I'm So Alone ([info]imsoalone) wrote,
@ 2003-04-04 04:45:00
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Rescue
Lying in the grass by the side of the road, wounds on my arms. She appeared like an angel. "Are you okay?" she said. My mind cried NO! but my lips stayed silent. She crouched down and took my hand. "Let me help you" she said. And she took me to her home, and bathed my tattered wrists. She helped me stumble into bed. She leaned over, and said "Everything's going to be okay from now on". Then she kissed me on the forehead and I drifted from consciousness. I awoke the next morning,..

,.. and she was still there.


I'm no longer alone.


The End.


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[info]safferchic
2003-04-04 02:09 pm UTC (link)
Really? That's the end? Will you start a real journal now??

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[info]theblithespirit
2003-04-07 05:13 am UTC (link)
Wow, what a lovely entry...i have been reading your entries for a while now. The beauty and poetry with which you express yourself is truly amazing. You're sadness reached out and touched me, I understood it on a very deep level. If this is the end, I thank you for this glimpse into your soul and I wish you love and beauty.

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Sick
[info]randomtorts
2003-04-11 11:56 am UTC (link)
Late one night, I am feeling sad and after searching google for “so alone”, end up with this journal. And here’s the happily ever after ending: she took me in - cared for my injuries - I'm no longer alone. Doh! "Come in she said, I'll give you shelter from the storm". WTF. Are we supposed to laugh, cry, or maybe hold on for a Sarah reprise- "You must forgive me my unworthiness". OK, the journal's a f(art). I can't remember being so angry from mere writing.

I follow the link to the author's web site and find items like "a short comic about being perfect". You don't think, do you, that for real people who *are* hurt and alone that your faux "art" could be deeply offensive. I am reminded of a legendary sketch by Barry Humphries, playing one of a wealthy couple gorging themselves on food until, the proto Edna, laughing hysterically at newspaper reports of children starving to the point of brain damage, finally rouses the student audience to the dadaist point of the work - an infuriated mob storming the stage. Well consider yourself stormed, you c*nt.

In the early hours of the morning, I go back to re read the work, wondering why I have had such a strong reaction to it. I sum it up by the authors own words : "Everything's going to be okay from now on". I can't imagine a more trite, pedestrian rendition of Freudian cathexis. The bio suggests the writer is fourteen years old. Only the ignorant cruelty of a teenager could trash the vagaries of human existence with such ugly condescension. An atrocity.

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Re: Sick
(Anonymous)
2003-04-12 08:39 am UTC (link)
wow - dude - you need to get out more - meet some people - have some pancakes - *something*...

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Re: Sick
[info]imsoalone
2003-04-13 10:36 am UTC (link)
Wow! I certainly managed to get a reaction from opposing ends of the emotional spectrum there. It's always very satisfying to be able to tap into people emotions and affect them.

I'm a little confused though, at Harm scented's response. I not sure whether you're taking offense at the whole creation, or the happy ending.

I was quite happy with the end as it was the defining twist at the end of the story. After all his angst and longing and fantisising it was the most trite and basic fantasy that turned out to be true. It was the thing he wanted the most at his darkest hour and, in a delightful lateral turn from the rest of the creation, he actually got it.

You seem to show concern that I'm making fun of others who suffer from this type of depression. I sort of am, but more than anything I'm making fun of myself when I was a teen. Everything seemed so insurmountable when I was this age, everything was so very important. I look back now and realise how funny it was, to be so driven by out of control emotions, when my problems were not very bad and mostly in my head.

Also I have no idea what your problem is with my cartoon "The Perfect Circle". It has nothing to do with this and is a philisophical illustration. I hope you didn't read it to mean that it was my cartoon about 'being perfect' myself. It would truely be arrogant (and deluded) of me to go down that track.

I'm not asking for your forgiveness. I just want to make sure you're angry for the right reasons.

Dan

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Re: Sick
(Anonymous)
2003-04-12 03:32 pm UTC (link)
Well done. You have proven that you have an outstanding vocabulary, an understanding of art and that you know who Dame Edna is. But all the intellect in the world will not compensate for a total lack of originality on your part, nor will it compensate for an obvious lack of emotional intelligence.

Grow up. It was a piece of art, distilling and yes, SIMPLYING the human condition. People are complex and difficult creatures and this wasn't merely some trite piece of crap to amuse some one else. He felt moved to write this journal so that perhaps, somewhere else in the world, some one will finally understand just a fraction of what is often a bewildering barrage of behaviour from people. And he did. Read the other comments made, my friend. They may not be as intelligent as your comments, but they aren't pretentious either.

Go out there and LIVE. There is no reason at all why anyone should get so incensed by an artistic expression of emotion. After all, are not the most far reaching things in our existence art, music, writing? This is not a mockery.

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Re: Sick
(Anonymous)
2003-04-23 02:03 am UTC (link)
What on earth were you when you were fourteen? If anything, teenagers are the epitome of human form.

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Rescue Me
(Anonymous)
2003-04-28 05:51 am UTC (link)
You really want to be in love don't you? Me too. I've also got tattered wrists and I want an angel. Want to be my angel. I'll be yours.

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Re: Rescue Me
[info]imsoalone
2003-04-30 06:54 am UTC (link)
The greatest love of all is the love that you can give yourself

Everything else is just trying to summarize how you feel about a person. Why do people need to hear 'I love you' when it means so much to say 'I like your smell. I smile when you're near. You make me happy now'.

Love is a lie. It's how you _feel_ that makes all the difference.

I'd enjoy making you happier than you are 'Rescue me', but I'm no angel.

( plus my new girlfriend would kill me :P )

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Re: Rescue Me
[info]imsoalone
2003-05-05 07:07 am UTC (link)
Where are you? Who are you?

For god's sake rescue me!

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Just a reply
(Anonymous)
2003-05-20 03:51 pm UTC (link)

Hi there RandomTorts...

I just wanted to write this to you privately but I´m not sure how - so you might be able to edit this off your site, I´m not sure.

I too found the I´m So Alone webjournal upsetting. I personally have gone through a period of depression and was upset thinking someone else was going through a similar thing. I actually vaguely know the author, and was actually worried about him and his mental health. But when I was informed it was a joke I became annoyed someone would post a pisstake like that and not make it REALLY obvious it was a pisstake. Yes, being a self-obsessed teen is funny, but the writing didn´t portray any self-deprecation at all, and I was upset to have people scoff at me for believing it.

I´ll keep an eye on future comments about the journal, but for my own personal wellbeing it´s probably best I don´t get any more involved!

I apologise for the rambling nature of this post, it´s quite late where I am.

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Rescue posters - get a perspective
(Anonymous)
2003-06-29 07:52 pm UTC (link)
Do you need to see/read the solution to life's woes in one line? one answer?
Life itself is so varied that there never is one perfect answer - but rather a stunning variety to CHOICES in your life.
Yes - keep reading and joining in on these discussions - but don't critisise because you feel that every byte on the web should be a complete perfect and true in itself. You need to take a peice from her and another peice from there, and so on and "get it together your way". Be happy wth who you are - you may be surprised that you won't want to feel angry at another person's perspective.

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(Anonymous)
2004-07-26 04:39 pm UTC (link)
I had accidentally typed in the wrong lj name, not a bad mistake though. I realize I'm very late, but I read the whole thing. I'm a very blunt person, and quite frankly I love it. Maybe if you check this for some reason now and then, you could leave a note telling me wear I could read more of your oh so wonderful stories.

Yours Truly-
Kelly Marie

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[info]imsoalone
2004-09-23 05:32 pm UTC (link)
Come by http://www.invisiblespiders.com to have a look at all my creative work.

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wow
(Anonymous)
2005-02-03 10:50 pm UTC (link)
You should publish all that. Dark humor. Very good. Very cool.

-Evanee

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[info]gnatovskiy
2005-10-01 03:36 am UTC (link)
Hello imsoalone,
i saw something like this at http://www.livejournal.com/users/gnatovskiy/928523.html

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(Anonymous)
2007-12-27 05:27 am UTC (link)
Hi I like the story very much! I am concern with the ending though, I'm concern that others may do the same thing and try cutting their wrist, or other suicide attempts and hoping that it will end the same way as it did in your story. There many people follow what they have read without thinking about it or what they saw in fims etc. Someone who rescues doesn't mean they will be become your lifelong partner, just like if you've fainted in the street someone would help you and they would call an ambulance, and then you'll never see them again, its just being a good person. Being alone is hard and horrible, no one should go through it. But Do Not Give up hope! I would say look after yourself, alot of people admire who looks after themselves.

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(Anonymous)
2008-10-02 01:00 am UTC (link)
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(Anonymous)
2008-10-04 10:23 am UTC (link)
are you for real?

i think not.

but i found this by google searching "i'm so alone"

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Re: ...
(Anonymous)
2008-10-04 10:25 am UTC (link)
oh dont worry i saw the other comments...not for reals.

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