Frustration

[enitharmon]

It's not that I'm depressed. The blip of the other day didn't last long and the day afterwards I felt cheerfully resigned to the fact that life is a bit of a nightmare at the moment.

No, I'm cheerful enough. It's just that, well, I feel the urge to be with a load of people having a good natter.

That's the trouble with Twenty-first Century Sciety - everything seems to be geared to doing everything in the privacy of your own home. I don't want to chat on the 'Net. I don't want to chat on the phone. I want to be in a real-time, live, gathering of congenial people.

That's the contradiction in my life I suppose. My squirrel says I come across as fiercely independent, and I know I can be very protective of my own space. But I am also gregarious. I can be lonely in a crowd where I feel everything is going on around and despite me, but when I look back on the happiets times in my life, they have been times when I have been a real part of a gathering.

I want one of those now, and I haven't the first idea where to look.

Comments

[badriya.livejournal.com]

I wish I had a few friends near enough to meet ina pub or drop in to have a chat and tea with, or them with me. Some days I just see bluerose and some days nobody unless I go into the cafe in the park for a cup of tea when I walk round.

When we lived in East Barnet, especially when the kids were small, I had friends near enough for popping in to. Shame you are so far away, or we could do the pop and chat thing.

[acanthium.livejournal.com]

Have you tried local library notice board? Quite often there are social groups listed there - might be a local reading or writers group which would be perfect. Sticking a cushion under your jumper and gatecrashing local ante natal is not a Good Idea though...

Host a Tupperware/Ann Summers/Bodyshop party at home and invite the whole street? Might spark off some more friendships and free goody bag into the bargain :)

Or, horrors - join the WI and strip naked with strategically placed baked goods.