Comments | ansemaru: Growing Up

ansemaru

Growing Up

Oct 20, 2010 16:25

Considering that I just failed a course due to absences caused by my awful sleeping habits, things need to change. I have nearly zero agency in my life up until this year, and I'm now floundering without everyone in my life pushing me around and telling me what to do. I'm a child in an adult's world- I can't sleep right, I can't drive, I can't cook ( Read more... )

despair, rl

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jougetsu October 21 2010, 03:17:21 UTC

Deep breath, relax. You can do this! All of these things are completely 100% fixable. Have I failed a class due to absences (laziness and later deep depression)? Pfft, try multiple ones ( ... )

ansemaru October 21 2010, 04:32:37 UTC

Thank you for taking your time to leave this comment. Your support and advice means a lot to me.

Sleep is an ongoing process that I wish I'd started sooner. I regret having let it progress this far in the first place, really...

I have not. Up until last winter, I was terrified of even the idea of driving, and had no desire to learn. Now that I'm six hours out of my home state and can't even walk to the stores in town due to isolation, I'm really regretting not having done so sooner.

But because of this, I'll have to wait until I get back to my home state this summer.

Cooking, I've really got no excuse. Time to learn!

This definitely helped me a lot. Thank you so much.

jougetsu October 21 2010, 15:31:06 UTC

Re: Driving Fright
It's more common than you think. Most of my friends didn't get their licenses until they were into their 20s and some of them still don't. Think of all the video games you played as having finely honed your hand-eye coordination and reflexes! :)

*hugs*

ansemaru October 21 2010, 20:23:42 UTC

That is reassuring. (Ahhhh, but I was always awful at driving games! Eh, I'll figure it out.)

/hug

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ansemaru October 21 2010, 04:35:59 UTC

That's a comfort. It'll be quite a long while before I get to where you are, but it's possible, yeah?

I'm going to have to accept my flaws and not beat myself up now. And remember that I'm no island. Lots of people out there to help, yourself included.

Let's begin this operation and get my life back on track.

tlc010 October 21 2010, 04:40:35 UTC

IF YOU LET PEOPLE PUSH YOU AROUND SWEAR TO GOD I WILL PUSH YOU SO HARD

ansemaru October 21 2010, 05:11:46 UTC

WELL GOSH I WILL PROBABLY END UP CRASHING INTO A TRASH CAN OR SOMETHING

AND WE CAN'T HAVE THAT

no more people pushing me around ever

pengiesama October 21 2010, 12:51:33 UTC

I'm so sorry I didn't see this sooner, myself -- I think we're in a similar place in life. With me getting my own place for the first time, I know how it is to suddenly have to do everything on your own, and to not really have anyone to teach you...as for driving, seriously, don't feel bad. I didn't even get my license until earlier this year and I'm twenty-four.

If you come up to visit me sometime, I will give you whatever driving and cooking lessons I can give. (Cooking! Cooking is something I know how to do even if I never do it really!) And I need to improve my sleeping habits as well, so maybe we can encourage each other.

ansemaru October 21 2010, 20:22:29 UTC

Sounds like we can both be big helps to one another. ONCE I FIGURE OUT A WAY TO SEE YOU THAT ISN'T $53 /s-sob, THIS IS DEFINITELY HAPPENING.

You rock. Thank you.