The Not Happy Thread

Geez, I hope this isn't the preface to a manifesto.* **

*What? don't most of us disagree with the use of prefaces?
**Too soon?

 

Nope, more along the lines of my parting words before a bullet pops the zit that is my brain. Kaplooie

 

Ah, a permanent solution to a temporary problem...

 

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What if, in reincarnation, your problems are reincarnated as well and you have to live with them until you overcome them?

 

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It's as temporary as you make it.

 

This is, effectively, a rejection slip. Every writer who has ever submitted anything for publication has a collection of those. (There may be an couple of exceptions, but not enough to be statistically significant.)

Oh, and you entered a contest that you didn't win? None of us can relate to that, because we always win everything all the time and always have. We never lose. We are the all-time champions of everything we ever try to do.

Not. I mean, seriously, not.

You're going through a low point right now - we understand that. It happens to all of us. We've been there too and we've gotten our asses kicked.

You got knocked down. It is now time for you to get back up.

 

Sorry if I came across as flippant earlier Rumwriter, obviously it makes a difference if you actually met her.

You're obviously going through a tough time of things right now, it's a shame your TV pilot didn't make it all the way, but you have to keep trying, it's a test of your belief. Maybe you won't make it as a writer but life will lead you onto something else. I guess you're still looking for your place in the world, it can be a lonely search at times, but what else is there but to keep on searching? Nothing has changed in the world since Hamlet's soliloquy.

Remember, pain is weakness leaving the body, to quote Nietzsche, and the feelings you're going through now will make it easier to deal with the further tribulations life will throw at you.

 

The scroll wheel and right button on my mouse was going out so I bought a new optical mouse off eBay for $4 with free shipping. I got it today, and it is one of those mini ones that people usually use with a lap top. I wish they had said that in the description.

 

So you're saying you got a mail-order mini mouse. It can't be all that bad

 

At four bucks, you shoulda smelled a rat.

 

Are you fooling around or are you trying to say something here?

 

What I'm gonna tell you, you've heard a gazillion times before.

That is because we mean it. We wouldn't have said it a gazillion times before if we didn't earnestly believe in it. We love you, Rumwriter. Never forget that.

And my message holds true for anyone else considering that course of action.

 

I tried to type that cogito's comment was cute somewhere and this is what i got: This message is awaiting moderator approval, and is invisible to normal visitors.

 

The Articles subforum is a fully moderated forum because, for whatever reason, it's the first place spambots go when they come to spam. Everyone get's that message upon posting in the Articles area. Everyone.

 

I don't.

 

Yes, you do. Even mods and admins do. You may not have noticed it in your post because one of us approved it quickly.

 

why does my crush have to go to Boy Scout camp for two whole weeks? I miss texting him. I'm not even at band camp or something.

 

This is an amazingly 21st-century sentence.

Probably every previous generation would have said, "I miss being with him." Or, "I missing holding hands with him." Or, "I missing talking with him." Or, "I miss sitting under the apple tree with him." Or, "I miss walking to school with him."

You miss texting him. We are evolving into a different species!

 

I know someone my own age who would also say this same thing.... :\

 

He does live a state away. Sometimes we both forget what the other person looks/sounds like so when we see each other (like last Saturday ) it takes a little time to adjust.

 

That's why people invented phone calls... and selfies.

 

I send a selfie to T pretty much every time I go jogging.