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10-26-2019, 03:25 PM
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I think there's a survival of the species drive behind the behavior. I definitely got questioned a lot through my 20s why I wasn't being the cocksman my best friend told me he'd be if he looked like me. I tried flirting with this drunk chick one night out with him and she was DTF, but it felt hollow and like I was just going through motions - a peacock waving it's plummage around. I passed.
Another time I was trying to comfort this woman I met who had just broken up with her bf. She falls in love with me and wants to cook me dinner because my 'im not hitting on you' routine was apparently a really good way to hit on her. Friend called her up later to clarify that I was, in fact, not hitting on her. Funny looking back and seeing all the potential opportunities for relationships I killed with my withering apathy. That one girl who lived near Kara. My sister's ex-friend. My co-worker at pizzahut. My co-worker at Ledos. The other co-worker at Ledos who wanted me to go to prom with her. The waitress who got fired from Ledos the night I got fired from Ledos. Two single moms in college. Currently withering away affection of enby chick, which sucks because I think I am in love, but I'm still not in a place where I want to subject someone else to me. I actually like being alone, or at least I prefer the homeostasis of it. The fling I had with my BF last year was about as happy as I've ever been and that made the breakup hurt worse. | ||
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10-26-2019, 04:11 PM
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Relationships come with a cost. I look at my friend that is single and 35, vs myself that is married with 3 kids and sometimes i am envious of the relatively care free life he seems to enjoy. But I wouldnt trade it for what I have. It is possible that enjoyment can be found in solitude, but overall, we are meant to couple. | |||
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10-26-2019, 10:27 PM
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10-29-2019, 04:33 PM
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11-03-2019, 06:35 PM
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I can only give you my perspective according to my own religious/cultural/socioeconomic background:
Because living life without leaving spawn on the earth is akin to becoming a "Shadow". All you accrued during your life, your efforts and experiences, beliefs and tribal taboos and religion will fade away into nothingness, to be replaced by the inexorable drive of life that is sexless, cultureless, religionless and just thrives until it can thrive no more. In this accursed yet exquisite wheel of sheer existence, all the efforts generations past have toiled for need to be acknowledged and respected by continuing to exist into the future until the future can no longer hold it. Where I am from old people without kids are politely coerced to donate to charity and make life better for others of your tribe to keep breeding and passing along your beliefs and the seed of a better future that none of us, nor your children nor your childrens children will be able to enjoy. It will be enjoyed into the far future where a literal spiritual revolution will create a new world to live in. So from the point of view of many elderly, you are just that ... a Shadow. They see this as something not good, not correct. This is what I have seen and deduced. This can apply to many many cultures, some of which enforce it more heavily than others, but that is the way it is. The tribe, the village, the clan, the group, the club, the family. Societies based on these moral underpinnings want to not fade out into a shadowy state. Imagine a world where only one EQ server existed and no chance for it to renew ever. Imagine a world where people kept dedicating hours of their life to EQ and even making new servers, improving them, changing them, some more successful than others but keeping EQ alive. Is the same analogy more or less. We do not enjoy seeing things end, it reminds us of our own mortality.
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11-04-2019, 02:08 AM
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being a gamer will take its toll on you. it will also consume the most attractive years of your life. ive had a woman throw her naked body on the bed ignored while i played video games. even had a friend lose his wife over having the #2 rogue on his wow server at the time.
u don't want to look up, be old and ugly wondering who is going to be there for you when family and friends die off. time is not replaceable. it is to your advantage to use your youthful time building bonds of friendship and love whilst people still want you | ||
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