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He's kind of sexy in a strange way !!
You can have him! He doesn't do much for me!
He's kind of sexy in a strange way !!
Categories of moustache included: Natural, English, Dali, Imperial, Hungarian and Freestyle. Partial Beard categories were Natural Goatee, Chinese, Musketeer, Imperial, Freestyle and Sideburns Freestyle.
For full beards, competitors battled it out in the Verdi, Garibaldi, Natural Full, Natural Full with Styled Moustache and Freestyle categories.
"The freestyle beard is probably the most spectacular one because basically, as the name suggests, it's freestyle, so you can do anything you like," Parsons said, according to the BBC.
"For example, at the last championships in Berlin, one of the competitors there actually styled his beard in the shape of the Brandenburg Gate with horses and flags and everything."
what i find interesting in some of this conversation is how it seems to take effort to be lonely.
........but to be lonely really seems to take some effort. you either have to beat everyone at everything so you can be lonely at the top. or you have to fight with everyone to find your loneliness. you have to take the trouble to denounce everything. this is not good. that is not good. this is what is wrong with that and that is what is wrong with this. just to be lonely. or you have to go to extremes.......
I do a little of this informally but think it is a good idea to do it a little more rigorously like you wrote. So I'm going to put it in my Outlook calandar and write something down each day at 5pm. I'll do it even when the stock market's down for the day . Thanks!I think you're onto something there. I read somewhere in the last year or so about a way to practice "getting happy". You had to write down one thing at everyday's end that you were grateful about that happened that day. Then at the end of the month you had to stop, read over your list from the last month of things you were grateful about, and just store it away in memory.
LOL Good one!I'm familiar with guide dogs, but I had no idea there were guide birds. The things you learn on this forum...
what i find interesting in some of this conversation is how it seems to take effort to be lonely. playing with other people isn't all work ya know. but to be lonely really seems to take some effort.
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I do a little of this informally but think it is a good idea to do it a little more rigorously like you wrote. So I'm going to put it in my Outlook calandar and write something down each day at 5pm. I'll do it even when the stock market's down for the day . Thanks!
After my hike, I wasn't feeling lonely anymore even though my human contacts had been brief and anonymous. That was ok, although I prefer to have more personal connections I wasn't going to make any negative comparisons. My social life was fine for that morning.
Your hike is an excellent example. That's a huge benefit of getting out there and doing stuff. We have lots of "one-off" encounters like that when we are out enjoying nature, and those little chats definitely make you feel part of a community, no matter how transient that community is.Excellent point, Lazy. Sometimes, if I'm feeling lonely, I just get outside, go for a hike around town and interact with people. The other day it was a lovely morning for a hike with my DDog. We encountered a group of college students from zoology class hiking with two llamas, exchanged a few sentences, hiked on and discovered a coyote in the distance. The parasailing guy was hiking back up the hill and told me that the coyote had been bothering a small herd of deer that we could see on the hillside. We had a short conversation about how odd that coyote's behavior was. Then I hiked around the lake, saying Hi to everyone we passed. Some of them wanted to pet DDog and he liked that a lot.
After my hike, I wasn't feeling lonely anymore even though my human contacts had been brief and anonymous. That was ok, although I prefer to have more personal connections I wasn't going to make any negative comparisons. My social life was fine for that morning.
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After my hike, I wasn't feeling lonely anymore even though my human contacts had been brief and anonymous. ....