What to do with Dogs?

[aliantha]

Weird does not equal lonely. Weird equals you haven't found your peeps. And it's very hard for unusual people to do that in a small town (which, I gather, is where you live -- yes?). It's not you -- it's them.

If you hate it there and you're lonely and if everybody thinks you're "weird", you need a paradigm shift: move somewhere else. It worked for me. Going away to college helped some, joining Mensa helped more (but only because I got involved -- if I'd simply joined and not met anybody, it wouldn't have worked), and finding the Watch (and meeting fellow Watchers) *really* helped. If I'd stayed in the little town where I grew up, I always would have been the chubby, smart, socially inept girl with old parents.

And I'm off-topic, sorry.

[Cagliostro]

But Ali...you are weird. But we like that about you.

And Shur - you just need to come upon a heap of money so that you move from "weird" to "eccentric."

[Shuram Gudatetris]

ali- I work in Saint Joseph, MO which is a town of about 80,000 ....I too am quite socially inept, which is probably where a lot of my perceived "weirdness" comes from. *sighs* oh well

cag- I bought some mega millions tickets last week, but it didn't pan out for me

[Cagliostro]

Ahhh...you live in the state of Misery. No wonder. Get out of there. It was the closest to hell I've ever had the misfortune to live in briefly. I've only seen one good thing come out of the state of Missouri.

[aliantha]

But Ali...you are weird. But we like that about you.

See, this is what I'm sayin'.

Shur-lord, it's not so much the size of the town (my hometown was 39,000 when I left) as the mindset.

I'm not suggesting that everybody should run away from their problems. But sometimes it takes not just a step, but a leap, to get out of a rut.