Hello

[Disco]

New to the community... I was apart of occupy for awhile and while I was there really got a different perspective to how I can live my life. How can I become 1 of you

 

[Kim Chee]

Be yourself

 

[Unslap]

That new perspective sounds interesting, feel free to elaborate some time. Welcome

 

[Disco]

A complete release from my anxiety A look at the world where everyone was sharing a common idea and even if they weren't there was just acceptance. I want it again so bad it was amazing being outside of my anxiety and I was actually learning to become myself. sadly a rumor was spread my anxiety skyrocketed and I had to leave as soon as I could. Just freedom. Going to sleep at 4 am not because I had to just because I was ready to Waking up and just walking having no responsibility to do anything for anyone and no one judging me for who i am what Im doing or what im thinking about. I could actually just be alone and be happy and out of my own head. Fuck whatever they said about me and fuck where i am now wasting my life trying to become something or someone and have money responsibilities or whatever the fuck these people want from me. so sick of being judged. Have such a great mind that is frowned by anxiety all the time.

 

[dprogram]

There's a whole world to explore...go enjoy it!

 

[barefootinbabylon]

Be yourself

Exactly... It has nothing to do with becoming 'one of us' or 'one of them' or one of ANYBODY, because now, you're just trying to become someone ELSE that you most likely are not, it's just... on the opposite end of the spectrum. Exactly, be YOURSELF. If you don't know who/what that is... go find out!! That's the whole point and purpose of life, to find out who and what YOU are, and what YOU are capable of as a human being in this crazy madness we call the world. Occupy, indeed, is a good start... I reckon what you experienced can be called 'loss of ego'... the goals of the group superceded your own personal desires/wants/needs/obsessions/anxieties <--- and all THAT is indeed where anxieties come from!! When you are capable of being enmeshed within some sort of group dynamic, who has similar goals that you believe in, and believe are worth fighting for... Yes, bruddah, man, that's where it's at. Don't know where you live, or what kind of responsibilities your life holds for you at the moment, or if you're capable of just completely dropping them all simultaneously; not everyone is. But if you live in a city, try to find a Food Not Bombs, or similar group of people you can network with. Also, heard tell that Occupy MIGHT be comin' back this spring.. We'll see; time will tell on that one.

But yeah... you're at about the age where I began my own process of 'waking up'.... it's a good time, but can also be dangerous, filled with potholes, ravines, cliffs, raging drunk hoboes and homebums, and vicious po-lice at every turn. Liberation is worth fighting for, though, so hop to it!!

~ melissA