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I'm so tired (lemmy.world)
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[-] [email protected] 98 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago

Yeah, context is pretty important in this case

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

“It won’t help” is pretty fucking devastating.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

The fuck is up with the hipster and the bowling ball?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Xkcd has recurring characters and storyline that are separated but connected. Blackhat is basically an asshole with style character (a classhole). The girl is Danish, the only person to one up him, and them meeting and their relationship is in the "Journal" series.

A few others are white hat, who isn't always the same person, as well as Cueball, Mrs Roberts (mother of Lil Bobby tables) and a few others. You don't need tro know them to get a comics joke, but if you follow the whole work it's like little Easter eggs you can find.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

Makes much more sense in context.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

It's stuck in my head as particularly self descriptive the past decade or so and I just wanted to share it

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Right? Felt like a sledgehammer to the dome

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

It's talking specifically about people who tear other people down to make themselves feel good, negging.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But without context it's just repeating the mean thoughts in my head

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

That's why I posted it

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

I don't remember xkcd being so mean

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

In context it's not so bad but it's really stuck with me as particularly self descriptive the past decade or so as I keep hurting myself by allowing myself to hope over and over again

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

The full comic was posted by @[email protected] in this thread. Read it. The context is very important in this case.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Realizing I had ADHD and Social Anxiety, and that there are coping mechanisms and drugs to help has me really optimistic.

Things aren’t rainbows and unicorns just yet, but the rain at least seems to be letting go up.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ah, negging. Maybe my depression is healthier than I though, with how much I've been negging myself I must fancy myself suite a bit!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Very Bojack Horseman.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I'd definitely does get better though. It's full of ups and downs, but hopefully it consistently goes up on average.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

A cycle of mediocrity is not an identity or intrinsic trait ffs. That's wrong on several levels.

First of all, expectations. We can't all be Nobel prize winners or cure cancer or whatever else qualifies as excelling.

And also, if you're not happy now, chances are achieving great things won't do it for you either. Usually the people that society ascribes greatness to sacrifice many important things and often are giant assholes (see Steve Jobs as just one example of many).

Plenty of average people are actually happy without being the supposed top of the heap.

But if you're failing to achieve your dreams -- or failing to even try to in the first place -- it may be due to myriad things one can indeed work on. E.g., it may well be related to a mix of some past trauma, depression, ADHD, or expectations, values, lack of knowledge or skills.

Assuming you have realistic goals, the only way to guarantee you'll never achieve them is to give up.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I don't remember making this comic about myself, but it's here so I clearly did. Lol

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

A friend once told me that he kept a note on his fridge that asked, "What is stopping you?" I was inspired.

I have a sticky note on my display with the same question. The answer is ME.

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