Relationship with girlfriend developed during 2002 while I slowly realised that the sudden and complete loss of my former social group was having serious effects on me. Restructure at work saw job change significantly bringing much stress. Slid into depression though still not really aware anything was wrong with me. Coped with alcohol and excessive...
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New graduate program at Wollongong Hospital ended April 2000. Had enough of IV antibiotics and wiping bums and so again lapsed into voluntary unemployment. Girlfriend fell pregnant. Went with her to the clinic in Sydney. Didn't think it affected me much until later that night when we cried together for hours. She somehow knew the...
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wow that's some journal entry, sounds like your shit is complex right now
good luck with the new girl hope it was worth it brain damage
Second half of 1995 started Landcare and Environment Action Program (LEAP) - a sort of precursor to Work for the Dole. Enjoyed having something to do, meeting others and working at the Girl Guide camp on MT Keira doing land care stuff. Program went for 6 months and I was given the "Still Waters Run...
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Born in Gravesend, Kent, England on 14th June 1975. Youngest of three children. Father is from Australia, mother from Manchester, England. Family moved back to Australia at end of 1976 and settled in Figtree, Wollongong.
Attended Lindsay Park Primary School from 1981-1987. Shy but generally well-liked. Plenty of friends, enjoyed soccer, cricket and Dungeons and Dragons. Wet bed...
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don't dominate the conversation
I've found the entire opposite of that to be true. Everyone has differing tastes, but a lot of people seem to like the one's who are more personable, more active, more noticable. It's along the same line as people prefering to make friends with celebraties.
Also, I much prefer the term in person to real world. Saying "real world" is like saying that the things that people do and say aren't real and are meaningless. 
Is the new "sense" that the Internet stimulates in us actually our emotional need for human connectedness? Our desire to be social, interact and feel a sense of belonging with other fellow humans of similar mind to ours? As TV may drive away boredom, does the Internet drive away loneliness?
I have had my first experience with online socialisation. It has occurred on...
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In Hal Hartley's film Trust, the character of Matthew Slaughter describes television as "the opium of the masses". I am starting to think that the Internet is becoming the television of the 21st century.
By this I mean that the Internet is gradually replacing television as the main medium by which people are:
1. entertained, and
2. exposed to advertising....
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However, it does seem a bit far-fetched to think that our favourite websites are being dreamed up by a bunch of advertising executives for the purpose of using them as vehicles for exposing the masses to their advertising campaigns.
They most certainly are. It's not far fetched at all. Even if you can consider them not, they're still financed by them. This site itself is even shaped by the advertising. As can be seen in this post (Sean is the administrative officer here at SG as can be seen on the about page (the link is at the bottom of every page on suicidegirls)).
For example, at any time I can be completely happy and I can try and think back of something that really upsets me and end up getting mad. Or if I'm in a bad mood I can think about something that made me unbelivably happy and start feeling great. It's what actors do to put themselves in whatever mood the roll needs on call whenever some guy with money asks them to. The better they can focus on whatever events they're trying to focus on to put yourself into that mood, the better of an actor they'll be.
The trouble I think a lot of people have is when they get that level of focus, they start living in their own world and become excessively unresponsive to the point where it would become damaging to themselves or others and stop trying. If you're able to modify your mood like that, and still be responsive to extrenal stimulusto the point where others have no idea that you were in an unhappy mood before, then eventually you'll be able to control your mood like you would a car. And once you can control your mood you can control your overall state of mind.
Every once in a while I'll lose the ability to focus like that and I'll enter depression as well. I absolutely REFUSE to take any drugs no matter what. I think it's copping out and just won't do it. Just by controling my mood like that I've been able to treat my depression myself rather well when I do fall into it (EVERYone does at some time in their life).