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Anonymous #1

I am becoming a lazy SOB * 2
    #26839608 - 07/23/20 12:11 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

I am fucking rich. Not a little rich, it's pretty disgusting actually. I was buying BTC back before anyone cared and I had a shit ton of it when it soared. I got out earlier than the top, lots earlier, but I rolled that into a medical grow and dispensary business and it's been a solid two years since I've gotten out of bed before 10AM.

I think it's ruining me. When we started the med grow I was right in the thick of it. I worked circles around people half my age and made instant equity through busting my ass. Now, I find myself ordering pizza when all I really want is soda, because I don't feel like going to get it and I don't have to.

I am struggling to find motivation. I'm really not material and I will never need to work again, so I don't know what to get out of bed for anymore. I am not interested in making more money for me, and I've done a lot of charitable stuff through durable trusts. I've taken care of my family down through all my nieces and nephews.

I grew up dirt poor and for a year or so this was great. Then it started getting not so fun, and now, there aren't enough hookers or cocaine to make me feel anything inside anymore. I honestly think I could leave it all and start washing cars and be happier.

And I'm posting this here because the truth is, nobody really gives a fuck about you if you're rich and not happy. Everyone claims they think money doesn't matter that much, but if you're rich and depressed, people have zero sympathy for you as if somehow YOUR money is supposed to fix shit but everyone else is above that.

I could go buy anything short of a jet that I wanted right now, but I don't care about anything anymore.


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Anonymous #2

Re: I am becoming a lazy SOB [Re: Anonymous #1] * 2
    #26839630 - 07/23/20 12:26 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Let me get some of that if you don't care much for it anymore? I'm out here struggling (kinda) after the quarantine fucked the business I had been setting up.

But really though, traveling around the world would be what I would do if I didn't have to work. If you're just lazy then I don't know what to tell ya. If you have nothing forcing you to not be lazy, you're just gonna have to make yourself not be lazy obviously. But buying experiences is likely going to be more fulfilling to you than buying things.


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Anonymous #1

Re: I am becoming a lazy SOB [Re: Anonymous #2]
    #26839652 - 07/23/20 12:39 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

I know it sounds like a stupid thing to be having a problem with, but what I've found is that when I was struggling and unhappy, I thought it was because I was broke. Now that I'm not broke though, I feel really hopeless because I have discovered that being broke wasn't why I was unhappy. I am just unhappy and it had nothing to do with being broke.

So, what if you got everything you ever wanted and found out none of it made you happy? Where do you even start with that?


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Anonymous #2

Re: I am becoming a lazy SOB [Re: Anonymous #1]
    #26839661 - 07/23/20 12:44 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Idk man. I couldn't say until I had that problem, but all I really want right now is some nice property and a family honestly. Are you single?

That does almost seem worse than being broke and unhappy though since at least then you had something to strive for.

But being lazy will only hurt. You should at the very least start exercising. It has no negatives, other than you can't be lazy while doing it.


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Anonymous #3

Re: I am becoming a lazy SOB [Re: Anonymous #1] * 1
    #26839723 - 07/23/20 02:23 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

At this point in life you have kids. Like have 10 kids. They will wonder why one day you had them. But the point is to fill the void and since you have no real responsibility filling your life with a responsibility you cannot get rid of will fix everything. At least that is what I have heard.


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Anonymous #4

Re: I am becoming a lazy SOB [Re: Anonymous #3] * 2
    #26845507 - 07/26/20 04:45 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

I was in a somewhat similar place to you about 2 years ago, minus the infinite cash in the bank situation (but didn't care much about money anyway). Got the job and country lifestyle i always fantasized about, and thought i was finally going to be happy. But i was miserable. After about 6 months, I realized that i didn't truly know what i wanted and therefore couldn't make myself happy outside of drugs/alcohol/escapism. Turned into a big existential crisis for a while. Dropped the work and moved back to the city, starting going to pretty hardcore meditation retreats all the time, doing aya/mushroom ceremonies, etc. Actually came close to going to live in a monastery full time. It was rough, but more self understanding developed slowly over time with effort. Basically, you have to find a way to take yourself out of your comfort zone and push against something. Volunteer work, travel (not the cushy kind), challenging meditation retreats (e.g. vipassana), training for a marathon, martial arts, learning an instrument, ayahuasca, ibogaine, whatever. Also if you're so inclined, read some of Buddhist philosophy's take on the mechanisms of happiness vs suffering - might resonate with your current situation.

Hope you're able to find your way to happiness friend


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Anonymous #1

Re: I am becoming a lazy SOB [Re: Anonymous #4]
    #26845920 - 07/26/20 11:04 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

I really appreciate your insights.

I think what I have learned in this is, that if you think there is this one thing that is keeping you from being happy, you're probably wrong. You have to learn to be happy in spite of your circumstances, because no worries does not equate to happiness.

I find that wealth exposes the flaws in people and magnifies them. In my friends, because there is this weird gleam in their eyes now and suddenly, I'm not their friend, I'm their boss, is how they acty. They have to make sure to keep me happy. Don't want to say something Mark doesn't wanna hear, because apparently, I'll cast them to the curb if they anger me now, or some shit.

In me, I have turned into a ghetto Trump in that I don't give a fuck what anyone thinks of me or what I say. I will just buy new friends, I say, because everyone who used to be my friend suddenly has this awesome business plan I need to look at because they just can't help themselves from wanting to dip their buckets into the well.

I would so much rather have someone who is a genuine friend say to me "fuck brah, you got so much money now, do you think you could help me out?" than this shit I get now. No one trusts our friendship enough to just say it. Everyone agonizes over "the right angle" to approach me from. Mother fucker, we were FRIENDS. YOU DO NOT NEED AN ANGLE.

I know that on some level they are trying to be respectful. They aren't just asking for a freebie, but come on. This guy I know never wanted to own a pet grooming service before. He never talked once about even liking dogs. But now he's got a business plan and vehicle wraps designed and all kinds of shit, to show me how serious and focused and yadda yadda yadda. And I've already taken care of everything I feel is not insulting to take care of for all my friends. I set up durable trusts to make their mortgage payments and the initial deposit also grows to outpace inflation so it will carry on totheir kids. So I didn't just pay off their homes, I gave their children and grandchildren houses for generations to come (thanks to smart financial managers). They all have new cars. I paid off their credit cards. It isn't like they should think they can't just come to me and say what they want or need.

I just wanted to hand out and smoke dope. Now I'm having an attorney draft an LLC agreement and listening to a guy tell me all he knows about dog grooming, and he just read all this shit a month ago. He has no insights. But he has to cement my interest with his expertise. Did I mention I give not a single fuck about ever making another dime in my life? If I wanted to know what he has read about dog grooming I wouldread the same shit he did! DAMNIT, all the money in the world will not buy the times we had sitting o nthe old couch in my old garage passing my old bong and smoking shitty compressed seed filled ammonia-scented mexican cartel weed in the early 90s. I just want to be real again.

Thanks for letting me vent


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Anonymous #5

Re: I am becoming a lazy SOB [Re: Anonymous #1]
    #26845979 - 07/26/20 11:37 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Quote:

Anonymous #1 said:
I am fucking rich. Not a little rich, it's pretty disgusting actually. I was buying BTC back before anyone cared and I had a shit ton of it when it soared. I got out earlier than the top, lots earlier, but I rolled that into a medical grow and dispensary business and it's been a solid two years since I've gotten out of bed before 10AM.

I think it's ruining me. When we started the med grow I was right in the thick of it. I worked circles around people half my age and made instant equity through busting my ass. Now, I find myself ordering pizza when all I really want is soda, because I don't feel like going to get it and I don't have to.

I am struggling to find motivation. I'm really not material and I will never need to work again, so I don't know what to get out of bed for anymore. I am not interested in making more money for me, and I've done a lot of charitable stuff through durable trusts. I've taken care of my family down through all my nieces and nephews.

I grew up dirt poor and for a year or so this was great. Then it started getting not so fun, and now, there aren't enough hookers or cocaine to make me feel anything inside anymore. I honestly think I could leave it all and start washing cars and be happier.

And I'm posting this here because the truth is, nobody really gives a fuck about you if you're rich and not happy. Everyone claims they think money doesn't matter that much, but if you're rich and depressed, people have zero sympathy for you as if somehow YOUR money is supposed to fix shit but everyone else is above that.

I could go buy anything short of a jet that I wanted right now, but I don't care about anything anymore.




You're a tone deaf asshole. Nobody wants to hear this shit.
Stop being such a pussy and get some real fuckin problems dick wad


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Anonymous #4

Re: I am becoming a lazy SOB [Re: Anonymous #5] * 1
    #26846033 - 07/26/20 12:19 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Ain't a problem if you're just feeling down and want to vent, but if this persists for another 6-12 months (or however long) I'd put some measures in place to automate your company/investments and cut yourself loose to look for a lifestyle that will actually make you happy. Guess it depends on how tied up you are in things though; hard to let go of attachments and all that. Don't want to get too cliche here but life is too short to keep yourself busy with bullshit dressed up in the guise of 'success'. A good simulated near death experience can do wonders for showing one what's really important. This shit is all ephemeral and we're gonna be dead before we know it, so why hang on to something that makes you miserable? Gonna lose it at some point anyway, guaranteed. Any way enough preaching from me. Hope you find what you're looking for


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Anonymous #1

Re: I am becoming a lazy SOB [Re: Anonymous #5]
    #26846041 - 07/26/20 12:26 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Quote:

Anonymous #5 said:
You're a tone deaf asshole. Nobody wants to hear this shit.
Stop being such a pussy and get some real fuckin problems dick wad




You're a perfect example of the typical asshole reaction I get.

Just because you don't have my problems doesn't mean they're not real problems. You're just like I was. I'm trying to save you. You think money fixes everything and made that very obvious. I just told you it doesn't. You'll still be a triggered, insensitive dipshit if I gave everything I have materially to you. No hate though, like I said, you don't know until you know, and I was exactly the same as you before.

PM me your addy and I'll send you enough money to find out for yourself how lonely it is. Attitudes like yours are why so many rich people are assholes, because we get treated so badly by so many self-righteous assholes that think somehow that trying to pay the light bill is worse than finding out that you may never have a meaningful relationship again.


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Anonymous #5

Re: I am becoming a lazy SOB [Re: Anonymous #1]
    #26846062 - 07/26/20 12:39 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

I own a company as well. I have/make more money than anyone I know socially (not as much as some of my customers and probably not as much as you) but A LOT of people are seriously struggling and I stand by my statement that no one wants to hear some tone deaf snowflake bitching about having too much money and don't know what to do anymore because cocaine and hookers aren't making them happy (duh!)

I'm sure I've made assumptions about you just as you have made some wildly inaccurate assumptions about me but I assure you, we are nothing alike.

Rich people aren't assholes because of other people's attitudes, they are rich precisely because they are assholes.  No one ever gets super rich without being willing to step on the heads of a lot of people along the way which is why I know I'll never be super well off and that's ok with me.

I'm not sure what you're getting at with asking for my address and I'm sure you aren't serious about sending funds but 1) I don't need it, and 2) I work for my money

If you want to feel good again, do something with your money besides giving it to coke dealers and hookers


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Anonymous #1

Re: I am becoming a lazy SOB [Re: Anonymous #5]
    #26846079 - 07/26/20 12:55 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Thanks for a legitimate response now. That makes sense. Yeah, you can't PM me because you have no idea who I am lol, so that was a joke.

I got rich through dumb luck as I said in my first post. I stepped on no one. I was broke before specifically because I put everyone else's needs above my own my entire life. And I stand by my statement, that the rich are assholes because people are assholes to them.

I cannot fathom how my finances could possibly invalidate my pain. If my mom dies am I supposed to buy something to make it not matter? But you feel no problem telling me to shut the fuck up and get real problems.

I can't imagine a more genuine problem than not being loved for who you are, can you?


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Anonymous #5

Re: I am becoming a lazy SOB [Re: Anonymous #1]
    #26846159 - 07/26/20 01:30 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Quote:

Anonymous #1 said:
I got rich through dumb luck as I said in my first post. I stepped on no one. I was broke before specifically because I put everyone else's needs above my own my entire life. And I stand by my statement, that the rich are assholes because people are assholes to them.




Good for you, I got rich where I am by working up to 3 jobs for around 60 hours a week for years, making the best possible choices, being brave enough to risk a lot, suffered a lot of setbacks, and always got back up to do better.

Assholes are assholes because of choices they make.  No one can make you an asshole but nice attempt at a cop out of why you're an asshole.

Quote:

Anonymous #1 said:
I cannot fathom how my finances could possibly invalidate my pain. If my mom dies am I supposed to buy something to make it not matter? But you feel no problem telling me to shut the fuck up and get real problems.




Your first post states how fucking rich you are which is followed by a bunch of mamby pamby whiny little baby bullshit.  I'm not invalidating your pain, just saying that no one can bitch about shit like this and not come across like a douche bag.  The above paragraph you posted is a clear indication that you aren't even trying to discern the point that is being presented to you.

Quote:

Anonymous #1 said:
I can't imagine a more genuine problem than not being loved for who you are, can you?




As you stated, you've put yourself around a lot of coke dealers and hookers and then taken in what they were selling.  Did you think they were gonna love you for you?  No, they were selling what you were buying.
If you really don't understand why you have that empty feeling, then you clearly aren't trying

:peace:


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Anonymous #1

Re: I am becoming a lazy SOB [Re: Anonymous #5]
    #26846517 - 07/26/20 05:51 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Well, this could go on for quite some time, and we seem to have a fundamental difference of opinion. I do appreciate your insights though, because I understand more of what you're mad about. You had to work for your money, and I didn't. I was working my ass off before I was lucky. Wealth fell on me, and I wasn't prepared for it. Maybe if the work I had been doing had been as successful as yours has been, I could have grown into it like you did. But, I didn't, and I think it is a worthwhile exchange to have had out in public where maybe someone can see it.

As I said you must learn to be happy in your circumstances because nothing changes with money. It's no magic bullet. You must not have read the parts where I said every one of my friends got weird on me when I had a windfall. Why do you think I started hookers and blow?
Everyone became someone different. Everyone is fake as fuck when you have money and it teaches you an ugly lesson- the average person would sell your friendship for the right price. There's probably a ton of people who are not like this, but not where I'm from. Like I said, I struggled my whole life until I was in the right place at the right time. My friends are like the kids in the Father Christmas song by the Kinks.

You can justify yourself all you want, I'm not buying it. You're just enjoying a chance to act self-righteous. It doesn't matter as much to me if you do that as it does to you so be my guest. You're the one it hurts.

I hope maybe someone who sees this, who is grinding away a miserable existence like I was, thinking, "Man, if only I could GET AHEAD... I could be happy", will read my story and realize that they are working their asses off trying to achieve something that is a lie.


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Anonymous #5

Re: I am becoming a lazy SOB [Re: Anonymous #1]
    #26846530 - 07/26/20 06:05 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

I'm not angry at all, much less angry because you "got lucky". I don't envy those that didn't work for their success because I wouldn't change a thing about how I got where I am.  It makes me appreciate it more and causes me to want to reward those around me that show a willingness to work hard to improve their lives

I was pointing out that in a time, when many people that normally struggle are having an even worse time now because of the pandemic, is not the time to bitch about how rough you have it with your bags of cash.
Seriously, do you not remember all the celebrities taking shit for posting crap about how hard it was to be quarantined in their mansions or on their yachts?
Sorry dude, you're just being tone deaf

Do you wanna argue about how blue lives matter now too?

I do feel for you for your struggles and wish you were doing better

Maybe this will help put things in perspective a little



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Anonymous #1

Re: I am becoming a lazy SOB [Re: Anonymous #5]
    #26846547 - 07/26/20 06:19 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Well man, this is a good exchange, like I said. You make a great point. I think I'm going to do something for restaurant workers because I just saw on CNN's website that Yelp is saying, 60% of all Covid restaurant closures are going to be permanent according to a survey. I'm going to do it right now in fact.

I think you woke something up in me. No, I don't watch tv so I had no idea celebs were getting bitched at, but yeah, I can see that now. You're saying the timing was bad for me to bring this up now. Well, good point. I didn't se eit that way because frankly I don't love money and I thought I was helping I guess, to say that money doesn't fix everything. But if you're out of work it fixes a lot of what needs fixing. Thanks for being aggressive enough to get through to me, I was just not seeing what you meant so you had to say it a couple times.


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Anonymous #6

Re: I am becoming a lazy SOB [Re: Anonymous #1]
    #26846595 - 07/26/20 06:53 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

To the OP. I remember when BTC was still a bench mark but could never get any help setting up the BTC miners or at least some understanding. Had a second chance when it was $200-300/BTC, but cryptsy wanted my SSN and I'm like "this isn't money and that isn't a financial institution, you don't need that." /closed window. Story of how I missed millions.

Now I'm perusing my millions in cactus and a nursery business. It won't be nearly as much, but it will provide the comfort level I seek. Enough about me though, onward to what I think you should do. Retire.

That's right, retire. Life is too damn short. Budget out what you own, save some for posterity and a rainy day (preferably in GOLD / Platinum, etc, and retire. Travel to Norway, Alaska, go see Mongolia, Thailand, I personally recommend Japan, its a beautiful country that I got to see first hand. Take up a hobby like art, pottery, hunting, etc, and master it. Leave a lasting mark.

Aside from generic charity, my stories and artwork, as well as my cactus/plants, will be what I leave behind on this earth. You are in a unique position to leave a lasting mark, or do anything you desire with your life, don't waste it. :P

Or waste it if you want to, this is the USA. ^_^

()()edit()()

Leaving a durable trust behind is a good mark, make sure its for qualified people and can't be easily milked. A good attorney that specializes in trusts should be able to set one up.


Edited by Anonymous (07/26/20 07:34 PM)


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Anonymous #1

Re: I am becoming a lazy SOB [Re: Anonymous #5]
    #26846617 - 07/26/20 07:08 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

It may be a week or two, but you will hear about it. It's done. And Anon#5, when you hear about a trust for restaurant workers, remember I said I do everything permanently, in a durable trust, that I give not houses but houses for generations. When you hear it, remember it was because you got in my face today that it happened. I want you to share in the joy since you were part of it.


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Anonymous #5

Re: I am becoming a lazy SOB [Re: Anonymous #1] * 1
    #26846791 - 07/26/20 08:30 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

I'm glad you took something good out of it.  I almost don't know what to say.  I was thinking I'd been a little rough and thinking there isn't much point in having exchanges with anyone these days (most of mine about anything serious in real life are a completely frustrating waste of time) because everyone seems so dug-in with their viewpoint that no one ever sees anything that the other side is saying.

It sounds like you took some good with the bad and I have to thank you for showing me that people can still be contentious without being completely butt-hurt

Seriously, thank you, you've done my heart some good as well
:seriousthankyou:


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Anonymous #7

Re: I am becoming a lazy SOB [Re: Anonymous #1]
    #26846869 - 07/26/20 08:58 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

how much money we talkin?


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