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Posted by Rach on February 23, 2005, at 6:54:28
It's a sad sad world that we live in, and I'm just one more useless mindless consumer not doing a damn thing to help myself, let alone others.
Posted by Rach on February 27, 2005, at 0:48:10
In reply to The world is sad, posted by Rach on February 23, 2005, at 6:54:28
I'm bored. I am bored. I'm not doing anything. I'm just wallowing and feeling sorry for myself. There's nothing I can do. Nobody will give me the chance. I don't have money to force myself a chance. I'm bored, and I'm useless, and I'm just using and wasting and there's no way out. There's no way but to accept the way everyone is mindlessly trampling. I'm just so bored.
Posted by NikkiT2 on March 3, 2005, at 8:34:35
In reply to The world is sad, posted by Rach on February 23, 2005, at 6:54:28
Well..
as a "mindless consumer", you are, bascially, paying the wages of the store employee's.. then, you're paying the wages of who ever made the product, feeding their children, and probably making the entire family's lives better.. The, theres the people that provide the materials that make the product, the people that provide the electricty that runs the shops and factories..
See where I'm going? Proving that, how ever little you think you are doing to help others, you are doing it..
Could you do a little voluntary work.. I know how much that helped my self esteem.. Contact your local hospital (or who ever provides mental health care in your area) and ask if you can get involved in giving service user opinions is one idea (and probably paid.. not much, but a little).. I know this is quite a big thing in Oz at the moment (we had Oz people visit us a few weeks ago, and my chief exec is at a conference about it in melbourne at the moment)..
But how ever little you think you are doing.. you are adding to peoples lives
Hang on in there hun
Nikki xx
Posted by Shar on March 4, 2005, at 23:27:03
In reply to Re: The world is sad, posted by Rach on February 27, 2005, at 0:48:10
Rach,
That sounds a lot like depression to me. (I hate the phrase 'feeling sorry for myself' because it's so often used to describe emotional pain and mood disorders.) And, BTW, I'm pretty dang sure you're not useless...although I do understand the FEELING. But, feelings aren't facts!I understand 'not getting a chance' after so many failed job interviews I've been to, and I can totally relate to not having $$ to get something up and running business wise.
In my far distant memory I had a thought you were in school. No?
I think what Nik said about volunteer work is good, if there is an area of work that interests you. I am a volunteer for a Hospice org. here, and once a month I volunteer at our local chapter of the Funeral Consumer's Union (it's an org. to keep people from getting ripped off by funeral homes). Both those things are right up my alley because dying people do not bother me a bit, and I am very comfortable with their family members, and with the second group, they paid the fees for me to be a notary public so I could notarize Advance Directives (like living wills, etc.) for people.
I have to admit, I wouldn't have gotten into it at all if my sister hadn't said, hey, let's go to hospice training--you wanna? So, I will hope that someone says to you, hey, let's go do xyz--you wanna? And you'll say yes.
I am also excellent at writing rambling responses.
Hope you'll feel better soon.
xoxo
Shar> I'm bored. I am bored. I'm not doing anything. I'm just wallowing and feeling sorry for myself. There's nothing I can do. Nobody will give me the chance. I don't have money to force myself a chance. I'm bored, and I'm useless, and I'm just using and wasting and there's no way out. There's no way but to accept the way everyone is mindlessly trampling. I'm just so bored.
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