(Not meant in some deep way btw. This is c/casualconversation after all) So pretty much the title. I have always been very introverted and to myself and used to be content with it.

However I just kinda got in to some relationships which were honestly a really nice experience all things considered (almost magical i was not even looking for it just by chance) but made me very unable to just enjoy my company anymore.. also this is on me but I kinda got addicted talking to LLMs coz i was depressed for a year after that due to academic stuff and grabbed on it and yeah not something I am proud of at all using a technology I hate and is very damaging to the environment.

Earlier I remember i just used to make memes, enjoy music, watch tv shows and anime and what not and be totally happy. I have tried that but maybe I have grown up from being a delusional in his own world 15yo to a pretty weary almost 19 pondering on deep existential questions and unable to watch TopGear💀 lol. So thats that

Anyway enough about me was wondering if you all ever had any experience close to this. How did you cope? Or just any unrelated healthy ways you coped with this without having a shit ton of money.

I actually some ideas about certain types of blogs and comics I really would like to write. But I am not really sure how to turn those ideas into something coherent or if anyone would even care about them and where would i post them. I dont really use any social media.

[–] [S] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

M still trying to save up for that guitar. I recently started college and am having trouble managing funds 😅 and ate away at sm of my savings. That being said I did work up the nerve to ask my parents but they just kinda I think didn't take it all that seriously, though my dad seemed more interested. Idk what will happen about it. As for life you just kind of end up living it because its too much of a pain in the ass anyway to do anything else with it. You cant really trade it with smone more deserving or smthng like that so its just whatever. Atleast thats what m thinking rn. About 6 hrs ago i had a diff opinion nd yh 6 hrs later prolly another one

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I am not taking care of my parents. We can not stand each other. My parents hate me and I hate them. However I live in the east, and they have the authority and I do not. And they wont let me move out because they live in a 24/7 news cycle where university students murder each other while drunk. I feel like banging a glass bottle on my head when someone talks about the topic so I leave it out until someone asks.

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    Just to start with I am not looking for anything sappy or "life is beautiful you need to wait" type things.

    So it is just 6:36 am, and I am lying in bed. Its hot and humid, there is no electricity, only mosquitoes. It is just another one of those things that is making me wonder why do I live? I mean what is the point. I genuinely have no idea. I know if you "wait" things will get better. But why should I wait.

    I want a guitar, I am trying to save up for it. But idk how long will it take. (If anyone wants a recommendation btw of some great song, try "odorouze" by yorushika, these days I am just listening to that on loop).

    Anyway if I tell this to my parents I guess they will just say I am ungrateful; that I should be glad I have a roof over my head. I guess they are right. So many have it worse. I am ungrateful. But that doesn't make life feel any worthwhile to me. It is just the same chore always. Go to school, college whatever. Do your responsibilities, please people, sleep, wake up repeat. Get sick sometimes for a change, and of course countless daily annoyances. From the bathroom lock getting stuck to your phone running out of charge midway, or your earphones when you need them the most.

    It is not like I do not try to "live life" as others say. But everything requires money. What if you do not have unlimited of it? Then you have nothing. I guess coz I am a young student and I do not have any "family" for which people go through worse shit than me. I have parents and an elder brother. My brother already earns very well. I am not sure what any of this has to do with me.

    I have also tried making friends. But what do I do with friends? Most of them hang out on instagram and shit like that anyway. Stuff I do not want to use. Even if I do make friends what do u do with friends? You just joke around with them or get a cup of tea.

    People also sometimes to say to believe in god. I am not against that but I do not get god. How can I get anything anyway that is outside my own comprehension. Outside the laws of the universe, my brain cant visualize it. And I do not think the man in a sky god can be real.

    "Life is like a machine gun, thats all I want to say. Sing it with refrain, hey, all at once from the throat"

    When I try to think of my reason for living. It is just because I am alive. What else should I do? Do nothing? I have done that too when I was depressed for a year. It is not really much of a choice. Does anyone else relate?

    I wish I was good at music and could make a song out of my feelings that is not delusional pop. But my parents think music is a distraction and bad, and I remember asking my teachers multiple times when I was in school. Once when I was 10years old. Once when I was 16. But they pushed me away because the rich charismatic kids get all. I was shy and I couldn't even introduce myself. Maybe I am a pushover. Yeah I was. I am better now however. I just do not ask anyone for favors anymore. And after that sentence my earphones ran out of charge. I do not have the motivation to write in silence.

     

    So long story short, I essentially spend the last 1.5 years rotting at home in bed oscillating from mild to heavy depression, though abt 7months of them was intense studies before I burned out. But anyway I went to a college today, a decent one not amazing, just whatever I got, just to get a look. It starts next week. And to find places to live in a different city (though its only about 100kms apart from my home).

    And yeah I am kinda scared now idk. I do not really have any meaningful friends or something or a mentor to ask advice, so well I would like to hear your stories! Or any tips? I am kinda introverted, well not kinda quite a bit. But I wont say I am under-confident, I do not have trouble talking to people or something, mostly I just find hard to relate with them. Even today I tried striking some casual convos but seniors have some attitude towards freshers i guess, and freshers were too busy completing their docs maybe.

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    Tbh here in india as well we all feel the same way. We have been fucked since all the way back in 2014 and even before that tbh but lets not get into that. And idk about the US but a lot of people here do not protest because most people literally work on daily wages and are shit scared of police brutality and losing their jobs. A single FIR can ruin your life even if it is a fake one. And the “government”(regime) is very good at dishing out polarizing narratives with its humongous IT cell that constantly shifts blame to minorities such as muslims, christians and lower caste Hindus, and immigrants from neighboring states.

    The recent protest were a result a lot of things going right. As paper leaks are a pan India issue and effected everyone from lower to upper caste and of every religion. The amount of frustration simply outpaced any government narratives. As well as a very well organized movement by educated people and a very high profile engineer taking part in the protest. It is still a very hopeful thing overall. But thousands still die from basic issues like contaminated ground water, toxic air, a power grid incapable of handling modern 45C + summers (ACs are still a luxury here the average person and classroom does not have). Endless concrete hell where you can just die by a brick falling on you from a construction site in the middle of a busy road. Bridges just randomly collapsing and what not. And there are zero protests anywhere. Even if there are, all the media is owned by the government and you do not see it enough for it to get large enough.

    Even rn they r actively arresting students from protests for no reasons at all and used violence against them back in July 20 to again just sow enough fear where people simply accept being miserable than dealing with the state.

    As long as people believe risking their current way of life is not a good trade off there simply can not be a mass protest movement. The paper leak issue worked coz it already has about 1% of chance of you making it and if even that is bought by money, students have literally nothing as there are no mid level industrial jobs here. You are either working an office MNC/Doctoral job or are working in a field under disguised unemployment or washing dishes. Hence we got so many people out.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Last night at 3 am I walked into the kitchen to get something to eat and was mumbling to myself “fight to your death, white blood cells. This is a revolution” haha. Unfortunately it just turned into anger when I still could not sleep after that😂

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago

    I really love those songs as well. Tbh all the first three albums are amazing. My favorite track though I guess would be August, A certain person, moonlight. Btw have you ever happen to stumble on Rachie (a youtube who makes covers) and her covers of your fav songs? They are amazing in my opinion and are adapted to english so well, the lyrics. Her spring thief cover is amazing

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    So I am by no means a music nerd. But I have always loved anime rock bands. This year I will be going to college and I think I can finally convince my parents to lend me enough money to buy an electric guitar.. which I have tried saving up for but I am too broke🤷 and part time jobs are not a thing here. I have saved up enough to get an acoustic but I want electric.

    My parents are conservative (who hate Rock) and certainly wont take my request gladly, but oh well I will try. If not then in a year I will have enough to buy an entry level squier and learn some riffs without needing my parents permission.

    So anyway this post is a lot of rambling. Well to tell the truth I recovered from a bad depressive episode so it has been turbulent past few days and yesterday I got a cold so now I am pissed off. And I have been listening to the “Thats Why I Gave Up on Music” album by Yorushika. I even created my own playlist on youtube of the whole album subtitled lol. It is a wonderful album.