Aye. I’m still on my S20+. Need a replacement battery, but otherwise nothing new is worth the cost yet. Pixels be the same Pixels, Samsungs, the same Samsungs. Where the upgrades are happening, I just won’t see them, so nothing “new”.

Having not even ridden horses or been around them, do they genuinely have a happy personality? Or is it something you have to work on, and then they like to be ridden and like spending time with their familiar human companion?

Just curious, since I’ll gladly handle snakes, swim in shark areas, or deal with an aggressive dog that’ll definitely bite me—I know all about these animals, so it’s not scary. But horses have always been scary because I just don’t know. The idea of walking behind one or being near one is unsettling. They’re huge.

I like how Alaskans refer to the rest of the US as the southern states.

Ha, I have a friend called Rani

Nothing’s surprising anymore.

Knew it! Vegans aren’t human!

Various “extreme” sports

I guarantee you that there are things you think are for real that aren’t. So to disregard shared values for sake of a specific one of these things is…interesting. May your ex’s continue with their good fortune.

Haha. I think my bone density is fine, I just ask a lot more of them than normal…

Bones: “This could break us.”

Brain: “Yeah, “could” but won’t. I got you.”

collective being does a thing that will be amazing or moronic depending on outcome in the next few seconds

I’ve broken a lot of bones.

Get him stuff that helps the family so he doesn’t feel useless and guilty. That’s number 1. It’s awful to feel like a burden to everyone, and that doesn’t go away no matter what is said to you.

Second, stretch bands to put around limbs and pull. It feels amazing. You don’t realise how little you move and how little muscle you use while subconsciously “nursing” a broken bone.

Something insanely complex that involves both arms to use or solve. It’s just funny as shit. But also, I swear I recover faster.

And your choice of IPA, Hazy IPA, West Coast IPA, XPA, or lemon squeezed on ice and a dash of ginger ale.

Sounds like that sits in your pocket waiting to be used for opportunistic situations. You used the term “cognitive” inappropriately and applied the whole thing out of context anyway. Not to mention “cognitive potential” obviously makes no scientific sense, despite what you may have learned from BuzzFeed articles and Facebook IQ quizzes.

If you’re going to attempt a cognition insult, avoid being ironic with it.

Damn, life must be hard with such low cognition.

Or…

Damn, life must be hard with limited cognitive functions.

There. Now you sound just that little bit smarterer. Next step is to look up what “cognition” and “cognitive functions” are so you know the difference and which one to use when. Now you can pull that zinger out of your pocket at advantageous times for true big brain bang bang.

You should go to a police station, an ambulance dispatch, and a fire station, and ask them why civic services operate the way they do around this stuff.

What a fucking moron. They’re cops. They get to be as close to their vehicle as possible while on-duty in case shit goes down. They’re also humans, so they get to fucking eat and have breaks while on-duty.

It would’ve been bitter-sweet if a radio shout “Shots fired” at some address a few blocks away, dropping their food and racing away. Like, yeah, that’s obviously why they chose a coffee shop with a loading zone out front, idiot.

That’s how I always thought it. Even if I did get with them, I’d be with someone that doesn’t want me. How miserable for both of us.

Then it’s time to go find someone like that person that does like me. Could be passing them every day and wouldn’t know if I’m still hung up on the impossible.

Sorry. It’s easy for me to say, “Be more positive!” when my feet have never been in your shoes. Sorry if it seemed patronising in any way—its good advice, I’m just bad with choice of words a lot of the time. You seemed to understand my point, though. Perhaps a good (paraphrased) analogy is one I learned in Uganda; don’t use the poisoned well lest it poisons you, lest you poison those that don’t use the well.

And I’d like to remind you that you can do, literally, whatever you want at any time. The only considerations are consequences. You can literally murder the next person you see, in the same way you can just walk off and start your journey. One has consequences of prison lol, but the other… well, who knows?

This mindset has saved my life in hard times. Where everything felt awful. Walking away from it seemed so much more obvious than staying. What’s the worst that could happen? I’m happier? Haha. Yep. Time to just start walking. No plan, no direction, just knowing “I can not do this any more and I won’t be here any more.”

You’ll be surprised how rapidly thing start becoming good when you leave the bad. Don’t doubt yourself. Don’t be in a rut. You’ll never live otherwise.

My Indian friends tell me that Indian people are the most racist people in the world, to other Indians. That’s the biggest problem and why they left. You’re clearly a part of that. A traditional caste system and the usual socioeconomical issues of a large population obviously won’t help. These seem to be the cores of your issues. It’s not your fault, but you shouldn’t participate in that bullshit by saying such things and having such a defeated mindset.

You need to travel. You need to leave.

After you travel, you can self-assess under a more experienced and open perspective. You will likely not want to return, but you will not be hitting the world so jaded and focused on competitive success within society. You will relax, you will get options, you will settle into a comfortable life and in a few years you will complain about the mediocrity of being middle-class instead.

“But I can’t travel.”

Yes you can. You have plenty of skillsets that will earn you more money per hour elsewhere. All the while building up friendships, networks, and experiences. Your only issue is visas which you co-ordinate as you go. For now, much of the western world is very open to Asian immigrants and you’d be foolish to not jump on it while it’s still an option. Target the richer nations with low unemployment rates and you’ll find secure work.

Your main issue will be later when domestic family want part of what you’ve gained. That’s up to you. I have a friend that I found out was giving more than half his income back home because $60K AUD seems huge to people not paying $550 a week in rent. And I’ve also got a friend that, after her father died, threw her middle fingers to family and India vowing to never return.

Your situation is harder to endure than just leaving. But the amount of blame and hate you put on your circumstances makes me wonder if you can even realise that.

But as a white guy with 13 friends from Nepal, India, and Bangladesh, I’d like to think my advice isn’t entirely disregardable, as it’s indirectly from them.

Edit: Ah shit, I forgot that apart from visas your only other issue will be racism. It really depends on the industry and nation, but obviously there will be those anti-immigration even though they don’t realise immigration Is saving their fucking livelihood. Plus, if you talk about India and Indians the way you did In your post, you’ll fit right in with them lol—thats not a good thing long-term, but I guess an odd uptick (???)

Point is, whoever you are, you were born and will die. Go find a place in the world that you’re not miserable in. That’s your current meaning in life.

I thought it was “out slowly” but the arrow pointed out the stem, helping me realise the ‘o’ was actually a ‘b’.

95%?! That makes humans look good.

Ah, yes. The Repost Police. A group of individuals out to inform everyone that they’re proud of spending far too much time on socials, even though no one cares to know.