$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hubbertspeak7777777', 'I') used to be one of the wussiest, chicken-shit pansy asses you'd ever meet. I was affraid of everything and everyone. I would sit in my room and worry and worry, staying up for days on end. Then one day somethign happened, I just stopped worrying for the most part, I think I finally broke the stress mechanism in my brain from worrying so much. Or maybe I realized that a life full of fear and stress isn't one worth living, so I decided to stop giving a shit.
Now I don't really care about most things, but there are a few things I'm still somewhat affraid of. Social interactions for example... I feel like I never fit in and I've never had any long-term close friends. Maybe it's because I don't trust people, I find most of them manipulative. It seems like the friendlier they are to your face, the more of a hard-on they have to screw you over. I've found that most humans are like used car salesmen... not to be trusted.
I'm also affraid of driving somewhat... I'm always expecting someone else to pull out in front of me. There was a 2 year period were I didn't drive at all. I'm over this fear for the most part.
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What are you scared about?
Re: What are you scared about?
by threadbear » Wed 14 May 2008, 00:48:37
As an experiment, approach people as if they are wonderful. You will find that your attitude will actually change people. There are very few people who don't have an "inner good guy" that you can appeal to. I know this sounds corny, but it seems to be true. It's funny, because, it can be seen as a kind of manipulation where both parties end up winners.
It's actually a kind of mistake to approach an individual as if he is just that, an individual. Personalities contain complexes, and weird fissures and factions that make us all a bit like multiple personalities. When you are kind to a person that kindness resonates with his kind personalities and helps to strengthen them. In so doing the kind persons, or personality complexes within you are strengthened, as well
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Re: What are you scared about?
by Lumpy » Wed 14 May 2008, 00:52:16
1. Not staying strong and healthy enough to work as hard as I have to -- I am our family's main wage earner, and since I am self-employed with a rural medical practice, there is no safety net if I break a leg or something and can't work for a few months. (Thank God more family is joining us next month. More mouths to feed, but as long as there is work to be had, two of them will be working off the farm to bring in money, too.)
2. Not being able to get the medication that certain family members need -- have to have, really. Or not being able to concoct substitutions for those meds (i.e. herbal remedies).
3. Ditto to #2, only for the patients in my medical practice.
4. Having to go to the dentist now. (I am phobic about dentists, and thus have a lot of dental work to have done.) Worse, having to go to the dentist without benefit of all the modern stuff that we now have in dentistry - like fast drills.
5. Breaking my glasses sometime in the future, and not being able to get them replaced. (I have worn glasses since I was four, and am pretty much blind without them, even after eye surgery.)
6. Needing a new prescription for my glasses so that I can see, and not being able to get one.
7. Not being ready enough in time. Not having enough food on hand, or being able to raise enough, etc, to keep the family (especially the little ones) fed.
8. Crazed zombie hoards (sp?) -- coming after what we are working so hard to pull together.
9. Crazed tax collectors ... see #8, above.
I think I'll stop now. I won't be able to sleep tonight.
Lumpy
2. Not being able to get the medication that certain family members need -- have to have, really. Or not being able to concoct substitutions for those meds (i.e. herbal remedies).
3. Ditto to #2, only for the patients in my medical practice.
4. Having to go to the dentist now. (I am phobic about dentists, and thus have a lot of dental work to have done.) Worse, having to go to the dentist without benefit of all the modern stuff that we now have in dentistry - like fast drills.
5. Breaking my glasses sometime in the future, and not being able to get them replaced. (I have worn glasses since I was four, and am pretty much blind without them, even after eye surgery.)
6. Needing a new prescription for my glasses so that I can see, and not being able to get one.
7. Not being ready enough in time. Not having enough food on hand, or being able to raise enough, etc, to keep the family (especially the little ones) fed.
8. Crazed zombie hoards (sp?) -- coming after what we are working so hard to pull together.
9. Crazed tax collectors ... see #8, above.
I think I'll stop now. I won't be able to sleep tonight.
Lumpy
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Re: What are you scared about?
by hubbertspeak7777777 » Wed 14 May 2008, 01:40:57
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hubbertspeak7777777', 'I') used to be one of the wussiest, chicken-shit pansy asses you'd ever meet. I was affraid of everything and everyone. I would sit in my room and worry and worry, staying up for days on end. Then one day somethign happened, I just stopped worrying for the most part, I think I finally broke the stress mechanism in my brain from worrying so much. Or maybe I realized that a life full of fear and stress isn't one worth living, so I decided to stop giving a shit.
Now I don't really care about most things, but there are a few things I'm still somewhat affraid of. Social interactions for example... I feel like I never fit in and I've never had any long-term close friends. Maybe it's because I don't trust people, I find most of them manipulative. It seems like the friendlier they are to your face, the more of a hard-on they have to screw you over. I've found that most humans are like used car salesmen... not to be trusted.
I'm also affraid of driving somewhat... I'm always expecting someone else to pull out in front of me. There was a 2 year period were I didn't drive at all. I'm over this fear for the most part.
Now I don't really care about most things, but there are a few things I'm still somewhat affraid of. Social interactions for example... I feel like I never fit in and I've never had any long-term close friends. Maybe it's because I don't trust people, I find most of them manipulative. It seems like the friendlier they are to your face, the more of a hard-on they have to screw you over. I've found that most humans are like used car salesmen... not to be trusted.
I'm also affraid of driving somewhat... I'm always expecting someone else to pull out in front of me. There was a 2 year period were I didn't drive at all. I'm over this fear for the most part.
As an experiment, approach people as if they are wonderful. You will find that your attitude will actually change people. There are very few people who don't have an "inner good guy" that you can appeal to. I know this sounds corny, but it seems to be true. It's funny, because, it can be seen as a kind of manipulation where both parties end up winners.
That doesn't work. I tried being an optomist for a while and that was when people took advantage of me the most. People tend to view you as weak and gullible when you are kind. I'll be cynical and pessimistic the rest of my life... it's a strategy that works for me.
Don't get me wrong, I have "friends", but I would not trust a single one of them with my life. They're just people I hang out with to pass time and have fun, but I don't see myself hanging out with them 10 years from now. My circle of friends changes every so often. I guess I just get bored or pissed at them.
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Re: What are you scared about?
by jasonraymondson » Wed 14 May 2008, 01:43:11
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hubbertspeak7777777', 'I') used to be one of the wussiest, chicken-shit pansy asses you'd ever meet. I was affraid of everything and everyone. I would sit in my room and worry and worry, staying up for days on end. Then one day somethign happened, I just stopped worrying for the most part, I think I finally broke the stress mechanism in my brain from worrying so much. Or maybe I realized that a life full of fear and stress isn't one worth living, so I decided to stop giving a shit.
Now I don't really care about most things, but there are a few things I'm still somewhat affraid of. Social interactions for example... I feel like I never fit in and I've never had any long-term close friends. Maybe it's because I don't trust people, I find most of them manipulative. It seems like the friendlier they are to your face, the more of a hard-on they have to screw you over. I've found that most humans are like used car salesmen... not to be trusted.
I'm also affraid of driving somewhat... I'm always expecting someone else to pull out in front of me. There was a 2 year period were I didn't drive at all. I'm over this fear for the most part.
Now I don't really care about most things, but there are a few things I'm still somewhat affraid of. Social interactions for example... I feel like I never fit in and I've never had any long-term close friends. Maybe it's because I don't trust people, I find most of them manipulative. It seems like the friendlier they are to your face, the more of a hard-on they have to screw you over. I've found that most humans are like used car salesmen... not to be trusted.
I'm also affraid of driving somewhat... I'm always expecting someone else to pull out in front of me. There was a 2 year period were I didn't drive at all. I'm over this fear for the most part.
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), but this is how guys really think, except the gay ones, and then you just replace pussy with cock) We still love you, but we are all crude fucks.- jasonraymondson
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