Times I hate being single

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[minnie179]

I hear ya. it is great to live alone and have the freedom to do what you want when you want but yet there are times you would like to look over and share a laugh about that stupid tv show or even just hear another human being that is not via an electronic device.

here's to finding the happy medium!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[watergirl]

I'm right there with you. It does get empty around here - I find that reading anything by Ayn Rand knocks the loneliness out of me.

 

[greybeard]

me too.......

I'm right there with you. It does get empty around here - I find that reading anything by Ayn Rand knocks the loneliness out of me.

just got in myself............just me, but I feel good..........the tradeoffs are worth it.........but not forever.........and Ayn Rand.......I can't remember how many times I have read Atlas Shrugged, and everytime, I feel inspired, and worthwhile............

greybeard

 

[watergirl]

I'm reading it again, now... have had it out from the library for three weeks, and just renewed. I'm working too much, the book goes everywhere for lunch breaks and such, and I'm afraid I'll need to buy the lib. a new copy before I finish with this.. I am treating it well, as I do all books, but paperbacks -sighh.. they just ask to look well loved, sometimes...

I agree completely about how her books make me feel... all my little complaints about my job seem very very trivial.

 

[minnie179]

okay, tell me more about this author. I am ashamed to admit I have never heard of her so if you can recommend a book, I would appreciate it.

 

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[watergirl]

Ayn Rand was from communist Russia, I believe, and she is very much a proponent of capitolism and the individual - screw the good of the many, and not a fan of welfare.. The individual should strive to do and be and achieve because that is just what you should do - not because of heaven, or god, or any other reason but your own desire to do so...

Her main characters love passionately. Sex is often a bit violent, but is an expression of two spirits, two minds, not simply two bodies...

I can't do justice to her stuff - but try any of her stuff. Atlas Shrugged is about a female railroad exective, and her fellow industrialists, as they struggle against a world that believes the strong should give and give and give and provide for the needy and the shiftless.... it's depressing and yet uplifting.

The Fountainhead is about an architect named Howard Roark.. I haven't read that in a few years...

She has some shorter books out, both of the above rival a Stephen King for length, but they are a world apart from him. And I read his stuff, too, I'm such a complete book freak..

apologies for anything I've said that is innaccurate - not quoting a bio of her, just remembering.

 

[greybeard]

this could get hairy.............

okay, tell me more about this author. I am ashamed to admit I have never heard of her so if you can recommend a book, I would appreciate it.

I keep going back over the years to Atlas Shrugged.........it is a huge sweeping story of the value of ones activity..........how and why we persue our dreams........and how often times the wrong traits are rewarded..........and how ultimately things come around.............

greybeard

 

[Harry_Rabbit]

Overall, I love my independance, never complain about being single BUT I hate coming home to an empty house, esp. after a trip somewhere and there's nothing but silence waiting for you.

Sometimes too after work, when you come in and have to make dinner by yourself for yourself and have nobody to share the trivial parts of your day with

I thought you were getting married and leaving us?