I wrote up my AskPhuks yesterday out of anger and a bit out of disgust with my current state in life.
I'm writing this post right now because I want to say the same thing to ALL of the users who commented, and I think its easier doing it this way than replying the same thing to dozens of different comments in that thread.
After reading all of your responses I feel better about my situation. All of you who replied gave me a lot of words of encouragement.
If I didn't know any better I would have thought that you all were a remnant of my grandpa, logging in with different usernames to drop snippets of sound advice. In a way, you were doing that.
So thank you, Grandpa Phuks. Many of you echoed each other without realizing it. The common denominators in your arguments were that my time on this earth is more valuable than anything else. You taught me that I needed to focus on my true needs instead of the wants that society was putting into my head.
You all spoke of how I should change my mindset, and that once I did that an entirely new set of possibilities would make themselves known to me.
You all repeated the same thing : work hard. I understand that. The reason for my despair yesterday was that I have been working hard and I just don't seem to be getting anywhere.
But you guys stopped me in my crybaby state and pointed something out : Quit your bitching and look at all of us. We are all working hard for the little bit we have in this life.
Seriously, thank you all. Today I have off from work, and I'm going to organize my cashflow like you said. I will write up a ledger and begin to track every phukking penny that comes and goes in my life. I'm going to start being social to the point of discomfort, networking nonstop. I'm going to look at local places around me that need help or require a service.
I woke up today and cringed when I remembered what I had wrote yesterday. I was expecting to log in and see a lot of you guys putting me down and snubbing my tears. I was expecting my post to have been buried and forgotten.
That wasn't the case though. You motherphukkers responded truthfully. And now my kvetching is on the front page to remind me that I'm still a soft crybaby at times, but also that people do care. I love you phuks.
If I missed any of you, I didn't do it on purpose. And to all the future users who might reply to that initial post, I won't forget you either. Thanks.
Hmm, I think if you would have done @ at the beginning of the names rather than /u/ then everybody would've gotten a notification. As it stands, we didn't. Not a big deal, just letting you know.
Thanks for the acknowledgement for that thread. We all get in a bad head space from time to time, shit happens. Life is tough and finding satisfaction isn't easy, but remember that you cannot change the world but you can change yourself. It's easy to say this, too, but it's quite another to actually do it. I'm working on that, it seems to be coming slowly with age. Wisdom is wasted on the old, just like youth is wasted on the young.