http://blog.fallingfromtrains.comQuick Blogcasthttp://blog.fallingfromtrains.com/2010/06/27/dont-tell-me-how-to-be-gay.aspx#comment-3269692I totally agree. <div><br /> </div> <div>After my sudden addiction (trying to kick it) with watching more and more news---I see no difference but just a different agenda of sorts. </div> <div><br /> </div> <div>What has me worried is this socialist/communistic ideal people are starting to gravitate toward (some without even knowing it). </div> <div><br /> </div> <div>As we've seen in the past---it doesn't work and the countries that have tried both have failed miserably and fallen into economic melt-down. </div> <div><br /> </div> <div>God, is it happening already? Who knows, but yeah, that lady ended up squirming away from me when I responded to her asinine remark about liberals being more educated (more entitled to believe above the stupid is what I got from the statement).  Told her I once considered myself a hard-nose far-left liberal and now I want nothing to do with that room of extremists as I don't want to be in the same room as the far right-wing peeps, either. </div> <div><br /> </div> <div>I hate that you can only vote Dem or Republican. We need a new road of thought to travel---and it sure as hell doesn't have Obama's agenda floating above it. In my personal opinion, of course.</div>Olivia Mistelle Mistelle2010-06-30T04:16:21Zhttp://blog.fallingfromtrains.com/2010/06/27/dont-tell-me-how-to-be-gay.aspx#comment-3269159"the more educated a person is the more liberal they are".<br /><br />I sometimes think that if I saw the world in this simplistic kind of way, life would be a lot easier. But I would also be an utter dolt, so no thanks.<br /><br />Perhaps someday that woman will grasp that the entire liberal/conservative paradigm is nonsense, and the people behind the Democrat facade and the Republican facade are the SAME FRIGGIN PEOPLE. Look at their campaign donations! <br /><br />All just an illusion to give the public some sense that they are "choosing" . . .<br /><br />Dems and Repubs are virtually identical in terms of their positions on all major issues. Both are pro-war and pro-big business, and that is the major crux of their platform.skate2010-06-30T02:22:19Zhttp://blog.fallingfromtrains.com/2010/06/27/dont-tell-me-how-to-be-gay.aspx#comment-3267820<em>'If you think I hold the views that I do simply because I'm unenlightened, and I'll come around to your view once I "learn the facts," you're in for a disappointment."</em> <div> <em> <br /> </em> </div> <div>Ha-ha! Right? </div> <div> <br /> </div> <div>I'd have to say that I've had to give some facts to some that denounce a certain new unpopular bill (by a less percentage) because they actually had the wrong facts and didn't know a lot of the circumstances. But I agree with you. I was told at this cubscout benefit for my son, that "the more educated a person is the more liberal they are".  It was said in a really pompous bullshit tone, too. This person actually will only shop and eat at places that are "blue." I told her my education background and told her the more I'm learning about things the more I'm finding myself Independent instead of leaning to the far left or right. </div> <div> <br /> </div> <div> <br /> </div>Olivia Mistelle Mistelle2010-06-29T17:25:30Zhttp://blog.fallingfromtrains.com/2010/06/27/dont-tell-me-how-to-be-gay.aspx#comment-3266884Wow, you mean all gay people aren't metrosexual urbanites? Holy shit! Oh wait... I'M not a metrosexual urbanite, and have no interesting in becoming one! I don't subscribe to the urban gay community's consensus reality! Oh my god!<br /><br />Hahaha, laughable. And let me just add: DON'T friggin tell me what political views I'm supposed to have. I'll take care of that, thanks. If you think I hold the views that I do simply because I'm unenlightened, and I'll come around to your view once I "learn the facts," you're in for a disappointment.skate2010-06-29T12:05:41Zhttp://blog.fallingfromtrains.com/2010/03/31/approaching-normal.aspx#comment-3242373That last line really did it for me, very poignant.<br /><br />That's the key isn't it? To keep going without letting the past weigh on you. You can't get very far if your neck is turned in the opposite direction.Coroner2010-06-22T05:13:20Zhttp://blog.fallingfromtrains.com/2010/01/10/my-family-was-kidnapped-by-ninjas.aspx#comment-304355823 days--<img src="http://blog.fallingfromtrains.com/emoticons/smile.png" border="0" /> Congrats! What a wonderful accomplishment, April! <div><br /> </div> <div>I really don't know if you get that <strong>full</strong> emotional connection to sobriety.  It takes time, but what I do know is it's def appreciated once obtained.</div> <div><br /> </div> <div>I got some advice last week from my uncle:</div> <div><br /> </div> <div>"stop grieving over who you are"</div> <div><br /> </div> <div>Simply put, ya know. Letting go of control is hard for addicts and once we realize that all we try to control ends up controlling us in the end...then we only have the option to manage our lives. Another word of advice from my uncle--<img src="http://blog.fallingfromtrains.com/emoticons/smile.png" border="0" /> I'm still learning, myself. </div> <div><br /> </div> <div>Hang in there and I wish no nothing but the best in this brave journey you're taking. </div> <div><br /> </div> <div>Olivia</div> <div><br /> </div> <div><br /> </div> <div><br /> </div> <div><br /> </div>Olivia Mistelle Mistelle2010-04-24T16:45:20Zhttp://blog.fallingfromtrains.com/2010/01/10/my-family-was-kidnapped-by-ninjas.aspx#comment-3041330Clean and sober... hard way to learn to live when you've known a life of a continuous party, even after everyone else has gone home, and the door's been locked. I'm the host of my own party, and the only guest there. Very sad. I'm on day 23 in my journey to this new and strange life. My eyes are opened now though, and my thoughts bounce around my head, ping ponging off the walls. I can't keep one thought in my head for long, as there are just way too many to process. I'm told that my brain will eventually slow down, and I'll balance out. I lack an emotional connection to my sobriety that I wake everyday hoping I'll find I've left it next to my keys on the counter, or under my bed with my shoes. Kind of like finding your keys in the fridge, and you close your eyes and just shake your head. What on EARTH was my emotional connection doing THERE?? Dummy!! (grrr... there I go again... get to the point, April). Over the past few days, since I've been led to this site, I've read a lot of Your writings. Bad luck is not rubbed off from one person to another, and I'd implore her to take responsibility for her own actions. I can't say she should take responsibility for her own "bad luck"... if luck is what it was, there's no responsibility to be had. But c'mon... not paying a ticket (action)... speeding (action)... not being able to sell her house (the market is horrible... bad luck). Seems it's time to bump up the maturity level on that one a little bit, and when she realizes that it was her own actions that caused her seemingly "bad luck", she can learn from it. Hard lesson learned though, to have lost someone that seemed to genuinely care about her well being. Dumb girl. Sheesh!!!April2010-04-23T17:38:28Zhttp://blog.fallingfromtrains.com/2010/03/31/approaching-normal.aspx#comment-3037899<br /> <div><br /> </div> <div><em>'It's as if you pull your soul out and put it on a piece of lined paper that's been folded.'</em></div> <div><br /> </div> <div>Your brain works just fine, April. --<img src="http://blog.fallingfromtrains.com/emoticons/smile.png" border="0" /> I appreciate the way you think.<br /> </div> <div><br /> </div> <div>Thank you for reading and giving me a unique perspective to my writing. Very cool.</div> <div><br /> </div> <div>Olivia<br /> </div>Olivia Mistelle Mistelle2010-04-22T15:30:10Zhttp://blog.fallingfromtrains.com/2010/03/31/approaching-normal.aspx#comment-3035029Your writing is astonishing. It's as if you pull your soul out and put it on a piece of lined paper that's been folded and unfolded a million times. Grr... that probably makes no sense to you (my brain works in mysterious ways). I very much enjoy reading your soul though. Thank you.April2010-04-21T23:43:37Zhttp://blog.fallingfromtrains.com/2009/12/29/the-ugly-duckling-syndrome.aspx#comment-2974549I really enjoyed reading this. I have been single and abstinent by choice for over 2 years. At first because I wanted nothing to do with any complications, and then because I realized I could finally start to be more quiet outside, and inside, and think.<br /><br />I have never needed a body next to me. I have not felt lonely in that area, in fact, it's been nice. I realize I like my space. <br /><br />I'd be lying if I said I wasn't nervous about actually starting to like someone again.<br /><br />I've been trying hard to better myself, but I know I have a lot of work to do still.<br /><br />I really appreciate this topic, Olivia.Fastgurrrl2010-04-04T04:12:29Z