I've decided not to try to live up to "my potential", it was depressing and unrewarding when I tried.
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Yeah, I made a bunch of money, felt really stressed, had very little time, and lost touch with my personality.
Then I spent a bunch of money on therapy and changing my whole life. Now I’m poor and stressed, but I’m spending more of my time how I want to and I feel much more myself.
Same here. I spent my entire childhood being told by family and teachers how I could really make a difference as a reseacher or a philosopher or a doctor or whatever else. I hate engaging with "book knowledge". Nobody ever bothered to factor that in 😅 All I really want is to create things with my hands. My mind is a nice asset when it comes to trivia or logical puzzles but I'm just not wired for academia.
Also, nobody respects anything less than an expert
But everybody respects a good solid table.
Which it turns out is actually really fucking hard to make.
Me too! Countless different fields, years of college and study, for what? A corporate knifing.
2024: "you're family!! we care about our employees!!"
2025: "yea, you're pretty much slaves, gonna do something about it? get back to work."
One of those was a lie all along.
Its corpospeak, gotta read into it.
'We're family!' makes sense when you think of the person saying it as a family member who is an abusive narcissistic sociopath who's never wrong about anything and nothing is ever their fault.
Yeah it always made perfect sense to me. Though my one corpojob did end with some spectacle. Real family would have figured out the antidote.
Man, I fuckin wish I could get compensation for that...
You absolutely can. Lets bring this fuckfest down.
All you need is a rock.
Fortunately, I was never told that.
They didn't tell me how much energy it takes to put your mind to things. I can barely stay awake for a normal day length without putting in the effort.
My only remaining ambition after age 40 was to be a worthwile human being at the very least (because that bar is very low) and I can't even do that.
Some people are born broken, not necessarily through any fault of their own. But maybe I don't even clear that barrier and am simply useless to anyone. Oh well.
Like what are we talking about here? You cheat on your partner? Lie about important stuff? If it's that you aren't meeting peoples expectations that's a "manage expectations" thing on their end and you aren't doing anything wrong. You don't have to meet any bars, you just have to not intentionally hurt people.
No, it's none of that. It's that in my over four decades of life, I've never once lived up to my OWN potential, and despite trying my best, giving up, trying again, ... countless times, I've still never managed to markedly improve my station in life, or my enjoyment of it.
I know I have everything I need to be capable, smart, confident person, but I've never BEEN any of those things, even fleetingly, so I can't really even imagine how it would be like.
Pathethic, I know.
Sorry bud. It sounds like an internal thing slowing you down and external things causing a defeating blow. Im a elder millennial and I know how that goes. It's been one garbage event after another since highschool. All you can do is keep pushing and focus on incremental success so you get some endorphins flowing. I started with exercise. Did I meet my little goals? Fuck yeah every day because my goal was to work out. If my goal was to lift my body weight I'd still be starving for endorphins.
What does worthwhile even mean? Have you ever had any sort of positive interaction? Who’s to say that small moment of enjoyment wasn’t worthwhile?
Go find a someone who’s asking for help and help them.
Better than being a useful idiot for some evil fuck, even if true.
Which i doubt it is.
Plenty of people 'living up to their potential' shooting unarmed kids, signing death warrants for the unhoused, etc
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When I was a kid, "class action" meant we were all being let out for recess
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