Just get away from it all

Yes, spending a year abroad sounds just like the thing, could you arrange such a thing through college, Fjordor? Being confronted with a different culture and language might seem like a jump into cold water at 1st but you could gain a lot from it (especially when you come from a country which has such a vast influence on the whole globe but seems a little preoccupied with its own affairs from time to time - no offense).

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Originally Posted by Fjordor

I personally feel that "living" in this way involves exposure to the world, not substances which alter my perception of the tiny bubble that I am already living in.

I by no means advocate excessive drug use.

However, how are you supposed to understand those around you when you have cut yourself off from the experiences that they have had? Others drink, and smoke pot and carry on, you might as well try it. Isolating yourself from other people's experiences isn't much different from isolating yourself from other places.

Also it's not just drinking and smokeing that are the experiences that you are giving up. It's the good times, the way communication can be in these states, and the things that your group will end up doing.

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Originally Posted by starslight

I've been feeling over the past year that I would like to leave everyone I know behind and start over somewhere else. To completely erase any impression I may have made on anyone. But not even death will accomplish that.

I don't drink or do any drugs, haven't even began to learn how to drive, and I'll be nineteen in August. I don't go to parties because I'm afraid of interacting with people I don't know. I'm going to have to drop out of high school. I haven't had a job since the end of January and I can't bring myself to go apply for another one.

I would like to get away from everything.

You don't want to get away from everything, you want to change your behaviour as it relates to other people. Nothing stopping you from doing that in your current situation. After you've gotten over your issues of not getting a job, going to school, or socializing, then you can re-evaluate whether you want to get away or not.

At least that's the way it looks from your brief post.

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Originally Posted by Cyrus XIII

Yes, spending a year abroad sounds just like the thing, could you arrange such a thing through college, Fjordor? Being confronted with a different culture and language might seem like a jump into cold water at 1st but you could gain a lot from it (especially when you come from a country which has such a vast influence on the whole globe but seems a little preoccupied with its own affairs from time to time - no offense).

Well, I don't want to study abroad either.
I want to do something totally different from the working world or the academic world.
What this could be, who knows.

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Originally Posted by PUG1911

You don't want to get away from everything, you want to change your behaviour as it relates to other people. Nothing stopping you from doing that in your current situation. After you've gotten over your issues of not getting a job, going to school, or socializing, then you can re-evaluate whether you want to get away or not.

At least that's the way it looks from your brief post.

Just wishful thinking on my part. I've fallen into a pattern of quietly self-destructive behavior that I can't get out of. I know what my responsibilities and I just find myself shirking them, like I'm watching myself in a dream. To be able to start over before I became such a weirdo and before anyone had percieved me as such would be pretty nice.

But life doesn't work that way and I think I read way too much into the question of this topic. Sorry about that.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

How about just getting away for a weekend, man? Thats what I'll usually try and do. Believe me, it will help.

I can't believe you're 20 and you still run the risk of getting gorunded if you do something your parents don't like.

Maybe this is why you want to get away from it all. Didn't you ever have that REBELLIOUS age where you pretty much told your folks "I am an adult now?"

But seriously. Get a friend to take a road trip with you - even if you don't stay overnight someplace, I promise it can help. ;_;

I agree with Sassafrass, just go away for the weekend. It will defently help.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?