I'm an English Major and a Loner!

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I am not a homicidal maniac.

I am not suffering from the side effects of anti-depressants.

I don't own any guns, nor do I like them. I have however shot a rifle for target practice a time or two. (I live in the country afterall. :P) I once shot down a piece of mistletoe for christmas.

I do enjoy people and relationships, just not in large doses. I enjoy my family and my nieces and nephews. I enjoy my friends, most of whom are on DU. :hi:

I enjoy movies and music, not all of it violent. Some of it is downright sappy.

I do read John Donne ... for fun.

I excercise, pray, and meditate because it relaxes me and I take pleasure in communing with things larger than myself.

I walk in the sun and bask in the moonlight alone.

In short, I am alone because the pleasurable feelings and sensations I get, I can't get in a crowded room or on a never-ending list of people to call back on my cell phone.

I am alone because the beauty and the pain of being alive is so vivid to me when I am; I sometimes hate to leave it. But there it is. Because we all need others, of course. But finding the right balance, ah there's the mystery for each of us to discern.