My first attempt at recreating a meme I saw years ago. Somehow it struck me as increasingly funny as time went by.

ok im here

Greetings, and welcome to my first meme. I never submitted this version of it.

lets talk

Sure. When last we met you asked if I'd considered that I was doing this to myself, and I said "yep".

ok how often do you take care of yourself

Selfcare? Sleep is on point, excercise is so so, diet is shit. I have a healthy social life, my antics on imgflip notwithstanding.

do you go outside and if you do how often

Lol, I work outside

oh ok....

I also don't drink, smoke or do recreational drugs. I had an idyllic childhood and am blessed with a robust support network. I have plenty of friends and a loving family nearby. On paper my life is peachy.

wow ok (hes got a better lifestyle and overall situation in life than i do)

I've suffered no event-based trauma and have been in the care of a good psychiatrist for many years. The therapy I stopped because it felt like paying to socialize with friends. I know and practice cbt and dbt skills, and occasionally practice transcendental meditation.

To be honest I miss dumbing myself down with weed and booze. My happiest memories are of being piss drunk.

o...k

A sheltered upbringing is catastrophic to a person's ability to handle stress. My entire adult life has been defined by struggling to come to grips with unpleasant truths that I learned way later than would have been beneficial. Things like death, injustice, powerlessness, loss, etc.

You know my problem? I feel too much. I'm hyper sensitive to suffering, especially in other people. Any kind of intense emotion is stressful. I swath myself in darkness as a means to control it, or ward it off. I'm a vegetarian with a bleeding heart, cocooned inside decades of emitional scars and calluses. Meh, fuxk me, I ain't special.

ok...... well i had sheltered upbringing

A common theme among people who have attained the greatest heights of success is blood-curdlingly bad childhoods. That degree of stress either optimally equips a person to deal with the unpleasantness of life by calibrating their pain tolerance really high, or it sends them over the edge.

As far as theistic leanings, I'm a based absurdist. I wasn't raised religious but I've studied a pretty broad cross section of them, particularly Abrahamic relgions and their myriad denominations. The more I learn, the more the concept of a monotheistic god seems like an answer in search of a question.

Aside from all that, I tend towards gluttonous hedonism and filthy jokes. Helps pass the time. Most of what gets me through is medication. That and I do really enjoy sleep.

That's about it for me.

I'd rather not memechat. It's getting bloated with convos as it is, plus it purges everthing after the first 20 messages.

ok