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I have been on this site a little while now, and while I have never been one of its more prolific columnists, I do read a helluva lot more questions than I answer. The reason for this is that I feel that a lot of the questions are very similar, so I tend to pick the better worded and/or more interesting ones among them:plus I without fail will answer anything you care to drop in my inbox. But for those of you whose questions I do not specifically address, here are my top five tips to make the world(and advicenators, which is after all the hub of the universe) a better place:
Enjoy!
1)You will generally be happier if you are not
constantly taking your emotional temperature. So much stress is placed these days on FEELING, that people forget that the way to FEEL happy is to DO. So get over yourself and take up skateboarding, drumming(which I highly recommend) "mumblety-peg, if that's where your heart lies". Whatever it is though, just get on with it and you'll be allright.
2) If s/he says "you're too good for me", then s/he isn't interested. End of story.
3)Honour thy father and thy mother, unless they're actually beating the crap out of you, in which case you need to call on outside agents to mediate.In all other cases though, take it easy on your folks-you won't regret it later in life.
4)In 90% of cases, cheating is unaccepatable and inexcusable. If you think that your partner is part of the 10% (or whatever random minority)of excusable cheaters, then ask yourself why. Is it because you're such hell to live with that it's a miracle that anyone would date you, let alone stay faithful? If it is , then you have one of two problems; you either have a personality disorder which makes you undateable, or you have such low self esteem that you believe yourself undateable. In either case, you need help, so go to a counselor, therapist, doctor, whatever, just sort it out.
5) Read self-help books. Just take them with a pinch of salt. Seriously, they make great reading, and can give remarkably sound advice, but you must not believe every word they say, or you will very possibly end up resembling , if not actually becoming , a speed freaked zombie wearing day-glo juicy couture. By self help books, I mean any thing which gives you x number of rules to live by, and suggests that the key to fulfillment lies within these rule(a bit like I'm doing now-book my '07 convention early to avoid disappointment.10% discount for advicenators columnists).Books to approach with caution include "The Rules" and the "Surrendered" series by Laura Doyle. But the jewel in the self help crown has to be the beautiful "The Bitch Rules" by Elizabeth Wurtzel. If you can read this book and not smile, laugh, and just feel unfettered joy at living, you are either the aforementioned zombie, or you are living in some banana republic. In either case, you are beyond my help,but I feel you.
Take care!
Lucretia
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Hey, please no wise-cracks. I really don't want to deal with them right now.
Just a forewarning, this is a long one.
Everything at school used to be so easy. Then I got prescribed an anti-acne drug, and hit puberty - somewhere in there something went missing, went wrong. In the years since then, I've kind of slowly lost my purpose, occasionally it would come back, but I have no real "Drive" anymore. That is mainly what worries me. I have become the model of apathy, all the while worrying about it. I suppose that a lot of psychologists would call it depression, and try to make me "better". They would ask if I had suicidal thoughts and everything. The problem is that I live because I am living. I have suicidal thoughts, that don't MEAN anything, and I don't WANT to die - and I don't even know why, because I don't care about much anymore. I care, and I don't care. I wish I had real "fair-weather" friends, while at the same time I can't break away from my poisonous ones. My schoolwork is important, and I screw myself up worrying about it, when I could get it done so much faster without worrying, and be happy in my spare time. I don't even know why my schoolwork is important anymore, but I don't want to sacrifice it, because I know it would screw up the rest of my life. I play computer games, because I don't want to do homework, and I don't have the will to do anything that I need to do, or want to do. I keep a list of things I want to do when I have spare time, instead of wasting my life playing computer games, but somehow I feel that I will never do them, because I just go back and addict myself to a computer game. I know that I NEED to do things, and that I am screwing up my life, and I still just CAN'T find the discipline to DO anything.
So my question in short;
How do I find my will?
How do I discipline myself to do things that matter?
How do I find the courage to make new friends?
How do I shake that constant feeling of knowing I've been put in to boxes, and nobody knows who I am, and actually find people who will help me to feel happy?
Firstly, the fact that you are even asking advice about your various difficulties is a good sign- you have enough knowledge and even understanding of your problems to articulate them quite clearly.
You'll have heard this cliche a million times before, but teenage years really are difficult:I think that they are best described as an "ever-changing limbo" -you have neither security nor real stimulation(which two,contrary to popular belief, are not at all mutually exclusive-in fact, I believe that the one enhances the other).
I can really sympathise with what you're going through-I too was blissfully happy at high school for one year before everything went haywire, for no apparent cause. Sometimes what happens in life can appear quite arbitary- this is however, an illusion. You can act, and I think you already to some extent know how.I agree with milliethu's advice about the video games-but you need to ensure that you don't repalce them with something equally isolating. This site is actually an excellent place-you should try becoming a columnist!(everyone who logs on has the automatic right to do that). In giving advice , which usually has some relevance to your own experience, you can sometimes discover things about yourself that you hadn't fully realised before. It's also quite addictive, and while you don't make friends as such, you get to feel a certain affinity with your favourite columnists. In fact, internet chatrooms in general are a good place to make friends, and will perhaps build your confidence towards making contacts in the "real" world.
Just keep living from day to day, and you'll be allright. Feel free to drop a personal question in my inbox.
The best of luck, Lucretia.
Thank you for your response. I hope that I didn't patronise you by failing to realise that you were probably already a columnist. I have now also added you to my favourites, not in response to your doing that to me, which I would never do, but because I respect your column which had not previously come to my notice. Lucretiax.
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I know some things, but I obviously don't know enough. I enjoy helping people when I can, but sometimes it has to go both ways.
If you look, you will see a columnist named SilentOne with 101 answers has added you to his favourites. I wonder who that could be.
Thank you for your answer. It was one of those long ones which really takes the question in, and gives it back better.
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