[–] Jyrz 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
High School. When I found that I could stop caring, not do any work, and yet still pass my AP classes with flying colors. Standardized tests in America, and how much they're worth for your grade, are a joke. But then you get to college and find the few professors that care about teaching and give out written tests that actually require some work. Ugh...
Besides not giving a shit about school and just not giving a shit in general, if you spend 4 years in a high school marching band seeing the same shit people every day, night, and weekend, you eventually just stop caring about people and their BS. Or maybe I'm just a nihilistic shit lord.
[–] voiceofflawedlogic 0 points 13 points 13 points (+13|-0) ago
I was 39 years old. It took a good solid 15 years of being beat down by fate, thinking things can't get worse and being proven wrong, to learn that you have to enjoy the brief moments between getting kicked in the junk if you want to have any happiness in life.
[–] Morbo 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
I hear you man. I too know how that feels. I had to learn it the way you did at pretty much the same age. It's better once you accept that happiness comes in fleeting moments rather than continue to believe in the bullshit hopes and dreams we are fed throughout life. It makes you more realistic and honest about life. Understanding this makes it good enough to continue on. I don't have a bad life, but I do have a bad circumstance.
[–] pitenius 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
Jeez, dude. Ever live through a tsunami? Survive a war? Be a refugee? Just because you're getting kicked in the balls doesn't mean you're a doormat. And it sure as shit doesn't mean the middle-brow assholes you run into want to hear about it. Or, if they are the perverse NPR sorts who make a holiday of other people's misery, you don't need their pity. There's a lot of shit that can happen that makes you wonder if you were really lucky to survive. But a good coffee is still good, a cool breeze is still refreshing.
[–] ArtEnt 1 point 3 points 4 points (+4|-1) ago
Think of life outside of voat outside as voat ... You get to choose the content you care about and block the one you don't. Life is a lot simpler than what we make it.