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Pity; I hate being wrong.

 

No, it's ginta.

 

Wasn't me. However, I do agree with the message. Sabby. Come here. Now.

 

I can understand fearing what tomorrow brings, but you can't let that fear keep you from having at least an ounce of enjoyment in your life. I'm sure that if you talked to someone about this, they would be eager to try and cheer you up and help you out; I know that I would.

This may be cheesy, but it's always darkest just before dawn. I suppose I'm just trying to say that you'll get through it. We all have sh*t in our lives that we have to cope with, so I'd recommend just doing what you enjoy and trying to make yourself happy.

 

It sounds like you, along with so many, are struggling with your identity before anything else. If I knew who you were, I could give more specific advice, but alas...

My two pieces of advice are very simple, but they were life changing for me and I suspect they may be life changing for you as well, once you let them sink in.

The first piece of advice is to remember that what is unconscious for you can be made conscious, and that habits and tendencies can be changed or broken. A person may try to quit cigarettes in the same way that you might try to change your behaviors. It is possible to quit cigarettes, as you should know. Your case is even easier that cigarettes because there is no physical addiction and no withdrawal to speak of. You have no reason to be submissive to 'what you are', but rather you should decide 'who you are' with a conscious mind. Your actions are in your own hands, so make them your own in every way that you can think of. Your ticket to the future is blank, so to speak.

My second piece of advice is to realize that you have a few options regarding the way you view the future. You have optimism, pessimism and what I call practicalism. The first two require you to expect things from the world and attribute a tendency towards either better or worse outcomes, respectively. The last option requires analyzing the present and determining how one should act in order to get the future that they want without bothering with expectations. In essence, one should only think about one should do with what happens, and not about how fortunate or unfortunate it is or will be.

The costs and benefits of each are important to work out before choosing one. Optimism will make one a happier person, but it will make one more likely to be disappointed when somethings bad happens. Pessimism will make one a miserable person, but it will make one less likely to be disappointed when things do not go as planned.

The conflict between these two is easy to work out. In the event that you have an optimist and a pessimist in the same situation, they will each see the outcome of it very differently. The optimist will expect a good ending, and the pessimist will expect a bad ending. Let us run through the scenarios of what will happen to each of them in either outcome.

If a good ending happens for the optimist, then the optimist was right, was happy throughout the scenario and is happy with the result. If a good ending happens for the pessimist, then the pessimist was wrong and may be happy with the ending, but was miserable throughout the whole scenario.

If a bad ending happens, then the optimist was wrong and was happy throughout the scenario and was not miserable until the end. The pessimist was right, was still miserable the whole time and they will stay miserable because they were right about the ending. Essentially, pessimists are more miserable no matter the outcome, and optimists are happier no matter the outcome in kind.

It sounds as if you are currently choosing pessimism. Between optimism and pessimism, pessimism is the worst choice and will almost certainly shorten your life span due to the stress is induces on those who keep it. Optimists live longer than pessimists, and they live happier lives on top of it. The choice should be obvious between them.

The third option is something else altogether. Practicalism is a position that holds no expectations for the future, and so ignores the question of whether the future will be a good one or a bad one. Someone who holds no expectations might be called a gambler, but it is actually closer to a carpe diem mindset than anything else. Instead of either worrying about or hoping for the future, one realizes that the only thing that truly matters is what one plans to do with what is in front of them at each moment. Instead of worrying about what will happen in ten minutes, strive to make what happens in ten minutes the ending that you want to happen. If something outside of your control happens when ten minutes passes, then think about what you should do with the new situation. At no point should you bother with whether it is fortunate or unfortunate. Keep moving forward and take every moment, every breath as the pursuit of your happiness instead of as a chance to hope for it to come to you of its own accord. Sometimes, seeing life as a game is all that it takes to make this mindset real to you. Your ticket to the future is blank, again. You should not soon forget it.

NONSENSE AS SALVATION

The human race will begin solving it's problems on the day that it ceases taking itself so seriously.

To that end, POEE proposes the countergame of NONSENSE AS SALVATION. Salvation from an ugly and barbarous existence that is the result of taking order so seriously and so seriously fearing contrary orders and disorder, that GAMES are taken as more important than LIFE; rather than taking LIFE AS THE ART OF PLAYING GAMES.

To this end, we propose that man develop his innate love for disorder, and play with The Goddess Eris. And know that it is a joyful play, and that thereby CAN BE REVOKED THE CURSE OF GREYFACE.

If you can master nonsense as well as you have already learned to master sense, then each will expose the other for what it is: absurdity. From that moment of illumination, a man begins to be free regardless of his surroundings. He becomes free to play order games and change them at will. He becomes free to play disorder games just for the hell of it. He becomes free to play neither or both. And as the master of his own games, he plays without fear, and therefore without frustration, and therefore with good will in his soul and love in his being.

And when men become free then mankind will be free.
May you be free of The Curse of Greyface.
May the Goddess put twinkles in your eyes.
May you have the knowledge of a sage,
and the wisdom of a child. Hail Eris.​

Each person is free to do as they please and see the world in any that they wish. There is no true way to value things, no better or worse system. In all of this stress about survival, public opinion, pleasing your friends and so on, it is crucial to keep in mind that every action that you take and every expectation that you hold or choose not to hold should be based around what will make you happy. If you do not like a behavior of yours, then change it until you are happier with yourself. If you do not feel that there is hope, then stop feeling that you need it to survive. Live in the moment and you will not struggle with things such as stress and personal problems.

I hope that was coherent and helpful. Good luck to you, whoever you are...

 

Say more next time, you coward!

 

I take it that you sent it to me?

 

This is true.

 

It could have been a bear or a lion, you know.

 

Don't be silly. He wouldn't have understood it if it was.

 

I got mail? YEEEESSSS!!! I GOT MAIL! :D
I feel special :3
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Hello.

 

There's a t-shirt you can get at "popular" stores like Stitches which have a picture of a dinosaur saying "Rawr!" Then there's a translation that says "That means I love you in dinosaur."

Yeah.

 

I was thinking more on the bit that he responded for the person in question.