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La Volpe

La Volpe

Mystagogue
Tom said:
Thanks for the birthday wishes! Unfortunately, however, my birthday is the day after Star Wars Day. It is Revenge of the Fifth, though. :p
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You must be kicking yourself for oversleeping on that fateful day <your age> years ago. Well, at least you got Revenge of the Fifth, which is like the Dark Side's Star Wars day (or perhaps more accurately, the forgetful Star Wars fans' Star Wars day).

Me, I was born one day too early. My birthday is one day before a public holiday here in SA (though that has its own advantages). Was a real bummer, especially during school when I couldn't sleep late on my birthday.
 
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DragonOfTheAerie

DragonOfTheAerie

Istari
After a relatively short period of almost complete freedom from my anxiety, it is acting up again. Earlier I had the misfortune of thinking to myself, huh. I've actually been doing well lately. I haven't been anxious in a long time. Dark thoughts started to crowd in, scrabbling for a hold on something. That happens every time I think "Hey, I'm actually okay..." subconsciously I ask myself, "Am I? AM I?" Then I start thinking of something that might be wrong, something to obsess about and be anxious over...Now I feel tense and paranoid and there is no reason why whatsoever. I feel worried over areas of my life that are better than they've been in months.

Writing would help keep it at bay. I need to stop wrestling with my own feelings of self-doubt about this next chapter and just write the damn thing. Or write SOMETHING. Even work on ideas.

Absorbing myself in something helps keep anxiety under control, but the problem is, anxiety makes it hard for me to absorb myself in the first place...
 
Tom

Tom

Istari
Oh Dragon, I hope you're doing better now! Anxiety is a beast of a thing to live with. As someone who had a grand total of three nervous breakdowns yesterday--on my birthday!--I'm hardly the ideal person to offer advice, but let me say that when you feel the anxiety set in, the best thing you can do is try to shake it off.

Turn on some loud music. Put on a movie or play a video game. Draw, even if it's just scribbles. Write, even if it's just keysmash. Move around--I always go for a run when my brain starts on an anxious spiral. Do anything to distract yourself. A lot of times, if you can recognize and escape that initial feeling of unease, your anxiety won't have a chance to kick in full-force. Anxiety is a pattern, really. Cluing into that pattern and disrupting it does a lot to keep it at bay.
 
DragonOfTheAerie

DragonOfTheAerie

Istari
Tom said:
Oh Dragon, I hope you're doing better now! Anxiety is a beast of a thing to live with. As someone who had a grand total of three nervous breakdowns yesterday--on my birthday!--I'm hardly the ideal person to offer advice, but let me say that when you feel the anxiety set in, the best thing you can do is try to shake it off.

Turn on some loud music. Put on a movie or play a video game. Draw, even if it's just scribbles. Write, even if it's just keysmash. Move around--I always go for a run when my brain starts on an anxious spiral. Do anything to distract yourself. A lot of times, if you can recognize and escape that initial feeling of unease, your anxiety won't have a chance to kick in full-force. Anxiety is a pattern, really. Cluing into that pattern and disrupting it does a lot to keep it at bay.
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Thanks, Tom. I'm sorry about all the nervous breakdowns...that sounds terrible! I know how awful things can get. And yeah, last night I was able to shake it off before it got into full swing by plunging into writing. I got a lot of stuff worked out about my WIP, actually. I felt better after a few hours absorbed in that.

Exercise really does help! I have been better since I've been into martial arts.
 
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pmmg

pmmg

Mystagogue
As I look at the Who online page (other people do that right?..), I see the google, and baidu spider searching a lot of old threads. Some of them look pretty cool, but the conversations are long played. I am sure if I made a new comment, it would be like, dude, this is like from 2011? But I must say I am a little tempted on some.
 
La Volpe

La Volpe

Mystagogue
I was in a Krav Maga class once, but it was a bit of a bust (as in, the teacher didn't seem to know as much as he should have). But there was a guy in the class who'd trained in Wing Tsun, so he showed me some cool stuff.

And besides that, I did MMA for a few years. Got punched and kicked in the face on a number of occasions. Fun times (but really, it's more fun than you'd think).
 
Banten

Banten

Shadow Lord
Back to the Star Wars thingy, I think this describes my sentiment rather well.


Or maybe it's just a really funny video I found.
 
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TheCrystallineEntity

TheCrystallineEntity

Dark Lord
There's only a handful of love stories that resonate with me. I'm as picky about love as I am about everything else! :D

My favourites, of course...

Tessa and Will/Jem [The Infernal Devices]
Thingol and Melian [The Silmarillion]
Beren and Luthien [The Silmarillion]
Cloud and Tifa [Final Fantasy VII]
Zack and Aeris [Final Fantasy VII]
Tidus and Yuna [Final Fantasy X]
Haku and Chihiro [Spirited Away]
Nagisa and Tomoya [Clannad]
Sakura and Syaoran [Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]
Ashura and Yasha [RG Veda/Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]
Clare and Teresa [Claymore]
 
FifthView

FifthView

Dark Lord
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FifthView

FifthView

Dark Lord
CupofJoe said:
Calvin in my role-model for life.
Hobbes is who I want to become.
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When I was a teen, I bought those book-length collections of Calvin and Hobbes. Also, Bloom County. They might be packed away somewhere still, although I've lost track of them. I was a huge fan. I think they influenced me greatly.
 
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