uh-oh, too many pandas here. They scare my little koalas

Nah, I'm sure they'll get along.

awwwwwwwww, that is soo cute

"You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied."

"Your inability to achieve solitude makes you settle for substandard relationships."

"If you're not spending every waking moment of your life radically rethinking the nature of the world - if you're not plotting every moment boiling the carcass of the old order - then you're wasting your day."

- Douglas Coupland

I am not afraid of being alone. I often prefer it. Or just with 1 or 2 other people who are special to me. I'm a heavy "I" on the Meyer-Briggs scale. It means introverted and it's a well known personality test.

Being alone I recharge myself and think of something to say the next time that will sound more intelligent. And, when u spend a lot of time alone u apreciate the company of others more

Douglas Coupland - can we have him arrested? what in the is a substandard relationship? crazy daisy

I think there's a difference between having the option of being alone, and the fact that you simply don't have anyone to be with. I can't say that I'm really afraid of being alone, but I sure don't like it much when it's the only option I have.

"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything."

- Vonnegut

Raptors and pandas - both now capable of opening our doors.

We're never really safe with raptors and pandas around.

I have to agree, I did not choose to be alone. It is not an option for me. This is still so new that I just haven't adjusted to my new reality. I know I'll be ok, I always am. It's just so hard knowing we didn't fight and I gave him no reason to betray me. Guess 4 years with me was just boring after his 15 with a drama queen. I am lonely, have to figure out how to be alone in this house full of memories. I want new options!

when is the antidepressant properties of chocolate supposed to kick in?

Same here. I always thought that some new options would be a refreshing change of pace.

But, to paraphrase Roger Daltrey, "Meet the new options, same as the old options."

Right before the depressant properties.

I'm not scared of anything as long as I have absolute control over it. Also. It will be 1111 posts before my post count is all the same number again.

"When in doubt, just put quotations around what you want to say and maybe somebody will take it more seriously under the assumption someone of more importance figured it out first."

LOL! "Good plan!"

The benefits of a sub-par memory far outweigh the disadvantages, though maybe not in a practical sense. Because everything is always a new challenge you're never bored, but can easily become frustrated. Life's a copy machine with the low toner alert going off incessantly if you try to learn from mistakes. Instead, live in the moment. Remember as little as possible.

Get plenty of sugar and don't forget to sell your vitamins.

"One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and bred in captivity, then released into the wild–into its ancestral sea–its limited world instantly blowing up when cast into the unknowable depths, seeing strange fish and tasting new waters, not even having a concept of depth, not knowing the language of any whale pods it might meet. It was my fear of a world that would expand suddenly, violently, and without rules or laws: bubbles and seaweed and storms and frightening volumes of dark blue that never end."

- Coupland