—atridir “I could absolutely shred guitar licks of all genres, at age 17. I could play literally everything, lead guitar-wise. I had 10hr/day practice sessions for nine years and sacrificed my grades and social life. And then I completely gave it all up when I heard Steve Vai play live — it crushed me. Try as I might, there was no way I could do what he was doing, and I couldn’t get over it. Decades later, I realize I made a huge mistake. I was good, and my entire philosophy was based on something outside of myself that I couldn’t control. Don’t make this mistake. Do YOU, and put yourself out there just because you like it.” —judgehood “Some memories and traumas will stick with you for your entire life, but you can manage the way you react to them. What I have learned is to embrace that miserable feeling you get when you remember and just let it pass on its own time. Do not run — face it, and your brain will adapt to the feeling and slowly process the memory so you can put it to rest.” —Two-Tu —mznh “Yes! Lifestyle inflation is how people earning $100k+ a year live paycheck-to-paycheck.” —DOE_ZELF_NORMAAL “I have friends who tell me to buy certain things like new cars ‘because I can afford it.’ They are so confused when I reply, ‘I can afford not to as well.’” —HOWDY__YALL “THIS! I work for a credit card company and speak to people daily in debt they’ll never get out of. It’s sad.” —5DollarHitJob —pyorre “Starting your marriage with avoidable debt is a terrible idea.” —Dayv1d “Or Fear of Rejection’s cousin: doing nothing because doing something limits your options.” —ShortBusRide —nate6259 “Amen. It’s both frightening and relieving to discover how fucking incompetent most people are.” —NewLizardBrain
