LORD_KELVIN
Monk without a monastery
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- Joined
- Apr 23, 2022
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- 62
So I am new here and I want to say what brought me to your community. I'm sorry I still don't know a lot of the term, etc. But I feel like I can relate to much of what I see here. The sense of defeat, the hopelessness, the feeling that for some of us it never began, the cloying, nattering advice from people who don't go through it, etc. I totally get it.
All my life, I just thought that this was how life was, that it was my fault for not trying hard enough. This despite strenous efforts to better myself, physically, professionally, educationally, emotionally, you name it.
But then something happened that decided it for me. That showed me that the world is just unfair. I had a chance. I met this woman online. We got along. We texted, talked over whatsapp, watched movies together over Skype (yeah i know I'm old). She was great, and we kept up this online thing for almost two years. One problem tho, she was in Johannesburg, South Africa, I am in Missouri, USA. 12000 miles. And we're both too broke to travel. Nonetheless we made plans, next year, I would fly her here to see if we got along irl.
Then, two weeks ago, she got appendicitis. While on the way to the hospital, she was involved in a car wreck. Now she's in a coma, not likely to get out of it. That was the one chance I have had in over 25 years, taken away before it could even become a real thing. Idk maybe you think I am lucky to even have had the attention but dude it's devastating. So now instead of being hopeful for once I am back to sitting alone in a room, drinking myself into oblivion while watching YouTube videos I am not even interested in. I found myself repeating what I see here. "It's over"
sob story over.
All my life, I just thought that this was how life was, that it was my fault for not trying hard enough. This despite strenous efforts to better myself, physically, professionally, educationally, emotionally, you name it.
But then something happened that decided it for me. That showed me that the world is just unfair. I had a chance. I met this woman online. We got along. We texted, talked over whatsapp, watched movies together over Skype (yeah i know I'm old). She was great, and we kept up this online thing for almost two years. One problem tho, she was in Johannesburg, South Africa, I am in Missouri, USA. 12000 miles. And we're both too broke to travel. Nonetheless we made plans, next year, I would fly her here to see if we got along irl.
Then, two weeks ago, she got appendicitis. While on the way to the hospital, she was involved in a car wreck. Now she's in a coma, not likely to get out of it. That was the one chance I have had in over 25 years, taken away before it could even become a real thing. Idk maybe you think I am lucky to even have had the attention but dude it's devastating. So now instead of being hopeful for once I am back to sitting alone in a room, drinking myself into oblivion while watching YouTube videos I am not even interested in. I found myself repeating what I see here. "It's over"
sob story over.