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Papers, anyone, anywhere?
(prev. Papers @ 21C !)
18:45 / 23.04.08
You'd be too easily satisfied with one achievement and never try to do something more? That's usually the answer I arrive at. I'm driven by my own perceived failure.
 
 
The Bastard
(prev. TheSauce)
00:09 / 24.04.08
I'm miserable right now because I'm no longer in love with my girlfriend, and the dread of breaking up with her is wrecking me.

I love her, I really do, but I'm not in love with her, if that makes sense. She's like a very good friend to me. Additionally, there are behaviors she has that she seems unwilling to change(I told her about them yesterday and her response was to cry and say that she didn't know how to change and didn't think she could), and they make me mental. But in spite of that, I love her dearly; as I would with anybody I count among my good friends, I'd lay down my life for her, I'd do whatever I could to help her. But I just can't stay with her.

This is compounded by the fact that she moved in with me last August, at my request, and now I'm seeing that we really don't work as a couple. It's a small apartment, and I'm not sure what exactly we're going to do in the coming weeks, as she'll need to move out somewhere(lease is in my name and she can't afford the rent on it on her own anyway), but I keep telling myself that I can't let logistics figure into this decision, things will work out.

It's tough; people have given me the advice that I need to look out for myself in this, and that's never been my MO in a relationship; it's part of why most of mine have ended spectacularly poorly and explosively, because I've been willing to stay in degenerating situations long after any normal and sane person would've jumped ship. I'm just hoping I don't make a complete mess of it and that she doesn't hate me when the dust has settled.
 
 
Mistress of Cats Kali
(prev. Kali, somewhat sheepish.)
00:33 / 24.04.08
I'm sorry to hear that, I really am. Relationship issues are often the worst. I wish you and her the best of luck.
 
 
The Bastard
(prev. TheSauce)
15:08 / 24.04.08
Thanks; it's new territory for me, having to break up with someone rather than just passively wait for things to break down, and I'm not looking forward to it. She's a sweetheart, and I feel like a selfish prick because I'm thinking about myself and I'm about to drop the bomb.
 
 
I am a bat. I am a man.
(prev. Triplets)
16:35 / 24.04.08
Do it in a clown costume.

Regardless of your attire I hope it goes as easy as poss for you and your girlfriend
 
 
I am a bat. I am a man.
(prev. Triplets)
21:33 / 27.04.08
How did it go, The S/B?
 
 
Papers, anyone, anywhere?
(prev. Papers @ 21C !)
01:52 / 06.05.08
Gnnnh. Allergies. I can not breathe. I can not go for more than five minutes without blowing my nose. My eyes itch. I can barely think. I hate springtime so much.
 
 
Shrug: Butcher Boy
(prev. Green My Eyes)
02:50 / 06.05.08
I'm grinding my teeth really badly, have a temperature and am really tired.
Wreck.
 
 
The Bastard
(prev. TheSauce)
06:49 / 06.05.08
How did it go, The S/B?

My bad, I hadn't even seen this until tonight.

It...didn't go that well. There was a lot of crying, from both sides, and she's working on moving out. I keep finding myself wanting to go and try to make it better, but I know that nothing I could say would be genuine, and even if I could convince her it was, things wouldn't, couldn't go back to the way they were. So we're both a wreck, she's finding a place closer to her job and her sister out in Western Massachusetts, and late at night I'm a miserable bastard because I hurt her. I'm thinking it'll get better after she moves out and we've had our space.

Also, it seems to have been the lynchpin in life and now that it's been removed, things are falling apart, like the center cannot hold or something; my boss informed me today that Boston Properties(may their entire fucking company fold in a sex scandal or something) has informed him that if one more person complains because they don't like being told to wait, not interrupt our real customers, or that our display cases are not appropriate places to organize their things, do their make-up, or rest their coffee while they chat, that they're going to require him(HIM, a rent-paying tenant) to replace me. So I get to polish my resume, in a city that takes a bachelor's degree as standard equipment for most jobs. Shit just keeps spinning out of control, I find myself kind of desperate for human contact(to the point of making the stupid drunken mistake of getting down with another ex over the weekend), and I know I'm going to need a new job in the near future, and one that pays at least as much as my current job to maintain my apartment and bills.

So, yeah, shit's going about normal, I suppose.
 
 
GogMickGog
(prev. Mick Mak Mok)
00:15 / 07.05.08
Muchly saddened to hear Michael De Larrabeiti (of Borribles fame) passed away 2 weeks ago. Did he make any of the Broadsheet Obits? His influence is manifold, on the New Weirds among others. Scanning his biog he seemed to have lived a rich, adventurous life and at nearly 74 he'd lived a good time but, for some reason, this one seems to tug at me.

RIP.
 
 
Papers, anyone, anywhere?
(prev. Papers @ 21C !)
22:46 / 07.05.08
I feel like a vehicle for moving snot around, and I'm bordered on agoraphobic now. I hate being sick like this, and it's breached the edge of allergies into an outright cold.
 
 
Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER
17:11 / 10.05.08
Exams on Monday. Snobtroll College Oxbridge Finals, to be precise. I have officially no idea about any of the periods I'm to be writing on, nor what I'm meant to be wearing. And bizarrely, the thing that's actually reducing me to an abject jelly of terror every time I think about it is not the exams themselves, but the ridiculous dress code. Infractions of which, down to and including grey rather than black socks, involve fines of around £50. For a sock. Now, for many other of my fellow students that might be pocket change, but not for myself. If I am pulled up on dress-related charges I dread to think what will happen, apart from my being unable to eat for the next two weeks, &c. And of course, what I'll do with a third-class or lack of degree afterwards.
Hardly Basra, but nevertheless. Misery.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
17:25 / 10.05.08
Subfusc is a bit of a pain in the bum if you don't like dressing up but the best way to get over it is just to wear black tie without the bow tie (presume a college or black tie will do). If you're at Oxbridge I'm guessing you've got a DJ or black suit somewhere in the back of the wardrobe.

And gown, and cap, obvs. But you'll have those left over from matriculation, unless you've hocked them for Heinz.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
17:26 / 10.05.08
If female, white shirt, black skirt/trousers, black shoes and black ribbon (or was that just matriculation?) plus gown & cap did fine for me.
 
 
Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER
17:57 / 10.05.08
Cheers, WP - I've got all the stuff, I'm just irrationally paranoid I'll make a tiny mistake and be fined/eaten. Unhelpfully.
 
 
Mordant
(prev. This is *my* hole.)
21:45 / 11.05.08
Argh help an essay is eating my weekend and my brane is broken
 
 
Stoatie's power level is >9000
03:12 / 12.05.08
I just found out that a guy who I never actually knew in real life, but who I had a lot of time for online on another board, is dead now. As they say, as far as I know he became an hero.

I have absolutely no idea what I can do to pay my respects. I don't understand the etiquette of this shit. But I HAVE to pay my respect to him somehow. (He mentioned me in his kind-of suicide email to someone else as someone who'd helped. The last couple of weeks we've been worrying about him because his wife of many years had suddenly left him, and he wasn't coping well).

I have no idea what to do, Barbelith. And it's obviously too late for anything I do to actually matter. But... what do I do? I want to do SOMETHING.
 
 
Papers, anyone, anywhere?
(prev. Papers @ 21C !)
03:27 / 12.05.08
Oh, Stoat. I'm so sorry.

Perhaps archive his posts or his interactions with you? There was a segment on Spark this week about on-line footprints and how we memorialize our internet presence after passing...
 
 
Mordant
(prev. This is *my* hole.)
03:39 / 12.05.08
Shit, Stoatie. I'm sorry.
 
 
Stoatie's power level is >9000
03:52 / 12.05.08
That's kind of nice.

I have no idea whether that's the kind of thing he'd like, though- I have no idea at all. I don't know what to do.

That's twice in a few months people go all "an hero". I wish they wouldn't. Both times the world would have been better off if they'd stayed here.

I'm really pissed at the moment, so I shall just wish both their souls the best of whatever they believed in, and hope that a drunken prayer counts. (If it doesn't, then I take back every nice thing I've ever said about God).

FOR FUCK'S SAKE, PEOPLE. I MAY COMPLAIN ABOUT HUMANITY, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO FUCKING KILL YOURSELVES.

Shit.

Shit.

I have no idea now.

Shit.
 
 
ghadis
04:14 / 12.05.08
Shit Stoatie, that really bad.

I've recently found out a saying in Arabic used a lot in Egypt.

A Day of Honey
A Day of Onion.

I'm using it as a mantra at the moment as my life seems to collapsing around me into a black hole.

Collapsed ruined marriage...check
Lost job and unemployed....check
Flat with mortgage to pay....check
Ex girlfriend and mother of my son sectioned...check
17yr old son having a really hard time of it...check
Big drink problem....check
Various other horrible stuff...check,check,check...

A Day of Honey
A Day of Onion.

Role on the Honey i say!!!
 
 
I am a bat. I am a man.
(prev. Triplets)
14:42 / 12.05.08
Fucking hell, Stoatie, that sucks. I'm sure you'll think of something. Perhaps a group thing with the people who knew him online?

Sorry to hear things are on a downward curve right now, ghadis. That's really shit. I'm sure you'll be due your honey sometime soon.
 
 
ghadis
14:55 / 12.05.08
Ah, i was just drunkenly moping about in onion last night. I've just woken up. It's actually my son's 17th today, the sun is out, i'm going to go round his with some food and a few beers, collect his mum and sister, and we're going to have a barbeque and a good time. It is a day of honey!!
 
 
electric monk
20:51 / 15.05.08
It's either:

a) I am in the wrong career

b) I am a no-talent hack

c) I am simply destined to remain a bottom-tier, pixel-pushing, trained monkey for the rest of my days.

I've narrowed it down to those three.
 
 
E. Randy Dupre
21:25 / 15.05.08
You and me both, chief. For the last few months I've this brilliantly clear vision of the future in my head, which goes something like this:

Spending the rest of my working life in jobs that I end up resenting because of my recurring brainwrong and that don't pay enough for me to be able to stop living with blood relatives, retiring to a flattened cardboard box in the little unexplained cove between Woolworth's and Marks & Spencer's, eating out of other people's bins.
 
 
E. Randy Dupre
21:38 / 15.05.08
Stoats> This is going to sound really fucking trite. I hope not, but I think it inevitably will, because I don't know how to phrase it properly.

But I wonder if it isn't enough to remember that what you are is ultimately just a collection of all of the experiences that you've had, those experiences including your interactions with other people. That your personality is entirely made up of those people you've known, that they all shaped you in some way. Identify the bits of yourself that have come from this guy - or the bits - the good bits - of his personality that you most identify with, because chances are that they're the same thing on some level - and remember him by making sure that you try and emphasise them in your own life.

Which is all a very long way of saying "honour the memory of...", I suppose, but it kind of works. And maybe it doesn't help in that very particular kind of loss, because I've thankfully never had the opportunity to find out.
 
 
grant
21:52 / 15.05.08
It does, it does.
 
 
grant
22:21 / 15.05.08
c) I am simply destined to remain a bottom-tier, pixel-pushing, trained monkey for the rest of my days.


There are no tiers any more, man! They're from the old paradigm, where there was a corporate ladder to climb!

Now, we're all just independent contractors.
 
 
freektemple
22:40 / 15.05.08
Suicide sucks.
I feel really bad for you Stoatie.
I've offhandedly felt like dying before, but never considered doing it: I only ever wished it would just happen. I can't envision that level of dispair because I would always want to see what's around the corner. We're all going to die, why rush.
When you ask what can you do for your friend, I say: Write.
Pour everything into writing. Make him a character, an avatar. Fill your writing with how you feel ,right now... Let it be your send-off, your memorial, and your tribute. I've read your posts, and though I don't know you, I believe you can do this.
Again... I'm sorry...
 
  

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