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Cast Away. I don't know that people thought I was weird for enjoying this, but many simply didn't love it as much as I did because there wasn't enough dialogue for them. I adored that film.

I'm at the stage in my life where I'm beginning to watch my peers either marry or become involved in serious relationships. And I feel completely distant from the entire process. These are not things I see myself attaining in the near future, though I don't have a problem attracting interest in...

Wild, Gregarious, Serious and Intellectual: you are the Antelope! Action, Speed, Adaptability of the Mind. Antelope teaches survival, how to avoid indiscriminate destruction of life. The Antelope signifies knowledgeable action. Antelope medicine is the knowledge of life'

In elementary school I was shy. I had a few friends, or I played by myself. I spent a lot of time in the yard or out in the woods leading my siblings on expeditions. We built forts and hideouts and climbed trees, and I collected insects and frogs and looked for snakes. I could make up my own...

Hm. I've only really met one person just going out and doing something. We met at a bar, and it was an interesting enough friendship while it lasted but it wasn't of any special quality and didn't last once he graduated and moved away. Actually, now that I think about it, anyone else I've...

I took one of the personality aspect quizzes someone posted a while ago and scored fairly low on the empathy scale, especially relative to some others INFJs' scores. I think though that maybe it's not so much that I'm not empathetic as it is that I'm selective about who I extend my empathy to...

Every now and again, since before I can remember, I will get strong, terrifying passing feelings of not being in the right place doing the right thing. That there's something huge and invisible I'm missing and that wherever I am is absolutely not where I should be. I try to quell the sensation...

It's not just that the media writes/produces what sells, it's also that they -create- what sells. Mass media in the US is owned by all of like, five companies, total. If something does not fit into the particular image they'd like to create and convince people is worth consuming, then they won't...

My high school boyfriend once told me that all of his friends thought I was a complete snob and none of them could understand what he saw in me. Until he said as much, I had no idea I was perceived that way.

Have you ever had you heart broken by someone (not figuratively of course) or something? Both someone, and something. I've also been the breaker. How did you deal with it? When something broke my heart, it pitched me into a deep, cold depression. I felt numbed head to toe and through to my...

Ditto Shaun of the Dead, and 28 Days Later.

Homeward Bound, when Shadow falls into the muddy pit in the train yard and you're not sure he's going to make it home. And then at the end you're waiting, and waiting, and waiting for him to show up... ah! Gets me every time.

.... I wouldn't be wasting so much time studying for a final tomorrow that's in a subject I care nothing about. I would have figured out certain things a lot sooner. I would have gone to art school, like I really wanted to, and like I should have 'way back when.' I really like the idea of...

'Wholeheartedly' for sure. There is nothing worse than restrained love, hedged love. It's dishonest (and therefore not love?), and comes from a place of fear (legitimate fear, but fear nonetheless). I mean really, if love is hesitant, then what's the point?

I can't speak to Sweden. I've never been there, and know very little about it. But in the US, you can't possibly extract all of the many reasons that could lead certain demographics to commit crimes more than others from one another. I think pointing to any one particular cause ('it's all...