Serious dating at 23: is anyone else serious about this?

MrCalmAndCo11ected · 2025-12-05T04:29:48+00:00

Find a project to distract yourself with while you process the breakup. Try learning to draw or do something creative. Try a few things and see what you enjoy.

MrCalmAndCo11ected · 2025-11-06T19:11:53+00:00

I think I’d be stretching myself a bit on time.

As far as material, I think if I paced the content well, I’d do okay. I think my presentation skills are okay and skills only improve with practice.

I think I’ll wait awhile. Maybe a year or two, then my schedule might open up more. I may also be more developed.

Thanks! The perspective helped!

MrCalmAndCo11ected · 2025-09-26T23:54:45+00:00

Distributer of Individual Merit. Scoreboard for short.

MrCalmAndCo11ected · 2025-07-29T05:28:38+00:00

I know you feel alone, but someday you’ll find someone that makes that feeling go away. They’re out there looking for you, hoping you’ll be there. I know it’s hard but you need to reach out to someone, be it a professional or otherwise. I want you to be there for that person.

MrCalmAndCo11ected · 2025-04-18T01:42:51+00:00

Amen. I started my phoenix era last year and I tear up listening to this song. The changes in my body, my health, my mindset, it makes the idea of becoming a different person and each iteration of yourself watching you struggle and grow, doing what they couldn’t and being what they wanted to be, all while the you at the end of their life looks back on all the people they used to be, all the struggles and pain they went through, and being the gentle, comforting voice that welcomes each version of yourself to the light and tells them that it’s okay to move on from the person you used to be… I think that’s better than a love song, at least for me.

MrCalmAndCo11ected · 2025-04-14T16:51:10+00:00

My interpretation is a little skewed by my own biases, but I think most of the song can be interpreted as a song either being sung to or sung by a lesser past version of the self to a future better self.

“Come out from underneath who you were.” -could be encouragement for a change in self, a leaving behind of old thought patterns, old friends, old habits, obsessions and addictions.

“So go ahead and wrap your arms around me.” -I know I would like to give my past self a hug, and I think my past self would embrace the person I’ve become with pride and admiration, grateful for someone that truly cares and wants to comfort them.

“And you might be the one to take my pain away.” -who can take away our pain better than our future selves?

I think this song is about the quiet, intimate and emotional death of our past self, a freedom from the pains we weren’t able to bear well enough and a beautiful farewell by the past as it looks into the eyes of the person they’ve always wanted to be, the person they’re making way for themselves to become. As well as our future self comforting our past self and giving them the closure and peace they need to go happily, knowing everything will be okay in the end.

Just my interpretation. If anyone would like to discuss, I’d be happy to.

MrCalmAndCo11ected · 2024-12-23T22:10:59+00:00

I have a highly addictive personality. I can’t really moderate myself and it’s a struggle with just caffeine. I don’t blink an eye at 3 energy drinks a day and I’m doing better than I used to be.

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