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As a question, what is something that you now love that past you would find weird / borderline impossible for you to love?
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As a question, what is something that you now love that past you would find weird / borderline impossible for you to love?
Social interactions…
In my early 20’s and late 10’s I repeated “I’m a bit of an associal person” like a mantra. Cuz I believed it, it made sense. Do social thing > Be stressed and want to just be home behind the PC.
But, with the years, it became easier, not easy mind you, *easier*. Moreover, I could see that with social interactions had, I often did better and craved them when I didn’t have them for a while. Also, certain chemical compounds have certainly played a part in this as well… once you’ve gone full-social-butterfly at a rave once… well, it’s easier to let go of the social related fears outside of such settings too.
Anyway, the social stuff I think is definitely what past me would be most in disbelief of.
I got a little robot avatar from Reddit, its suppos3 to make me feel special and unique but it seems everyone gets one
#Snowflake
Getting up early. Young me never got up early, present me loves to get shit done as early as possible.
Basic Fit can get fucked. I was interested in subscribing but raising the pricing to use multiple locations is just infuriating. So I just upped my home exercises and got a free C25K app.
Haven’t been running in years so I was dreading it. It went fine, though all the old ladies walking on the track were a bit of a hindrance. Nothing a daydream of cowtipping them in a ditch won’t fix.
EDIT to answer OP: my teenage/early years were often miserable because of social anxiety. Since then I’ve got a great SO, a few good friends and my family situation has improved. Yet I’ve grown fond of long moments of solitude. I guess choosing those moments myself makes all the difference.
Dogs. I was terrified of them as a child. My mom was terrified of them so we took that over and I also got bit once.
That all changed when I took the plunge and got my own dog (a cavalier king charles spaniel so a very gentle breed). I read up about training and their behaviour and now I’m no longer scared of dogs.
Marihuana 🌿
Also… happy cake day 🥳
Hmmmm…. CAKE 😋
> As a question, what is something that you now love that past you would find weird / borderline impossible for you to love?
Fitness and sports lol.
Gym was required for all of elementary school, middle school and up to Grade 9 (Sec III). From Grade 10 onwards it was optional, and you better believe I dropped that shit.
Reasoning: “Ew, a gym is where you to go to *sweat*, gross.”
Now I go 4x/week for an 1h15 each time (2x/week with a coach), I track calories/Lazy CICO, I’m looking into boxing classes, and I weigh less now at nearly-35 than I did when I was 19.
Still have a way to go, but yeah, I didn’t quite expect something like that lol.
So Friday I am going on a little weekend trip with my group of friends. Only problem is that one of them is the guy who is now dating my ex (they begun dating like 2 days after the breakup, so make of that what you will). After about 8 months post breakup, I can confidently say that I’m not in love with my ex at all anymore. I’m just still very fucking mad about the way I was treated the month before the breakup and the fact that my former friend and ex are together now. I secretly hope he gives me a good excuse to beat his “higher than thou, let’s be adults about this” ass. I literally am unable to forgive this dick and my ex. I’d just rather not see them ever again. Any insights? Am I just being petty at this point :(?
>As a question, what is something that you now love that past you would find weird / borderline impossible for you to love?
Running.
I was a pretty heavy smoker and used to say that running was for people being chased by an angry bear.
Now without any bears involved, if I don’t run at least 4 days a week, I get antsy.
Yesterday was the first livestream of Victoria 3 and they announced the release date – October 25th. I know what I’ll be doing this winter, wrapped in blankets while eating cold porridge!
Had an argument with a driver yesterday after I crossed on foot over a zebracrossing in a built up area. Left side of the road was free, a car was aproaching from reasonably far away on the right. Driver was doing that will I/won´t I stop thing before deciding at the last minute to break heavily and let me cross.
“You can´t just cross the street whenever you like!”
*I´m on a zebra crossing? That´s literally what they´re for*
“I was going to fast to stop. Somebody could´ve rearended me!”
Sounds like a you problem dickwad.
The rules of the road say you need to be abled to stop at a zebracrossing. I looked both ways, looked at your car, and crossed while you were still 50 meters away, on the far lane of my crossing. You needed to slow down, not speed up and then skid to a halt.
>As a question, what is something that you now love that past you would find weird / borderline impossible for you to love?
Definitely girls. Till I was about 10-ish the idea of liking girls was deplorable to me.
Classical music. I always found it weird that my grandfather was so into it, and now that he’s gone and I’ve started enjoying it, I regret not being able to talk with him about it.
As to your question: Taylor Swift.
Should have seen my psychologists face when I told her I really like Taylor Swift while sporting my Amenra shirt and talking about a Wiegedood concert earlier. Actually makes me smile thinking about it.
On another note: I’m becoming better every day, even though I’m still having some – very – difficult moments. Fighting against it becomes easier/less tiring…
I’m considering dropping social media again, except for Facebook (it’s the easiest way to keep track of concerts and events, sue me) and just using it at home tbh. Buy a watch and leave my phone at home. That sort of thing. It scares me, but seriously considering it.
Answer: Keep the place clean and in order. I love when everything is on it’s place.
Today is a little bit nervous day, as at the moment of writing this comment, my wife is on the table having a hand surgery. I can’t wait for getting a message that all went good.
Edit: it did.
Currently looking for a new place to rent in Brussels. I thought I was lucky at first, the second place I visited was very nice, current tenants were very happy with the landlord (they were moving upstairs), and I was even the first visitor.
But! The day after someone else visited and got it immediately because they were ‘urgently’ looking for a new place… I have no idea if it was indeed urgent but it felt frustrating none the less, and even made me think I should also say it’s urgent, but I would despise doing it.
And now the lack of answer when asking to organise a visit is tiring, regardless if it’s an agency or a private landlord, even when they specifically ask to be contacted my email!
Guess I’ll keep looking! At least the weather is better.
>As a question, what is something that you now love that past you would find weird / borderline impossible for you to love?
Embracing feminity. I always had a low grade dislike for being male but didn’t realise until recently just how deep it actually went. Since embracing that I’m actually a woman, I feel more confident and significantly happier than I ever have.
On a related note, I started androcur (10mg) today so no more constant peeing for me 😀
>As a question, what is something that you now love that past you would find weird / borderline impossible for you to love?
Being single 😅
When I was younger I thought it was the worst thing in the world, but now I’m happy to be on my own. It would be fine if I met someone, but I’m not actively looking and I’m certainly not desperate, which I surely would have been if you told me this ten years ago, lol.
I didn’t think they could make VRT NWS look even worse, but they did it
What’s the flemish equivalent of the dutch word “joh” ?
Gestoofd witloof. I couldn’t eat it as a child, now I’m crazy about it. I guess my mom just didn’t quite prepare it right.