Don't be embarrassed at all man, ide say starting with a lie probably wouldn't be the best way ie. Saying you made a new account or something like that. I can understand where your coming from I am 23 as well when I was 19 I lost a best of 13 years and a gf of 4 years in the same day (details don't mater, they didn't die lol)... its only been the last year and a bit where things have really started to turn around for me.
There's always the anti-facebook people who are gonna say its stupid, but if looking to reconnect its a great way to do it with many people at a time, if you feel pictures would help and you have a digital camera or scanner take pic of you and you family, pets, backyard, sunsets doesn't matter. And scan some old pics in a yearbook or from when you were 5, just don't rely on facebook to solve your problems. A lot of peoples profiles on FB are basically Just a highlight reel of themselves its not who they really are.. everyone has problems a lot of people just won't admit it.
Just be confident and have fun.. I actually wrote a note on facebook it seemed to help some people, alot of us are in the same boat ------ so someone said to try and really figure things out its best to put it rite in front of you. You'd have to be a good enough friend to look at my profile, or maybe someone showed it to you, highly unlikely but I guess possible. This won't be published and maybe ill deleted in a few days because who really wants other people to know some of the inner clockwork.... are we supposed to fell happiness when we get what we want, or just satisfaction, maybe both possibly depending on the circumstances.
Its been a long time since even seeing that in someone let alone feeling any of that. Like climbing a hill that never ends, you feel like you can see the top and the closer you get the longer the fall is back down never quite making it there's so much to be thankful and greatfull for unfortunately those things cant really any good for the situation. We want other people to help or lend a hand but at the same time its not going to get us what we truly want, that has to be done by the one in need of it.
But its seems impossible like a self punishment, not letting go, and not realizing the potential. It shouldn't be impossible tho it should be easy to be who we want to be, with so much disapointment it starts to be expected, and Just never truly be allowed to be happy. But its not for others to decide, its something within that needs to be changed or improved..or maybe it something that needs to be forgotten like re living a nitemare everyday, only not being able to wake up and it be over, it grinds and wares down until that nitemare is accepted as reality, lost thinking that this is all there is.
Stuck not looking ahead or behind before the cluttered mess of disapointment and unsatisfaction. This cant be all there there is, this moment will not last forever and when its over and we look back wondering why the time went so fast and why there was nothing to show for it, it can still be life experience. When we think of ourselves in the future we don't want to be where we are now do we, good or bad we don't want the same thing forever, as hard as it is to fake a smile they are contagious and eventually we won't be faking anymore.
Everything must start with the next minute, hour, day, month, year. Anything but this repetitive self doubt or expectations of failure. Now obviously there are no real details here because im speaking my mind,but maybe you can relate.
I know what it means. And You were rite its better to express things in Any way other then thoughts.. Feelin good and taking control-------- pictures, comments it doesn't matter man if having a facebook account and reconnecting with old friends is going to make ya happy then go for it! Don't look back and have no regrets!
Facebook is for people who have NO REAL LIFE outside the computer screen. Take care of your depression, and get real friends, no Facebook "friends". Get in touch with your old friends by actually calling them and visiting them, not through some lame Facebook way.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.