So on my college campus there was this nutty (by the standards of the time unfortunately might be considered normal now) guy who would preach. The students found it funny and many would gather around and ask him to tell them about the homosexuals or the communists because he would go off on these crazy stories and tirades which again the students found funny. One day the crowd grew mean and eventually one guy stole his sweater. I confronted him and had him give back the sweater and the mob mentality feeling subsided.
Today, along with a non-profit I helped found, I organized a local clothing swap.
sucked off a whole boat of cocks one time
I got my company to start using an environmentally sustainable solvent called d-limonene rather than continuing to use petroleum based solvents which were much more toxic.
I went to a women’s shelter to go over safety planning with a social worker to leave my ex last week. That was a hard step to take. Wish me luck.
best of luck!
Good luck.
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Was strong enough to overcome the harsh realities of dealing with heartbreak and depression. It took a lot of nights crying myself to sleep, days fighting with my suicidal thoughts, and my “inner demons” bashing negative comments to myself to finally have a calmer mind.
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Got my driver’s license after after having a panic attack. I passed on the 3rd try, but I had a panic attack on my 1st in public at the DMV and had a total meltdown in front of strangers on the 2nd try because I failed. I was learning how to drive while being heartbroken after being dumped by my ex. So, I was extremely disappointed in myself that I failed the behind the wheel test because I really did give it my all, my best effort to learn while being depressed as shit, but received a failing grade in the end.
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Learned from my failures. And is now a much wiser person than I was 3 years ago. I grew up because of my break-up and failures. Aka, growing pains. I learned a lot about myself, learned how to heal, how to deal with pain, suffering, and mental health + gained different perspective about life/relationships, gained new friends and is (slightly) happier than I was 2-3 years ago.
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I haven’t had a single drink since I got pregnant.
Kid is 4 now. I am still sober. I planned on quitting and was cutting it down when TTC, only having some drinks on New Year’s. But I had so many relapses in the previous years. I was scared that I wouldn’t be able to stay sober throughout pregnancy, let alone motherhood.
It was the easiest thing to not have a drink during pregnancy, and it is still rather easy now. Even in dark, theoretically tempting times, it is so easy to say no. And I am incredibly proud. It is a miracle I made it out alive, let alone happily and free from fucking alcohol.
I feel like alcohol really gets away on women. I have known two women who sort of just became casual alcoholics without really noticing, like just suddenly it crept up on them that they were drinking lighter forms of alcohol in significant quantities, but it just all seemed like being social and relaxing, and it wasn’t until they each had in their mid forties a stroke and an aneurysm respectively. Neither of them were drinking to cope with difficulties or anything with a maladaptive intent, it was done in a social fashion only, and then suddenly became a huge problem.
I think drinking for women is different than drinking for men, and I think we have worse outcomes as a result.
I don’t really drink anymore, maybe 2-3 times a year I’ll have a single drink. I never had any sort of habit before but I liked my glass or two of wine on a weekend. But I just felt like it would be better to stop, and it was.
Congratulations on your sobriety, it’s a hard thing to achieve!
Edit: found the article I was thinking of: https://medium.com/gentleblog/why-alcohol-poses-a-greater-danger-to-women-a56bc21496d6
odd alcohol usually prevents clotting.
Safed my partner from homelessness even when we didnt know if we would work living together or how long it will tske them to find a job. Been 3 years and they dont have a job but i love them so much!
I also got out of the right wing extremist pipeline and turned my life around
I would like to hear the part about the right wing extremist pipeline if you wouldn’t mind. That’s hard to get out of.
Well i discovered what bisexual is. And that caused me during covid to question myself a lot. My views and switching friends :)
How i got into it in the first place? Catholic conservative family with high nationalism in a high nationalist area onnthe country side. No touching to other views and i got socialy austed due to autism/adhd and no one wanted to have anything to do with me even as a kid. Then also add mommy and daddy issues and you have recepie for someone to quickly get to bad influence and company which did happen
Not OP but I was in a similar situation. Whole family was poor, white, Christian, Republican, listened to Rush Limbaugh (and the horde of soundalikes) on the radio in the car every morning on the way to school and everywhere else we went. I don’t think I ever really bought in but when you’re a kid there’s just so much about the world you have to take on faith, often because you don’t know there are other options besides the defaults you grew up with. Eventually you get around to questioning things and the foundations start to crumble. For me the first domino was that I couldn’t really square why god would make people gay if being gay was a sin, and they didn’t really seem to be doing any harm, even the very abstract “sanctity of marriage” argument kinda falls off once you see that het people get unlimited “violating the sanctity of marriage” passes and queer folks get automatic damnation. After that more foundational assumptions started to fall away and I drifted further from the church over time until I became the heathen radical socialist that shames the memory of my god-fearing parents to this very day.
right wing populism/ propaganda is very effective on the " impoverished people" it makes them something to hate about other than thier personal problems.
I’m proud of my apps I’ve been working on to help me get through life easier with adhd. I put my vision therapy exercises on there as well and just got a nice message the other day about how helpful those were to somebody.
Breaking generational trauma by actually doing therapy and allowing myself to be vulnerable. Shit sucks lol
Indeed. Sure it’s worth it or whatever but it’s the fucking worst.
-Always been honest and mostly a positive member for my community. Always opposed evil in the world, real evil that’s scary.
-Saved my ex-wifes life and helped her to get off drugs. Didn’t judge her and leave her to die. Worked out well, and is maybe one of my most proud achievements. Literally everyone was telling me to leave her but I didn’t want my kids to not have a mother.
-Broke generations of truma and child abuse and religious brainwashing and hate, I try to raise my kids to be exceptional and good people.
-Gathered the courage to finally come out as trans a few years ago. Ending a life of depression and self hate. To live a life of happiness and feeling normal and valid.
-Learned real truth and became wise. Spending much of my life researching as a hobby. I attained a real education, something almost non-existent in this world.
-Contributed a bit to cultural, spiritual, and scientific progress in my own way.
-Helped many people, gave a good bit of my income to those less fortunate.
-Had many great friends and family. Learned many skills.
Learned that I’m valuable for who I am, not what I can do materially.
I’m 6 years sober this month
Well done, keep it up.
Probably my favorite in the thread. Congrats.
Congratulations!
Congrats!
After being in a band for over 12 years, we finally recorded and released a song.
I’m in a similar boat. I’ve been producing music for nearly ten years in Ableton, including stuff for some local theater, but this will be my first year releasing an album. Making music takes a lot of time and effort, I found out.
well you should be able to in Ableton, but nice to hear
My first bunny passed away in January. He was the first pet I had as an adult who was strictly my responsibility and no one else’s. A rabbit’s lifespan is typically 8-12 years old. My gray boy lived until he was just a few weeks shy of 13 years old.
I’m proud I took such good care of him and proud he stuck around so long. I still miss my fella a lot, but I’ve used what he taught me to adopt and care for 2 rescue rabbits; one who was dropped at a shelter when she was 3 and another young guy who was found dumped in a parking lot. They are going to be just as spoiled as my grey boy was.
This is great, you should be proud. It sounds like you’re a good caregiver to your bunny buddies.
Thank you!
Similar boat, after our first rabbit passed away we decided to rescue a bunny to be a partner for our second rabbit, who was still only 4, when the first moved on. He was 8, and had a few serious medical events after a rough patch with seizures, and he was on weekly antibiotic injections for two years.
Rescue bunny is a big new Zealand red eyed white, who is very picky, blind, and anxious. After a few tough months where we had to segregate the house, we managed to bond them but he has never been all that relaxed around humans or tolerant of grooming, nail trimming, etc etc.
He’s now 3.5 years old, we adopted him at 9 months. This month he’s started letting us pick him up without struggling (for nail trims), started flopping while being pet/near us, and is all around a lot less anxious (except for scary things like dogs, birds, and loud noises - he is almost completely blind I think).
They’re just such sweet animals once they form a relationship with you, but most people don’t “speak” rabbit love as easily as they “speak” dog or cat love. Nothing better than our little lady running to my feet every morning when I get up, and grooming my legs every time I sit on the floor!
I’m sorry you lost your first bun. Sounds like you really loved and cared for him well. REWs are so misunderstood and I’m happy yours is getting used to you, some buns just take a while to get comfortable around humans. They are such sweet little creatures, although my young boy is going through his terrible twos right now 😩🙃
I love all pets, but there is something truly special about earning the love and trust of a prey animal whose every instinct is to run and hide. They really are something special.
I’m very sorry for your loss, but that’s a really great accomplishment. I’m glad you 2 were able to find each other and that you were able to learn from your experience with him. All the best <3
Thank you! I appreciate that :)
