[RANTS] Post your problems here (342)

1 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-09-20 23:51 ID:Heaven

Hello, 4-ch! I want to hear your troubles! Post what you're worried about.

Feel free to ridicule other posts. We're all just bored, spoiled souls.

101 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-10-25 15:00 ID:TOmtiBzm

http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1129365799 <- kind of relevant, if DQN ^_^

102 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-10-31 09:03 ID:Hy53lO8M

>>99 Snif snif... Bu-AHaAHAHAHHAA

103 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-02 23:37 ID:M2wmhR3W

so either they don't know (leaving me back where i started) or they don't care. fucking brilliant.

104 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-03 01:40 ID:gpP1Da5+

Matrices, while a great invention, are quite annoying to complete by hand. If you make a slight mistake, it could take you quite a long time of re-checking to find it! I get so angry with myself when I try to find an error in a matrix problem, only to discover I wrote down the wrong question! Arg!

[ 1 2 1 | 12]
[ 2 -1 1 | 5 ]
[ 3 1 -2 | 1 ]
ENTER THE MATRIX /rant over

105 Name: !FAQJTGEprk 2005-11-03 09:36 ID:Heaven

106 Name: KJI!XDpPLAUYlQ 2005-11-03 14:47 ID:Heaven

>>105

Mezase Mosukuwa by Genghis Khan (looks like)
Gasolina Remix by DADDY YANKEE (f/ Pitbull, N.O.R.E., Lil' Jon)

107 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-08 05:34 ID:CVrM1C6A

I discovered 4-ch several days ago and have become addicted to it, but there are not enough posts for my liking. What can I possibly do about this?

108 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-08 06:04 ID:Heaven

>>107
Post more (or lurk more).

109 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-08 10:33 ID:dCCUgsTT

>>107

Invite your friends.

110 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-08 12:12 ID:AFhQ/uEf

>>109

Yes.

111 Name: 41 2005-11-09 03:29 ID:Heaven

I am just posting to say that I have worked all my problems out and realized how lucky I am. I have good friends. I love my girlfriend.

However, I have new problems. School and education, mainly. My homeschooling program isn't quite going as planned. But I'll figure something out. Thanks, to all who have given words of support to me! See you in more threads.

>>92, continue talking with her, and eventually, you'll become comfortable with yourself.

Otherwise, try to find a way to gain confidence, like Densha did.

#NINTEY-TWO RENEWAL PROJECT. PART 1!

112 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-11 03:17 ID:Heaven

Well, for starters, I just turned 18. And turning 18 is supposed to be the point in your life where everything really gets started. You've become an adult, you go to college, or you get a job... You at least do something, but I don't see myself doing something.

Saying that I'm just not a very social person would be a nice way of putting it, but it's more than that... I'm really terrible around people. In pretty much every situation where I encounter a human being who is'nt myself, I'm more than a little inadequate to say the least.

I've practically reached shut-in status right now. It's probably been at least a month, maybe more, since I last left the house to do anything. And even when I actually do leave the house, it's very umcomfortable for me. Even walking a couple blocks can seem overwhelming. It's really difficult for me... I worry about every little mannerism of mine, and I always kinda think that people are noticing them, thinking about what a total loser I am. So I nit-pick whatever is I'm doing, and often I think I draw attention to myself because of this. I try hard not to look at anyone, but eventually, I feel I have to look or else I'll look silly staring only at the ground, so I look quickly then look away.

Saying stuff like this, it makes me feel pretty small... I just really don't feel like an adult, and I obviously don't act like an adult, either... I don't even look like an adult, I look 14-15 tops. I'm like 120 lbs., I have a younger sister who even weighs more than me.

But, I guess my life's not that bad, though. I know that a lot of people have it 100x worse than I do. And maybe if I was 14-15, I'd be pretty content with everything the way it is, but I'm not anymore, I'm 18, and everything's the same as it was when I was that age. I think that's my biggest problem right now.

113 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-13 06:48 ID:NfVsC2w6

>>112

  1. You could have Avoidant Personality Disorder or something.
  2. You need a psychologist STAT, even if you're scared of seeing one.

I have whatever you have. It sucks. To fix it, just analyse your problem and its symptoms, and then.... do the things that scare you. You know what I mean!

114 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-13 07:22 ID:Heaven

>>112
I feel similar to you. I feel inferior until I'm initiated into conversation then my mind frees up and I stop thinking about that kind of thing. I have a problem initating myself into a social group (of friends, etc) but once it happens I seem to lighten up and forget about it.
Pretty much what you described also applies to me. Something something something sad conclusion.

115 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-13 08:52 ID:Tjl6gKFu

I don't see what the big deal is. I'm nearly 18 and I'm not bothered about being alone for the rest of my life.

I think it's a curse or something.

116 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-13 18:27 ID:Heaven

It's such a pain to get motivated to do things. I've missed 2 days of school. I have the homework from the last day I attended, plus presumably 2 days of homework that I wasn't there to receive. And yet, I'm not doing any of it! I must start it, very soon, what the hell is my problem?

117 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-13 22:56 ID:Heaven

>>116

You are supposed to post about your problems in this thread, not to go around asking other people what your problems are. Show a bit more sensibility!

118 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-13 22:59 ID:AFhQ/uEf

Don't feel bad, >>116 . I'm not doing my homework either.

119 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-14 00:56 ID:Heaven

>>116

mmm... I know what you mean.

I have a speech to read tomorrrow (that I haven't written yet) Trig homework assignments from the last week (not really that hard, though I haven't started) and C++ 2 assignments, that I also haven't started on... all due tomorrow.

And I'm too lazy to start.

Oddly enough, this semester It's been hard to motivate myself... but I still have A averages, since I usually finish stuff on time (at the last minute.)

120 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-14 01:33 ID:Heaven

The world is full of people who aren't doing their homework.

121 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-14 02:46 ID:h2NSDAur

>>113

I googled Avoidant Personality Disorder, and I skimmed a couple articles... And it sounds like me, I guess. Then again a lot of articles sound like me.

And I know you're right about confronting the problem head-on. That's not to say that I have the will to do so right now, but I'm aware I can't just wait around for some magic answer to emerge.

>>114

But unfortunately, I can't seem to lighten up, and forgetting about my worries seems like an impossibility at times. I used to be kind of like that, though. I was just shy with new people, and once I got to know them, I was able to open up a little bit. ( still wasn't outgoing, though ) But now it's different, I'm even fearful of familiar faces.

122 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-15 02:43 ID:RbH6SROO

>>121
If you start a blog and promote it well you can become famous as the first American hikikomori.

Or you can join the Army, you wuss.

123 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-21 05:21 ID:ma8sKBIG

I keep skipping lectures for stupid reasons ... mostly because I just can't wake up in the morning. I know it's hurting me schoolwise, but I'm still living in the delusion that I'll be okay like I always did in previous terms, but it's getting worse ... I've already had to drop a course (the first time I've ever done something that drastic) because I didn't know enough material from lectures to pass a midterm (or so I felt).

It's annoying, I need to start waking up earlier and feel more motivated about school, I feel horrible already because my parents are mostly paying for university (when I could just move to a different one for free tuition, because my mom works there, but I just like this one better)

It's just so ... meh ...

124 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-21 20:48 ID:c1vwV49R

>>123 Welcome to the beginning of the end.

125 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-22 03:02 ID:AFhQ/uEf

>>123

you need a new major.

126 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-22 07:53 ID:Heaven

>>123 Try not to sign up for early morning classes. They are your doom.

127 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-22 14:15 ID:ZLGgaAXD

>>123 and you could also benefit from a psychologist. Lots of universities provide free ones.

128 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-22 15:07 ID:AFhQ/uEf

I need to start working on my org. behavior paper. It's fall break, after all. But I'm tool lazyyyyyyy...

129 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-23 00:44 ID:Heaven

>>128

> tool

w

130 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-26 04:26 ID:x7fsgL20

I've been centemplating ending my life for quite a while.
Diagnoised with major depression several years ago, having gone through the worst of it....Still things aren't getting any better.
A constructive lifestyle -- having a career, being able to socialize and make connections, etc. seems so unreal to me, something of a hikikomori who can't even hold on to old friendships.
For the last 2 months I've shut myself in this tiny apartment, occasionally going out to the nearby convenience store only to buy food and drink. I download anime but let most of the files pile up unwatched because even watching anime makes me tired.
I feel like I'm dying an excruciatingly slow death.
God knows when was the last time I felt healthy or happy.
Suicide is no stranger to me. I've cut my wrist twice. The second time it was a real deep cut. Just a little deeper it could've done permanent damage. Numerous overdoses of sleeping pills out of suicidal urges also. Alas, these methods simply aren't lethal at all.
Now, the most efficient way out of this misery seems to be jumping off the building. 8 floors should be high enough. It takes serious guts, though. Just a month ago I overdosed some tranquilizers and then walked up to the roof to see if I could overcome the fear, but somehow it didn't work.
If only I can get a gun, which unfortunately is almost impossible in this country, everything should be a whole lot easier....

131 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-26 06:18 ID:nQS3SaBr

>>122

I'm in the Army.. _|¯|O

132 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-26 06:23 ID:nQS3SaBr

>>130

Everybody has problems, but everyone has their own ways to overcome them. Are you trying to say that you're one of the few who can't handle life? Life is precious, and by trying to end yours, you're wasting what so many others want to have, but can't have.

Think not only about yourself, but for others as well. What would happen to your loved ones if you really did take your own life? Wouldn't they be devastated?

Think of other people; the caring father who dies in an industrial accident, the teacher who is killed in a car crash, the loving son who drowns in the river. How much they would have given to get back what you're trying to throw away so callously.

Think about it.

133 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-26 19:21 ID:UKCUqDuk

key for >>130 is to find something that makes him or her happy.
If they can't do that, then the best thing to do is to do something WEIRD that no one else does.
Pack up and move to Mongolia, and live out in the fields as a transient.
Go to Nigeria and become a pirate. Or conversly, go to Italy and become a sailor.
Go to Australia and convince an aborigine to take you on as apprentice, to continue the caretaking of the bush.

If you don't care about your life or your safety, there's lots of neat things you can go out and do.

134 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-26 19:36 ID:Heaven

>>130 take some cyanide

135 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-26 20:38 ID:Heaven

>>130
If I were like you, I'd do a bunch of illegal things before suicide. Make sure you have a definite and quick method of suicide before you get caught by police and sent to jail for years. But the list of illegal things you could do are innumerable, and once you start to do the more serious ones, there is no turning back. It'll force you into either suicide or jail time, and perhaps suicide will be the friendlier of the choices. You wanna go down in history right? Everyone wants their existance validated. Well, at least I do, so it's always a potential plan one day.

orz

136 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-27 08:45 ID:ma8sKBIG

Ah, if only it were possible to do just one thing in your life that you've always wanted, but couldn't because of the consequences ... yet just this once be guaranteed none.

137 Name: Yorokobi 2005-11-29 05:50 ID:Heaven

Personally i think committing suicide is the cowards way out. You cant handle your problems so you just end them. It's pathetic your just gonna give up trying because your failing at the moment?

138 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-29 08:11 ID:0Lctfu8G

even if you failed your whole life, there's always time to make up for it. Just go do something, get off your ass. It's hard at first, but if you socialize a bit more it'd feel a bit better. I am kind of in the same position as you but not nearly as extreme. Suicide is pretty dumb. I completly agree with >>132. And don't listen to >>135, it's possibly the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

I don't mean to throw so many insults around in this post, but I feel that you need to get up and get going. Find something that suits you, okay? If you commit suicide, we'll all be sad.

139 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-29 14:08 ID:Heaven

No we won't. We'll never know it. And more, I personally don't care if he lives or dies.
His life is for him to enjoy, not for us to moan over. If he thinks suicide will make him happier, go for it.

140 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-29 16:05 ID:Heaven

Um. There is no concept of "happy" for someone who's dead.

141 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-29 23:43 ID:YFXMcTRD

>>130 I agree with >>133. In a sense, you've been able to fully renounce yourself -- something which not many people manage to do. But once a person renounces himself if he has nothing within him to move him to action then he simply descends into nihilism. We can't find what makes us happy. That's what we're sold in this society: buy this, accomplish these goals, adore these people and you'll be content. If we're looking for something to make us happy, then we're simply reactive creatures that do naught but responding to stimulus: even bacteria do that; hell, even a ball rolls if you kick it. Once the event occurs that triggers our awakening to the injustice and pettiness of the ordinary life that is sold us, it's easy for us to recognize the meaninglessness of such a life. Perhaps your depression and suicidal thoughts are the key to a positive but radical transformation of your mind.

As humans gifted with free will we have the power to take initiative and create our happiness. It doesn't come from any passive involvement in things: the fact that you don't even watch the anime you download shows that you recognize this truth. It's ok that you're not interested in these things, because to you they probably seem vacuous. They may have rewarded you in the past, but now you recognize the futility in seeking happiness through material things.

The problem you are experiencing is that you haven't yet come to understand what to go about doing that will truely create your meaning in life. When we have nothing then we are empowered to do everything. What do you have to lose? If you don't know how to reduce your own suffering now, maybe you can go and help those who suffer from the simple things that we take for granted: those who have no food, no clothing, no shelter, no education or opportunities. Recognizing what we have, it's pointless to sit and feel guilty over the things we have been blessed with. Maybe you aren't starving, but your suffering is still real. I think that going out and simply helping people--and not only meeting their material needs, but giving them the connection that you desire and that they crave--will be a remarkable experience for you.

I understand some of what you've been through. I never reached the point that you have, but I struggled for many years with a huge void of meaninglessness inside of me. It's hard to convey to others why, even though we have so many material comforts, we still feel depressed. Simply create your meaning. Get up, get out, and take action. Isn't that worth a try?

142 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-30 02:13 ID:Heaven

Dear >>141
Thank you for that intelligent post. I would be surprised if you were a teenage hikki like the rest of us. Well, it was nice reading your post. Hope >>130 understands it.
Love,
Anonymous

143 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-30 04:39 ID:UpprQ3lt

>>141 well written

>Once the event occurs that triggers our awakening to the injustice and pettiness of the ordinary life that is sold us, it's easy for us to recognize the meaninglessness of such a life.

I'm at this stage about now, but still plenty of time to experiment with life.

>>138, why is >>135 just about the stupidest thing you ever heard? If you're going for suicide, you might as well make something of the whole ordeal. I'd rather be considered a nutcase than someone who's too weak and just gives up on life. Or maybe a giant scheme of revenge to ruin the life of your most hated enemy (provided you have one), then once accomplished die in peace. There are various ways to commit suicide, and if you must, maybe be original and not take the classic way out?

One might argue that hurting others is a terrible thing, but as >>141 roughly said, "create meaning in your life".

144 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-30 12:25 ID:YFXMcTRD

>>143 While suffering can be transformative, purposely causing suffering to another is never a justifiable thing to do. If we choose to be vengeful or to destroy then we have simply returned to an economic mode of living. By economic I mean that we have returned to that meaninglessness that our society presses upon us: that we're all just objects to be used for one another's pleasure--that all we are is a consumer driven by animal emotions and feelings. Contrary to what Mouse in The Matrix says (that our impulses make us human) our humanity consists of our ability to deny our impulses and to decide what is better. >>130 has finally reached a stage of selflessness (although it's manifesting in an improper way) and you would have him re-establish his ego, to return to what drove him here in the first place? To do good works in service of another is to renounce our ego--to make ourselves into judge and declare the value of another's life is to make us all numbers, including ourselves!

I see now that I need to clarify the phrase "create your meaning" that I used. For me, it has a specific context that I failed to evoke, and I apologize for that. Meaning is rooted in truth; there is no meaning aside from truth. The creation of our meaning is how we choose to respond to truth, how we make that truth manifest. If our meaning is something that is soley our creation, then its essentially just an arbitrary goal that we've set. Without knowing truth, how can we seek to act in this world? Creating our meaning means interacting with and discovering truth. What is suffering? What is purpose? What is justice? What is humanity?

Our society places us in such a powerful mode of relativism that we're essentially nihilists: "I'm ok, you're ok, just seek out your individual happiness like an animal, we have no responsibilities towards one another." "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." Our popular culture has even devolved into making religion into either an agent of the status quo or a tool for our own egocentric happiness. Go to church because you'll develop a strong social network. Go do yoga because it's good for your muscles and body. Go do meditation because it will reduce your level of stress. Never mind that the church is the Body of Christ that calls us to love and forgive one another, never mind that yoga is about seeking union with the divine through physical and mental discipline, never mind that meditation is about transcending our simple self-centeredness to recognize the great sense of being in the world and the interdependence of all its elements. Never mind responsibility! Never mind being challenged! Now we just have fads of Qabalah and Zen*, we have a buffet of interesting ideas where we can arbitrarily declare our own truth as it is convenient for us. Truth has become a playground for our creativity, but we're all miserable because as finite human beings we can't create truth, we can only discover it.

I use the phrase "create your meaning" because too many people expect everything to fall into place without any action. Saints don't fall down from Heaven, the Bhagavad Gita wasn't found lying on a street corner, and the Dalai Lama doesn't just sit around all day. Truth is something that we have to engage. This is why I stayed away from "go find meaning," because that implies that we can just look around and say, "Oh, there it is." It's much more difficult than that. But I will tell you this: even from the beginning of this struggle, you will begin to cultivate a sense of joy. No longer that cycle of happiness and suffering subject to the whims of the day (or as >>143 said, a total inability to experience happiness), but a real, true sense of joy within you. Joy is distinct from happiness. It's not about having something or being somewhere, it's about doing something and being someone. You will be frusterated as you encounter so many conflicting ideas, you will be angry as you fail to live up to the example of those you admire, you will still have to work and eat and sleep. But underlying all this will be a simple sense of joy and a profound sense of responsibility. And someday, if you struggle for truth with openness and honesty and sincerity, you will find home.

*Note: I'm not insulting Qabalah or Zen; just saying that they've been bastardized by popular culture.

145 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-30 15:23 ID:/e5cyYer

I especially love the third paragraph of >>144. But concerning >>130, I do not think he has reached selflessness at all. His post, no matter how I read it, expresses a supreme, pervasive unhappiness--selflessness doesn't mean being depressed all the time, does it?

146 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-30 20:24 ID:ye12Ce7O

I live in southern Ohio.

Have you ever lived in southern Ohio?

When I act like myself everyone (including my MOTHER) is embarassed to introduce me to other people, but when I try to pretend for the sake of getting along I'm miserable and I hate myself and I hate everyone around me.

All I want is for people to quit nagging me. I haven't answered my phone in days.

147 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-11-30 22:40 ID:YFXMcTRD

>>144 He has, but in the wrong way. He's selfless in that he doesn't value his life. Since he doesn't value his life and isn't tied down by passion for the world, he's free to do what he needs to in order to overthrow this world. What he needs to arrive at is to be selfless but with a proper sense of being and an understanding of the value and purpose of his life.

148 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-12-01 02:19 ID:mmcyFS4p

What would be a non-asshat way to tell my aunt to stop downloading so much weird shit on her computer? It breaks randomly and runs like molasses in winter, and I'm the one who has to fix it afterwards. -__-

149 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-12-01 06:16 ID:ZLGgaAXD

>>146
You should probably act like yourself.
Maybe you could analyse your behavior and figure out what truly is no good to do in public, and what your mother and others are just idiots about.
There's nothing wrong with changing how you act if something you do makes the people you're introduced to uncomfortable.
At the same time, don't let them push you around about it.

150 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-12-01 07:42 ID:xZucoEQW

it looks like we all are around the same age and have similar type problems. I am also hikkikomori, no education, masturbating all day infront of my comp, suffering from ocd, and in a state of constant fear all the time. And i dont want to step outside because looking at how other people are living and the way of life outside make me sick.

but do you know what i think is going on? I think all teenage human beings are 'cursed' or must go through this phase of terrible suffering due to certain chemicals that have to change for teenagers to become adults. The changing of these chemicals and cells causes an imbalance in the body, and so that is why we are all angry or sad about life.

And i bet one day we will wake up and suddenly feel fine again, and realize how retarded we were. This would mark when all the cells and chemicals in our body have finished changing and doing its business, so we regain balance.

whatever we are scared worried angry about is completely meaningless to a person whos chemicals are balanced. Thats why you see adults or older people having that urge to punch depressed teenagers in the face telling them to wake up.

so just wait for the chemicals to finish doing its thing, for now just do what you think you will have fun doing. if you like staying home then stay home until you get kicked out, if you hate the place you live in then do whatever possible to run away. if you like to worry then keep on worrying. This post is too long

151 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-12-01 21:58 ID:UpprQ3lt

>>150
That's an interesting thought. We all think that when we go from elementary>highschool, we're "all grown up", become mature, and so forth, but until we actually reach 25+ we cannot say we've fully developed or even experienced a tiny portion of the world. Well, those of us in this situation reading this thread will come to some kind of understanding in the years to come, hopefully.

I want to ask all the hikikomori in the thread, what degree of hikikomori are you? Do you never leave your room? Or is it "never leave your house?" If I were ever to become hikikomori (that is if they didn't kick me out / to a pyschiatrist / to a job interview) they would certainly not cater to me and bring me food and so forth.

Also, those of you without university degrees / other certifications, do you find happiness doing perhaps mundane jobs? Any job is realistically a chore. I don't want to be tied down by any certain thing; I figure I'll go to university for software degree, but if I didn't get accepted I'd go to Japan as part of a student work program. Traveling to many countries might be nice, and I could potentially spend my life going from place to place. But how difficult is your life without a degree?

152 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-12-02 06:29 ID:7W37ZNdi

>>151
Having only recently learned of hikikomori, it's hard to say what degree I am. However, I do think my case is pretty severe. Unlike some hikikomori, I do leave my room, but I only venture out of the house when I absolutely have to, like in a situation where I'm backed into a corner and have no choice.

No one seems to think of me as hikikomori, or a shut-in, it seems more like they just think of me as reserved, despite the length of time I spend in my room. I think if I told them how I felt, they'd think I was being melodramatic, so I don't see myself speaking up about it. And I also don't see my family mentioning anything, either. They haven't really been pressuring me to look for a job or go to college, even though I am 18 years old now, and should be doing those things.

153 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-12-02 15:50 ID:VL0G7b0y

>>151 are you aware of the fact that you id almost says 'Upper' i'd like to think that this is a sign from god

154 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-12-02 23:21 ID:UpprQ3lt

>>153
Yeah, it's almost like Upper Quarter 3: Lite
or Lite 3rd Upper Quarter. Amazing!

155 Name: Demian 2005-12-03 05:01 ID:i8EIL4QL

I think it would be dangerous to put oneself too easily into a stereotypical role, such as otaku or hikikomori. The risk lies with the excuse it can form to avoid certain parts of life that you feel uncomfortable with. It seems to me that most of the people here are in their late teens, going into tweens. Especially for those people, as >>150 not incorrectly points out, there are a lot of hormonal changes, plus that expectations by others usually change without being voiced. These changes may very well cause confusion about the world.

I have experienced this myself as well, and I mean that your view of the world is easier shaken (perhaps for the better!) However, as mentioned earlier, this relativating society makes it very difficult to adjust your views to more logical ones. In my case, I found it very difficult to postulate any goals or aims to guide my life to, because consciously or subconsciously I had refused them for being pointless. I would like to have a point in my life. I think all people do.

The result of having no acceptable goals (I tried to force some upon myself, but to no avail) was pure lethargy, and severe difficulties with conducting my studies as it was very easy to be distracted - after all I would be virtually indifferent between reading a comic book and passing an exam.

From this point on I am only a voice, as I have only very recently started this: I have finally found aims that are noble enough to attempt and challenging enough to last a lifetime. I think it will be easier to live when having strong acceptable goals as people with actual goals are willing and able to change themselves and their environment

156 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-12-03 09:26 ID:Heaven

Some simple advice, just in case: find a good brand of multi-vitamin pills, and take them regularly.

If you're low in something essential it can make you feel pretty miserable, and that's the last thing you need if you're already feeling depressed.

157 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-12-03 17:39 ID:ZLGgaAXD

>>155 Exactly!
Having a goal is the single most important thing one can do to stave off depression.
It's really the only thing you can do. EVERYONE has a goal. If they don't, they become depressed and eventually suicide.

Keep in mind:
Only when you feel you have no control over your situation, does the urge to commit suicide overtake you.
It will seem to be the one thing you can do to take control over your life. It is logical.
Thus! to avoid committing suicide, give yourself control over your life in another way.

158 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-12-04 02:41 ID:rgUS72oH

tl;dr

159 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-12-04 06:30 ID:kOiKCVL0

>>157

> Having a goal is the single most important thing one can do to stave off depression.

Pfft. Trying is the first step towards failure. Everyone knows that.
(._. )

160 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-12-05 05:27 ID:2WsgX0QH

I'm 21. I'm in the kind of family where money comes in automatically every month by the virtue of the good business sense of my long-deceased grandfather.

I've spent about 3 years (non-consecutive) living the shut-in lifestyle, alone in a small apartment. My mother has lived the last 20 years that way.

I really want to do something with my life, getting better habits and all that, and I probably could gather the willpower to do just that, but I have no incentive, nothing to push me forward, and trying was to spark change suddenly don't work. I set objectives, but I procrastinate too much.

I don't have real friends and can't get help from my family (I'm in bad terms with my father and don't know him much, and the rest of my family has no authority at all over me, but I am in good terms with them).

I'm gonna move in to another house for various reason in about 4 months. I want to have better habits by then so that the new environment helps me to sustain more efforts, but I have not done much yet to improve myself :(.

161 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-12-05 15:00 ID:7y8CG/eF

>>160

You could always volunteer or help out some random community event around the place that you are going to. You don't have to go crazy thinking of an idea on how to become more active and other people will notice you by what you are doing. And since you have established that you aren't in a huge money crisis, it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

162 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-12-05 21:03 ID:Heaven

>>161
The problem is not really thinking any of this stuff out, it's getting my stupid lazy ass out to do stuff. What you said is right, I'm going for ~10 days in the city where I'll live in two weeks, I'll try to see what is organized there.

163 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-12-10 01:36 ID:omsRC+HX

I was going to post a long and emo rant but after reading some of your stories i don't feel the need anymore. THANKS
Also, i'm a very boring person and have no idea how to make friends or become an intresting and fun person

164 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-12-10 02:11 ID:R6yolyuD

my university semester has finished. people are starting to go home for christmas, and early next week i'll be going home too. the problem is i have no friends at home. i have no job, since i don't need money, because i don't have any friends and therefore don't go out. also i'm lazy. my life at uni isn't perfect by any means, but it's way better than what i used to have, and i really don't want to go back to it. i'll really miss certain people too (well, one in particular).

so, basically, i'll just spend the next 3 or so weeks feeling shitty like i did in the summer. by the end of that i was too depressed to do anything other than lie on the couch watching crappy stand-up or whichever channel happened to be showing an episode of scrubs.

i think it might have something to do with my parents splitting up as well. they never really got on for the past few years, so everyone's technically better off now they aren't together anymore, but they also kind of cancelled each other out. spending a lot of time with my mum just tends to depress me. but yeah, probably less to do with her in particular and more the lack of human interaction other than her and occasionally the guy in the petrol station if i run out of dr. pepper.

165 Name: T 2005-12-10 04:08 ID:cxapoTyW

>>163
Everyone has something to offer the world... I bet you have interesting knowledge or hobbies, but you just don't consider them to be interesting.
Well, as long as you are a reasonably nice person you have something to offer. Don't strive to be the best of the best or the greastest and most fun guy in the world, because maybe that just isn't your strong suit. Making friends is one of those things that can be difficult and awkward, but the best advice I could give is find a club or group of people that share your interests. Friendships come easily that way.

>>156
Yeah, take vitamins and EAT WELL. I don't think people realize how much diet and activity level has to do with happiness. Seriously. Physical hobbies will definitely help. Learn the bo staff or something!

166 Name: Karas 2005-12-30 18:14 ID:qOkomaW/

>>130
I'm on the same boat dude. Well maybe I don't feel as bad as you, but still I have tried to commit suicide few times. I was few years ago. I failed, though i think a part of me died that time - I feel so empty and void now, like zombie or something.

167 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-12-30 21:18 ID:Heaven

as cheesy as >>165san sounds, he's actually right. See i live in a country where our winters are all helladark, and due to irregular sleeping habits i go about two months with less than 5 hours of sun a week. This + not really moving a lot really really sucks.
But lately i've started going downtown on foot / skateboard (when it's dry enough) which is just plain awesome, skating 13km a day is so the happypill you wouldn't believe it.

168 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-12-31 00:16 ID:Heaven

I procrastrinate... a lot. It´s really bothersome.

169 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-12-31 00:54 ID:+NfkS66O

>>164
You need to put yourself into situations where you'll be forced to interact with new people. Like >>165 said, you could join a club at your uni. If you need motivation, you could give us a list of the clubs and we'll help you pick one out.

170 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-12-31 01:26 ID:A1OzWHb3

I just got Animal Crossing. Tom Nook's shop closes at 11. What the FUCK.

171 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-12-31 18:57 ID:Heaven

>>170
lol

172 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-12-31 23:37 ID:1rX+Serj

Sooner or later we'll have to get a board for psychological problems. Some of you are whack.

173 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-01-24 05:00 ID:Jh5QcYC1

You know those times when the entire universe seems to be against you? I'm having one right now.

As backstory, my desktop's motherboard crapped out about two weeks ago. I finally got around to buying a new mb on ebay... get it in, hook everything up, things are good, right? Well, I get antsy and decide I want to take the old USB jacks out of the front of my case and throw in the extra USB2.0 jacks that came with the board. Of course, some custom work was involved... okay, power on, ERROR LOADING OS. OH SHI-

I should add that I currently have two HDDs, and I'm dual-booting Windows and LUNIX. So, okay, I'm tired of Fedora anyway, let's just get rid of it. Time to fix the MBR - well, I can't. My copy of XP isn't bootable, so I can't get to the recovery console. But that's okay, I've got the (6) XP boot floppys.... NO WAIT, THEY'RE CORRUPT. Okay, okay... I'll download a fresh copy.

THEY'RE CORRUPTED TOO.

SHITSHITSHITSHITSHIT.

It's wonderful when every single layer of your contingency plan fails miserably, lol.

174 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-01-24 15:52 ID:Heaven

I'm not surprised you're tired of Fedora. Try Ubuntu instead.

175 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-01-24 16:49 ID:vkgcIB2H

I slept funny and now my back hurts.

176 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-01-24 16:58 ID:CZMdDadY

I have failed my Japanese class. This is seriously affecting me. Now I have nothing to do but to quit college, pack my bags and go home. And even that is getting hard for me. I have nobody to talk to except my parents and girlfriend. And she lives far away from me. I miss her. ;__;

177 Name: 176 2006-01-24 19:13 ID:CZMdDadY

But then, I also will see her again. I will find a meaning in my life. I am not a teenager anymore. I will accept some responsibility.

178 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-01-25 03:40 ID:Heaven

Good job >>177, it's never the end of the world

179 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-01-26 20:28 ID:wcxJSMOL

>>177
がんばってね?(゚ω゚)つ

180 Name: (´-`).。oO(おっぱい (. Y .) ) 2006-01-26 22:40 ID:Heaven

>>179 = Ganbatte ne? = Good luck/go for it/wish you well.

181 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-01-26 23:53 ID:Heaven

I don't think I did very well on that Network Security exam.

I don't think anyone did.

182 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-01-27 14:23 ID:omsRC+HX

>>176
This sounds like a girl in my class. I want to fuck her.

183 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-02-03 05:59 ID:1EE/+nSv

>>37

Dude, you sound like you're bored by yourself. Get up, get out, and do things. Really. If nothing else, it will increase the odds of running into someone else who likes you.

184 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-02-05 03:23 ID:Heaven

Ok seriously. I hate it when people have to study every single goddamn word you say to find A HIDDEN MESSAGE. NO I DON'T HATE YOU AND I THINK THE THINGS YOU DO ARE PERFECTLY FINE. STOP TRYING TO FIND WAYS TO SAY THAT I'M AGAINST YOU. Some people are way too goddamn pompous and think they know every single thing about all of the humans that move on this planet.

185 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-02-05 03:28 ID:Heaven

BASICALLY WHY DO WE JUDGE PEOPLES LIFE STORIES 5 SECONDS AFTER MEETING THEM

186 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-02-05 05:37 ID:3jNRFVLU

>>185
lol

187 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-02-05 16:04 ID:+xKLQfZ9

what do you do when your personality changes everyday?
im not calling dr phil.

188 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-02-06 01:34 ID:Heaven

>>187
Do what you've always done~

189 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-02-06 06:29 ID:uk/6VdJY

The gameboy SP was really poorly designed:
-The buttons are too small
-Its too thin to provide a good grip
-The top screen moves the center of gravity so its even more uncomfortable to use
-Top screen really isn't neccesary at all
-The carts are needlessly small (easy to lose)
-The carts have exposed pins

190 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-02-06 11:16 ID:yDiO+TJU

>>189
roflcopter, thats mad random

191 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-02-06 14:29 ID:JAGYzPls

 

192 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-02-06 14:31 ID:JAGYzPls

i meant to post in the 'Thread for finding "DQN" or "VIP" in your ID' thread, but accidentally posted here instead.

193 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-02-06 15:17 ID:1+UookaD

>>192
That's a big problem. Tell us more about it.

194 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-02-06 18:04 ID:dYUxgJ/e

That woman was supposed to come look at my car today at lunch, but she never called or showed up. Doesn't she realize I have a test at 2:00?! :mad:

195 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-02-06 22:21 ID:Mohfl8CX

Bleh, her messenger had left a message with my family telling me to call back today. Not knowing that, I had called her about an hour later, and she told me I would receive a call today. Additionally, my teacher said he would call her to day (for me?)

So who's calling who?

196 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-02-07 17:52 ID:Jh5QcYC1

>>195

dunno, lol.

I wish those people would call me, though. They said they had to make sure they could get the loan... but they also said they would call me around 9:00am! It's almost noon now! I took off of work and everything... geez.

197 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-02-08 05:02 ID:ZnZZmt/E

I FUCKING HATE DUKE!!!

198 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-02-09 01:21 ID:fomKyvtu

In Soviet Russia, Duke hates you!

199 Name: Random Anonymous 2006-02-09 06:11 ID:YZR/PDia

I lack attention span.
Some bus driver wanted to beat me up and get my car towed off by the police because I parked at a bus station. I drove away, now I fear that I might get in trouble with the police.
I have to face my ex-gf this spring/summer holiday.
I'm too lazy/have no good motivation to lose weight/exercising.
My next official work starts september, but I can't find a decent paying job to bridge me until then.
I can't get a decent sleep cycle, mostly I spleep at day because I got nothing decent to do (or actually are too lazy to do anything, like for example writing my novel), so I'm awake at night and trolling the internet.
I got some scratches in my 10.000€ car.
I'm a bitter virgin.
The guy whom I worked for until december doesn't want to pay me what he owes me.

Hm, yeah.

200 Name: 199 2006-02-09 07:02 ID:YZR/PDia

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