, more...|||It's clearly an apple- can't you read?! :p|||A million red flags? No, it's not that bad.   To clarify, though I did mention it earlier, I did buy enough food for my friend and my girlfriend, and some fruit for me. So it wasn't like there...|||Over reacting, yes. I'm aware that I am being triggered by this and there are buried issues for me that are causing me more pain than the situation warrants. I don't know what the issues are. Food...|||Hey, sorry to hear you're having health problems. It can be such a drag. I was having terrible health problems, and I found that a low fat raw vegan diet helped a lot, and the absolute miracle healer...|||zuflex, it was my fruit, I made that very clear, she was with me when I bought it- also I paid for vege to go in a stir fry. I wanted to make the food, I was very unhappy about the situation getting...|||Hi Thay, yeah, I am in the 30 Bananas a day singles group. I've never been very proactive about getting into relationships. I'm worried of coming across as 'creepy' or 'needy' so I don't like to...|||Well, I live in such a meaty smelly world that I've given up on the idea of finding perfection. I'd love to date another fruitarian, but I've not had any luck, and I'm not good at finding a partner...'