Paraiyar said:
Where did all the time between 2008 and now go?
I hear that. I messed myself up very badly due to extremely pessimistic beliefs I was convinced were true, and it made me very unhappy. I really wish I could do it over again differently.
Entirely separate, and to no one in particular, but I'm getting really fed up with something. In a lot of the dating advice I read lately, it all seems to suggest something like "Bars and clubs good, video games and 'nerdy' interests bad". As if bars and clubs are the inherently correct interest to have, and if you are not interested in it, then you are the one with the problem. I feel like I'm in high school again - what the "cool people" say goes, and everyone else just has to deal with it. Screw that. One of the only things I like about being an adult is realizing that people like that don't have, and have never had, any real power over me. It was all in my head.
I don't know. I wouldn't mind going to bars occasionally but I'm just not crazy about it. And I'm not interested in clubs whatsoever. I don't like the music, the atmosphere, any of it. Mostly I'm just fed up with the idea that my interests are somehow "wrong" or inferior. That's been something that's been making it hard for me to have confidence, my whole life. I've only recently gotten past it.
Argh. I guess it's my fault for continuing to read it, and I should really make a better effort to complain less, but I just had to get this off my chest.