New Social Thread

[Einherjar86]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC-ZmlwBWKM

That is fucking epic.

 

[King Richard]

How about

Bruce Lee

"Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself."

Bruce Lee is very underrated in his philosophical beliefs. I'm half tempted to change my avatar back to his picture.

 

[sevag00]

I was living in a fantasy world for two years until this past March. Everything was going right in my life. I was in a loving, long-term relationship, and built around it a really nice social life. I was making huge strides academically, getting the highest grades and writing some monster theses and papers. Everything pointed in the right direction.

In March it all came crashing down. My girlfriend had a psychological episode that forced her to reexamine her life and determine that I could no longer be a part of it. That aftermath got worse and worse and pretty much torpedoed my entire social circle. And at the same fucking time I get rejection letters from every single graduate school to which I applied. And now I'm turning into an alcoholic to deal with it.

Spring was fucking Hell, and now summer is a total Purgatory. From here on out I have to restrategize my academic aspirations in order to succeed in the real world, move into a new social circle, find any sort of stability because right now it's all chaos and it is a constant distraction, such that I can't focus even on the things designed to lift me up and restore all that confidence.

There, I spelled it out.

Now that's a great life.

 

[Episteme]

Can someone with decent Spanish and German please help me translate a couple of reviews for me? Please let me know through PM or something.

 

[Zephyrus]

I'll give it a shot.

 

[Episteme]

Thanks Zeph, just sent them to you via Facebook.

 

[Vimana]

I can try with the Spanish.

 

[Blind Guardian]

Zeph just said that he'd give it a shot. It is nevertheless very impressing to us that you know Spanish.

 

[Onder]

Zeph just said that he'd give it a shot. It is nevertheless very impressing to us that you know Spanish.

 

[Episteme]

Haha, you guys are mean. Zeph's helping me with the German translations but I did send Vimana the Spanish one to get translated.

 

[Dak]

tl;dr version "I have angered the gods"

 

[Zephyrus]

Read Euripides' Medea and that was give or take my life the past few months.

 

[damnromulans]

IIRC Cronopio is fluent in German, Episteme.

edit: I am thinking about pursuing "professional help" or a support group for a problem I've been having. Anyone have success stories for overcoming addictions/issues this way?

 

[unknown]

post it on reddit...you'll be surprised how helpful the community there can be

 

[damnromulans]

e-help doesn't seem to be cutting it, I need face-to-face I think. thanks for the rec though!

 

[cookiecutter]

IIRC Cronopio is fluent in German, Episteme.

edit: I am thinking about pursuing "professional help" or a support group for a problem I've been having. Anyone have success stories for overcoming addictions/issues this way?

Not personally, but my uncle overcame alcoholism with the help of AA

 

[skeptik]

Use the Cythraul method and don't be a fucking faggot.

 

[Chanakya]

Or the Indian name for alien flying machines.

:/

How would you pronounce it?

 

[The Emptier]

Vomit

 

[damnromulans]

I've been wanting to see a psychotherapist forever now, but i keep putting it off for a combination of reasons, the main one being immense skepticism over whether i'd get any results out of therapy. I feel like i don't need advice on how to solve my life problems so much as i need motivation/coaching.

Yeah I keep thinking "I can fix this myself" but I'm not really making progress. Lame.