Things I've learned

[Rose]

Being on room restriction for breaking regulations, I've had a lot of time to think. And here's the product.

- Happiness is an illusion. You have to make yourself believe
you'rehappy, no one can do it for you.

- A lot of times, it seems like people in crowds don't have faces.

Just remember that those faceless people have souls.

- Read Camus. It'll make you feel better about your own life.

- You may look like everyone else, but you can still be an

individual.

- Don't be afraid to say what you feel.

- There's a time for everything. So if you feel now is the moment

to do something, do it right now. Your feeling will rarely be

wrong. (kind of a carpe diem thing, I guess)

- The dosage of LSD you take may be like the size of the bullet you

shoot yourself with, but at least with the LSD something

meaningful may happen before you die. (Sorry, reference to a

video I had to watch)

- Don't ever let people make you feel inferior. If you do that,

you've lost.

- Use your eyes.

- Before you do something, make sure that what you will gain from

it, no matter how beautiful the reward may be, is worth the pain

you might suffer for it.

 

[homeless chihuahua]

not too bad for being restricted with a pc, i wouldve played unreal tournament through all my confinement. I can relate to your state right now, i'm having bread&water only, in my case because of a devastating hungover ... well, a toast **gulping down an ice-cold corona** for those who live on breaking the rules please....
PS> Funny how the one you got from the video is the one that could make you come across all the other ones in a nutshell...

> Being on room restriction for breaking regulations, I've had a
> lot of time to think. And here's the product.

> - Happiness is an illusion. You have to make yourself believe
> you'rehappy, no one can do it for you.

> - A lot of times, it seems like people in crowds don't have
> faces.

> Just remember that those faceless people have souls.

> - Read Camus. It'll make you feel better about your own life.

> - You may look like everyone else, but you can still be an

> individual.

> - Don't be afraid to say what you feel.

> - There's a time for everything. So if you feel now is the
> moment

> to do something, do it right now. Your feeling will rarely be

> wrong. (kind of a carpe diem thing, I guess)

> - The dosage of LSD you take may be like the size of the bullet
> you

> shoot yourself with, but at least with the LSD something

> meaningful may happen before you die. (Sorry, reference to a

> video I had to watch)

> - Don't ever let people make you feel inferior. If you do that,

> you've lost.

> - Use your eyes.

> - Before you do something, make sure that what you will gain
> from

> it, no matter how beautiful the reward may be, is worth the pain

> you might suffer for it.

 

[greasetea]

Re: Things you've fu.cked

a watermelon

a pillow

a skeleton in your intro to biology class

your sleeping turtle

a homeless elderly hobo drunk on anti-freeze on 15th

what is the meaning of this? Nothing fatass except you need to please shut the f.uck up and go kill yourself you hinghang chaingang.

 

[Rose]

Things YOU'VE fu.cked

nothing, apparently.

> a watermelon

> a pillow

> a skeleton in your intro to biology class

> your sleeping turtle

> a homeless elderly hobo drunk on anti-freeze on 15th

> what is the meaning of this? Nothing fatass except you need to
> please shut the f.uck up and go kill yourself you hinghang
> chaingang.

 

[Socialist]

Ugh.

> - Happiness is an illusion. You have to make yourself believe
> you'rehappy, no one can do it for you.

Why call happiness an illusion? If happiness is illusory, then by the same token so are all other emotions, in which case no feeling is "real." I'm so tired of the "happiness doesn't exist" cliche. It's a near-sighted rant that is meagerly cloaked within philoso-speak. Illusoriness is not synomymous with transitoriness. It's so painfully obvious that most people who harbor the belief that happiness is non-existent is intent, consciously or not, on fulfilling a self-fulfilling prophecy. Just because happiness is fleeting, don't diminish its worth. I do, however, believe in the self-empowerment that underlies your well-intentioned statement though.

> - A lot of times, it seems like people in crowds don't have
> faces.

They do if you look more at the individuals, and less at the crowds.

> Just remember that those faceless people have souls.

I had never forgotten, love.

> - Read Camus. It'll make you feel better about your own life.

...by helping you understand it. I'm not sure that people would understand what you meant by what you said. I don't want anyone to wander into The Fall or The Plague, or even A Happy Death, thinking that they're novels of mordant pessimism or anything. But I agree, Camus is worth anyone's time. He's the finest writer I've ever read, which is a strange thing for a girl to say considering his writing is more masculine than even Hemingway.

> - You may look like everyone else, but you can still be an
> individual.

Did your fortune cookie say the same thing too?

> - Don't be afraid to say what you feel.

Er, note to Greasetea: ignore what she just said!

> - There's a time for everything. So if you feel now is the
> moment to do something, do it right now. Your feeling will rarely be
> wrong. (kind of a carpe diem thing, I guess)

But I also think there is a lot to be said of timeliness. Rhythms are not to be ignored, so long as one doesn't make an excuse of it.

> - Don't ever let people make you feel inferior. If you do that,
> you've lost.

I don't think a person should consider life a thing one can lose at. We're all living out our lives, and that's that. People live it differently, sometimes we feel badly about ourselves, other times we don't, but ultimately one never "loses" since that's too rigid a term for something so amorphous as existence.

> - Before you do something, make sure that what you will gain
> from it, no matter how beautiful the reward may be, is worth the
> pain you might suffer for it.

But, following your advice, if the reward is not worth the pain, then what shall I do? ...because earlier you also advised me, if I want to do something, that I should do it now. ...but the reward isn't worth the pain... but I want to do it now... but the pain... but the worth... isn't... or... oh, forget it. I'd better get back to work.

Kisses.

 

[Punch-drunkGB]

Re: Things you've fu.cked

I admit to @#!!!ing your mom greasetea but i was pissed> a watermelon

> a pillow

> a skeleton in your intro to biology class

> your sleeping turtle

> a homeless elderly hobo drunk on anti-freeze on 15th

> what is the meaning of this? Nothing fatass except you need to
> please shut the f.uck up and go kill yourself you hinghang
> chaingang.