Is it normal to be dissatisfied with humans and reality?

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I love poetry, science, philosophy (occasionally) and literature.

A main concept in conversations regarding these, is life. I enjoy looking through the perceptive of someone else. To hear them talking about their cognizance, even if it is not synonymous to mine. It broadens my outlook.

The thing is, these take place online, in books, or documentaries.

To see waking life in a perspective so beautiful, is beginning to baffle me.

Everyone around me has nothing interesting to talk about. No passions, no outlook, they don't live. I've tried to have intellectual conversations with the people who live near me, but the most I get is a "You're weird" or a nod.

I am bored with the life around me. I retreat into my house and continue to fantasize. I am leaving for college soon, I am hoping that I'll meet someone interesting there. I want to live.

Is it normal?

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  • ArmusWasTheFirstTroll
    9 years ago

    I know how you feel.

    Most people seem to be complacent with simply existing. . .

    Finding people that are aware is so difficult. Even in college people seem to just be going through the motions.

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  • Short4Words
    9 years ago

    "I want to live. Is it normal?"

    Of course it is.

    You should try to be interesting yourself if you haven't done much more than read and talk about these things then you'll certainly bump into people that are just as interesting for you.

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  • RoseIsabella
    9 years ago

    I might now be high brow enough for you, but I feel for you. Some people are so petty, boring and redundant that I feel more lonely around them than by myself.

    In my mind I'm thinkin', "lemme get outta here, back home to my trusty Siamese and away from ya'll damn fools".

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    • (s)aint
      9 years ago

      The majority of mankind is boring D:
      I just can not wrap my mind around how anyone could limit themselves to shallow conversations and strive for house, dog, car and a job they hate.

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      • RoseIsabella
        9 years ago

        I dunno, I guess it's survival. My cat and I would love a dog. Time and time again other humans disappointed me, but I can see the face of God in a cat or dog, especially a Siamese cat.
        O:-)
        I think sometimes my own mother disappoints me most of all.
        :-'(

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        • (s)aint
          9 years ago

          I don't know if you are familiar with Emilie Autumn?

          "Intelligent girls are more depressed because they know what the world is really like" that's a quote from one of her songs and it fits so well into my own opinion of reality.

          I'm a bit low at times when I think too much about the world, the future and everything in between and I am far from an optimist when it comes to people in general.

          When I moved to my own place mine and my mothers relationship became way better but she still has her moments when I question who is the adult :L

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          • MelancholyRigid
            8 years ago

            I like Emilie Autumn. My friend, Kody, sent me that quote a week ago.

            That is true, intelligent people are more declined to be depressed, as they are prone to over-thinking and a desire of truth. (If you're interested in visual statistics, <a href="http://www.wisebread.com/good-and-bad-habits-of-smart-people" rel="nofollow">http://www.wisebread.com/good-and-bad-habits-of...</a> )

            I'm not what one would call depressed, as I'm quite happy with most aspects of my life and self. I understand that our existence is quite insignificant, but I'm not saddened by that fact. The universe is vast, I'm here to admire it.

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            • (s)aint
              8 years ago

              I don´t think I´m depressed either, If I am it's light because I´ve had some rough weeks with a persisting annoyance and lack of faith when it comes to the future.

              The mind is a constant shatter-box of negativity and issues that one really should stop paying attention to.

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