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[daphnep]

So we're going through home decorating magazines at work, and I'm picking out all the pictures of rooms I really like, and I noticed something: all the rooms I really love are the ones with lots of bookshelves. Whether it's a modern minimalist room, or an ethnic clutter room, the one constant is the overstuffed bookshelves. I'm saying "hey, great wall color" or "nice curtains there" but mostly to pictures where there are walls and walls of books. It's like a trigger to some part of my mind, saying "you'd like to live/sit/eat/relax/spend time here". And that makes me like the wallpaper and curtains, too. Just something I realized: I feel more comfortable in spaces where books are piled around.

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Thank you for your support

[nocturne333.livejournal.com]

Strange. I learned a new thing today. That I should be ashamed to be alive -

Re: Thank you for your support

[daphnep.livejournal.com]

If you listen to her (?--I'm presuming it's a woman for some reason), you only give her power. Really.

Think of how celebrities have stalkers--they also have fans, but they have thousands of people who look at their pictures and THINK they know who that celebrity is. But what they think has nothing to do with who the real person is, behind the glossy images.

Somehow, you, too, have attracted yourself a stalker. But just as everybody can say Paris Hilton or Angelina Jolie or whomever "should be ashamed to be alive--or to do xxx or yyy", it has nothing to do with reality.

It's unfortunate she's doing what she's doing. But really, it doesn't change a single thing about you.

How you react to her, however, is under your control, and does reveal who you are. I vote for not giving her any more power in your life, any more power to make you feel bad. Think of her as a stupid, misguided fan, wanking off to your celebrity-sized glossy image. She wants you, but she can't have you, and it makes her frustrated.

But it does not change who you really are.