summarize yr life in a sentence or two

"albeit" the poet said that day

some people really do have impunity

Depression and anxiety and how I've tried to deal

Death and destruction

well this threads off to a cheery start

i awoke post-acne to rainbows and keg parties

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I have lived a complex, difficult and rewarding life, a phrase which barely succeeds as a description and falls woefully short as a summary.

Absurdly lucky and only mostly miserable

Let it not be said that he pooped more than he ate, on balance.

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

we were somewhere over the edge of the currach when the drugs took hold

Somehow held it together and kept going, sometimes enjoying it, mostly seeing the funny side of it and not dwelling on regrets.

(It is surprisingly difficult not to be depressing in a summary).

But I tried, didn't I? Goddammit, at least I did that much. Oh wait.

I've just found out Rachel Riley (of Countdown fame) is a liberal/rational sort.

but is that a denunciation or what

yeah it is. my heart is broken, but I should've known better I guess.

This is a very good summary of my life so far.

i mean surely the suspicion had to have been full icequeen tory no?

Used to be fun but now my kid has cancer.

my heart is broken, but I should've known better I guess.

this is my pick so far

Couci-couça.

Hasn’t really gone well.

an Inspirational force to advocates of "bring back national service" or minimum alcohol pricing.

“Don’t move to New York.”

“Don’t use the internet”

no money, but I've seen more films than you.

oh yeah, the one that ended up as the new board description probably fits as well...

Happy pessimist as a kid, disgruntled optimist as a young adult, melancholy and tired pessimist as a wizened ancient, bored even of my own mischief. I did good stuff once upon a time: it cuts little mustard.

Lol.

Lol to frederik, who is a way more enjoyable presence than i remember

I would prefer not to.

I wish I didn’t live in America, but at least I don’t work in an office or have kids.

i wish i didn’t work in an office, but at least i have a kid and i don’t live in america

overachieved vs expectations on most counts

I wish I didn't live in America and work in an office, but at least I'm enough of a perpetual toddler to preclude the need for a kid.

fucked up on most counts but the kids are alright

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Avoiding indicating that my life is pretty good otherwise people tend to not talk to you and/or get really jealous

you kind of wandered the world in a slumber til you crumble were absorbed into the earth (to borrow from nick cave)

very easy life which i have navigated through a lens of depression, anxiety and booze/hard drugs. pretty good and relatively abstemious at this exact moment (this is subject to change)

Actions becoming gradually more and more purposeful and organized
Thoughts/feelings/philosophy becoming less and less coherent

this was my HS senior yearbook quote (from Rimbaud's 'A Season in Hell'), still fits:

Misfortune was my God. I laid myself down in the mud. I dried myself in the air of crime. I played sly tricks on madness.

aspie chancer wields privilege

angry goat on roof respects only one man

My life is fine in almost every conceivable respect, so why do I keep feeling the urge to upend it all in the service of an inchoate ambition?

@sarahell that is still one of my all time favorite headlines

i think about it almost every day

Is that a summary of yr lyfe tho

i don't understand, why would i post something in an ilx thread that isn't true?

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Increasingly disinterested in putting up with people's bullshit. You will hear my name and tremble for I am the snoball!!!11oneSWAGyoloLOL

Xp

attaBOY

Speakin my language

Tired of fake ppl, if u can't handle me at my best u don't deserve me at my worst

uk ok bb?

typo but it works

Lol

Weird hearing dmac say:

“You okay, caca, baby?”

Oh read ok as kk

“You okay okay baby”

there was a thing called heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol

menergy

He had an appetite for nothing yet he ate something of everything.

he wrote, produced, and recorded appetite for destruction, and didn't even like it

he read a post by yelploaf and improvised, hoping that it would be funny

he delivered letters and packages, even in inclement weather

his constant punning, even when understood, was seldom appreciated

I like the attitude of this summary by zen trickster Alan Watts: “As I witness the universe getting away with me I wonder what other uproarious deceptions it will perpetrate.”

Dmac makes this place tolerable at times tbh
Respect ✊

My local Oxfam has a copy of Heimito Von Doderer's 1300 page novel The Demons and I don't want this in my life. I want to resist!

I did not resist.

It looks in perfect condition and the whole lot is 5.99. That is how I am resisting this btw.

*much

I think you'd like it.

That's a good reason to resist.

Two good reasons, in fact.

(Each of my posts to this thread is an attempt to describe my life in one sentence btw.)

(Except that one. And this one.)

I don't know (I saw your posts on ILB on this at the time), read a couple of pages yesterday and I wasn't sure. Got Thomas Mann vibes out of it (have you read Mann?) That's what I was thinking...I'll go back for another read of it (if someone hasn't snapped it up of course)

lol just had a look and you described it as a Germanic Dance to the Music of Time!! Good job.

I think that's true, which is not to say it works, reads or feels anything like ADTTMOT. It's like a Germanic ADTTMOT in the same way as Can are like a Germanic Pink Floyd.

We probably shouldn't fill this thread up with this stuff.

We probably shouldn't fill this thread up with this stuff

i’ve been waiting for tomorrow, all of my life.

1) Good timing, but 2) books are part of what makes life happen so I feel justified rn xp

I’m on a train.

Perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

(Narrator: He didn't.)

keep calm and t̴̨̢̠̜͎̲͔͖̙̜͎̭̊̒̆̋̓̇̃̓͌u̶̡͔͉̎͛͌̿͑ṛ̷̛̛̃̀̔̄̋̋͗̄̍̈̚̚n̴̨̓̓̑̓̋̌͑̈́̈́̿͐̿̕ ̵̨̱̰̞̤͒͗̃̽́͒́͊̀̐͝͝ĩ̷̲͇͈̑̎͊̏̀̆͗̾̆̄̐ņ̶̡̢̛͔̪̺̠͉͇̦͉̰͈͆͗̆͒͐̈͘͘s̶͎̘͕̩̜̠̜̲̩̻̉͋̅̒̿͗͐͆́̄͋̇͘͝i̴̡̞̟̻̠̎͊̀̌͒̆̀̍͌̈́͊̓̓͘͠d̶͙͇̩͉͈̄̀̿͐͒͆ȩ̸̨͕͉̈́̀̅̅̈́̃̊ ̷̲͇̠̲́̐̓̉͗̒̀ͅo̵̹̲̻̙̝̙̦̲̻̊́͌́͆̏̐͊̄͘͘̕̚͝͠u̴̬̯̮̭͖̮͓̱͕̤͉̥̞͊͋ţ̵͇̺͕̪̼̰͕͋̌̑͂̈́̈̈́͋̃͒̾͝ͅ

young mind, blown wide open, slowly turns into tired cynical sceptic.

silby it seems like you've been traveling for days

I’m not on a train now.

live laugh love

well-behaved women seldom make history

I have been practicing the art of walking without getting anywhere.

"Just be yourself" was terrible advice

I was placed in a sixth grade reading class when I was six years old, an opportunity which I took full advantage of by intentionally peeing my pants like every other day so I could go home to hang out with my grandma instead.

Fuck this

Gifted, outgoing, loving child eventually succumbs to existential despair and turns to the needle. Possible second act in the works.

Begrudgingly grafted and re-grafted.

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Wanker who continuously fucks himself.

Feeling good ‘s good enough.