the poop happens world we live in thread 2XXX

[Marth]

Is it just me or has half the board been having suicidal thoughts?

[PatientZero]

Well it's about that time again, not to make light of it but October through to the new year is always a spike in people getting depressed and moody, there's actually some medical reasons behind it but I won't clog up the thread with it.

I learned a long time ago that suicide isn't an option, in almost all cases it's a mistake or a logical error, let me explain.
I'm going on the assumption that there is no afterlife, if that doesn't gel with your world view then I shouldn't have to explain anything because even if there is a heaven or hell, the bible is pretty clear on suicide being a one way ticket to the devils door.

Let's go with the purely physical side of things first, your brain and body at the most basic level are designed to try not to die, you would be amazed at exactly what you can survive.
You can do enough damage to completely ruin whatever life you might have had, which sadly happens a lot, but doing enough damage to yourself to actually die isn't nearly as easy as you might imagine.

From a logical perspective it's much simpler, everything is temporary, and I do mean everything, whatever you're feeling right now literally can't last forever.
Even in the ultimate worst case scenario you'll eventually die anyway.
The only reason to cut that timescale down yourself is if your current suffering, right this moment, outweighs any happiness you have or future happiness you might achieve.

Again, this is almost never true except in the most extreme cases, if you're going to die in the most blindingly agonising way possible in the next hour, I recommend you shoot yourself in the head right now, but on the other hand that girl you like might ask you out tomorrow, and women tend to be less attracted to you when you're dead.

The better option if you're genuinely considering ending it all is to think about why, work out what is causing you so much unhappiness and try to fix it, odds are the effort to change things isn't nearly as bad as the unhappiness it's causing you to not change it.
Besides, if you're planning on committing suicide anyway you have literally nothing to lose even if you fail completely, so why not keep trying?

[Phaze]

probably

I disagree simply because once you cross the threshold, you don't come back.

I walked along it for a few months once.

[water dog]

I once ate a shit load of pills to try and OD. Stupidest thing I've ever done. I have so much in my life right now, I can't imagine wanting to die. If past me saw me saw present me, I wouldn't even think twice about committing suicide, not to mention all the great experiences I've had between then and now.

Moral of the story is things ALWAYS get better, and if you feel rock bottom right now, the only place to go is up. So cheer up. :>

[Kami]

So this past weekend was soo sick I didn't leave my bed for a couple days, Luckily I got up for some water(Alot) after the second day.
I barely ate anything at all during that time since it'd induce vomiting.

It also seems since I was sick on friday, I go and find out that my History Techer that despises me gave everyone in my class donuts and they pretty much sat there and colored that class. It honestly didn't bother me sincedonuts are starting to get boring since they don't have as many interestingly-flavored donuts in my area.

[Goemar]

Once you start having to pay bills the idea of being depressed when you was young suddenly becomes incredibly foolish...

My laptop is lagging like crap, like even typing is lagging. And yes ebay woman, once you agree to a refund and I post the item back IT IS too late to change your mind... Case opened, give me my smegging refund...

[Lemonray]

Joint pains :<

[Maxpphire]

Oops, I just almost had a mental breakdown over stress because everytime I send my license to the insurance company it has been too dark for them to make out any of the proper details.

haha great, fun, luckily I don't have to work for way too long tonight.

[puggsoy]

Hey sister, can you just stop complaining about me being annoyed? Because guess what, it makes me even more annoyed. Which causes me to annoy you. Because I'm so annoyed.

Now we're all annoyed. Great.

EDIT:

Grumpy rant/vent

Right so this has been my day for the last week or so:

I get up. Eat breakfast which I, as usual, don't feel like but know I must have.
I then go to "school".

Explanation of "school

This "school" consists of me sitting in front of the laptop with my [insert current subject here] book on my lap. The chair I'm sitting on is basically a one-seat sofa with no armrests, in the living room area. The laptop is on the living room table (about the height of me knees). On the laptop is a PDF of the [insert current subject here] booklet I would normally get a hard copy of if I were in NZ.
This combination of awkward education variables results in me sitting in a square I slightly sink into, reading about [insert subject here] on the computer and answering questions in my textbook which, don't forget, is on my lap with my old hardcover drawing book to make writing slightly easier.

About a quarter way through my work my dad joins the scene. I won't complain, he is my dad and I respect him, but basically his company is not one I jump for joy about. Partly because most conversations are about schoolwork, sometimes about how I should do more, while the conversations themselves are hindering it. But being my calm self I tend to tolerate it.

After "school" I do my exercises. It hurts sometimes (20 squats straight is not exactly a massage) but afterwards it feels great and simply the fact that it's voluntary makes it much more enjoyable.

Around this time mum and my sister come back from school (my mum teaches and my sister, well, learns). A proper school. I have intentionally arranged my day so that I do not work while they're at home since the time that they're away is the only time I can get a reasonable amount of concentration and avoid distraction for schoolwork. So anyway they come home, and I read books or eat or draw or go on the computer. Usually a combination of these in various order.
You might think that now I get to have some fun. To an extent, yes. But remember those headphones I mentioned a while back that squish on my ears? Yeah, well, my sister's earphones broke a few weeks ago (either her fault or the supplier's, I dunno), so being the gullible and kind person that I am I allow her to use the only headphones in the house.
I can still have fun of course, with drawing and reading and all that. Even on the PC I can rip sprites or program. However, about 90% of the games I play either require audio to play effectively (TF2, for example), or the experience of the game relies heavily (if only in my opinion) on the music or other audio (for example S&S EP or Vessel). Therefore I am restricted to playing games that I can enjoy to an acceptable extent without audio, like Super Meat Boy or Spiral Knights (although SMB's music is fantastic I don't need it to enjoy the game's atmosphere).
And how long does this last? Well, my sister's excuse is that she's "been at school the whole day" so she gets to use them until she goes to bed. Sure, I stay up a bit longer (an additional excuse), so I can use them after then. But she doesn't really go to bed that much earlier than me, so I get to use them considerably less than her. Plus, she uses them for listening to music while she plays WoW. Which in my opinion (in this grumpy state at least) seems less necessary than my uses of it.

I'm not disappointed with myself with being so gullible or tolerant. I pride myself in not getting angry and making people happy. It feels good to have people comfortable or content in my presence. It's who I am.
But sometimes I just wish that my sister would notice it and perhaps give me a break. She sometimes seems to be taking advantage of my tolerance, even if she doesn't know it, and it can really tick me off. As usual I don't say anything about it. Because I know what the response will be and I will not like it. Namely, the stereotypical (?) teenage girl grumpiness, often accompanied by stomping into her room, giving me both an angry and guilty feel, the latter which I know I don't deserve. What's more I don't feel like I can blame her for being because it appears to me to be a natural way for teenage girls to feel. (No offense to MJ or anyone else.)

Wow I just really needed to tell all that to someone. Even if nobody reads it.

I love this thread.

[Rai]

Wow, Dad. It's awful nice of you to keep trying to shove a job for a meat-packing plant up my ass even though I'm genuinely excited about a job I'll enjoy. God fucking forbid you could be happy for me. Dick.

[Gwen]

Thanked because my bio dad still to this day thinks I want to be in Network Marketing even though I clearly don't want to be.

[Vipershark]

what exactly is network marketing
sounds like a pyramid scheme to me

[Gwen]

That's exactly what it is, but he refuses to believe that.

[Rai]

HAHA OH WOW. First thing he tells me after I let him know I actually got the job is to pay him rent once I start getting checks in. And he seriously wonders why I think he and I will end up coming to blows if we live in the same house?

[Lemonray]

Jesus Christ, people are stupid.