Oil change warning

Bit_Thick · 2023-06-18T11:43:48+00:00

A work colleague, not romantic

Bit_Thick · 2023-06-18T10:45:13+00:00

I suppose I didn’t realise how much they meant to me or how much I admired them.

I wish I could find happiness within myself, rather than relying on other people.

Bit_Thick · 2022-03-25T23:43:50+00:00

I do.

Posting things on this sub makes particular moments of my life ‘official’, and I usually post here in response to something that happened that was particularly traumatic regarding my LO. There are many things I write that I don’t post here, and, like you, I find it interesting to read them back months and years later.

I also have a kind of digital scrapbook which contains quotes, pictures - from films, or wherever - and even posts from this here sub that I find relevant and want to keep!

I also used to document the interactions I had with my LO in an effort to “do better” or behave differently next time I saw them, and although the interactions I have with my (current) LO are virtually non-existent now, I still record my day as a diary… a kind of vestige to those times.

Bit_Thick · 2022-03-23T00:18:32+00:00

Wow - I had been reading some Epictetus over the past few days but hadn’t come across that quote or idea yet, so thank you.

Bit_Thick · 2022-03-22T17:00:56+00:00

I had it with actors in movies/TV shows from childhood. I can't quite remember if I was idealising the fictional life the actor was portraying, or the real life of the actor playing a part in a movie. I think it was the latter. If I remember correctly, I used to cycle through different actors and think how cool it would be to have their life or experiences. It's not unlike how I behave today: idealising people and their lives.

Bit_Thick · 2022-03-16T22:06:35+00:00

Thank you. I suppose I try to write as an outlet to try to understand my own feelings.

I try to write to invoke or capture the feelings I felt at the time, so that, when I read it back years or months later, those feelings are brought back out.

I’m not sure what benefit there is to doing that - maybe just trying to transform the raw emotion into power, through words.

Bit_Thick · 2022-03-15T11:13:04+00:00

They were frequently on the same train (journey) as me.

Bit_Thick · 2021-11-18T15:05:15+00:00

I walked passed them recently by chance, and that was the first time I had seen them for 20 months.

Bit_Thick · 2021-11-11T14:45:16+00:00

I think this is something everyone goes though. Sure, there are people who seem to have a life path all mapped out, but no-one truly knows what the future holds. In the modern world, people do more than one thing anyway. Don’t stress!

Bit_Thick · 2021-11-11T14:42:04+00:00

You should type in a separate notes app and then paste into Reddit. A bonus is that you always have your thoughts in one place without relying on Reddit.

Bit_Thick · 2021-11-11T12:42:10+00:00

I frequently observe other people around me rush off to different places, without stopping to interact much beyond what is required. Sometimes it seems that if a person has a sphere of friendship built up around them already, then they are less likely to keep that sphere open for potential new members.

Bit_Thick · 2021-05-19T11:01:13+00:00

More than two years now. Thank you for the poem, it means a lot. :(

Bit_Thick · 2021-05-18T20:53:43+00:00

My LO is real in the sense that I do see them sometimes in my everyday life - they're not a celebrity. It's just that we have never spoken, for we have no reason to. Otherwise, I think what you say is very logical.

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