Reflect Upon Yourself (Then/Now)

[NoorDZ]

For my very little experience in life since I'm 25, I think people need to travel more to see that the world is different a lot from what they're seeing/hearing.
I was wrong about the idea of "life is cruel" no, it's an act and react, even the poor good people if you give them power they'd turn into tyrants. My lesson is that: my brain cells (what's left) are too precious for me to burn it, so fuck it I won't react on anything

 

[suckmebutt]

Don’t eat shit food. Don’t lie. Love is not a feeling it’s a verb. It is no one’s responsibility to make you happy so fucking love yourself. Get a good job and stick to it. If you say you’re going to do something, do it.

 

[Damo0666™️]

Was a cunt and now a bigger cunt 🤷‍♂️

 

[Choppy]

I’m just glad I’m alive and did well in life because people with my background don’t always.

 

[hedgerow]

I’m just glad I’m alive and did well in life because people with my background don’t always.

i didn't realize you had a..."background"... i always though you were the all american (whatever) girl next door

 

[hawkesdale]

Learn to identify, and then ignore your ego. Tell it to fuck off if needed (it works). The ego is a construct of our minds, which is intended to protect us from the world. Experience in our lives, mostly in our childhood, forms how the ego responds and what ‘solutions’ if offers.

For example, advertising and social interactions may lead the ego to say to us “if I get those new Nike shoes, I will be happy and others will think I am cool”. But that’s bollocks. Getting those shoes may give a fleeting sense of positivity, but those shoes do nothing to change who we are and only last a certain period of time.

Our ego chooses the emotion we feel in a given situation, but then blames the situation for the emotion. E.g. “The way that nob-end spoke to me has made me angry and ruined my day”. However, the ‘nob-end’ is just an experience in that moment. We are the ones that react to it, and to some degree we have control over the emotional reaction. So in reality, we ruin our own day if we decide to listen to the ego and maintain a negative mind state.

Someone can get in your face and call you a cunt. That is simply an event. You can either…
Punch them.
Cry like a baby.
Run away.
Silently grumble in your mind about it for hours.
Force your pronouns on them.
Or, remain calm and just let the moment pass (leading to a positive day).

Identifying your ego, and then telling it to fuck off is vital to being truly happy, managing addictions/ anxiety/ depression etc. It takes daily practice and reflection, and isn’t always easy. But it really does work, and is one of the main practices I’ve followed to get from opiate addiction and suicidal depression to being truly happy.

I’ve completed Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth 5 times as it keeps my zen mind state going.

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Agree. Have been in recovery with AA from alcoholism 37 years. These are the realities of life that I have learned, to live a content life.

 

[Choppy]

i didn't realize you had a..."background"... i always though you were the all american (whatever) girl next door

I have mental physical and sexual abuse in my background.

 

[hedgerow]

I have mental physical and sexual abuse in my background.

i'm sorry to hear that and did not know, was just attempting a funny

 

[Fäthër Cörpsë]

Happy wife, happy life.

Also,

It’s cheaper to keep her.

 

[Asspipe]

If I reflect upon myself, will any of you see me doing it? Will I have a moment to get myself together and have a quick smoke? I’d reflect me so fucking hard

 

[Choppy]

i'm sorry to hear that and did not know, was just attempting a funny

It’s fine. It doesn’t bother me anymore. I've healed and all that kinda stuff.

 

[Choppy]

But I have some reflection. I need to lose the weight I gained after my hand surgery. It's been a lazy 3 years and enough is enough. My life also had some major changes so maybe Ishouldn't be so hard on myself. Im told I shouldn't and that am my own worst enemy. I know this LULZ

 

[Solomon Kane]

I’m proud to be twice ur age, best advice I can give u is ‘Don’t Lend Your Truck To Your Girlfriend’View attachment 758112

Or, lend it to her with a full tank, yah lazy bastard.

 

[snagahbag]

I’m proud to be twice ur age, best advice I can give u is ‘Don’t Lend Your Truck To Your Girlfriend’View attachment 758112

were u dating fucking godzilla or sum?🤣

 

[Asspipe]

If I reflect upon myself, will any of you see me doing it? Will I have a moment to get myself together and have a quick smoke? I’d reflect me so fucking hard

😂 forgot about this one. Throw thoughts out there and then forget em. Will any of you see me doing it😃. Now I gently reflect myself while saying kind things and looking directly into my eyes.
So I’ll make me a sandwich later and leave me alone

 

[Choppy]

Don’t eat shit food. Don’t lie. Love is not a feeling it’s a verb. It is no one’s responsibility to make you happy so fucking love yourself. Get a good job and stick to it. If you say you’re going to do something, do it.

Love IS a feeling. Just not for everyone

 

[mrln]

Love IS a feeling. Just not for everyone

for about 5-10 seconds!

 

[pazuzu algarad]

As you currently are, versus how you were as a young adult facing the world with a fresh face.
This may be a trip down memory lane for some, or for others, a time not very long ago.

- What did you believe the world had in store?

- What were you most wrong about?

- What's your best life-lesson?

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If you're younger, ask something you wonder about life for the wise and mature to give advice on.

If you're wise and mature, well, do whatever the fuck you want.

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I'm relatively younger so I'll ask those beyond my age; what's something you wish you could have learned sooner in life?

23, was addicted to benzos/ opioids for a around 4 years I thought liver failure or dying from a od was what the world had in store for me not that I didn’t want that at the time. Ended up in rehab for 6 months and was to first time since 16 I had gone more than a few day clean/sober, it was fucking unbearable but eventually got more tolerable, trying to really connect with people and listen to other people was a bit better than my own fucking pessimistic view on everything. Going into that place was the only thing that stopped me from wanting to kill myself, been out for just under a year and I can’t say I’ve stay clean the whole time, I’ve fucked up and fallen over a lot but I keep trying to gain control over my mind or at the very least try and understand it a bit more. Being able to get proper diagnosis and medication without false symptoms from drugs. I’m not anti drugs or alcohol I love opiates I just have more control on what and how much I do. Anyway moral of story if you think you need help you probably do, hating yourself is bullshit, I don’t love myself but I am okay with who I am.