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[wolfwoodglomper]

There is a car outside my apartment building blasting mariachi music and it's annoying. It's like...oompa oompa oompa oompa *warbling Mexican voice

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[shadowrazor7777]

oh yeah, to get over that, all you have
to do is keep thinking work hard, rest
forever...thats what I did anyway...
its like youll be able to just dream
for the rest of eternity and so this will
all have been your important work, very important
work so make it count.

[wolfwoodglomper]

Yeah, but no one can really *know* what happens after we die, and that's been driving me crazy.

[shadowrazor7777]

meh make it up just like everything else, its more fun that way lol...

[teresina]

:(

i hope you feel better.

i know exactly how you feel, so i'm not going to tell you overly optimistic things, but, it will get better, you'll see.

:D

[wolfwoodglomper]

I know. Now I keep thinking that I'm going to die, there's no way around it, and when I do die, nothing will matter anymore...But it's not helping.

[teresina]

Well, yeah. Everyone dies, but you won't die for like 60 YEARS!!!!!!!

I think you should have a party.

[wolfwoodglomper]

I should have a party when I die?

hm..

[rothe]

sometimes i think death is the easy way out. dying would be alot easier than trying to live through some things..

Re: hm..

[aquariusbelle]

I totally agree with that, actually.

Re: hm..

[wolfwoodglomper]

Yeah, but I usually get through those things stronger than I was before and then I feel good, and...I like that feeling of learning and getting stronger.

[ladypentacles]

Aw honey, all of us have to go through this existential angst, usually more than once in our life times. The real truth of it is that we begin to die the moment we are born, and every day that we wake up, we face the possibility of it being our last day on this earth. But if we let that thought be pervasive in our lives, we could never live

[wolfwoodglomper]

Why do you hate to say it? I think that's wonderful advice, and I think I will do that tonight.

been there

[missourimarmot]

don't know what to say...which of course rarely keeps me from talking. :-)

have you ever read _loving what is_, by Byron Katie? i'm about halfway through it, and the reason it came to mind was that she's constantly stressing that it's not what is happening to us, but our _thoughts_ about what's happening, that are the real problem. see if the thought is necessarily/always/automatically/forever true, and see who you'd be without that thought. don't try to get rid of it, just see if you can find the faulty assumptions behind it.

anyway...

you know you can call me anytime if you want to talk.

b

Re: been there

[wolfwoodglomper]

You know, a guy I used to work for knew Byron Katie, and kept saying I should go to some of his (his, right?) talks, and I never went. Maybe I should. Or at least start reading some of the books.

Re: been there

[missourimarmot]

it's a she, actually: Byron Kathleen Mitchell is her full name, though she generally goes by "Katie."

interestingly, Missa gave me my copy of this book a while ago...