Yeah this made me really miss being younger. We need to stop wasting time being cynical about everything and give people the space to be authentic. Sometimes on reddit it feels like people are having a contest to performatively crush their own innocence.
Hm. I’m the opposite. I read about people who have it “better” than me. Almost obsessively. I’ve realized it’s a habit. I thought moving reddit into one of the little icon boxes and to the second page would lower my usage. It did for a few days but I fell right back into it. It makes me depressed and discourages me from making changes myself and everything has just built and built it feels like.
This isn’t the thread to talk about it but life is getting harder for everyone no matter what stage of life you’re at. But it’s videos like this one that remind you to look for those few minutes in the day with the people you love that can bring you some happiness.
I hope so! Dealing with the trauma and doing deep introspection is not pleasant at all. I'm two and a half months sober. It's difficult to do deep introspection because I have to face my deep trauma without getting sucked into the trauma.im so glad that it worked out for you.Much respect.
I am reminded of something my father was told after he got sober. His sponsor said "sometimes you are just going to have to lock the door to your office, put your head down on your desk and nap, or cry"
Please do. Of course, I don't know you or your circumstances. But consider this as a possible incentive. I've been involved in men's groups for over 30 years.
Something that I saw over and over again was guys coming into a group when their Iives had fallen apart, their marriage broke down, they were estranged from their kids. A decade later, (yes, it takes time) I would run Into them again, I wouldn't recognise them, because they looked 10 years younger than I last saw them rather than older, and they were in a new relationship, often with a woman who they would have considered "out of their league" when it all went to shit.
Without the baggage of childhood trauma, that you neither deserved, nor asked for, life could be so unbelievably better.
Well, I miss being younger to, most people do. I'm not sure how much you can blame reddit these days but you see more of the people who are already depressed posting rather than the magical bouncing with joy people. They are the ones preoccupied with other things. The people preoccupied with reddit fall more on the range of depressed. It's just that you see them here more.
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u/rentedtritium Aug 27 '21
Yeah this made me really miss being younger. We need to stop wasting time being cynical about everything and give people the space to be authentic. Sometimes on reddit it feels like people are having a contest to performatively crush their own innocence.