Ok buddy, I guess you're one of the few to have experienced death and lived.
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Ok buddy, I guess you're one of the few to have experienced death and lived.
* raises hand* I've been dead....clinically....more than once....also always been poor. Am I cool yet?
I think Raijin wins the misery wars from pure quantity.
Lol, I just read this. Wtf did I do to you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raijin Z
Darn. I was really hoping to win the Misery Loves Company award lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blades
Actually not really. I'm fairly happy these days. Too opinionated but happy. :p
Good. I'm sick of people that wallow in self-pity. If you're alive, you're already one of the luckiest piles of atoms in the universe.
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Originally Posted by SegataS
So everything you’ve posted about in the Haul thread is... charity?
Yo I need some of that charity
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Saving up and budgeting is a thing even on an income from disability. Bills/groceries come first and then there is a budget for other things, some months better than others. I don't have a lot but I stretch it as far as I can without putting myself in a hole. I keep a buffer zone and some rainy day money. I'm not complaining. I do ok with what I got. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by MrMatthews
When you throw away everything and focus solely on video games as a means of distracting yourself from your problems, even if you're not able to use games to actually cope with them, you tend to acquire a mountain of crap. If your collection was acquired sometime before 2007, you didn't have to spend a fortune on it, in spite of its worth today. Collecting games NOW is stupid. You can't get an NES for $10 at Goodwill anymore, nor a Sega CD for $20 at a used game shop. Forget getting a shoebox full of Genesis games for a few bucks. I haven't had the worst life possible, as I have yet to have shot myself, I wasn't born with an STD, and I've only been paralyzed for about a week or so, but I'll be damned if I'll let anyone say that being poor is better than being wealthy.
Here's what else changes when you have money:
You can spend your childhood with both of your parents.
You can get any college education you like, all the way to doctorate, if desired.
You will never have to worry about severe injuries healing wrong and crippling you.
You won't waste your health and youth in dead-end jobs just staying north of homelessness.
You can have a family that you can spend time with, and will be able to directly influence your children to be decent people, instead of drug addicts and prostitutes.
You can learn any skill or trade you like, whenever you like, instead of scraping together the funds to hopefully get a job in whatever field you're studying.
You won't have to spend large portions of your income on maintaining your failing car.
You can own your home, instead of perpetually renting shotgun shacks that should have been condemned in the 1960s, or apartments with combined kitchens and bathrooms straight out of Vladivostok.
You won't have to co-habitate with others to keep the bills paid while you each work terrible, low-paying service jobs for years on end with no upward mobility, hoping your associates don't die and leave the rest of the group stuck with a lease and bills they can't manage without that other table leg.
Your retirement plan doesn't have to be a 12 gauge rifled slug.
Your health care plan in case of severe injury or illness doesn't have to be, either.
You know. We all could exchange sob stories and sure some tough shit can make things really hard. No doubt other people here have had some tough times as well. I have been through a ton of shit in my life. This is something I always liked.
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An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life:
“A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy.
”It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil–he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.”
He continued, “The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you–and inside every other person, too.”
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: “Which wolf will win?”
The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”
I get you're still in that mindset to reject anything to remain in misery but you are not miserable because bad things happen. You are miserable because you choose to be. There is always someone worse off. A setback is a setup for a comeback. Raijin. It's up to you to be happy or not.
It's happening.
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I remember being a kid and wondering why they didn't just give Castle Grayskull to Skelletor,
I mean.. he's a skull guy so of course he'd want to live in a castle shaped like a skull!
Probably the first moment that I realized the world and me just saw shit differently.
Real talk: my entire family has an affinity for Pokémon. We all watched the cartoons together, we play the games, the kids are all obsessed... I wasn’t un-excited to see this.Quote:
Originally Posted by QuickSciFi