Just whan I thought all was lost - I ran across this little ray of hope <IMG src="https://vanlivingforum.com/images/boards/smilies/rolleyes.gif" align=absMiddle border=0><br><br><A href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/18/healt...solation-health/index.html?eref=googletoolbar" target=_blank>http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/18/healt...solation-health/index.html?eref=googletoolbar</A><br>
Oh - this looks encoraging --
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Well arent they just a ray of sunshine?</p><p style="margin: 0px;">But you know--I think thats dealing with some</p><p style="margin: 0px;">that have NO outside interest.</p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;">After I retired,I kind-of paniced for awhile--then</p><p style="margin: 0px;">I had a talk w/myself and started looking at all</p><p style="margin: 0px;">the things I always wanted todo--Its an inside job.</p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;">If we sit on our collective butts and whine--yes I think </p><p style="margin: 0px;">mental illness can creep in--</p><p style="margin: 0px;">I sew--I read alot--I am learning (well trying) to work the magic buttons</p><p style="margin: 0px;">on this computer--whichis stranger in my mist.</p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;">We have to occupy our minds-- aloneness creeps in--we're humans</p><p style="margin: 0px;">we need some of that also in our lives.</p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;">I try hard not to get down--find myself SOMETHING to do.</p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;">Good luck--take care</p><p style="margin: 0px;">annie</p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p>
</p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;">Dont know if that is good or bad--but bust out in song and let me hear it.</p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;">And I love roses--</p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;">What are you up too?</p><p style="margin: 0px;">Read? Rock climb?Fish?</p><p style="margin: 0px;">Today is my clean up kitchen day--Rv's--they look a mess if you</p><p style="margin: 0px;">leave a cup out huh?</p><p style="margin: 0px;">Its raining here--we need it so bad.</p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;">This old rv is 24 y/o and getting harder to maintain each year.</p><p style="margin: 0px;">Its doalbe in the winter but summer is very hard--cant cool her</p><p style="margin: 0px;">insulation is about gone.</p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;">Good to talk to you--NOW start singing--<img border="0" align="absmiddle" src="/images/boards/smilies/biggrin.gif"></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"></p>Ricekila said:</p><p><br>Do you realize I can sing your post to "The Yellow Rose of Texas" -- like any Emily Dickinson poemtxanne said:<br>
<p style="margin: 0px;">Ohhhhhhhhhh where did you find that?</p><p style="margin: 0px;">I tried to figure out what other words he knew?</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><img border="0" align="absmiddle" src="/images/boards/smilies/eek.gif"></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;">Thank you--I think</p><p style="margin: 0px;">annie</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">I huh-er never heard of him.</p><p style="margin: 0px;">Of course have spent the past 5 yrs off the net and worked over-nites for years.</p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;">I must have missed him along the way.</p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;">So forgive my ignorance--or lack of.</p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;">annie<img border="0" align="absmiddle" src="/images/boards/smilies/frown.gif"></p>
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Most people haven't until fairly recently. He's Russian and was long retired before becoming famous again for that song.<div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Khil" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Khil</a> </div><div><br></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;"><strong>They mention the significant risk to health of being alone & lonely for 4 years... HA, that's rich! I'm now at the 10 years+ mark, unfortunately, & yes, I HATE IT. </strong></span><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;"><strong>It now weighs on my mind so heavily as to becoming increasingly more difficult DAILY to deal with, mentally AND emotionally! Were it not for my faith, I would have definitely checked out by now. <img src="images/boards/smilies/frown.gif" alt="" align="absmiddle" border="0" /><br /><br /></strong></span>Ricekila said:
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Sir Joey- I have known that kind of loneliness and it sneaks up on me now and then. I'm glad you are here with us, ya ever need to talk just ping me. <br /><br />Loneliness is one of the sharpest things I know....
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<br /><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;"><strong>Thanx, Katie! I may take U up on that one day, cuz this mind-numbing, bone-crushing loneliness of being alone 10 full years as of last month, combined with being trapped in this monstrous house with seemingly no way out, is really taking a heavy toll on this ol' boy.</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;"><strong>Granted, getting away & living the RV life would certainly not guarantee romantic encounters, but neither will continuing to live alone here in the boonies where I remain trapped. It's not uncommon for entire weeks to go by without even laying eyes on another human being, & even then, it's just the occasional vehicle passing by in the road, one of only about a dozen that go by all day long. </strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;"><strong>Nobody ever calls or comes over, town is 25 miles away, it's llke living in solitary confinement, especially now that I don't even have transportation. (My 17-year-old, 4-cylinder truck has now been in the shop 4 WEEKS & 4 DAYS. So far.) If I could find someone who would just assume my mortgage, I'd kiss it ALL goodbye! <img src="/images/boards/smilies/frown.gif" border="0" align="absmiddle"></strong></span><br /><br />
