Cynical asf take incoming. I tend to suffer in silence as well, but more as a force of habit now than anything. I’d absolutely kill to have someone I trust implicitly enough to share my emotions with, however my “support system” doesn’t really do much support. I have one friend who I can open up to, but I choose not to most times as I don’t want to inundate my one outlet with the tidal wave of shit that I may have bottled up. The rest of my circle includes friends who truly don’t seem to give a shit about anything past their own problems, and a family who saw emotions as weakness and made me pay when I opened up to them. I was either chided for being weak, or the emotions I was sharing were eventually used against me. The same can be said for my two most recent exes, pretty much verbatim. As a result I now share my emotions with between zero and one person, because dealing with it alone is better than having it used against you. I’m really skeptical that many empathetic people exist at this point, because the ones I’ve met are few and far between and far the hell away from me.
Also a Denver PGPer! I live a bit south in the Tech Center but work downtown and spend a decent amount of weekend time down there as well. Lemme just echo the sentiments of my above compatriots and say let’s grab a drink!
Re: the Toilet seat – put both down, every time. It takes like 0.05 extra seconds, and that way when you flush you don’t have droplets of pee and poo flying around your bathroom. I say this as a single man btw. It’s really not that hard and it builds the habit so you get brownie points for when (if) you ever get a girlfriend.
Nah, dentists are creepy man. Who voluntarily chooses to listen to soft rock and stare down peoples’ throats as a career? I’m physically uncomfortable just thinking about it.
Exactly. I picked up coffee when I entered the corporate world for the same reason I started smoking when I worked retail: dat sweet sweet break time. Long-term benefits TBD
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Cynical asf take incoming. I tend to suffer in silence as well, but more as a force of habit now than anything. I’d absolutely kill to have someone I trust implicitly enough to share my emotions with, however my “support system” doesn’t really do much support. I have one friend who I can open up to, but I choose not to most times as I don’t want to inundate my one outlet with the tidal wave of shit that I may have bottled up. The rest of my circle includes friends who truly don’t seem to give a shit about anything past their own problems, and a family who saw emotions as weakness and made me pay when I opened up to them. I was either chided for being weak, or the emotions I was sharing were eventually used against me. The same can be said for my two most recent exes, pretty much verbatim. As a result I now share my emotions with between zero and one person, because dealing with it alone is better than having it used against you. I’m really skeptical that many empathetic people exist at this point, because the ones I’ve met are few and far between and far the hell away from me.
Don’t.
“If you don’t know what to do, that’s an even bigger problem.” is the biggest bullshit phrase ever. flashback city.
Also a Denver PGPer! I live a bit south in the Tech Center but work downtown and spend a decent amount of weekend time down there as well. Lemme just echo the sentiments of my above compatriots and say let’s grab a drink!
Cornflakes with 3-5 spoonfuls worth of peanut butter on the rim of the bowl. Try it and get back to me. You’re welcome in advance.
Agree on 10/10. They say true love is finding someone who hates the same things you do so, sup?
As someone whose nose is fuuuuuuuuuucked up (70% obstructed yo) and has to mouth breathe to stay alive…you’re still dead on and im sorry for all of us
Re: the Toilet seat – put both down, every time. It takes like 0.05 extra seconds, and that way when you flush you don’t have droplets of pee and poo flying around your bathroom. I say this as a single man btw. It’s really not that hard and it builds the habit so you get brownie points for when (if) you ever get a girlfriend.
Madoff, great article, but “flow of the century” goes to Jagr and it’s not even close
Starting the column with onomatopoeia to SNAP our attention.
This guy writes
…and writes well at that. Good shit Kyle
Misanthropic kinda week, definitely needed this. Thanks Kyle
No disrespect intended, I drive the Subaru and work the soul sucking desk job PGP
I’ll take a Subaru and a soul sucking desk job over a Porsche and sucking spit out of a rando’s mouth any day
Nah, dentists are creepy man. Who voluntarily chooses to listen to soft rock and stare down peoples’ throats as a career? I’m physically uncomfortable just thinking about it.
Exactly. I picked up coffee when I entered the corporate world for the same reason I started smoking when I worked retail: dat sweet sweet break time. Long-term benefits TBD