Hi gang and welcome to the third weekly improvement megathread!

I'm gonna copy the ideas for discussion from the previous threads but these are just my suggestions, feel free to discuss whatever you wish.

  • Do you want to share something you've done in the previous week? Everything counts, nothing is too small.
  • What would you like to do next week?
  • What aspect of life would you like to improve?
  • Do you have any streaks? For example, "sober for one day." Feel free to post your streak every day in this thread.
  • If you don't have a continuous streak, did you manage to abstain from something for a day or more?
  • Did you come across some useful information or resource that might help others?

I'm wishing everybody a great week! unity

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    I signed up for my classes, and I've been having an existential crisis ever since. I really just wanted to do art, but I never so much as picked up a pencil or learned so much as one song because I was worried it would never make money. I'm in my mid-twenties finishing a degree I abandoned in my early 20s and I will be surrounded by only early 20s folks. I missed out on youth big time.

    I'm not going to like what I'm doing, but the only alternative is rotting away in my parents basement while I do minimum wage jobs waiting for inspiration to strike me even though it likely never will. It feels like I am settling for a lesser devil rather than finding happiness.

    • AlkaliMarxist
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      5 months ago

      It sucks so much how capitalism sets us up with this complex where we're afraid to pursue our passions because they aren't profitable enough. Like the hustle culture bullshit where we are expected to judge even our hobbies by their potential for making money.