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Originally Posted by Severian
I shouldn't have posted this. I can't even offer the excuse that I was drunk. This is a much more personal topic than I'm comfortable discussing in this setting.
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and yet you did it, but nobody here is against you or made fun of you and everyone tried to help. aren't we a fucking nice bunch of beasts?
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Originally Posted by Severian
I guess my outlook became grimmer than usual, and I gave in.
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people in this society face a lot of pressure to "perform"
it's pretty dismal
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Originally Posted by Severian
I do, however, know people who are in all of the situations listed in the first post. I think one of the most difficult things for me in all of this is feeling that these are worries for twenty-somethings... Not thirty-somethings. I feel so goddamn old. And I regret my mistakes like a man on his deathbed, which is super fucked up.
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everybody knows people like that. some of us are those people. this isn't the forum at forbes magazine.
and don't be so ageist-- it's an excuse to continue being unkind to yourself
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Originally Posted by dead_battery
the key thing in this thread is to not blame yourself.
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exactly