[Help] How do I get used to being alone ? Updates to this post /post/155676-how-do-i-get-used-to-being-alone Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:01:24 +0100 Reply from m /post/155676-how-do-i-get-used-to-being-alone#reply-5203165 Therescape, for many of us this is not something that is easy to fix.

You assume that everyone already knows how to be friends and knows the correct social skills and cues.

If they do not, what then?

]]> m Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:52:51 +0100 Reply from vmt_260 /post/155676-how-do-i-get-used-to-being-alone#reply-4870605 hahaha..then u’re just like me
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]]> vmt_260 Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:12:05 +0100 Reply from theresape /post/155676-how-do-i-get-used-to-being-alone#reply-3680711 If you don’t like being alone, then don’t be alone. Join clubs, try out for community theatre plays (build scenery if you can’t act), sing in a chorale, volunteer at the local hospital, take adult-education courses at night, find a church community, invite people to your home for dinner, become a Big Brother or Big Sister, pitch for a local softball league, sign on for a knitting or quilting circle, deliver Meals on Wheels, answer the phone for a hotline, tutor kids in your area of expertise, participate in a book discussion group at the library, lead a Boy Scout or Girl Scout troop, entertain exchange students from overseas, drive voters to the polls on election day, take adult-education classes in electronics or Spanish language or underwater aerobics, learn square-dancing, teach crafts at the local senior center, stuff envelopes for your favorite political candidate, deliver homemade cookies to your neighbors, run for office (student government or school committee or condo board or town council), make and serve meals at a soup kitchen, or adopt a pet or two from your local humane society.

The only people who are alone are the people who want to be alone–those who believe that all these and other ways of connecting with other people are just too darn much trouble.

]]> theresape Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:09:36 +0100 Reply from Michael Leibman /post/155676-how-do-i-get-used-to-being-alone#reply-3680600 Maybe every time you feel pain from being all alone you can use it as a reminder to do something that brings you back closer to friendship in the social world.

]]> Michael Leibman Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:37:12 +0100 Reply from rememberpoe /post/155676-how-do-i-get-used-to-being-alone#reply-3680594 Funny thing is (as I see from this site) is that there are quite a number of people who have no friends and are lonely. Shame really if everyone who felt that way could just join forces, issue would be resolved. If anything, take peace with the thought that you are not the only one who feels like this.

]]> rememberpoe Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:34:39 +0100 Reply from Anonymous /post/155676-how-do-i-get-used-to-being-alone#reply-3680593 ouch

]]> Anonymous Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:34:05 +0100 Reply from rememberpoe /post/155676-how-do-i-get-used-to-being-alone#reply-3680589 You never get used to it, you just handle it as best as you can.

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