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    #18730081 - 08/19/13 10:05 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

For the first time in my life which i have memory of, i don't feel compelled to willingly destroy my chances at an increasingly positive existence. I actually feel the want to apply myself and actively grow in my capabilities.

Before this, i literally embraced drug addiction and the physical harm i was doing to myself. Even attempting to try embracing life felt like i was lying to myself and trying to find purpose where non existed. It felt like some romantic, indirect suicide.


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Re: Self-Destructing [Re: Memories]
    #18730286 - 08/19/13 10:52 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Cool, memories! Upgrading to an improved version of yourself :thumbup:


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Re: Self-Destructing [Re: Memories] * 2
    #18730298 - 08/19/13 10:54 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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For the first time in my life which i have memory of, i don't feel compelled to willingly destroy my chances at an increasingly positive existence. I actually feel the want to apply myself and actively grow in my capabilities.





Don't worry. These feelings will pass. :jester:


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Re: Self-Destructing [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #18730359 - 08/19/13 11:13 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

I really hope they stick around for a bit. Growing is so much brighter of an experience than knowingly expediting my death in an apathetic drug binge.

I hope i can care about something positive soon. Time is ticking.


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Re: Self-Destructing [Re: Memories]
    #18730373 - 08/19/13 11:18 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

My personal goal is to outlive all you young Turks. So far I am winning!

:winning:


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Re: Self-Destructing [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #18730393 - 08/19/13 11:22 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

I'm actually Polish.


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Re: Self-Destructing [Re: Memories]
    #18731049 - 08/20/13 06:21 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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Memories said:
For the first time in my life which i have memory of, i don't feel compelled to willingly destroy my chances at an increasingly positive existence. I actually feel the want to apply myself and actively grow in my capabilities.

Before this, i literally embraced drug addiction and the physical harm i was doing to myself. Even attempting to try embracing life felt like i was lying to myself and trying to find purpose where non existed. It felt like some romantic, indirect suicide.




Quote:

Memories said:
I really hope they stick around for a bit. Growing is so much brighter of an experience than knowingly expediting my death in an apathetic drug binge.

I hope i can care about something positive soon. Time is ticking.




:thumbup:
That is good news Memories, and I am glad for you.


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Re: Self-Destructing [Re: Cyclohexylamine]
    #18731053 - 08/20/13 06:26 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

:thumbup:

Memories if you need any good Polish jokes PM me. :lol:

Seriously, I wish you the very best. :satansmoking:


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Re: Self-Destructing [Re: Icelander]
    #18731126 - 08/20/13 07:15 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Thanks Tymo and Ice.

It's going to be hard to apply myself. I've literally never studied for a test, and have rarely done homework. Hell, i lost the will to even go to class halfway through the semester, and when i went i was too faded and apathetic to remember much of anything.

I don't want to keep living a life where my primary focus is staying loaded 24/7. I want to be able to comfortably meet new people without frantically finding GABA drugs to quell the anxiety. I want to live a sustainable lifestyle for once without floating from one addiction to the next.


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Re: Self-Destructing [Re: Memories]
    #18731130 - 08/20/13 07:17 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Better find something that really captures your interest. That will help tremendously with all that test shit.


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

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Re: Self-Destructing [Re: Icelander]
    #18731173 - 08/20/13 07:32 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

I will probably be fine as long as i go to classes sober. Testing is easy for me as long as i have some idea of the subject matter.

I just need to figure out how to get myself out of "fuck it" mode or at least lessen the degree of it.


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Re: Self-Destructing [Re: Memories]
    #18731190 - 08/20/13 07:39 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Again find what you would love to do and "fuck it" will take a hike.  For me it was backpacking and fishing and dogs and chasing after "true love". :nicesmile:


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Re: Self-Destructing [Re: Icelander]
    #18731204 - 08/20/13 07:44 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Sure, but what about money?

The money i get for attending school is very substantial relative to the amount of work it requires.


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Re: Self-Destructing [Re: Memories]
    #18731229 - 08/20/13 07:53 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

We all make our choices.  The backpacking, fishing, and dogs were choices I never for a moment regretted. Everything else at best I had mixed feelings about and at the end of my life I'll only regret not doing more of those three things.  Maybe those vagabond days are over for kids now or just something I was very good at.  That is all my life boils down to now though, subjectivly. That is all that has real meaning for me. The rest is a wash at best.


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
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Re: Self-Destructing [Re: Icelander]
    #18731253 - 08/20/13 08:02 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

I don't think that vagabond lifestyle is as feasible anymore. I've fantasized about such a life, but it strikes me as somewhat unrealistic atm.

I think it is more reasonable to attend school for the money and spend my summers festival hopping and backpacking the world.


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Re: Self-Destructing [Re: Memories]
    #18731324 - 08/20/13 08:42 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

There ya go.


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Re: Self-Destructing [Re: Memories]
    #18731587 - 08/20/13 10:23 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

I recommend avoiding office jobs, or at least try some work experience doing an office job before you try to study for one. I had a great opportunity to make a lot of money in programming at one time, but I found working in a office so unbelievably soul crushing and I left after a two months. What I found was I couldn't stomach the idea of spending even five or ten years of my life there.

Making sure you don't lose the "spirit" of you life is very important IMO and not losing the spirit of it doesn't necessarily mean you have to act like a vagabond. There are little things that you can do to ensure you at least have some kind of goals that give you some meaning, fulfilment or something of the sort and the work that you do is built around that; otherwise you're really in trouble IMO. Some of the older turned conservative, dull and cynical end up with a poor inner life even if they do well for themselves. I've seen the same thing in poor people who work only to save for pensions and so on, so it's not a money thing in itself but an attitude to it IMO.


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Re: Self-Destructing [Re: Grapefruit]
    #18734204 - 08/20/13 08:40 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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I recommend avoiding office jobs, or at least try some work experience doing an office job before you try to study for one. I had a great opportunity to make a lot of money in programming at one time, but I found working in a office so unbelievably soul crushing and I left after a two months. What I found was I couldn't stomach the idea of spending even five or ten years of my life there.

Making sure you don't lose the "spirit" of you life is very important IMO and not losing the spirit of it doesn't necessarily mean you have to act like a vagabond. There are little things that you can do to ensure you at least have some kind of goals that give you some meaning, fulfilment or something of the sort and the work that you do is built around that; otherwise you're really in trouble IMO. Some of the older turned conservative, dull and cynical end up with a poor inner life even if they do well for themselves.




My dad is one of those people who ended up fucked mentally even though he is well off. He has always had a ton of emotional issues though. He is extremely rich and extremely miserable, constantly worrying that everything he has built is going to collapse around him at any moment.


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Re: Self-Destructing [Re: Memories]
    #18734374 - 08/20/13 09:10 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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I hope i can care about something positive soon. Time is ticking.




It sounds like you care about yourself, and that is something positive, imo. :sun:


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Re: Self-Destructing [Re: Memories]
    #18735457 - 08/21/13 01:50 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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I actually feel the want to apply myself and actively grow in my capabilities.




:awedisgust:

Did you catch a bug or something?


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