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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.

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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 love this!

Abstraction · 61-69, M

@NudasPriest I love your analogy on your profile - reminds me of the aussie band: not drowning, waving.

NudasPriest · 46-50, M

@Peaceful Thanks - perhaps I will still type up the full version some day, or maybe just let it lie here.

NudasPriest · 46-50, M

@Abstraction Thanks - I don't know of them, but they've got a great name!

Peaceful · F

@NudasPriest you know I'd enjoy reading it. But that's up to you. :)

NudasPriest · 46-50, M

@Peaceful I have a 'drafts' folder - and may need to buy a bigger hard drive! Time will tell.

Peaceful · F

@NudasPriest 🤗

Abstraction · 61-69, M

@NudasPriest Would love to see it. I came through 15 years of chronic depression, and I wrote a poem over three months when in the middle of it - I lived in the words, they saved me I think... but images of water dominated it. It was posted on EP.

NudasPriest · 46-50, M

@Abstraction Water is a very appropriate image for depression - the line between being above or below the surface is so thin, but it makes all the difference.

Abstraction · 61-69, M

@NudasPriest When I was a child I was a fish. I learnt to swim young. By 8 or 9 sometimes I would empty all the air from my lungs and sink to the bottom of the bay or the pool. I'd lay there, listening. Until I need breath again.

I remember sitting in meetings at work, feeling like I was lying on the bottom of the ocean, completely isolated from everything...

Peaceful · F

@Abstraction whoa! He and I recently spoke of something similar. I hope that's okay to share, @NudasPriest

Abstraction · 61-69, M

@Peaceful I survived 15 years of chronic depression, and I've been out of it for 10 years. And life is brilliant, magical, alive, an adventure...

NudasPriest · 46-50, M

@Peaceful Absolutely fine.

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! 🤗