I was just looking into Adium for Mac again (because I was bored?). It hasn’t seen significant development in 8 years. The last update was 4 years ago. It was my favorite multi-protocol IM app based on Pidgin’s LibPurple. Anyway, beyond being a one-stop location for my chats, I was able to keep logs of my chats. Was perusing them and came across a contact I stopped communicating with over 15 years ago. I was weirdly lonely and asked a lot of inane questions then (I guess it seems more extreme when you compress conversations that took place over the course of 3 years into 30 minutes).

It’s a little wild to see what folks are up to after decades since regular contact. People still do things when you’re not around to observe them. People don’t need to see things for you to have done something.

#Adium #Pidgin #LibPurple #LostConnections

🎨 60x80cm

#oilpainting #lostconnections #disconnection #cobrapaint

Faces glow with screens,
silent hands reach for more, yet
hearts remain untouched.

@consciousliving
@haiku

#DigitalIsolation #SelfishConsumption #LostConnections #ModernLoneliness #ScreenAddiction #ConsumerCulture #DisconnectedSociety #EmptyHandsFull

Mumbai, Dec 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Actor-filmmaker Pooja Bhatt celebrated eight years of sobriety after quitting alcohol.

The actress took to social media to share her journey, expressing that the opposite of addiction is not just sobriety but connection.

On Monday, Pooja posted a candid photo of herself with the caption, “8 years sober today. Gratitude. Gravitas. Grace. 'You’re not alone, we love you' has to be at every level of how we respond to addicts socially, politically, and individually. For one hundred years now, we’ve been singing war songs about addicts. I think all along we should have been singing love songs to them… because the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection." – Johann Hari #onestepatatime #onedayatatime #sobrietyrocks #soberissexy #soberliving #8yearssober #gratitude #gravitas #grace #johannhari #lostconnections #poojabhatt.

The ‘Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin’ actress gave up alcohol around 2016. Pooja Bhatt, daughter of filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, has been candid about her struggles with alcohol. She had previously shared that she decided to quit drinking after realizing she had fallen into the "trap of addiction" and understood that the only way to break free was to acknowledge it to herself.

During her stint on the reality show “Bigg Boss OTT 2," the 'Sadak' actress admitted she had a drinking problem, which prompted her to acknowledge her addiction and make the decision to quit.

Pooja also pointed out how women often don’t have the same freedom as men to openly discuss addiction in society.

She said on the show, “Society gives a license to men, and thus they can openly speak about being addicted and recovering from alcoholism. However, women don't openly drink, and so they don't openly recover. I used to drink openly, so when I thought of recovering from alcoholism, I realized that why should I recover in the closet? People used to call me an alcoholic, but then I said, ‘I'm a recovering alcoholic.”

Source: IANS

https://www.socialnews.xyz/2024/12/23/pooja-bhatt-celebrates-8-years-of-being-sober-reflects-on-addictions-true-opposite/

#8yearssober #grace #Gratitude #gravitas #johannhari #lostconnections #onedayatatime #onestepatatime #poojabhatt #soberissexy #soberliving #sobrietyrocks

In the mid- to late 1980s in New Brunswick, when I was still a Jehovah’s Witness kid, I was friends with another JW kid named Julie Nahornov. Her dad’s name was Nick, and she had a big sister named Mona.

She was really cool, and probably one of my only friends, though I didn’t get to hang out with her much. She introduced me to the kind of music my parents didn’t listen to: Prince, The Dead Milkmen, Madonna, etc. She was the first person to ever make me a mixtape.

We used to go exploring in the forest together. I had very few friends growing up, so to have someone like this was very special and meaningful to me.

She moved away and I lost track of her. The last I heard, she was somewhere out in the prairie provinces on a horse ranch which produced pee for birth control pills or perm solution. Maybe both. Every few years I try to look her up, but I’ve never seen a sign of her online. She’d be in her early 50s now.

Wherever she is, I hope she’s doing well. #LostConnections #Memories #friendship