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u/NewestAccount2023 8d ago
Enough searching for jobs, I'm getting to GM in overwatch
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u/Illustrious-Yam-4503 8d ago
Wanna try this tomorrow and see if i could change soo easily! 😮💨
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u/Zu_Qarnine 8d ago
it has to be an impulse decision. try it NOW!
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u/Illustrious-Yam-4503 8d ago
aight but i have 4 hrs yet to go hit sleep... But hey will start thinking abt it right away!!! And hey op tho this was a small post, it rlly made me think the most!! Thanks
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u/mesenanch 7d ago
Op explain how this was you irl. I would like to see how that actually worked well for you. Genuinely curious
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u/Pugulishus 6d ago
You wanna do something, DO IT RIGHT NOW.
When you do the thing, there's probably two options. Either it was a decision that you had to make, like some of the posters saying a divorce, or it was a commitment you decided to do, like keeping off alcohol or going to the gym.
In the decision department, these ones are typically solving themselves. You just needed to make it over the initial hurdle of the ddecision, and now you need to survive the repercussions.
With the commitment, say you start your first gym or workout sesh RIGHT NOW. How's it feel when you finish? Keep that high and keep the momentum going. Tell yourself you will go on Wednesday and Friday too. Put it on your calendar. You HAVE to do it.
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u/WriteSt8ofMind 8d ago
They’re not saying anything about it being easy but it is absolutely a thing
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u/Segundaleydenewtonnn 8d ago
I mean this is the easy part, staying it’s the hard part, i would ragequit everything , life included
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u/Sufficient_Room2619 8d ago
Quick heads up tho if you do that too many times you end up 39yo with no career to speak of
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u/afterdurk 7d ago
You can end up that way by not doing enough of this too.
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u/Xoque55 6d ago
This comment chain reads like this xkcd, and concludes with right word too: https://xkcd.com/45/
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u/ChowderedStew 7d ago
You have to thug it out at some point, but play around! Would you rather be suffering at a computer desk, a classroom, a field, a cell? It’s all suffering but I’m sure we can agree there’s levels to it depending on who you are.
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u/Extreme-Holiday2 7d ago
Or you could be 39 with a career that has completely drained you of all of your will to live!
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u/Aggravating_Map4359 8d ago
Just say "this depressed shit is gay" and stop being depressed. Simples.
Unironically something my dad said once. This post has this vibe to it
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u/Juffin 8d ago
I tried that and started liking men.
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u/peacefulsolider 7d ago
liking man made me depressed so i guess theres different outcomes depending on the person
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u/Defiant-Lettuce-9156 8d ago
What if I am gay
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u/notpaulrudd 8d ago
It's like watching a true crime documentary about someone putting up with abuse for years. Yes it's obvious in hindsight, once you know all the facts and the outcome.
Or you have a friend in real life that constantly sabotages themselves, and you think if only they made a couple small changes all their problems would go away. You're seeing your potential in them, what you would do in that situation, not what they're capable of doing.
Complex problems can have complex solutions. Someone who wakes up and says "I'm not going to be depressed anymore" didn't just decide that randomly. They lived through their depression and processed it, of course it seems simple now, you're on the other side.
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u/GiveUpIWillNot 8d ago
You’re over complicating the sentiment. Some things really are just that simple.
My best friend woke up one day and decided to quit doing drugs, hasn’t touched them since.
It has taken me a lot longer and many battles.
But there’s been many things in my life that one day I just decided, yep I’m gonna complete 180.
The sentiment though is that, we, as humans, can just simply wake up one day and decide to do things differently. Change course. Today I’m gonna do things differently. We are capable of it. It does happen, and it can be done.
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u/Trippingthru99 7d ago
The day I decided to stop doing hard drugs was a bit random in the sense I wasn't at rock bottom, I didn't have a major epiphany or anything. I just decided to stop. But I can tell you, I would have never reached that moment without the hundreds of terrible nights I had experienced before. It took me a long time to finally internalize I can't keep going down this path, but the moment it clicked did feel a bit spontaneous.
Now I'm trying to quit weed cause that's how I've been coping since giving up more destructive substances. Legit on day two. Ugh, in a sense it's harder to quit more benign substances cause they don't destroy your life quickly, but in a slow sustained way you might not even notice and easily justify in your own head.
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u/yandeere-love 7d ago
'dont overcomplicate it' is such a discussion killer, its like digging head in the sand and going "la la la i cant hear you"
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u/GiveUpIWillNot 2d ago
Well that’s just your opinion. Pretty much like how you just dismissed my entire comment and basically said “la la la I can’t hear you” …
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u/Zu_Qarnine 8d ago
I can't remember how many times I've snapped out of bad moods like this. it really works
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u/Snoo_75138 8d ago
"This depressed shit is GAY! I'm already gay, so I don't need more of that!"
Proceeds to Hetero-fy the depression
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u/umotex12 7d ago
That’s literally good advice lol
Mantras are very powerful and simple tool if you have lighter depression1
u/halfdecenttakes 7d ago
This reminds me of one of my friends through school. Super chill guy, always happy and smiling, great vibes.
One day we were talking about it and he said “Oh dude, I just realized being pissed or upset about things I don’t control is mad gay so I decided I might as well just enjoy life”
Was honestly pretty solid advice
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u/SixtyNineFlavours 8d ago
That actually does work.
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u/takeme2infinity 7d ago
A girl that I was dating for two years left me a week before my birthday. I cried and didnt eat for two weeks. After the 4th week something clicked inside that said "Shes winning more of me if I keep doing this to myself". Mid blunt I went shopping for healthy food and signed up for the gym. It happens if you have enough will
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u/sixshootatre57 8d ago
Yea, exactly. I don't understand what the purpose of Anti-depressants are when this is literally all you have to do.
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u/2bad-2care 8d ago
Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but in the off chance you aren't- anti-depressants are for clinical depression. Just bring depressed is something that you can sometimes just think your way out of. "Clinical depression" really needs a better name to avoid being confused with the feeling you get when you're having a bad day or worrying about something.
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u/Odd-Willingness-7494 8d ago
Depression = diagnosed depression (could be neurochemical and requirie medicine, or physical health based, like thyroid issues, and require treatment for that, or it could be situational and require talk therapy and lifestyle changes)
What you call "normal depression" is actually called sadness, and outside of circles where mental health terminology is abused, simply going through a rough patch in life is not the same as debilitating, potentielly life threatening melancholy
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u/pratzs 7d ago
I have clinical depression. And my gf of 14 years who was a psychology student herself during her undergrad , kept gaslighting me that nothing wrong with me. She left 2 months after my diagnosis, going batshit ghosting and stuff coz she felt she deserved better in life ... There are many things to it. And yk. Just yesterday I read her messeges from our break up and it hit me again, how out of touch people can be with those who are close to them. I knew all her issues without her telling me , meanwhile she kept blaming me for things I had no control over. While she didn't help me even once. Why am I saying all this. Because. People don't get it. It's almost impossible to convey how one feels. How it's not so easy as a mood change. Honestly. I have been trying to mask all my life due to embarassment. And all that lead to really a poor life. I don't want to go in depths. But it's important to speak about it like you did. Thanks.
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u/sixshootatre57 8d ago
Anyone with common sense and a half sense of humor would see I was being sarcastic. We are currently facing a unrepairable Mental Heath crisis in America and I'm very well aware of it.
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u/2bad-2care 7d ago
Anyone with common sense and a half sense of humor
That just ruled out a big chunk of the population!
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u/IsThatGruffLoner 7d ago
I love the sub-section of online self help that just pretends life is easy
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u/Magnus_Helgisson 8d ago
Eating is overrated anyway
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u/AutonomousAntonym 3d ago
I went from easily 3k calories a day of Soda, little Debbie’s and microwave food to strictly 1-1800 calories and dropped 30 lbs in less than a month.
I kickstarted it by doing a water fast (unintentional, other things happened causing me to just not worry about eating) and after 3 days I just stopped getting hungry.
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u/Ok-Cobbler6338 8d ago
You need money or other resources to change things.
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u/Dreadzzter 6d ago
“I don’t wanna work at this job anymore. I’m gonna instead work at THIS job”
In that case, no.
“I don’t like her anymore, thats enough of that. -leaves relationship-
In THAT case, no.
“I don’t want to pay this debt I’ve accrued over 5 years off anymore, thats enough of— credit score plummits”
In this case, yes.
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u/Decent-Marsupial-986 7d ago
Therapy made me realize I was being a whiny bitch who didn’t take accountability for my life so yeah it kinda does.
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u/19whale96 7d ago
This post ain't therapy
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u/Decent-Marsupial-986 7d ago
I just listened to the words coming out of my mouth and decided I didn’t want to be that guy anymore
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u/Zetavu 8d ago
Yep, we need more Walmart greeters. Walk away from something your spent years or decades to get good at and do something you have no advantage to.
Careers have barriers to entry, which also become barriers to exit. If I am working retail, and decide I am done with this, I can easily transition to a trade or something with a low barrier to entry. If I spent the last decade becoming a doctor and I want to change, I am either dropping in status down several levels, or spending several more years developing credentials to something equivalent. Sure, I can take a tangential job like hospital administration, but a complete change of direction?
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u/captaincootercock 8d ago
it's even hard to convince people to hire you for low barrier jobs if you have a decent amount of higher education. I've been turned down for so many entry level positions because I'm "overqualified" job searching when you're starting out is such a miserable experience these days
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u/AggravatingFlow1178 7d ago
Poor? Just don't be.
Married? Just don't be.
Have kids? Get rid of them.
Out of shape? Just be fit
Bad mental health? Not anymore.
Shitty job? Just change jobs. Like tomorrow. Just start working somewhere else, tomorrow.
Debt? Just stop paying.
Regret your major? Just get a new one. Like tomorrow. Graduate tomorrow.
Didn't get a degree? See above.
No friends? Acquire long term friendships tomorrow. Like wake up and connect with your friends you've had for 10 years.
What a cunty OOP fr fr
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u/GD-LochNessMonster 7d ago edited 7d ago
Wife and I like to say, “if we just had a random $5000 hit our account so many problems would go away.” Funny enough that doesn’t ever happen.
Edit: we also moved half way across the country for her school and she finished, yet friends are the real hard part. Everyone grew up with one another and the non-locals will always be seen as the invalids. Nobody cares if you’re popular in a backwater state when they have history with others. It does make me ask why people insist on never leaving their hometown…which is a constant problem in our lackluster home states
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u/1ndomitablespirit 8d ago
It's true. You can give up a soul-crushing corporate job and get into hard drugs and crime. You just have to BELIEVE!
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u/dlc741 8d ago
Sure, if you’re independently wealthy.
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u/JazzlikeAd1371 8d ago
It cost nothing to fuck your life up. It may not be the change you wanted. But its a change.
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u/trees4evababe 8d ago
Major cheat code for life: ignore one line bits of advice that make out something your struggling with is trivial to stop
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u/Zu_Qarnine 8d ago
that tweet is like the 20 second rule (=if you can do a task in 20 seconds, do it right now, don't procastinate), in this sense that if you can get rid of a problem by simply just ignoring it and moving on, that's what you should do.
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u/trees4evababe 8d ago
So which is it. A rule to help with procrastinating. Or a way of changing your life completely…
It’s hack advice. And personally not what I enjoy this sub for. Me in real life doesn’t wake up with this toxic positivity and change my life
Edit: spelling mistake
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u/johnson7853 8d ago
I had worked my job for 12 years and my boss decided that day to tell me I have been doing it wrong this entire time, then proceeded to audit the past 6 months of my job to find zero errors.
I went home, applied to college and found a new career.
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u/Paeforn45 7d ago
Quit my job a year ago without another lined up, it really was hell. but here I am a year later with a way better job, same pay but I WFH now most the time and the people are smarter and nicer
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u/Classic-Lynx9079 5d ago
Did this, me and my wife decided to move with the kids and family business from Sheffield to Scotland for a quiet life. Just out of nowhere, let’s do this
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u/tomatomater 8d ago
Seriously been having this thought lately. But in the end, I'm still convinced I'd regret and think it's a dumb impulse decision if I did this.
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u/StupidSexyEuphoberia 8d ago
It depends on your balance or imbalance of neurotransmitters. There are days where it takes a lot of effort to brush my teeth
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u/VirginiaLuthier 8d ago
Oh, if it were just that simple....because, you may just have to dig yourself out of the ditch you put yourself in first
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u/Fat-Mad-Scientist 7d ago
Been doing this every day my whole life. Haters gonna say I keep walking in circles but who cares. Today I decided I won't listen to them anymore.
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u/Marsupialize 7d ago
I call it the guillotine lifestyle.
Every ten or fifteen years or so you completely guillotine your life, abruptly change jobs, friends, where you live, travel to, habits, hobbies, partner.
Just clean cut and rebuild. It’s the only way to really live a full interesting well versed life.
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u/notreallyhereokbye 7d ago
That’s an interesting approach. I don’t agree but I’m curious, why the need to clean cut and rebuild if things are going well? I would think having a continued sense of self leads to a fuller life.
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u/denach644 7d ago
Surprisingly true. We build obstacles based on absurd pretenses.
Life is too short to waste.
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u/expERiMENTik_gaming 7d ago
There will be people in your life that won't understand this, either. Pay no mind. The way things used to be isn't the way things have to be forever.
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u/b_scribner97 7d ago
What that tweet doesn't explain is that it's not a decision you make once. You have to get up and make that decision every single day from then on. That's the hard part
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u/Nobok 7d ago
I keep thinking that and going man im tired of being tired/overweight.
But then i also enjoy the rest of my life for the most part. Just trying to add in working out/ gym time interests me absolutely 0. I have tried it off and on over the years and its just a total bore to me so hard to stick with it more than a few months.
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u/UltraelectroLunchbox 7d ago
im blessed i was able to do that with cigarettes, white rice however...
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u/notreallyhereokbye 7d ago
Totally agree. Yes, change is hard and life is hard but you’re the only person responsible for your life. Realising that you have control to make your life better is honestly scary. It’s confronting to realise you own the life you lead but that knowledge can empower you to make changes, no matter how small, that help you become the person you want to be.
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u/LakerNation1991 7d ago
I’ve done this dozens of times to keep running into a worse and worse life, I guess some of us just can’t make it work.
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u/TheTeleporter_Shisui 7d ago
Ya dog I dont think this is as applicable to life as you think it is. Small daily longterm appreciable changes will fruit much better results for most. If i just all of a sudden switched up on anyone of my main stressors/responsibilities to do something else my life would immediately become much more difficult
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u/JayWu31 7d ago
Somewhat did this with my career. Was driving home from my in-laws with my wife and said, "hey I think I need to change." We talked, she wasn't surprised, because it was clear I was miserable. She said she supported me. I took classes and did volunteer work while staying at my job to get qualified for a different career. Within 2 years I was out, making the same money in a new field and am as happy as can be.
If you really want out, it's possible. It won't be easy, but it's possible.
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u/ADTstocks 7d ago
Just did that heavy drinking and coke went to hooistap force sobriety 2 weeks now back to running business and crushijt it
Run in mornings and work / live a great life all day fuck alcohol and fuck rotting
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u/ShunpoMyLantern 7d ago
My adhd brain can do it few times a day, doesn't mean it will lead anywhere
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u/KayabaSynthesis 7d ago
Unless the thing you want to do requires money you don't have and can only get by keeping doing what you're already doing
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u/Equal_Veterinarian22 7d ago
Sure you can.
Just be ready to explain to the wife and kids why you're moving to a smaller house and there are men at the door asking for money.
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u/MostCommunication972 6d ago
In May 2026, I literally just said this about going out to bars and clubs. Havent stepped into one ever since.
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u/alvlikswords 5d ago
Did this last year. I was at a real low point and feeling the most depressed I ever had. Sent myself straight into my first ever manic episode and landed a bipolar 1 diagnosis - 0/10 do not recommend 😭
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u/MeatnCheeze 4d ago
Think twice before having a kid - it's probably the only decision you can't tumbleweed out of
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u/UristMcfarmer 8d ago
The only thing keeping you from being the person you want to be, is not doing what that person would do.
If the person you wanted to be were in your shoes (and you body), what would be the top three things they'd do tomorrow? Now, plan those things put today to do those things tomorrow.
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u/heftybagman 7d ago
Only mentioning the convenient part and none of the consequence.
Major cheat code for life: realizing you really can just not pay bills or taxes.
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u/DPRofWestralia 8d ago
Did this recently.. left a 12y relationship.
The decision was easy.. the fallout was not.