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Anarkiz
Wallet Inspector



Registered: 04/07/11
Posts: 157
Loc: The Universe
Last seen: 4 years, 8 months
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Re: Anxiety, self consciousness, and ego death [Re: JDB]
#14589049 - 06/10/11 04:48 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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JDB said: Milky just curious, how old are you? I used to suffer from this when I was in highschool, everything was so materialistic around me, I needed to have the "nice" clothes and had to be in with the cool crowd. It is not until I graduated high school that I realized none of that mattered at all. I work in a restaurant and it helped me get over the social anxiety. I always cared so much about how I looked to others.
I have a longer hairdo when everyone else seems to have gone short now and some people bust my balls about it saying I need a haircut and all. Instead of getting anxious or conforming to what those around me thought, I take pride in how I look. I intentionally keep my hair longer now because it's out of the norm nowadays. Of course there are those who have assumptions of you just by the way you appear, but I don't care in the slightest bit anymore. I am who I am and I take pride in my individuality.
I've truly learned to appreciate my features and how unique I am. I strive not to be like everyone else now.
I'm 21 years old and in college and my point to you is that you may just be in a phase that you will grow out of in time, just keep your head up and remember that you're you, weather people like it or not. Take pride in who you are and what God has given you.
Hope you can break the trend too  
I can relate very much so to this. Throughout high school i was fairly quiet and worried about what people thought of me. This is what I had become accustomed to, I wasn't aware of the bigger world out there just yet. Then half a year after my last year in high school, I organised within a month period to pack up and travel with my best mate around the world. I lived in a country for 6 months with little idea of a direction, only that I knew I wanted to get work and experience something completely new, and I found myself in the process. There was no greater influence to force myself to do something, I had to find a new job, I had to hunt for a house, I had to talk to people to actually get somewhere. And with the benefit of going to a place where people loved my accent it only made me realise more that that I could be whatever i wanted to be and it wouldn't make a difference to anyone I came across. There were so many different people in the world than the social groups (and even the society) that I was accustomed to back at home, there were people in this world more like myself as well.
This is what has made the most profound and beneficial influence on my life, so I would suggest to anyone to physically step out of their comfort zone, do something completely different and new. Explore the world, be creative, eat bananas.
My $0.02
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carbonsteel
Farmer Nub



Registered: 05/02/09
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Re: Anxiety, self consciousness, and ego death [Re: Anarkiz]
#14589059 - 06/10/11 05:00 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Mid-life crisis? Or high school blues?
Allow me to offer my 2 cents worth... if you think about it carefully, depending on how you see it, there is probably only about 10-20 years of youth most of us will get to experience.
I'm one of the lucky ones, i realized that I still have about 5-8 years of youth left before its gone...
Don't waste it man... regrets are hard to live with...
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