If I could change just one thing about my life over the past decade, it would be to remove the romantic relationships. Seriously. It's very unfortunate that society castigates single people.Quoting Mara (view post)
If I could change just one thing about my life over the past decade, it would be to remove the romantic relationships. Seriously. It's very unfortunate that society castigates single people.
I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?
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Are you a sea anemone?
(But seriously what are you going to do for sex?)
Fortunately, there's a whole wide world of internet porn out there.
I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?
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I joke around, but I honestly don't mind being single. I've never fallen in love with anyone or had anyone I've wanted to be with, so I get along well.
...and the milk's in me.
My hat's off to you.
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Well whatever works for you, I suppose.
I'm a sexually charged miscreant who seeks mostly to satisfy my basest and most immediate urges.
I'm... going to recommend the opposite.
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I'm going to recommend neither and say make it great, but don't place too much emphasis on it emotionally.
200 exactly I think.
I have the opposite problem. I would like to take a couple of years off from dating just because I fall in love with people too quickly and I've gotten way clingy and jealous in relationships and it's a bummer
I do envy folks who truly don't mind being single for a long period of time, because that indicates they're comfortable with themselves. So good for them
Mmmyeah, see I sort of agree, but at the same time I think you kinda need to go through the ups and downs of romantic relationships and endure some heartbreak, especially early on in life. I would say that most of the worst moments I've had over the past few years have involved my love life, but most of the best have involved my love life, too, so that's fine
Yeah, totally. I feel like if I had somehow had sex when I was nine or something, I would have been about ten times cooler in high school. Or ten times weirder. Either way, I would have been having more sex
For me, the worst moments are much, much worse than the best, and they have far more significant long-term consequences. It's not worth it. I guess I learned a lot from my first relationship—it was pretty pivotal in forming my entire philosophical perspective—but I don't think I got even that from my second relationship. So relationships be damned I say. It's all movies all the time from now on.
I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?
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Now that I think about it, who are we recommending this to?
oh what the hell.
2000 got diagnosed with panic disorder in 1999, started adapting to life with it.
2001 found phish, 9/11 happened.
2002 dropped out of high school because of panic attacks.
2003 got some of my shit together. started taking my cinephilia seriously.
2004 met a girl, got a job, got my ged, rekindled old friendships, easily the most satisfying of my 24 years.
2005 lost girl, lost job, lost my mind.
2006 another relationship, much more brief than the last. heartbreak hurts.
2007 struggled with panic disorder yet again. october was one of the roughest months of my life.
2008 got things back on track again, and then rolled my car the day after christmas.
2009 not too high, not too low, been about two years since i've had any serious panic disorder related complications. maybe 2010 is a good time to get back into the functioning world.
I'll play along.
2000: Eventful: Finished up thesis to get MA (finally!), broke up with boyfriend, tended bar.
2001: Even more eventful: Went to Europe, got pickpocketed in Paris, cut trip short, quit bartending job, was unemployed for the first time in my adult life, got job at college, waited tables part-time, went back to school to learn computer programming. Lost a cousin in 9/11.
2002: Discovered RT. Still teaching, but also studying programming. Adopted tuxedo cat.
2003: Turned 30. Stopped studying programming. Still teaching.
2004. Met husband-to-be. Still teaching and I picked up another teaching job at my alma mater. Dated husband-to-be long distance.
2005. Husband-to-be moved here with his cat. Bought a house. Still teaching. Was adjunct instructor of the year.
2006. Planned wedding, got married, went to Europe for honeymoon. Still teaching.
2007. Not much. Edited a textbook, went to Disney World. Still teaching.
2008. Went to the Caribbean. Still teaching, but budget cuts at the alma mater cut my course load. Taught online for the first time.
2009. Husband's cat died. Rediscovered a bunch of old friends via Facebook. Bought a new car. Still teaching.
We've had some remarkably similar experiences. Different years, but I too got diagnosed with a mental disorder, dropped out of school due to that mental disorder and ended up getting my GED after I started taking my cinephilia seriously.
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Riddick (David Twohy | 2013 | USA/UK)
Night Across the Street (Raoul Ruiz | 2012 | Chile/France)*
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You're Next (Adam Wingard | 2011 | USA)
Little Odessa (James Gray | 1994 | USA)*
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I find it strange how people interested on the arts might not want to experience love, heartrbeak, boredom and all these other pivotal feelings that humanity has been trying to understand for ages. Literature, dammit.
I love people deeply, and I have had my heart broken.
But neither of those things have happened to me in a romantic context.
...and the milk's in me.
If you're too depressed to read, or you're on the brink of suicide, then being able to better appreciate some literature doesn't really seem to be a commensurate benefit.
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Why not look at it from a physiological perspective? Having sex/making love/etc releases endorphins and dopaminergic chemicals into your mesolimbic pathway producing feelings of happy.
I'll respond earnestly to a presumably facetious suggestion, by saing I'm not sure what that accomplishes, other than being grossly misleading and largely irrelevant. Physiological events run in parallel with the actual subjective experiences: they do not contain the experience. Of course, if you want to just lie to yourself by reducing the one to the other, then that might change your experience. But it would also be, you know...incorrect.
I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?
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Learning what's wrong with me and my life and beginning to try and fix it, pretty much.
I guess writing 4 page essays has really helped me make things concise.
I think Llopin was referring specifically to romantic love, which is a very different feeling than other types of love. But thinking about that and Llopin's statement made me think of a feeling that I haven't experienced and don't wish to: parental love. Sure, that's a subject of much literature, and experiencing it would increase my understanding of the pivotal feelings in human existence, but I will never want a child, and I think it would be best for everyone involved if I never have one.
I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?
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This is easy.
2000 - Stayed Single. Masturbated a lot.
2001 - Stayed Single. Masturbated a lot.
2002 - Stayed Single. Masturbated a lot.
2003 - Stayed Single. Masturbated a lot.
2004 - Stayed Single. Masturbated a lot.
2005 - Stayed Single. Masturbated a lot.
2006 - Stayed Single. Masturbated a lot.
2007 - Stayed Single. Masturbated a lot.
2008 - Stayed Single. Masturbated a lot.
2009 - Stayed Single. Masturbated a lot. Met Brad Bird.
Sure why not?
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I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?
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I met Brad Bird in 2005, but I suppose it was overshadowed by the wife.
Call me sweet again, Mara.
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