• idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, I made a bunch of money, felt really stressed, had very little time, and lost touch with my personality.

      Then I spent a bunch of money on therapy and changing my whole life. Now I’m poor and stressed, but I’m spending more of my time how I want to and I feel much more myself.

    • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org
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      Same here. I spent my entire childhood being told by family and teachers how I could really make a difference as a reseacher or a philosopher or a doctor or whatever else. I hate engaging with “book knowledge”. Nobody ever bothered to factor that in 😅 All I really want is to create things with my hands. My mind is a nice asset when it comes to trivia or logical puzzles but I’m just not wired for academia.

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        Also, nobody respects anything less than an expert

        But everybody respects a good solid table.

        Which it turns out is actually really fucking hard to make.

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    2024: “you’re family!! we care about our employees!!”

    2025: “yea, you’re pretty much slaves, gonna do something about it? get back to work.”

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        Its corpospeak, gotta read into it.

        ‘We’re family!’ makes sense when you think of the person saying it as a family member who is an abusive narcissistic sociopath who’s never wrong about anything and nothing is ever their fault.

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    They didn’t tell me how much energy it takes to put your mind to things. I can barely stay awake for a normal day length without putting in the effort.

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    My only remaining ambition after age 40 was to be a worthwile human being at the very least (because that bar is very low) and I can’t even do that.

    Some people are born broken, not necessarily through any fault of their own. But maybe I don’t even clear that barrier and am simply useless to anyone. Oh well.

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        No, it’s none of that. It’s that in my over four decades of life, I’ve never once lived up to my OWN potential, and despite trying my best, giving up, trying again, … countless times, I’ve still never managed to markedly improve my station in life, or my enjoyment of it.

        I know I have everything I need to be capable, smart, confident person, but I’ve never BEEN any of those things, even fleetingly, so I can’t really even imagine how it would be like.

        Pathethic, I know.

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      What does worthwhile even mean? Have you ever had any sort of positive interaction? Who’s to say that small moment of enjoyment wasn’t worthwhile?

      Go find a someone who’s asking for help and help them.

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      Better than being a useful idiot for some evil fuck, even if true.

      Which i doubt it is.

      Plenty of people ‘living up to their potential’ shooting unarmed kids, signing death warrants for the unhoused, etc