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Think about it, when you meet someone the spark is it there or does feel something so powerful that shockingly arousing to even be around a person that can make you feel that way. Well today I am taking everyone on my journey of when I meet my true person we met back in 2008 out of coincidence my friend pawned me off on my him eventually I did go home with him and I stayed overnight with him well it was my first experience of ever having one of those types of situations in my life so when I met this man I thought he was a dream come true, well I ended liking him to much and he told my friend I was weird to be liking him in that way that fast so I never heard from him again. I did every now and then find his Facebook pop up on mine and mind you he does have four Facebook‘s. Well I came across a new one that in which it said single and so I did reach out to him after 14 years on March 10, 2023 that day changed my life. We met for drinks and again spent the night with each other following months. After that, we’ve spent many nights with each other. I did start a lot of drama in his life because I told his girlfriend what he was doing and she then got upset about what I had to say about him being a womanizing, manipulating gaslighting Man but little did we both know that he’s was way more than that. I saw Through his true colors. Well now. I am stuck wondering if this was truly meant to be a situation. No one ever feels like that toward somebody after that many years the way that you make me feel is the same way you make me feel in 2008. I just want to say thank you for the abandonment while I’m pregnant. Just because you choose not to have it clearly it’s not your choice and sadly sadly. I’ll always wonder. Although you gave me the best thing that you could’ve ever given me so now to say thank you for showing me all aspects of love and what it should have been even the hatred part.

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Hey all, For context I’m 18F (just turned 18) and last year completed my final year of school. After working really hard all year I got into my dream course, being law at one of Australia’s top unis. Last year was really difficult for me, and took a huge toll on my mental health. I’d been previously battling anxiety since 2020 covid lockdowns, but this was a whole new level. Along with doing my final year of school and having to perform at an A+ average, my grandfather who had been battling cancer died 3 days before my first exam. In fact, I had to bury him and then go straight back to school to revise with my teacher before one of my exams. Safe to say this was a low point in my life. I was drinking every night, and the doctor had even prescribed me Valium, which for someone of my age (17) was practically unheard of. Anyways, fast forward to January 2023 and I was in an amazing headspace. I won’t say I’d fully grieved, as I never will, but I managed to get myself off antidepressants, and my anxiety was basically at zero. I had a great summer, until about 2 weeks before University started. Then the anxiety came trickling in. Like bad. So bad I had to get back on lexapro after a 2 month hiatus to attempt to settle myself before starting law school. I lasted a total of 4 weeks before I decided to defer. I just couldn’t handle it. Work wise I was fine, but mentally I was having a panic attack every morning at the thought of going into uni. I’d have to take a beta blocker to even get me through the day. So I decided I needed a break from study. This was back in March, and we’re now in late May. I’m currently planning to go back for the second semester of uni which starts in late July, but I feel all of a sudden like my anxiety is slowly creeping back. I’m on 15mg of lexapro which has been doing a fairly good job of keeping me in check, but I sense the nerves coming back, even though I don’t have to enrol for a while still. My question is what the **** should I do? My theory, along with my therapist’s is that I now associate an educational context with the passing and traumatic time of my grandfather seeing as I was at school when I got the news? Or maybe I put too much pressure on myself to perform. Anyways, for the life of me I cannot figure out why this is freaking me out so much. Worth noting that in my short time at the uni I actually really liked the environment and the people, but my anxiety was absolutely relentless.
I would just like some advice or even any perspectives on how to attempt to reshape my approach and attitude towards uni, seeing as I really do want to get back to studying!

My (31F) partner (41M) and I have been together for 3 years and have a 1 year old daughter together. We mostly get along well, but he has some strange tendencies and I’m not sure if he might be on the spectrum. It would be helpful to know, because maybe I could respond better to him. Firstly, he can be really argumentative over small things. He often plays “devils advocate”, but at times that aren’t appropriate and with unlikely counter scenarios. It often kills the conversation and makes him feel quite obnoxious to talk to, but when I try to point out it’s not necessary, he gets very defensive and doesn’t seem to understand what I’m trying to say. He’s also quite awkward with affection and intimacy. He really struggles to initiate sex and he doesn’t really enjoy physical touch that’s outside a sexual context. Definitely no massage! Thirdly, he is incredibly fussy, not just because there’s food he doesn’t like, but because he doesn’t like the idea of it. He has very plain taste and hasn’t tried a lot of different foods, so sometimes I offer him what I’m eating and he’ll sniff at it and be put off my smell or say he knows he doesn’t like it without trying it just because he doesn’t like the idea of it (I’m not talking tripe or haggis here either). Finally, he is so indecisive. If there is more than one option and no specific or clear directions about what to choose he gets very flustered. Even small things like what brand or flavour to buy in the supermarket, all requests have to be explicitly clear.
I have never had anyone in my life who has been on the spectrum, so I don’t know if maybe this is just normal or if maybe there’s something else at play? How can I deal better with him if he is?

i’m going to be completely honest here when i say this story might be a mess but here we go. Let’s call her ava. Me and ava met a couple years ago and we never truly started out as friends, from the start we both had a connection and instantly wanted more although the problem was she was in a relationship and I had zero clue. We went into talking for four months before i found out and i instantly blocked her. And everything was okay up to a couple of months ago; when she randomly popped up on my social media and for some stupid reason i allowed her back in. And did i fall hard. We both instantly felt that connection again and as much as i hated it, i loved the spark more. I knew this time was different by the way she was talking to me and how we actually went out this time. Unlike a couple years ago. And up around the one mark time she started bringing up when i’m going to ask her out because she wanted it. And mins you I held off for so long because she just went through two exes who cheated on her, beat her and did the most unimaginable thing. So i was willing to continue staying in the talking phase so we didn’t rush and so she didn’t run away. But when she said that I truly thought that she was ready because she came out and told me what she wanted. And we started dating the next weekend, i took her out on a beach picnic at the sunset and asked her out right there and i’ve never seen her so happy before. But disaster strikes. Her best friend texts me and tells me she’s talking with another guy, and i know i took the shittiest approach but i instantly accused her of it because of what happened in the past. And she actually didn’t get mad or upset but she sat there and fought for me for hours. She gave me every login without me asking to, showed me texts between her and this other guy and ending up removing him just so we wouldn’t have any other problems. And then the next day she learned her friend was manipulating both of us because she kept texting me that “I deserve better” I ended up screenshooting the texts and sending them to “ava” and that caused another round of drama. In the end me and her started fighting for eachother and at the end of those two days we had figured out a solution and we were content. Or so i thought. The starting thoughts of a “us in a relationship” is the problem creeped into her head because we were perfect in the talking phase and two days after we start officially dating we have that happen. And i admit some of it was my fault but that wouldn’t have ever happened if her friend hadn’t tried breaking us up and getting me for herself. But we talked it through and she realized it would’ve happened even if we were dating or wasn’t dating. Fast forward to the next weekend, we went to a drive thru movie in the truck but it was raining. I had just met her real dad (parents are divorced and i already met the other side) and she introduced me to him as her boyfriend and the whole way there she was sitting in my lap looking at me like i never thought possible; literally a 30 minute drive and she only took her eyes off my three times. Yet halfway during the movie after we were making out and everything and talking about the future, she had just told me she tells all her friends how happy i make her and how she can’t wait to live in our dream house and everything, she flipped a switch. she told me she thinks we rushed and that she doesn’t know if it’s ruined. we sat there and talked about it for hours and even on the way home she was laying in my lap crying and hugging me because she didn’t want to loose me she just didn’t know what she wanted right now, i can eliminate what’s on all your minds right now, there isn’t another guy because instantly when she said that she said she knew what i was thinking and showed me everything on her phone without hesitation. On the way home she was still looking at me with eyes full of love and more yet crying. When i dropped her off she wrote me like genuinely an entire essay while i was sleeping about how much she loved me; yet she doesn’t think she’s ready, after a couple days of talking about it i went and surprised her at her work afterwards because she was having a bad day, i brought flowers and her favorite snack and we sat in the back of her car talking about everything in person. about 30 minutes in she turned around and started cuddling with me and told me she just wants to take a step back but still be in the “talking phase” and she kept inviting me over to with her family and everything and i felt better about the situation. Our last date happened two days ago. I had picked her up from school and we went downtown and it started raining and both of us are helpless romantics. i had a hoodie in the back of my car and gave it to her and mind you it has my last name on it and i’ve never seen her so happy to get something of mine, but we started dancing and kissing in the rain. Literally looked like the movies. After that we went inside and had a nice dinner date. And since our original plans couldn’t be done since it was raining we just sat in the back cuddling. again. If i could tell you the way she looks at me; you’d understand why it’s impossible to not fall for her. Yet fast forward to that night on our drive home she was clutching my arm like she never wanted me to leave, looked up at me and told me she could see me being the father to her kids. i dropped her off at her house and had a conversation with her parents for a couple minutes and just talked about life with them. When she was walking me back outside she kept asking when we could see eachother again, and i thought “okay this is back to normal”. not. She texted me the next morning telling me she’s even more scared because of how hard she’s fallen for me and she’s scared of getting hurt because of what’s happened in her past. we’ve been talking through it but she just keeps saying she doesn’t know what she wants but she couldn’t ever see herself not talking to me. And my final straw was this morning when she sent me a voice message telling me she doesn’t know what’s going on but started telling me so many reason why she loves me. So please is anyone able to help me out with this, do i stay and help her and watch her grow, or do i save myself and see what happens from there. i’ve never felt this way about anyone. thank you guys.

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So I'm 21 will turn 22 soon but as the title says mentally I'm not a day older than 15. For the past week or two I have been having this train of thoughts, this realisation that I'm no longer a teenager and that my actions have consequences, not that that it did before but I hope you get what I mean. Only my age meter went up but my head and mind still stuck the kid me. When I was 12-13 there were some guys in the neighborhood in their mid and late 20s, they were bad in academics or no other skill, unemployed, struggling to make their ends meet. These days I get reminded or remind myself often of those guys. Because judging how things are going on in my life in the next 5-6 years I might be in that club too.
Everyday I'm hit with this realisation that I AM ACTUALLY IN MY 20s, I know stupid thing to say but it is like that, I can no longer live in the shadow of my parents and friends, I actually have to go out and be a part of society.
Till now I've lived a life of comfort, though we're in no means "rich" but my parents have always given me more than I deserved. I've always been the somewhat weird kid and struggled fitting in but in the end things just worked out, and I found actual good friends. I lived my life going with the flow, went where the mob went, and life was fine. My parents made sure my necessities were met.
But I've always struggled with being introverted, being naive, I always get carried away, I lack so much tact, actually all these didn't exist (a bit did but) till I was 13. At 14 I got my first phone and I started using social media and I was introduced to the world of internet. That's when all the problems I mentioned above began.
I've always struggled with finding my personality. I don't know who I am. So by default I chose to become the class clown. At that time being edgy and going goofy and being the center of attention seemed cool. But that was it, I never actually became close friends I was just the funny fat guy that you messed around with a bit and that's it. Looking back I realised it, but back then I was just happy with all the attention + the attention I got on social media, used to be active on insta and FB al day.
During all this my grades were decent and I wasn't doing any bad stuff and going with the flow just seemed like the right decision. But that was my biggest mistake. No skill no nothing, zero passion about any subject, no dreams that was me.
My life was just ; 1. Clowning 2. Above average grades 3. Social media adddict. This sums up my teenage life.
All these things lasted till I graduated highschool, then came the big drift. The me who had never made a single important decision in my life is now having to make a choice that dictates my life for the next 5-6 years and probably my work life too. So naturally as expected I ran, I ran away, this the best I can do while faced with a though situation, this is the only tactic I know. This was March 2020, but guess what? April 2020 the pandemic began and everything closed. Ohh God!. So I took a year gap, I took this to stop running away, clear my thoughts and decide my future decisions.
But knowing me this was never going to happen, up until now I was only hooked on FB and Insta, during the lockdown I installed discord, twitter, reddit. Oh boy oh boy. My main aim of taking the drop year was lost. The year 2020 went by in a jiffy, all I remember was scrolling a lot of Instagram, reddit and chatting shit on discord that's it 7-8 months of 2020 gone, then came 2021 now time came to make a decision about what college to choose I was reluctant, I tried to find ways to delay, postpone it, tried to run away but time catches you fast and you can't escape.
But guess what May 2021 things got serious again it was the 2nd wave apparently, and things got postponed again, and I got more time, more delay. So again I went back into doing what I do best, wasting oxygen.
But again the year 2021 wasted. Entire year just gone by November-December I had to make a choice, I had no escape, I cried. I had nothing in mind. I told nobody, my parents probably thought I was making some wise decision, so I just chose this college where I heard some of my previous classmates went to, chose some random course.
But guess what first semester was online, for me it was the same routine like in the pandemic only at noon I had to clock in for some classes, but I never paid any attention, and as for exams you know how we did it in online classes.
But Aprill 2022 things were getting back it was time to go. We decided to rent an apartment and my roommate was my dad's colleague's son who too was in the same college. But guess what first day of offline classes I had an emotional breakdown I ran back home literally, I embarrassed my dad infront of this colleague, I even argued with his colleague, who was just trying to give me good practical advice, I still regret that. I didn't go to college till the next week, by that time I realised there was no escape and I HAD TO.
Even in college I have the lowest attendence, barely passing, even showing up drains my energy, each second feels like an hour. See just doing the bare minimum gets me so so tired. I do zero work, events and fests at college are just an excuse for me to run back home. I've only talked to like 2 people.
I can't start anything as soon I try to, in my head several voices start running up and down about the ifs and but, on top of that I'm a wannabe PERFECTIONIST, so that doesn't help either, for example; if I plan to have to have 6 hour study session tomorrow and my goal was to wake up at 6:00 am and start at 7:00 am but then for some reason I overslept and woke up at like 7:45 then my plan is off, ruined, and it gets postponed and now I'll be using my phone and the internet for the rest of the day. That's how a typical day in the life of mine looks.
As I've said earlier in the post I've always gone with the flow and things worked out somehow, so I don't have any experience of working hard for somthing or being passionate about something, or even taking decisions for myself, even the smallest decisions overwhelm me and I go into this state that I mentioned earlier of running away, it's so much so that I can even feel it physically, my body feeling weird and my mind feeling sad, that's how it is.
Fast forward to today I have backlog exams in few days and if I don't pass them then I'm done for but as you'd expect I'm the state of running aways so here I am, haven't studied anything, know nothing. Well I was able to finally delete Instagram, fb. But I still binge YouTube shorts, scroll reddit, twitter, and chat shit on discord. So deleting insta and FB made literally zero difference.
So overexposure to the internet made me feel 51 at 21. The fact that I'll be 22 soon and will keep growing and can't longer be that worry-less 14 year old scares me so much. My mom always brings this up. People my age so responsible doing this doing that achieving what not and here I am can't even leave the house. My dad said it too that it was better if I was even like those rebel, spoiled, rude kids because now I'm just an empty shell no matter what I'm said or told I don't react nothing fazes me. I'M JUST THERE. I have no hopes no aim, nothing for the future, I'm 22 but till now I've never had any romantic relationships. Leave that I haven't even had a proper conversation with a girl that lasted for more than 5 minutes, leaving work related conversations aside, sounds unbelievable but it's true. As a kid, I mean no kid does that, and as a teenager I was so busy being the class clowns I had no female friends either. But as I've drifted into pessimism the past few years I think I don't deserve any love and honestly felt indifferent about it. The me who has no hope for the future, so what's the point of hoping for a partner, right?
Didn't realise it went for this long, if you've read this far then tell me what you think, have to say.

I recently read an article about how the arc of technological progress in the past few decades has made everything more convenient at the expense of genuine human connection.

All across our culture, you’ll find people eager to abandon the fundamental task of our lives, fostering and maintaining human connection, so that they can fall deeper into a pit of hedonistic distraction forever.

The "hedonistic distraction" of modern life vs. prioritizing/seeking actual human connection, both good and bad, is kind of presented as a binary choice by the end:

The only sensible path forward is to learn to accept the brokenness of human life, to develop resilience in the face of its petty cruelties, and to learn to live with yourself
[...]
That’s the existential question for humanity in the 21st century. That’s the challenge in front of all of us. Will you shoulder the risk of pursuing real human connection, as hard and intimidating and discouraging as that can be? Or will you hide in your room forever, comforted by fast food and porn and opiates and therapy and TikTok, risking nothing?

This article doesn't mention thru hiking at all, but it made me think of the AT community. The hikers that I meet often talk about the friends that they're making along the way, but there's also plenty of drama and frustration. Still, it's enriching - you're out there, in the real world, about as far from modern conveniences as you'll ever get - and people seem to find meaning in this.
I'm curious about your thoughts on this - people tell me they hike for many reasons, like achieving a childhood goal or seeing America or being in nature - but deep down, are you perhaps also drawn to the AT as an antidote to or statement against or a retreat from the normal modern conveniences that make life "better" but leave us more isolated from the world around us?

In the past few weeks I've found them in my grapes, lettuce, strawberries and mushrooms :( and the lettuce was the pre-washed stuff too. This has all been food from Lidl.
I understand that this is their natural food too, but I'm worried if I keep getting obsessive about my fruit and veg I'll muck up my ortho-recovery. I really don't want that so I think I will just try elsewhere.
For those of you in the UK, where would you recommend buying your fruit and veg? Shops near and local to me are:

• Lidl - amazing selection, but prone to random shortages... and bugs
• Aldi - never tried before, is it much different to Lidl?
• Morrisons - I've not shopped here much, what is the quality like?
• M&S - fruit and veg all look amazing but it's like £4 for 7 strawberries:')
• Farmfoods - never been in one, idek if they have a section for fresh fruit and veg
• Tesco (the smaller kind) - tiny selection, but I haven't heard anything bad

Any and all help is appreciated - thank you kindly!

It’s been 3 days since I lost my boy Bean. He was a year old cat and died of heart complications. He had an enlarged heart and was in medication for life. The day of his death was very stressful and traumatic, spending hours at the vets hoping they could do something. It all happened so quickly and we had to euthanize him because of the immense pain he was in. I feel I never got to properly say goodbye to him because of how fast everything happened. I felt like I was in some sort of nightmare and thought I’d wake up from it but the image of his poor little face on the table won’t leave my mind and it’s killing me. The people taking care of his body before he is cremated give the opportunity to sit with him in a room before he is cremated and also witness the cremation process. I’ve booked the appointment but I am so worried about the state of his body 8 days after his death. I want a chance to say goodbye again but I don’t know if it’ll be worse than the first time. I also don’t know if I want to witness the cremation. I’ve told him in my head that I’ll be with him to the very end and I feel like I need to follow through with it or I’ll hurt more for not being with him on the day. I know he’s not truly there anymore but I think we all know we don’t think rationally during these periods of grief. If anyone has been able to visit their pet a week or so after their death, please share your experience.

As the title says, I’m going through some of the worse pain I’ve experienced so far in my life. I’ll give you some back story about my situation.
I’m based in regional NSW. When I was younger I was told by multiple professionals to get all four of my wisdom teeth out before they fully developed, in the chair.
I agreed to this process, I had one tooth out in the chair. BOOM permanent nerve damage at the age of seventeen. I traveled to see a specialist, after multiple appointments with other professional dentists. The specialist told me I must get surgery for the rest after my first issue. Then I was put on the another wait list for another specialist surgeon, for 12 months.
After six or so months, one of my top wisdom teeth start to come through. Went through public dental because of the pain, and was basically told “It should be fine just wait longer”. Side note, it wasn’t fine.
Fast forward to today. I’ve been told by multiple professionals including an orthodontist that they are all impacted now (Which we were trying to avoid this whole time). The one that half came through? well that’s in my cheek causing inflammation and probably decaying.
We called the hospital which my referral was sent through, for the wait list. They told us that the specialist I had to see has a 3-5 YEAR waiting time. What happened to the 12 month timeframe? We don’t have private insurance and cannot afford to even go private.
I am in so much pain and been told “Well nothing we can do😊” . Everyone is telling us to go private but we can’t even afford the consultation to see the cost of the entire surgery.
Should we try our best to gather the funds for private or keep waiting?. This whole process so far has been happening for four years already.

Just a week until album release, it is the last chance to speculate on the plot and especially the ending of the album (just for the fun of it).
What is quite clear now is that:
- Album begins with presenting the happy place Dundee became after 1st album; but Zarg Clone-1 is awakened, and destryos dundee, killing Angus I and most friends
- In the main body of the album Angus Jr (the second) goes on adventures, getting artifacts, meeting allies and the usual stuff
- By the end of the album Zarg Clone-1 makes way to the Fortress of Crail to awaken OG Zarg.
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The open question is basically the ending. What will happen to OG Zarg and Zarg Clone-1 respectively (and Angus II)?
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What came to my mind yesterday is what if actually clone gets refrozen into luquid ice just to be awakened in 1992 by chaos wizard friends then getting stuck into the terrorvortex, and sending the signal to actually awaken itself.
This is like a stable time loop, which occurs in quite some mainstream (sci)-fi movies and series. The loop is stable when it already exists, although it should not emerge in the first place. But, whatever a lot of movies get away with this.
Now, this would make for multiple options for OG zarg:
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a) Either he makes a 'face turn' -- but that would seem too early I think
b) or just trick his enemies by sacrificing the clone
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II) Then he could either
a) go into hiding, preparing for the next evil plot
b) or just getting back to a nice post-nuclear field to weave some baskets; especially if he sacrificed his power for stopping the clone
c) join the heroes (unlikely)
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(I'd prefer option b), which leaves the possibility of coming back on the side of good guys in the next album / storyline. )
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III) Regarding Dundee
a) it could remain destroyed, but from the ashes, they would advance super fast, turning into a space kingdom in 1000 years.
b) the realm could be restored by some strong magic/sacrifice
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IV) Cliffhanger / ('post credits') at end of album
a) Kor-Viliath or some ancient evils awakening due to nukes (makes place for good guy Zarg)
b) just the reveal that OG Zarg (or the clone) is alive
c) it would be absolutely okay to not have one now
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Don't take these seriously, I just had some time on my hands on a plane flight yesterday:) Also, the ideas may resemble some MCU plots, etc.
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Do you have any wishes / ideas for the album plot-wise?