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I Love The Movie "the Sixth Sense"

When I joined EP somewhere around 2008?, I was in the last stages of isolation and depression. I was immediately picked up by people - into a growing set of real friends. We connected on different levels - great people, some of whom I argued with incessantly. I even met one face to face a few times. I wanted to actualise this strange connection...

Since EP - Relate to That, SW - it's never been the same. I connect with no-one. I make comments, I debate, I make jokes, I help or encourage people like I always have... but I don't exist here. No connections, really. Like Bruce Willis in Sixth Sense, I suddenly realise I may have actually died and am not here. It's haunting.
BittersweetPotato · 31-35, F
I feel EXACTLY the same way. Since EP, it has never been the same! I don't quite get it, and if you ask me, I am not sure what is different really. As a matter of fact,this website is a lot more developed than EP, funny how I used to tease EP admin about the so many glitches that were there, yet I am unable to enjoy this glitch-free site! I almost started suspecting that it was the glitches there that made us love the website O.o! I even check EP from time to time, thinking to myself that it may be back by now and we don't know about it!

EP will always be EP.. it is the first place we discovered such strangely exciting, interesting and strong online connections..Like you, I've debated, laughed, teased and loved so many there.. but I no longer develop new connections since EP closed down, I am lucky to only maintain a few from EP which mattered the most to me, but any new faces I am meeting here are just temporary new faces. I keep trying to make suggestions to the admin here that would make the site more EP-like but I wonder, would they? Even if they take my suggestions into consideration, would this site be the new EP!

That place has changed my life, gave me a lot of fun and feelings that I needed a lot during a stage of my life and therefore is really unforgettable to me.

I've wanted to write a similar story like yours for long, I guess I just wrote it in the comment here, oops!
Peaches · F
@Abstraction I understand what you are saying.😔But it is a different world now, and not everyone is a prolific writer so they just want to chat.☺️ There are stories here if you look for them. Fungirl has a "writers weekly challenge" if you're ever interested in that. 🙂
BittersweetPotato · 31-35, F
Ah nice letter 😃 I really thought i was the only one hung up on EP! Sometimes I wonder if my life would have turned out better have I not got introduced to EP, as I seem to have disappeared into a virtual personality surrounded by virtual things and people. Everything and everyone is just far away from ‘reality’. i had no online life whatsoever before EP and I had tried to subscribe to forums before too but I never stuck with one, I’d forget the username and password in a few days. EP is the only forum that got into me like an addiction and ever since I joined I have become a virtual person, i am not sure this is a good thing, but it is what it is.@Peaches
Peaches · F
@BittersweetPotato I had no internet experience at the time at all.😎 I don't want to get addicted to only online activities personally. I am enjoying the quiet summer days lately riding my bicycle.🚴‍♀️🌤️
We've grown older. Some friendships didn't stand the test of time. It remains that people were looking for different types of exchanges, not everyone appreciates debate, for instance.
Other friendships became more real.
The site is different, of course, less story-based, I remember EP had evolved that way too. It's still nice to keep in touch with old friends!
RodionRomanovitch · 56-60, M
I have absolutely zero interest in connecting with anybody on this site and , apart from the woman I live with , there are only a couple of people who I still consider friends from the old days of ep. (Admittedly the election of Donald J Trump has a lot to do with that.)

I can still reminisce fondly sometimes about the good old days of ep , but it really was of its time , and so were we.
NudasPriest · 46-50, M
I find your analogy interesting, because I thought about comparing part of my own SW experience to 'The Sixth Sense' in a post a while ago too, but in a different way.

My version was to be about how I set out to try and help people here, but eventually I realized that I was the one being helped.

I've made some amazing connections here - keep trying, and hopefully you will too.
Peaceful · F
@NudasPriest oh good! I want to be respectful at all times. 🤗
NudasPriest · 46-50, M
@Abstraction That is quite some image ... I'm glad you came through it all.
Peaceful · F
@Abstraction that's amazing! Well done you! 🤗
EP will be forever missed. I still think about my friends from EP, too.
Peaceful · F
I don't see you on here much, but I think it's wonderful that you still support people. True connections are rare. I hope you will find some soon. 💜
DirtyBird · 56-60, F
This movie is by M Night Shyamalan, right? He's my favorite director.
Peaches · F
Don't ever think you're alone. 💙
Soartofreedom · 61-69, F
I totally agree!
nate2244 · 41-45, M
I think most of the people that were on EP don't even know this sight exists.Its like a fucked up government experiment.
SW-User
@nate2244 or they do, but decided not to join.
nate2244 · 41-45, M
@SW-User Lol,they probably take one look,see all the spanking posts,and run for the door.
SW-User
@nate2244 or, they realized that there are some we deeply connect with, and they were hurt by theirs, so they didn't come here. That's the case with one of the friends I made on EP.
I think I’ve known you since I got there at the end of 2009, or the beginning of 2010. 😊
BittersweetPotato · 31-35, F
@bijouxbroussard Me; end of 2010, particularly August 2010 :)
BittersweetPotato · 31-35, F
@bijouxbroussard 🤗😊
SW-User
Relatable. I'm an apparition myself.
Abstraction · 61-69, M
@SW-User It can seem like it. But you're very real. Every heartbeat, every thought.
DaughterOfTheDust · 22-25, F
Abstraction · 61-69, M
@DaughterOfTheDust Wow, interesting. I didn't expect any replies to this...
DaughterOfTheDust · 22-25, F
@Abstraction I also came from EP and made a few really good friends there that I still talk to today. It was a whole lot easier to connect, as you said in your post. This is similar but very different. I guess it takes some getting used to.
I don't think I've ever seen you here before. I will make a point of engaging you in conversation.

Sixth Sense was a great movie.

 
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