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5/24/2025, 4:29:15 PM
>>42199906
If you only said that to be a silly troll, feel free to skip this message. If you said that because you felt the need to lash out over what I said, please read.
I'm genuinely sorry if my doing well is making you feel worse. I actually thought long and hard about whether I even wanted to say I was doing well in this thread (or even on this site) specifically because I know there's a lot of people here who are NOT doing well and may very well get bitter and jealous because of my post.
The thing is... I wasn't saying that to brag, I was saying it to show that you can get out, it can get better, you can have a happy life, because I used to be a lot like (I assume) you. I used to be in a really shitty place. Shitty enough that the pistol sitting three feet to my left started looking mighty tempting. I was like that for years. I even thought I was going to be homeless for a while there--me and my wife both. And our relationship is by no means sunshine and roses all the time, we have fights sometimes, even really bad ones.
But over time, I found the right cocktail of meds, I found the right mental state of mind, I found the right people, and I seized the right opportunities to make everything finally start working out, and for the first time in literally over a decade, I feel like things are gonna be okay. It's the seizing opportunities that's most important--good luck is a myth; luck is simply when opportunity meets preparation. If an opportunity comes by and you aren't prepared, that's bad luck; likewise if you are prepared and can take it, that's good luck. The key is to increase how many opportunities you have and prepare for as many outcomes as possible. That mentality combined with a solid work ethic will get you very far in life.
>inb4 reddit spacing
It's easier to read in big posts like this shut up
If you only said that to be a silly troll, feel free to skip this message. If you said that because you felt the need to lash out over what I said, please read.
I'm genuinely sorry if my doing well is making you feel worse. I actually thought long and hard about whether I even wanted to say I was doing well in this thread (or even on this site) specifically because I know there's a lot of people here who are NOT doing well and may very well get bitter and jealous because of my post.
The thing is... I wasn't saying that to brag, I was saying it to show that you can get out, it can get better, you can have a happy life, because I used to be a lot like (I assume) you. I used to be in a really shitty place. Shitty enough that the pistol sitting three feet to my left started looking mighty tempting. I was like that for years. I even thought I was going to be homeless for a while there--me and my wife both. And our relationship is by no means sunshine and roses all the time, we have fights sometimes, even really bad ones.
But over time, I found the right cocktail of meds, I found the right mental state of mind, I found the right people, and I seized the right opportunities to make everything finally start working out, and for the first time in literally over a decade, I feel like things are gonna be okay. It's the seizing opportunities that's most important--good luck is a myth; luck is simply when opportunity meets preparation. If an opportunity comes by and you aren't prepared, that's bad luck; likewise if you are prepared and can take it, that's good luck. The key is to increase how many opportunities you have and prepare for as many outcomes as possible. That mentality combined with a solid work ethic will get you very far in life.
>inb4 reddit spacing
It's easier to read in big posts like this shut up
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