Jeez you made me think about how much fucked up shit I've been through.
- Publicized school shootings on TV 90s
- Watching the second plane crash on live TV on 9/11
- Medical trauma 1: had testicular torsion ,went in 12 hours after it started, they tried to untwist it by hand while I was conscious, morphine ain't shit
- Medical trauma 2: spontaneous pneumothorax, the ketamine they dosed me with didn't work so that chest tube insertion fucked me up
- PMTSD related anxiety and depression
- 2 more pneumothorax
- 2008 financial crisis
- college went well, but first job out of college after I got my computer engineering degree payed a fucking grand total of $51k.
- 2016 election
- Hit 250lbs
- 2019 my highschool sweetheart wife cheated on me
- COVID-19
- Hit 280 lbs
- Jan 6 insurrection
- Stagflation
- Lost 70lbs because of cutting back on food spending and weightloss medication
- discovered my wife sexting the guy she cheated on me with after being in marriage therapy for 4 years
- hit 250lbs again
Jesus christ, is this resilience, or are we all so burnt out that we just accept everything getting worse always.
Like I get the joke in Russia is "and then it got worse." But Jesus christ, it can't get worse if it's always bad can it?