What's Bothering You?

[Plainbluetees]

I wish my dad wasn’t so over dramatic.

My whole family (7 people) is watching football (american) and we have a tailgating folding table set up. For reference see the spoiler.

Anyway, this table just randomly decides to collapse. The only open thing on it is my half full iced tea, which gets on the floor. Nobody else except my dad reacts to it; he screams “OH HOLY CRAPPING JESUS!” at the top of his lungs. My aunt (his sister) turns to him and says “Oh my god! His tea spilled!! It sounds like you’re having a heart attack!” Me and my other aunt immediately start mopping it up with paper towels and ten seconds later you can’t tell that it landed there. My whole family is staring at him and all agree that he just overreacted. It’s so annoying.

This isn’t the first time he’s done something like this. I could go on. The last time it happened was eating dinner with him when the sour cream got knocked over. He screamed, and I said that he was overreacting. Then he stormed out of the house. It’s really annoying and nobody likes it.

Spoiler: table picture

 

[KittenNoir]

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[xSuperMario64x]

woke up in the middle of the night with a bad pain in the joint of my big toe on my left foot, I can barely move it and it hurts to put any weight on it, I almost can't even put my sandals on cause I have to wiggle my toes to get them on.

I normally would just be like "yeah I'll just stay off of it for a few days" but uhhhh I have to work tomorrow and Monday at a job that requires me to be on my feet nonstop so I guess we will see how this day goes lol

 

[-Lumi-]

I miss my girlfriend We still talk all the time I am just a baby and want her Here bdkdhdkd sigh

 

[Chris]

i don't know why i constantly think about how short life is (and by extent the meaninglessness of the day to day monotony) but it never fails to get me down. especially when i realize i don't have time for, well, anything beyond work & school at this point in my life. it feels like i'm wasting what little time i have (even though i'm in my 20s??????). why am i thinking about this. ugh.

I think everyone goes through this at some point in their 20s, especially when the daily grind feels like all you have time for. I certainly did, especially in the months leading up to my 30th birthday; and my partner turns 25 in a couple of weeks and it feels like it's every few days that I'll come home to find her stressed and upset about the idea that her life and career are stagnating and that she feels she's already "peaked".

It could be worthwhile thinking about what your long-term goals are and what you can do now to help you get there. For example, you say that you're in school, so then I would imagine you are working towards a qualification that is hopefully going to help you to build a career. So, spin the narrative: instead of thinking of school as something that eats up all your time; remind yourself of what you are going to get out of this at the end. e.g. I only got through the final few months of my postgraduate degree by focusing on the fact it was going to give me an advantage in an extremely competitive job market. When things get tough, focusing on the future and how what you are doing right now is going to shape it can be motivating and give you a better sense of direction and purpose.

And, of course, if you're unhappy with the direction your life is going in then that is a sign that you should take action now to try and change it. Annoyingly, what people thinks is going to be a fun decade (20s) is often spent broke, trying to figure out what you want to do with your life, and working your ass off to make sure you will someday achieve it. Use this time wisely!

Great, I was so excited for my online interior design course I'm taking and I just literally today found out I'm gonna need all these materials 90% I don't have and they never told me that in the beginning
they want me to do all this stuff like film a roleplay thing of a interior designer working with a client
your suppose to act it out so you understand what it's like working with clients and everything, all this stuff is gonna be so stressful I wish they would have told me that in the beginning I thought I was gonna read and write and do tests and listen to things not do things IRL ugh

All good courses for hands-on professions will include practical elements and teach you about the industry. e.g. I'm a scientist - but I wouldn't be employable if I didn't have laboratory experience. Likewise, an interior designer with no experience is no good to anybody! If that is a route you are interested in pursuing, then the skills they are going to teach you are going to be vital to working in the role.

 

[-Blue-]

September and even October can still range from warm to really hot days. Least where I am from. It's not until Mid-October that the weather starts to settle down to more tolerable to pleasant days. And then it just shifts drastically to very cold. Where I am from we never ease into a pleasant spring or autumn. It's just here's one day...now suffer! lol.

 

[Croconaw]

I just worked two out of three days in a row at a different location. This is my third day. It’s different, and it’s giving me major vibes of a job I’d only be at for a few weeks at the most and quit. This is only temporary because I’m a “borrowed employee” for them, but it makes me appreciate where I currently work, and how I can’t go to a different place working the same job position and everything is the same. Because it’s not.

 

[Romaki]

I found two old gmail accounts, knew their passwords, but can't login because I have to verify my identity via a mobile number I haven't had in 10 years probably. Please, I just want my Neopets password.

 

[Neb]

Whoop, I got unfriended without warning after talking to someone for a day. So much for making a new friend…

 

[Lady Timpani]

Whoop, I got unfriended without warning after talking to someone for a day. So much for making a new friend…

I was talking to someone on reddit and after she asked where I was from and I responded she just stopped talking to me altogether like tbh I think it was foolish of me to initiate conversation with her anyway (she posted on a lesbian subreddit but only had a two-day old account; tbh I'm not entirely sure I was talking to a woman) but the abruptness with which she dropped off was pretty funny

 

[ali.di.magix]

I’m so anxious about the week ahead. Got two big projects running at once (I can barely handle one project lmao). My brain keeps assuming the worst, like everything is going to catastrophically fail. There’s so many things to keep an eye on and I’m going to lose sight of everything. My brains a literal mess and I hate it.

And who do I have for help at work? Literally no one. My boss does not give a **** about teaching, bettering or helping me. And the one manager here who does is going on leave this week. I literally can’t show that I’m stressed because it’ll backfire and my boss will get angry with me rather than help.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

I want some gummy life savers but I really don't feel like spending any more money :<

also tried to take a much needed nap this afternoon and it was a total flop so I'm still really tired and now also groggy

 

[-Mars-]

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[xSuperMario64x]

I just feel incredibly useless and hopeless and lazy. I can do everything right except for the things that I absolutely need to do right.

 

[Beanz]

my 2DS xl is acting strange. i was in the middle of playing acnl and it cut out and it crashed. when i turned it back on it said something about how it couldn’t detect the SD card and it had a dark spot to the right of the screen. i don’t know what’s wrong with it, i’ve dropped it a few times but it’s always seemed okay after. im worried that it’s broken but im even more worried about my nearly 4 year old acnl save file.

 

[Shellzilla_515]

I had a long day today feeling tired as a result and I don't want to get into the specifics. I managed to complete a few fair activities today, but it's unfortunate how I'm unable to finish the others at the last minute. If I just had a relaxing day, I might've gotten more things in, but I can't. Oh, and I'm not feeling too good mentally, so there's that.

 

[moonbyu]

i feel like i wasted my entire summer away looking for jobs when i could have been doing a summer school course or getting my volunteer hours. i didnt even get a interview. i feel so useless and stupid now .

 

[skarmoury]

Spoiler: 1

Tested positive for covid today and i cried about it a lot, mainly because I'm really concerned about the people I came into contact with very recently (before I had symptoms and all). I'm glad I made the right decision to be vigilant and tested myself immediately because I had very mild symptoms (37.5 fever and a sore throat that went away after like 10 mins) and I was really conscious about it. Glad I made the right call not to force myself to go to work today either. I talked to all the concerned parties and apologized to them and they were all nice and said it's okay, it's no one's intention to get sick, and that I hope I get well soon. It really helped calm down my anxiety because I honestly thought they'd be mad or something.

The upside is that I'll get to rest a lot for the week and see my family again. Even if I have to isolate, it feels better being at home with my family than being alone in my apartment.

 

[-Mars-]

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I hope you can recover soon, take good care of yourself and stay safe

 

[S.J.]

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So sorry to hear Skar. I hope you don't feel too unwell, and that you feel better soon!