Looks at everything. Looks at the sun expanding. Looks back at everything.
Yes, I do believe so
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Oh ya know, just being alive
Most things, in my experience, are not worth the effort. I really feel that a lot of people who are constantly hustling, going out and doing things, etc. are doing so because they can't allow themselves to stop and think. I tend to focus on necessary things (food, shelter, etc) and some things that let me feel comfortable. For the rest, I just try to live a quiet life.
Absolutely every day... Sadly. Maybe it's just my anxiety and ADHD. But yes.
Almost every job I had prior to realizing I need a work life balance.
Nope. I usually drop it well before that. Then go back to it for a few minutes or a day. Then drop it again. Rinse and repeat
My ex. 10 years down the drain, and the worst part is I knew it was almost impossible to make it work. But I had to try anyway.
Why yes, I am human.
No no don't you know how these things work?
We're to use this extremely common feeling to diagnose a variety of mental illnesses over the Internet. You can then take that information and put it into your Insta Bio, and your AIM status to up your street cred.
- Signed a Bi-Demi-Autistic-AHDH-Bipolar-Split-Personality-Australopithecus-Queen
Honestly, slay!
Most of games these days. After a couple hours I feel like I was doing chores, not playing game and have fun.
An oh dear, I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR LORE. Just let me start playing the stupid game, no need for a giant cinematic.
Indie > AAA
"Oops! It's all fetch-quests!!"
This is why I have failed to make any headway in Skyrim even though I've tried to play it 5 - 6 times.
Or maybe it's just me. I'm getting old now and doesn't have infinite free time to do mundane virtual chores anymore. I got 1-2 hours of free time per day, if I'm lucky and the kid won't tear up the house.
It's a shame, one of my favorites was Elite Dangerous. I love explore the universe in peace. But to be able to do so would require months of constant and repetitive grinding for material to upgrade the ship.
Oh no, it's definitely not just you.
I feel like the overall design of games has been lazy lately and they've just filled them up with mundane chores to pad the completion time.
No one's going to pay $70 for a game if they know there's only 2 hours worth of story to play through.
And I deeply loved elite dangerous but it was definitely just space trucking simulator, I feel like frontier really messed up whenever they pushed all their resources to whatever idle Sim game they were designing that flopped.
Plenty of things, college being the biggest. But, I've gotten to the point where I'm able to see benefits in just about everything I've done in my life.
Agreed. I'm sad I wasted time and money on a failed attempt to get a degree, but I appreciate the people I met and the experiences I had.
Listen, if you want a degree, you don't have to do the usual route. Check out WGU - it's competency based so basically if you can do the math test, you pass the math class. If you can write the english paper, you pass the english class. Just push through and you'll be done, and it's super cheap. My advisor said she had someone finish a masters in 6 months.
This question reminds me of when I first realized that in the grand scheme of the universe nothing we do matters in the slightest. Not even my first existential crisis either. Looking back on it, accepting the intrinsic nihilism of life is really the least stressful thing I've ever had send me into a depressive slump.
School was a monumental waste of a childhood. Then unis. Now work. It all sucks.
Every amphetamine user reading this post: fidgets nervously in chair
I have ADHD, anxiety, and trauma.
A solid 75% of everything I’ve ever attempted to do takes more time to do than regular folks because it has to be perfect. And then I may not tell anyone about my efforts because I don’t want the attention. Or if the work is too hard or I’m too scared of revealing I can’t do it all myself, I give up. Assuming, of course, I don’t forget about what I’m working on until the relevance has passed.
Oh shit are you me? Adhd + anxiety is such a shitty combo, I feel like I can never accomplish anything and when I do I don't even get the satisfaction of a job well done because the chemical reward system in my brain is screwed up. Shit sucks.
Fitting in society. I might as well say society doesn't fit in with me.
How did that one go? Being well adjusted to an ill society is not a good thing.
Unsuccessfully at the moment, and I've been where I am for a couple years now.
I spent years of my life and a ton of money on a 150 gallon salt water tank. I had a thriving coral population and a lots of cool little fish and crustaceans. The metal-halide hood alone cost $2,500. I moved houses and just couldn't bring myself to set it back up.
My degree in software engineering
I work as a professional number checker and "that thing is not on fire" checker now and am getting an MBA to make up for not knowing shit about half of thay before being hired
Sure. Two big projects at work come right to mind. Both were fucked before I started and ended up fucked when they ended. There is about half a football field in the Great Plains full of valves, boilers, plumbing, and pumps all ready for a chemical process that doesn't make financial sense to run. The company that paid for it went bankrupt from the project. It sits there rotting. Months of my life, working well over 60 hours a week
Some friendships be like that. Usually it's the case of me going out of if my way to help... Only for then to purposefully make terrible life choices.
Examples,
He was just out of jail and wanted to get on track. I got him a place to stay, a job, I even personally moved him (like drive, picked up his stuff), and got him an interview with the college. The choice, fuck his perole! Drinking, meth, and knowingly getting a warrant for arrest (to impress the ladies... And it worked) was way better.
The list for her, would be too much as we knew each other for like 28(?) years. She's a mom of a disabled teenage daughter. She thought it was a great idea to get into a relationship with someone she knew was a convicted child predator. I just cannot abide. (I called CPS)
Predictor? Predator?
Dang auto complete. Fixed.
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