I may seriously take you up on that. Thank you.

Those come every 10 years. Duh.

You an S&M practitioner or something? Or have you been jailed or enslaved somewhere really backwards?

What about my other questions?

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Which is why I won't move

8 hours of work. 8 hours of play. 8 hours of sleep. They live.

Up for up free karma

They Live.

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wow that is bonechilling, what’s the source?

Murdered by the freikorps? Nobody deserved that.

It’s true. In 2 yrs I was knee deep in training, living off student loans, and now I’m at my dream job. Tho still recovering from ptsd 🙃 at least I no longer stress about groceries - never had that growing up

How I interpret it is, probably because my life is pretty sedentary, is because on the seemingly rare occasion it gets better, I don't realize how limited or dull my life was. For example, I met one of my best friends in late 2019, then another I started talking to in late 2021. Before I met them, I thought 'eh I don't really need friends' and I was just so blah. When I formed those friendships, it's like a big void in my life was filled. And I didn't know it was even there.

So what I'm basically saying is, you don't know what you're missing till you have it. Until you start moving (being a better person, making healthier choices, being more active, physically and socially) you don't realize how chained down you were by either self-imposed restrictions or restrictions thrust upon you by life.

But that's my interpretation. 🤷

Or he is so addicted to reading he doesn’t even notice the ladies?

Lol that’s what you took from this? Love it.

This gut checked me on a personal level.

I wish my sister believed this. The other day a friend of a friend offered her a job doing something for 200$ but she didn't take it because she's too shy. I tried to tell her it could possibly lead to more and that she shouldn't pass up an opportunity, but she just smiled and said she wouldn't do it.

It makes me so mad.

Nope my minds made up. I choose to stay in bed.

Maybe before illness and crippling inflation this might have been possible for me

Shave the head. Lose the lbs. Learn to dance - and if dance isn't your thing, find something else that is that also exercises the body and spirit.

Yeah, I know, your skin still isn't blue. But I think that's just kinda shallow.

the chains holding me down are American Capitalism so i cant really do much about it cant i...

Or to put it another way, there's failure, then there's ethical failure, and the latter absolutely deserves all the excuses in the world to not want to court it. (But then what about if someone says "you're then making too many excuses" ... and it is precisely that failure mode that I get myself tied in knots about in many cases with things like, say, why it took so long for me to even begin to get into political "organizing" - I didn't wanna break personal boundaries in making relationships around sensitive topics due to a dearth of social skill and knowledge of how to navigate the innuendo-laden social world.)

So how do you deal with those, then, when they seem like they are so damn true to you, e.g. I remember having had an online convo where I wore someone out with questions because I really, really felt I needed all those answers they were giving as the questions seemed so reasonable, but what if this was some of that "intellectualizing" error or similar? How can you deal with that? What do you do with the places where information is missing?

I really needed this today

You had me until “buying a home”