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Ambient-Shrieking t1_iyf8k3p wrote

Be brave, talk about it. Find someone who's trustworthy and dependable who can help you learn to slowly expand your comfort zone.

Changes take time, and it's natural to not care about things you're not invested in. If you don't spend your time socializing or working or giving yourself a sense of direction, then you'll naturally be somewhat bad at those things, and it's always frustrating to be bad at things.

I understand that this is a big mental barrier to overcome, so big in fact that it's like a mountain and it seems immoveable, but it's actually quite moveable. A mountain is moved one stone at a time. Even if you can only remove one stone from the mountain a month at first, that's progress, that's moving forward, that's growth. Compare that to what the future becomes if you continue giving up and believing you're not worth the effort it takes or that you're somehow less capable than others, and it's fairly evident that you're comparing a stagnating life to one that's starting to bloom.

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SpiritOne t1_iyf8je8 wrote

Yesterday afternoon I went to lunch at a Mexican restaurant, with a lady of Indian heritage, a guy who was born in Burma, 2 men born in Mexico, a guy from South Carolina, and my pasty white boy ass.

And the entirety of this hole in the wall Mexican place with absolutely bomb ass food, cheered for the US beating iran.

We have problems for sure, but this country is a ridiculous melting pot of mixed ethnicities that have mostly come together to make it better for each other. And so many of us have pride in this country, and love what it’s capable of being.

We are more alike than not, and we all can be nice to one another. It kinda was this awesome moment yesterday when we scored, and the whole place was cheering.

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SeasonalCitrus t1_iyf8ejf wrote

I'm with you there. And recently thinking the same.

I'm bitter about the TSA and FBI failures which allowed the attacks to happen: bitter about the innocents killed in the towers and after in so called counter-attacks; bitter it took 20 years to pull out troops, which was a waste because the Taliban took over the minute we left.

So much violence and what good came out of it all?

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