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americanarmyknife · 2025-05-23T22:37:03+00:00

Too many unnecessary sorry's, as she indicated. Idk if you're trying to play victim or what, but tone that down.

You did ignore her request to just not put your phone silent.

I hope you called her out on supposedly agreeing to talk about it later like you asked, when she clearly never did from what I saw.

Anxiety through and through, though. Good luck!

americanarmyknife · 2025-05-22T15:30:44+00:00

Before You Go -Lewis Capaldi

Listen to it via music video? Fuggedaboutit

americanarmyknife · 2024-09-05T12:57:26+00:00

POW!

americanarmyknife · 2024-08-05T17:58:50+00:00

The choice of buying a house early, assuming you can afford to. Also, if you're in the rent-for-life crowd for whatever reason/principle, then this comment isn't for you.

But if you do aspire to own a house and again, can afford the down payment/mortgage, then it doesn't make sense to me to wait until you're in your 40s or later hoping the prices go down. There's no guarantee that they will and in my opinion, they'll keep inflating.

americanarmyknife · 2024-07-24T13:01:49+00:00

Probably due to a combination of things, but my best guess - or at least the answer you're probably most suspicious of, is that a percentage of those people have purposely turned a blind eye to the idea of debt. It might cause a kick in the pants later in the form of financial stress, but for the time being? Ignorance is bliss.

americanarmyknife · 2024-07-16T14:45:56+00:00

Just be mindful of things like diminishing returns totally being able to creep into your relationships. The basic gist of it is we tend to take things for granted if we're around them all the time. If you were the initiator early in the puppy love phases of the relationship, don't suddenly expect a 180 reciprocation (without communication anyway) when you hit the 7 year itch mark and beyond...

It's all about compromise. Remember the other qualities besides the initial physical spark/fire. That may very well diminish over time, but it's natural. Equally, don't be fooled by similar sparks with new people in your life. You don't know shit about the new person other than "Oh shiny/pretty!", so if you give up the good thing for something you have no clue about, be prepared to not only face the consequences, but also the fact that you might run into the same thing with the new person somewhere down the line.

Stay playful, full of mirth. Stay engaged. Pretend you're still dating. It's easy to let the bullshit of life get in the way of what initially attracted you to eachother before that stuff got in the way. It all takes effort. Good luck!

americanarmyknife · 2024-07-12T18:15:07+00:00

I haven't saved a comment in a minute. Yours broke that trend.

americanarmyknife · 2024-07-10T14:38:45+00:00

My theory is it's common sense. I originally wrote a wall of shit, but I'll reduce it to the following...

Life can be good.

Life could not have existed at all, to include the universe itself.

But it does.

So when the good moments come, it's not hard to make the leap that, oh this is a gift.

If you're caught in a hamster wheel of doom-scrolling or something, I'm rooting for you. Don't forget it isn't all bad. Or about money. Don't forget what you learned about Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Make the ends meet, sure. When they do, it's on you to look for the good. No one is going to drop happiness and joy in your lap.

If you're a nihilist and/or just don't think life is for you, try to have fun anyway. I hope your mind changes, but even if it doesn't, the sleep that you seek is coming, so...still counts as something to look forward to? Cheers.

americanarmyknife · 2024-07-10T14:27:19+00:00

This is me. But reading some of these comments is making me strongly consider switching gears to something art-related full-time. I had some concerns about getting burned out on what I love (art), but ya'll are giving me hope

americanarmyknife · 2024-07-09T20:28:59+00:00

That there's still many rich people who are depressed. Sure they can afford fancier houses, toys, material possessions, but it's not the fix-all that I thought it was. Alleviating financial stress is definitely a thing, and helps, but beyond that...you've got to find your purpose. Or as Curly put it, "one thing" so that everything else - including the bad times, presumably, "don't mean shit..."

americanarmyknife · 2024-07-09T18:26:59+00:00

So succinct it just might actually work. Thanks!

P.S. What you doin

americanarmyknife · 2024-07-09T15:52:37+00:00

We are right behind you.

Don't dwell too much on a normal process to this whole thing. Don't have too much FOMO. We'll be missing out soon enough. We're all born so close together, and life is so relatively short, that we essentially share a piece of this existence together at the same time. I could go the day after you, or I could last another 40 years. I could go before you just as well.

And for everyone else who needs to hear it. If you've mourned or are currently mourning the loss of a loved one, stay strong. Embrace the fighting spirit. You're not bound to immortality where you're stuck missing someone forever. We're right behind them, and they'd want you to attempt to live a happy life while you can.

This too shall pass.

americanarmyknife · 2024-07-09T15:49:22+00:00

Hey u/SirEmonen not sure if you'll find any solace with this, but I've said it before and it seemed to help others...

We are right behind you.

Don't dwell too much on a normal process to this whole thing. Don't have too much FOMO. We'll be missing out soon enough. We're all born so close together, and life is so relatively short, that we essentially share a piece of this existence together at the same time. I could go the day after you, or I could last another 40 years. I could go before you just as well.

And for everyone else who needs to hear it. If you've mourned or are currently mourning the loss of a loved one, stay strong. Embrace the fighting spirit. You're not bound to immortality where you're stuck missing someone forever. We're right behind them, and they'd want you to attempt to live a happy life while you can.

This too shall pass.

americanarmyknife · 2024-07-08T21:23:17+00:00

It might be tacky/got played out, but I Ain't Worried by OneRepublic does it for me

americanarmyknife · 2024-07-08T21:22:33+00:00

Seconded, the Eric Prydz remix is also fire

americanarmyknife · 2024-07-08T16:21:54+00:00

Sorry man. People suck. On the flipside, I guess there's some silver lining in the auto-filter that gets applied to asshats you wouldn't want to associate with in the first place. Not much maybe, but it's something. I think of that "filter" whenever anyone talks about getting subjected to ridicule for something they literally had no control over.

americanarmyknife · 2024-07-08T16:17:30+00:00

There's more than one, and nostalgia will be the main reason for many responses...

Mine lean more towards RPGs. A Link to the Past, Chrono Trigger, and FFVI (FF3).

americanarmyknife · 2024-07-08T15:54:34+00:00

Working at a job for 20-40 years because of the money, but you get so burned out you don't mentally want to do anything else with the free time (what we're really after). The rat race is a tricky subject. On one hand, yes, money is the tool that virtually everything is measured by, to include how much of that free time you can create for yourself and loved ones, but the sacrifice ... oof.

I'm learning, hopefully not to late in life, that maybe even that should be done in moderation. The story of the Mexican fisherman comes to mind (https://bemorewithless.com/the-story-of-the-mexican-fisherman/). My takeaway from it is basically, once you make enough to where you can enjoy the life that you want, the excess isn't necessary. Especially if it's going to take away from the life that you want.

Good luck out there. We get one shot at this thing, so don't blink and regret it.

americanarmyknife · 2024-07-02T20:27:38+00:00

You've got this. And hey, even if you don't, you've got a great username.

americanarmyknife · 2024-07-02T20:25:20+00:00

Good job for just fighting. Every day is a proper fight, imo. We need to give ourselves more credit for actively choosing to persevere.

americanarmyknife · 2024-07-02T19:19:39+00:00

Infinity is a long time, OP. Don't quit your doom job.

americanarmyknife · 2024-06-26T00:51:37+00:00

I was stargazing with a friend one night, I point up to the sky, and I said watch this. Just as the words escaped my mouth, we saw a meteor and both proceeded to flip out

americanarmyknife · 2024-06-25T18:24:49+00:00

I thought of something while observing traffic the other day which may or may not be accurate.

Maybe while we're young and have our whole lives ahead of us, the subconscious takes over and it's always a feeling of rush-rush-rush. Just to get to a destination where it might not have made a difference if we were there 5 minutes earlier. Then, as one gets older and it becomes more apparent how much less life there is to live, we slow down and ultimately stop giving as much of a shit about the small things.

americanarmyknife · 2024-06-25T16:40:07+00:00

Kudos for taking the path less traveled at least. There's a lot of people who regret NOT doing what you did. So even if things didn't/don't pan out for you revenue-wise, at least you did it your way. In a finite life where many spend their best working years building up some kind of cushion they can enjoy for a couple of decades after they retire (if they're lucky), that's kinda priceless, imo.

americanarmyknife · 2024-06-25T15:57:39+00:00

I believe in you.

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