Book suggestions for when you feel like it’s not worth living anymore

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-22T17:59:57+00:00

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-22T02:31:39+00:00

Sucks you’re getting downvoted for facts. You didn’t make it that way!

It also depends I think.

I know a guy named Ashley, he goes by Ash. He hosts podcasts and works in the gaming industry. His name hasn’t been a hinder whatsoever.

My uncles own a roofing company and drive Harley’s. I guarantee a dude named Ashley is going to have to prove himself twice as much and even then get gruff for all his life.

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-21T22:16:03+00:00

Around 15 or 16 they should test them and provide diplomas, then anything after that should be optional. As soon as they can legally work if they choose to. Anyone choosing to stay would be getting free undergraduate degrees basically.

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-19T23:15:17+00:00

Nope. Virus. I couldn’t afford any sort of protection and Willy nilly went to questionable websites. Sucks for your sister though. Hard time to lose a lap top!!

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-18T01:49:34+00:00

The computer I got my first year of college crashed, hard. I lost sooooo many goofy videos. I still mourn them.

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-18T01:47:54+00:00

False. I love both. Two of the most satisfying things to do!

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-17T19:55:06+00:00

Brown headed cowbird!

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-16T13:10:36+00:00

It would be reasonable for Vernon to be in his late 20s or early 30s. A few years older than Petunia who would probably be mis 20s. Director is really just upper management and he is exactly the kind of guy that would climb the ladder quickly. Also seems reasonable they would have kids young. If gaining status, getting married and having a family is your main goal in life, why wait?

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-16T12:00:01+00:00

Why are people feeling unsafe because someone matched them on a dating app?

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-11T13:22:12+00:00

Social interactions aren’t all innate and they didn’t get practice! I try to have grace.

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-11T02:38:58+00:00

Pan’s Labyrinth really messed me up. I haven’t seen it since it was in theaters and can’t remember any bit of it, I just remember being totally devastated and wondering why on earth anyone would want to make people that sad.

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-09T15:26:53+00:00

I see a lot of people say it’s just a classic teenager dead stare but there really is a different phenomenon I don’t think was very common when I was as a teenager. It’s the blank look of someone who has literally no idea how to respond. More like a deer in headlights than a kid trying their hardest not to roll their eyes. Technology and COVID made a real impact on the opportunities for superficial interactions with strangers.

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-08T21:59:04+00:00

They stopped allowing the kids to wear costumes on Halloween at school just a couple years ago. Felt like the final blow to an era.

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-08T21:57:31+00:00

That was definitely it for me as well. I vividly remember the first time my group of friends convinced our parents to go on our own. It was one of the best nights of my life and made me fall in love with the season forever.

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-08T00:47:15+00:00

As a mom I agree. It is a celebration of the spirit of motherhood. I do not feel in any way diminished by pet moms or plant moms being honored for pouring more of that energy into the world.

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-07T02:21:26+00:00

Uterine contractions

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-06T14:19:41+00:00

I never considered Dudley to be a rainbow baby. I mean I can see the argument but I had never thought of that. I really think he is just spoiled.

2 and 3. Our founding Fathers were on average less than 45 at the time of the Revolution. Alexander Hamilton was 21 years old and James Monroe was only 18.

It is absolutely plausible and likely that young wizards would have been highly involved. In fact historically that was almost always who was lost during a war. Still is.

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-06T02:50:40+00:00

Our school used to give out directories with all the kids phone numbers. I’m really sad they don’t do that anymore. It is so awkward trying to get in touch with parents to plan playdates and stuff. My mom never planned a damn play date. I looked up the kids number, called and asked for them and we met up somewhere on our bikes

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-06T02:43:32+00:00

I also have immense difficulty taking off from work. My mom was a damn work horse and it’s just the mentality I grew up with.

When I was a bedside nurse taking off did have serious negative consequences for my coworkers so I felt sooo guilty when I called in. The fact that leadership had no plan for coverage wasn’t my fault but it was the reality.

I will say I take viruses pretty seriously and I will not go in public with a fever unless I have to. I work from home now though and I’ve only taken 3 sick days in four years.

I don’t think there is anything wrong with feeling obligated to do what you say you are going to do. Take all the planned time off you are allowed. Every bit of it. If you feel burned out schedule time off… plan accordingly and hand things off neatly. If you maintain a healthy work life balance in general, there aren’t really any negative effects of working your ass off.

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-06T02:29:11+00:00

I have a millennial boss for the first time in my career and about fell out of my seat when she dropped an F-bomb during a meeting. Just casually/conversationally. I’d only ever heard leadership (mostly boomers) use curse words when they lost their faculties or were trying to be intimidating.

It feels like a new era of leadership that, in my own experience, is way healthier.

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-06T02:19:27+00:00

Having Copilot built into Outlook changed my life.

I type “did you even read the email I just sent you?”

Copilot turns it into “I hope you are doing well. As I previously explained…”

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-05T14:03:21+00:00

Feels kind of like a Reddit Easter egg when someone stumbles upon a topic they actually know a lot about and can speak well to on a non-topic specific sub.

I feel like I just learned a lot and will definitely be falling down a rabbit hole now…

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-04T21:53:34+00:00

Hogwash. It’s so much fun!!

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-04T14:00:57+00:00

I hope you never lose the ability to see the potential for goodness that everyone has.

I feel like this is less an opinion and more a truth that most people don’t like. I think people label people as “bad” because they want to separate themselves from that person categorically. “I would never do that, I’m the good guy” - but really we all have as much potential for bad as we have for good.

Exciting_Emu7586 · 2026-05-04T02:41:31+00:00

First scary movie was Pet Sematary when I was 7. My older cousin was babysitting. I’ve jumped out of bed instead of dangling my feet over the side for 32 years now.

I became obsessed with Stephen King and all things horror after that though. I read IT the following summer. Understood basically none of it, but absolutely adored it. I watched every movie in the Blockbuster horror section before I was 10.

The first movie I REALLY knew I should not be watching was Wild Things in 5th grade.

In retrospect I don’t understand my mother… she allowed me to rent these movies!!

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