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[Anonymous No.20093376]

last 3 months recap:
>friend passed away
>mom had a stroke
>close friend and I had a massive falling out
>quit my job that i've identified with for over a decade

struggling to see a point to it all frens. i have an interview monday for another job but fuck these jobs. i feel so fucking pathetic even applying to the 9-5 because i don't have the fucking courage to take a risk on myself. even though i took a leap of faith quitting my restaurant job without anything lined up. i just want to do my own thing for 6 months to a year. but i feel pathetic for even wanting to do that too. i'm so fucking useless.

[Anonymous No.20093537]

>>20093376
There isn’t a point. You are a speck of insignificant biomatter on a rock floating in a space so large your brain cannot conceptualize it. Nothing anyone has ever done or will ever do means anything in the infinity of the cosmos

[Anonymous No.20093594]

>>20093376
Similar string of bad luck happened to me a few years back. Just ride it out bro it happens to all of us. Don't give in to shitty friends and shitty jobs ur better than that and ur shedding negativity currently. Ull realize in a few years.

[Anonymous No.20093819]

>>20093376
I'm sorry for what happened to you friend

[Anonymous No.20093920]

>>20093376
>i just want to do my own thing for 6 months to a year. but i feel pathetic for even wanting to do that
Do it. Seriously, you should absolutely take time off and get your head straightened out. Couple years ago I got really fed up with life, sold all my shit, and went to southeast asia for a year. Best thing I ever did. Sometimes you gotta just say fuck everything and do something crazy like that in order to keep from going insane

[Anonymous No.20094719]

>>20093537
p much this desu.
but keep up the good fight fren. we're all gonna make it

[Anonymous No.20094747]

>>20093376
listen this this dood, op >>20093537

he's right.
the moment you realize the sun is going to explode and will vaporize everything on the earth including the earth itself. all history. all memories. it will be exactly if humans were never here.
this should not depress you, but embolden you. you should realize this is just a cosmic game and you are a player. quit being held done by imaginary prisons and just go experience the game.

[Anonymous No.20094813]

>>20093537
Nah man, you got it the wrong way around. All the empty space means nothing compared to the spark of life and creation. Meaning is created.

[Anonymous No.20094844]

>>20094747
>the sun is going to explode
generally reckoned too small to go supernova
its just gonna hang around then fade out, over a few billion years

[Anonymous No.20094958]

>>20093537
Cringe
>>20094813
Based

[Anonymous No.20094984]

>>20093376
>Business & Finance

Stop killing thread for shit like this, you want emotional support? Back to dleddit faggot

[Anonymous No.20095004]

>>20093537
Lol look at this “I believe cartoon fag”

>>20093376
Do what you wan to do. Lot of things happened, take time to gather yourself

[Anonymous No.20095038]

>>20094747
i realised this when i was like 13

[Anonymous No.20095206]

>>20093376
Hmm I had a similar experience beginning of 2020 all within 2 months
>gf since hs left outta nowhere few months before i planned to propose
>dad got cancer
>friend commit suicide
>other friend died randomly
Don't listen to faggots like >>20093537 who want to belittle your humanity with libshit propaganda about how "insignificant" you are. There may not be a clear path ahead anon, but push through these hard times and you'll get back on track eventually, with a greater appreciation for this life too.

[Anonymous No.20095685]

>>20093376
It will be alright fren. Have a story about how life can take a drastic shit and still recover
>Be me at 19 in college
>1450 SAT, National Honors Society in HS
>On track to become a doctor
>Meet chick at house party
>Take her home and bang her
>Bang her a few more times
>Get a random call from her mom telling me she is 15 and they are going to press charges
>Try to fight it in court...lose
>End up going to a maximum security prison for a year
>Have to register as a sex offender on release for next 10 years
>Parents won't let me stay at home because muh registry
>Lived basically homeless for two years
>Probation constantly trying to send me back because can't find a job or place to live
>Is basically impossible to find a place to live or get a job
>Finally find a shit job making dick by lying my ass off on my application
>Work way up to management somehow
>Get shit canned because of company merger
>Meet my future wife...at least I've got someone to share my shit life with
>Find an Al Bundy tier job selling mattresses...got it by lying on app
>Find out about criminal history...shit can me
>Feel like I am totally fucked
>Find what appears to be a Cutco tier sales job on Craigslist
>Sounds like a literal scam, but 1099 and no background check so I take it
>Turns out it's not a scam
>Turns out I actually like it and am good at it
>Go from making 35-40k a year to 90k in 6 months
>Teach myself the knowledge and skills to get better
>Next year break 115k in 6 months
Fast forward a decade
>Am free of legal bullshit
>Now literally am at pinnacle of my profession
>Last year almost made an actual million dollars
Life can and will shit all over you, but with perseverance you can turn that shit around. I learned the most valuable lesson of my life:
>If I can bounce back from being a homeless felon, I can overcome anything

[Anonymous No.20095729]

>>20095685
This is exactly why a "sex registry" is one of the stupidest things in this country. I always vowed that if my company becomes successful, I would hire as many white collar ex-cons as I can. I'm very happy to hear things worked out for you anon.

[Anonymous No.20095739]

>>20095685
Survivor bias, don't lie to the fucking kid. Give him something to actually work off of besides the, "I did it, so can you!!" Spiel

[Anonymous No.20095773]

>>20093376
Pain is temporary anon, time moves forward and so should you.

[Anonymous No.20095795]

>>20093537
Fuck you

[Anonymous No.20095832]

>>20093920
Anon. Can you please tell us more? Where did you go? How much did it cost? How was the food? Did you bang a ladyboy?

[Anonymous No.20095840]

>>20093920
what happened when you got back? how did going away help?

[Anonymous No.20095847]

>>20093376
>identified with a job

top kek

[Anonymous No.20095950]

>>20093537
You could not be more wrong.

[Anonymous No.20095971]

>>20095685
what was prison like?

[Anonymous No.20095989]

>>20093376
This book made my life so peaceful

[Anonymous No.20096039]

>>20095847
ye that was kinda wacky

[Anonymous No.20096115]

>>20095739
I mean, when there's nothing to work off, you need to create your own. It's a simple concept, but extraordinary difficult to actually do. My whole legal situation could have very, VERY easily ruined my life forever. There was a long time where I couldn't see how things would get better and I might as well embrace my shitty life and prospects for a hopeless future. Instead, I said fuck it and kept at it. When you literally have nothing to lose, why not play the game balls out? You can chose to wallow in self-pity about how life sucks, or you can chose to view the experience as a life lesson and figure out a path forward. Whining about muh life when things become difficult isn't going to accomplish shit. Especially when your whinging to someone that was once a homeless sex offender squatting in an abandoned house shitting in plastic grocery bags because the law makes it impossible to find a job or housing.

[Anonymous No.20096119]

>>20093537
Yet here we are

[Anonymous No.20096181]

>>20093376
The only thing bad in your list is >mom had a stroke.
The rest is trivial.
>>20095685
Inspirational. Probably not LARP. Few remarks. Fuck your country (america i guess), for putting in jail a 19 year old male who fucked a 15 female. This is legal in most european countries. Puritanism, and hypocrites, since most of the elite is pedo-satanic. Also, shit parents for turning their back on you at the time you needed them most.
In the end, it was hard, but you are probably richer, and happier now, than selling toxic pills for the benefit of big pharma. That's what many doctors are. And you know who your parents truly are.

[Anonymous No.20096198]

>>20093376
There is no point. We're made of space dust and will become space dust again after we pass.
There's 3 ways to go about life once you come to the point that you did.
1. Physical death, aka suicide
2. Spiritual death, aka accepting religion or some unprovable explanation of life and our place in it
3. Absurdism, aka accepting that you know fuck all and live

1 is hardly a good choice but it's the easy way out
2 is shit. You'd wish you wouldn't have wasted your time with it
3 is the best imo. Life has no poinnt, so make what you want of it.

[Anonymous No.20096240]

>>20095989
Why? I wasn't a fan to be honest.

[Anonymous No.20096307]

>>20095971
Boring as fuck for the most part. It's not like Oz. They were doing a big reclassification shuffle in the DoC before I went in. I was supposed to go to a minimum security facility. But the DoC decided to move a bunch of folks with 20+ years to my intended destination. No one fucks with you unless you did something to an actual child.
>Saw a few guys get bashed with a lock in a sock.
>Saw a fight over who some faggot belonged to
>Got amazing at spades
>Prison>>>>>county jail
>Learned that prison guards are inherently (almost) the lowest form of human beings
>Learned that niggers are actually the lowest form of human being
>Learned that you can bake a cake with random candy in a microwave

[Anonymous No.20096341]

>>20094813
A toast to that

[Anonymous No.20096408]

>>20096181
Definitely not a larp fren. One thing that did come out of all this is that I have a shitload of Joey Diaz tier stories. Its unfortunate that I can't really share them, as I keep that part or my life to myself.

[Anonymous No.20096468]

>>20096307
>lowest form of human being
What made them worse than the guards to you? Genuinely curious as I would have thought the guards in these types of places would be absolute scum.

[Anonymous No.20096625]

>>20096468
Niggers locked up act like literal monkeys. They are loud as fuck all the time. They instinctively flock to the fattest white female guard and immediately attempt to fuck her They smell fucking terrible. I don't know if it's just a scent incarcerated niggers adopt, or whether they have always had it and the confined spaces just make it more noticeable. They always seem to maintain a general level of annoyance that increases exponentially for each nigger added to the pack.
>One nigger - a minor annoyance
>Two niggers - moderate level of annoyance
>Three+ niggers - like your trapped in one of those primate zoos
>Add a basketball - welcome to Planet of the Apes

[Anonymous No.20096670]

>>20093376
your friend is looking down on you right now eating dorritos hoping you do something cool next. he wants to see you again but time is meaningless to him now.

[Anonymous No.20096694]

>20096307
>Learned that niggers are actually the lowest form of human being
Why are niggers the lowest form of human being? Regarding prison guards, i know they are the lowest, it's obvious, probably worse than cops, but regarding niggers, some are okay, at least in western europa and Africa, could you red pill me on niggers unironically anon?

[Anonymous No.20096729]

>>20096625
Did you stick with whites in prison?

[Anonymous No.20096761]

>>20096694
>See above
>>20096625
It took going to prison for me to realize that I can't fucking stand a nigger. It's unfortunate for normal black people that niggers make up such a large percentage of their population.

[Anonymous No.20096819]

>>20096729
For sure, but not because of the standard reasons you would think. It's because the only other option is to hang out with niggers and no fucking thanks to that. There was a sprinkling of Mexicans. They were by and large okay, but they were tiny islands in the vast cocoa butter sea of niggers.

[Anonymous No.20096924]

>>20096819
Did they ever try to recruit you in to a gang (e.g. AB)?
I'm just curious about how prison life works.
The guy who used to run the "FPSRussia" channel went on a podcast and talked about his experience in prison, was quite interesting.

[Anonymous No.20097035]

>>20096924
To a limited extent, but I was good on all that. I did do favors for some AB and Saxon Knights passing kites to other inmates in the segregation unit where I worked. That kept me flush with bcigarettes, the occasional weed, and commissary.
There was no way I was joining up with a fucking prison gang or participating in other dumb stuff like getting a shitty tattoo by some half tard using a tattoo gun made out of a cassette player. In my mind, I was just a visitor. I wanted no part of anything that would indicate to regular folks that I had been locked up.

[Anonymous No.20097127]

>>20093376
Stay strong in this dark times frens

[Anonymous No.20097487]

>>20097127
Listen to this man. Things can be much worse. Whenever you get down on life and think that things are at their worst, remind yourself that you could be ins cage surrounded by hundreds of niggers. The smell of cocoa butter, unwashed assholes, and bologna permeates your very being with scents so thick you can almost taste the nigger in the air. Visualize the vast nigger sea, the cacophony of "maaiiiiinnnn" echoing off the cold steel walls.
Some are patting their nappy, wave cap covered heads because they can't just scratch like a regular person, some are kicking their cell doors for hours on end, while others practice stringing together words they barely understand in a vein attempt to launch a rap career upon release.
Then you'll realize that maybe things aren't so bad after all.

[Anonymous No.20097511]

>>20095832
Went to Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia. I Like riding motorcycles so I bought one at a shop on the side of the road for $300 and rode the whole trip on it. The entire year long trip came out to about $10k including flights, border crossings, food and lodging, everything, It's extremely cheap there, hotels are usually $10 a night and full meals are $1-2 including beers. The food was 10/10 fucking amazing. Vietnamese cuisine in particular is excellent. Malay curry is fire too. No ladyboys lol, although I did see plenty of them

>>20095840
Coming home was hard for the first month or two because you're going from the "made it" lifestyle of eating out for every meal, partying on exotic beaches every other night, not caring how much stuff costs, and living in hotelrooms...back to the mundane, boring wagie life. But getting a small taste of the good life will light a fire under your ass and make you want to strive for financial independence so that you can take more trips like that.

For someone like OP who is down on his luck and going through some hard shit in his life, taking an extended vacation could be really healthy for mental health. It gives you a chance to put all that bullshit behind you for a few months while you catch a breath of fresh air. You'll have all the time in the world to be by yourself and reevaluate your life and do some deep thinking without stressing about bills/family/life in general

[Anonymous No.20097662]

>>20093537
>There isn’t a point. You are a speck of insignificant biomatter on a rock floating in a space so large your brain cannot conceptualize it. Nothing anyone has ever done or will ever do means anything in the infinity of the cosmos
Maybe you are but I was created in the image of God
See >>20095950

[Anonymous No.20098730]

>>20097511
i'm jealous.. so you travelled from hotel to hotel constantly on the move? u recommend to travel alone or best with a buddy? had any fear riding a bike with all the reckless asians there? what was your favorite country? i want to move to chiang mai in the future but not decided yet

[Anonymous No.20098848]

>>20095685
Glad you made it anon.

[Anonymous No.20098882]

>>20093537
>hurr durr small rock means everything is small meaning
>hurr durr listen to me, value my words, every though there is no point to my post as with everything in the universe
>pffffpfprptprppppppftptpfpptppfppfrpppftftftfppffttppprpsprpfppptppps

[Anonymous No.20098905]

>>20093537
Cringe mid-wit tryhard

[Anonymous No.20099251]

>>20098730
Yep, just rode from town to town. If there was a cool place with lots of stuff to do, I'd stay and explore for a few days. Then just pick a new direction and start riding to the next place. Traveling alone can be fine, but if you decide to ride a motorcycle it's best to have a riding buddy in case the bike breaks. Riding on the roads in SEA is fucking insane at first. But once you get used to it, there's actually an order in all the chaos. You'll learn their version of road manners and get the hang of it after a few days. If you have 0 experience riding motorcycles though, I would not recommend learning in Asia. Public transportation is a good option, you can get anywhere with it.

Favorite country was Vietnam. It is unbelievably beautiful there, particularly in the far north. So many natural wonders like enormous mountain ranges, caves, jungles, rivers, remote tribal villages. The people are really kind and friendly, and the food is top notch. I stayed in Hanoi for 3 weeks exploring the city and eating out t all these awesome restaurants.

Malaysia was really neat also. It is very 1st world, unlike some of the other countries. I found a reggae bar in Ipoh owned by these realy cool local guys who had a reggae band. Loved that city so much I ended up staying there for a full 2 months and living in the upstairs room of the bar. We'd hand out every night and do live music jam sessions while smoking joints and drinking.

I stayed in Chiang Mai for 3 days. Very nice city, definitely a good choice if you want to move there

>pic is an island off the east coast of Malaysia

[Anonymous No.20099307]

>>20094747
implying we wont be far far away from the sun by then

[Anonymous No.20099659]

>>20094984
Were all frens here. Don't like it? Don't open this thread

[Anonymous No.20099685]

>>20094813
super based anon.

seize the day because life is a beautiful thing

[Anonymous No.20099698]

>>20093376
>i'm so fucking useless.
you aren't
Please try to make as much of a plan as possible or you'll just bounce around between ideas. Slaves live day to day.
All the best OP

[Anonymous No.20099843]

>>20097035
>In my mind, I was just a visitor.

Good attitude. I like what Wes Watson says.

>"You're not even off the street until 5 years in"

[Anonymous No.20100311]

>1 post by this id
Come on OP, come back and talk with us. You didnt run off and commit sudoku did you?

[Anonymous No.20100395]

>>20093537
This is the stuff jews tell the gentiles meanwhile believing they are a literal gods chosen people

[Anonymous No.20100432]

>>20100311
nah just reading it all, taking it all in. appreciate the tips anons

[Anonymous No.20100539]

>>20100432
Things will get better for you. If you can afford to do so, look into taking a trip somewhere for a month or longer. Somewhere affordable like eastern europe, southeast asia, south america. It's good to get out of your comfort zone and away from the things that are keeping you down. You'll come back with a new perspective on things and have a clearer idea of your goals moving forward

The "traveling is a meme" meme is just a meme. It's actually really cool

[Anonymous No.20101411]

>>20100395
(((God))) chosen people.
>>20100539
Americans should travel a little more. They would be a little less retarded on the boards.

[Anonymous No.20101489]

i know it will be hard to see or understand, anon, but right now you're undergoing a pretty massive transformation where upon the ashes of your former life will blossom something much greater. take some shrooms in the dark and confront your inner demons to find your true life path.

[Anonymous No.20101510]

>>20093376

Get a bottle or a cup of coffee.
Sit outside n have a conversation.

[Anonymous No.20101860]

>>20093376
I pray for you fren dont lose faith

[Anonymous No.20101999]

>>20095685
this country is fucking evil

[Anonymous No.20102270]

>>20093537
>all the triggered replies

Funny how this truth makes people so mad. There will be a time when all matter, let alone all life will be completely broken down.

[Anonymous No.20102417]

>>20102270
The eventual heat death of the universe is pretty much irrelevant when people only live to be 70-80 years old