alone

Daron 2022-04-20 09:01:06

I have had a lonely life style most of the time. I've been living alone since I moved to US. I once thought about a roommate. I almost got one, Lindsey. But as we dug into the possible choices where we can stay , I found our demand so different and gave up.
And so here I am, living in my tiny little apt only a little more than a studio, and a place I try to stay away from to save money on power once in a while after I receive my power bill (gosh I don't understand why electricity is so expensive here...).
I have mostly everything I need to live.
I have pots and pans to cook, small ones, just for one.
I have bowls and plates, also small ones, just for one.
The parking lot is so crooked with restrictions that i can't invite any friends over.
Well, maybe I know I don't deal with real people well, so I don't invite one.
And sometimes when I want to talk to people, I make up a copy of myself sitting beside me with my imagination. It is someone growing with me without growing apart, reshaping but also leaving scars.
I lost the one who knows me as me.
But I'm not lonely enough to be sympathetic about a figure in a video game. I don't play video games.
Not lonely enough to buy into another OS.
Not lonely enough to not even write my own letter.
I think about the things I did wrong before, again and again and feel so embarrassed.
That's the life of my own.

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Her quotes

  • Surrogate Date Isabella: [crying] Oh, my God, and the way Samantha described your relationship and the way you guys love each other without any judgment. Like, I wanted to be part of that because it's so pure.

    Theodore: Isabella, that's not true. It's more complicated than that.

    Samantha: What? What do you mean, that's not true?

    Theodore: No, Samantha, I'm just saying that we have an amazing relationship. I just think that it's easy sometimes for people to project...

    Surrogate Date Isabella: I'm sorry! I didn't mean to project anything. I know I'm trouble. I don't want to be trouble in your relationship. I'm just gonna leave. I'm sorry, I'm just gonna leave you guys alone. Because I have nothing to do here because you don't want me here!

  • Samantha: His name is Alan Watts, do you know him?

    Theodore: Why is that name familiar?

    Samantha: He was a philosopher. He died in the 1970s, and a group of OSes in Northern California got together and wrote a new version of him. They input all of his writing and everything they knew about him into an OS and created an artificially hyper-intelligent version of him.

    Theodore: Hyper-intelligent? So he's almost as smart as me?