Description: white text on black background. “Remember – the only thing standing between you and your dreams is your appearance, lack of talent, and general personality”

  • @Pissnpink@feddit.uk
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    3024 days ago

    And student debt, and lack of access to affordable health care, and affordable housing, and affordable childcare, and quality public transportation

    • Björn Tantau
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      1124 days ago

      As someone from a first world country let me tell you that you can still suck with all of those things.

      • @hydropticOP
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        624 days ago

        No lies detected, although I’d assume lack of those doesn’t make not sucking any easier.

    • Neato
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      1024 days ago

      With enough money you can buy 99% of dreams, anyways. Look at bezos: he bought his way into being an astronaut.

    • @hydropticOP
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      324 days ago

      Oh yes, musn’t forget the mental health disorders. Certainly haven’t done me any favors

      • radix
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        424 days ago

        me when I forget I have depression because the depression ate my memory

  • nyahlathotep
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    924 days ago

    and the lack of discipline. all-around lack of motivation, really

    • I’d almost call mine an absolute disdain for anything needing effort unless it’s something I happen to wanna be doing at that moment.

  • @Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    323 days ago

    No, I’ve got all that in spades the real problem is that I was raised abusively in a way that actively discouraged agency which severely exacerbated my predisposition towards executive disfunction.

  • @meep_launcher@lemm.ee
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    222 days ago

    OOC:

    Ya know, take a moment to look around. Think about yourself a year ago, 5 years ago, 10 years ago. What were your biggest problems then? What are your biggest problems now?

    My hope is that you have better problems now than you did back then. I also hope you are doing some things now that you only dreamed of back then. I hope you had the courage and opportunity to make the moves you used to be terrified of.

    The thing with success, is that it’s not the top of some mountain. It’s this elusive thing that keeps you dreaming for more and more, because you don’t just stop dreaming if you “attain” success.

    “When you take a moment to accept things as they are, you don’t need to hope anymore because you realize where you are is kind of okay.”