A Facebook-inspired pity-party

[alarican]

Good thing about Facebook: getting in touch with people I knew from 10 years ago, my days at Samford. Almost ANYONE I knew then I had, till now, completely lost touch with. This is absolutely a blast from the past and a wonderful chance to connect with people I haven't heard from in far too long

Comments

[e_phemera]

awww..cheer up, you still have lots of potential...

as to not getting any younger...some of us are even further along that path than you!

re: Potential

[alarican]

I suppose. But I've been living with potential all my life. Getting tired of living in the possible future. To the extent that I haven't "worked" on getting my life where I want it to be (and therefore haven't deserved better) it's been because I was either never taught that this is what I had to do to work at life, or I was simply not allowed to live a life of my own choosing and therefore didn't care.

That's all the past, and I don't *blame* my life on my past, and explanations are not excuses. That said, I AM starting off 2 strikes behind the count, with a ton of disadvantages and only one (admittedly very big) advantage. But USING that advantage requires... a lot of luck and connections, and I, famously, have little to none of either. So... what the fuck AM I supposed to do????

Wound, meet Mr. Salt

[bunraku]

Have you read the current xkcd? Yeah, it's rhetorical.
http://xkcd.com/513/

Re: Wound, meet Mr. Salt

[alarican]

I hadn't but I would have.

Yes, the timing is impeccable. I'm not nearly *feeling* so depressed at the moment, nonetheless, the entire joojoofloop situation is frustrating and angering to the nth degree.

So, whats up with you?

Re: Wound, meet Mr. Salt

[bunraku]

Just returned home after my last class meeting this semester. Tired, bronchitisy, and marinating in domestic bliss.