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haha not really but kind of i really like projects that explore common ground. i Love to Relate. so about a week ago i asked you guys if you wanted to do a project with me and a lot of you were down. i sent everyone interested the following: quote:Jimi Changa wrote on Jul 21, 2015 1:56 PM: i got more responses than i expected and i loved them all. i wish i could share them all but im pretty loving serious about keeping poo poo anonymous so i edited out or didnt use a bunch of stuff i thought might be potentially identifying. whats left is still pretty great, imo, and so thank you, again, for sharing. im still accepting submissions so if you didnt get in the first batch thats ok, just send me the answers to the above questions whenever you have time please try not to be a dick or speculate, because im really not into hurting peoples feelings and i'll shut this down if i feel like thats happening and then everyones hard work would be for nothing and you wont get to see all the poignant poo poo your fellow posters are thinking about oh yeah also please be patient with me because im hella busy and just kind of working on this when i can and also feel like it |
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I find being alive the most important thing. It sounds sappy, but I'm always so glad to be alive and surviving in this beautiful world, with people who care about me.
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Jul 27, 2015 22:31
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My happiest memory is the day I bought my house. I did it on my own. It was a great feeling of independence. 
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Jul 27, 2015 22:35
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The most important thing in my life is my job. As sad as it is, I couldn't have anything else in my life without the money my job earns, however little it actually is in the grand scheme of things. So I value my job higher than anything else. If I get a call at 3AM that something's hosed up and I need to go in to help, I'm out the door before I even remember to change out of my pajamas, which I remember because I also forget my keys.
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Jul 27, 2015 22:38
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I would tell my dad that I love him and wish he would get help. The family had already addressed his addiction but when that occurred I was deemed too young to participate. But who knows: maybe my voice would have been a deciding factor. Unlikely but better to have at least tried. The old man never got to see his kids graduate high school or college and I know it was something he was really looking forward to. 
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Jul 27, 2015 22:40
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I'm trying to show her how much I love and appreciate her and simultaneously not be a bum and disappoint her. Here's a picture of a gift she got me for our anniversary recently.
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Jul 27, 2015 22:42
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I used to think the most important things in life were money and success. Then I got those things and realized I just really missed my friends. Now I'm trying to figure out how to juggle all three.
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Jul 27, 2015 22:45
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"I often fear that you wont be able to know if I die. And if that happens, I just want to let you know that you mean so much to me. You've listened to me when I've been feeling guilty for something one should never feel guilty for."
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Jul 27, 2015 22:51
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I haven't always been the best brother but I would like to think that now I can be a decent role model for him; he means a lot to me and I want him to succeed.
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Jul 28, 2015 00:13
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I'll never forget the applause at the finish line.
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Jul 28, 2015 00:18
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My mom came home from work one day and he was choking me. I was unconscious, but she thought I was dead. She snuck into my room that night and told me to grab some clothes because we were finally leaving. 
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Jul 28, 2015 00:43
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A good friend of mine died near the end of college in a car accident and I still think about it pretty often. I'd like to tell him that he is missed and that I think he was a good influence on me in a time where I could have easily headed down a much worse path. Here's a picture I took while hanging out with some mutual friends before he died, where my car's odometer rolled over to the word "BOOBS" which he would have thought was funny, and also made fun of me for laughing at.
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Jul 28, 2015 01:04
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"Thanks for the memories."
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Jul 28, 2015 01:10
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He's the most important thing in my life, no question. Every time he smiles, life is perfect.
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Jul 28, 2015 16:27
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My happiest memory is performing at Radio City Music Hall as part of an orchestra. When I first walked out on the stage to look out on the empty seats pointed at us, I started to cry. I don't consider myself an overtly emotional person, but that wouldn't be the first time I came to tears that weekend performing there to a full house. It was an amazing experience.
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Jul 28, 2015 16:30
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My saddest memory is the time somebody tried to rape me while I was in a bathroom at the bus station on the way to work. I was depressed for a few weeks after that. The worst part about it was that it made it hard to give strangers the benefit of the doubt, which I used to like to do.
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Jul 28, 2015 16:33
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Where I went to college, there was a hill that overlooked a lake, and at the top of the hill there was a fence made of long logs that divided the campus from a golf course. Starting in my junior year, I went up there and sat on the fence and watched the sun set slowly over the lake and the woods and the town and listened to the sounds of sparrows flying home, and the geese creaking their wings overhead, and the wind. I went no matter what the weather was, no matter what was going on in my life, no matter how much work I had. It's the completest commitment I've ever had to an activity that fed a deep part of me.
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Jul 28, 2015 16:38
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I'm approachable and cordial, but internally I'm not a very warm person. I have a hard time getting close to anyone because I don't want to open up to them about my past and change the way that they think about me.
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Jul 28, 2015 16:44
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My happiest memory is when I moved out. I missed my parents, but I loved the feeling of independence. Knowing I'm not beholden to anybody is so freeing, even if it doesn't really mean much for me.
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Jul 28, 2015 16:55
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ChairmanMeow posted:I seem to have more in common with some of ya'll than I thought
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Jul 29, 2015 01:22
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lots to post still but I can only do about 5 at a time without having to take a bong rip to suppress the feels thanks for your patience
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Jul 29, 2015 01:23
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The happiest moment in my life is when I was very young, maybe before teenage years, and I lived a couple miles from the beach. We had a tropical storm make landfall, and I walked the long (at that age) distance to the beach to see what the storm was doing. I could see the waves crashing up the boardwalk and into the storefronts, and the police had put up barricades to keep people out. They were pitiful, I easily hopped one and ran up and down the boardwalk. I jumped into the wind, which threw me backwards and I rolled around while the waves crashed over me. I never felt more happy or blissful as that moment.
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Jul 29, 2015 15:30
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It's ridiculous how happy we are. She's really good at cooking the vegetables we buy at the farmers' market together.
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Jul 29, 2015 15:37
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I got a girl pregnant, and because she was pregnant, I proposed and we got engaged. In the 22nd week of her pregnancy, she started having horrible stomach pain. At first they diagnosed her with gallstones and sent her back home for the night, but things kept getting worse and we ended up in the ER. 22 weeks is right on the edge of viability for the NICU, but our son didn’t make it. Because of the advanced stage of the pregnancy for a miscarriage, she had to be in one of their birthing rooms, so it was just like she was having a full term baby, with the nurses and the doctors telling her to push, except she was completely out of it on all the Xanax and I think maybe Oxycontin they'd given her for stress and pain. I didn’t have any of that though. Someone had to view the child and sign some papers, so I did that. I don’t even remember what the papers were, but I will never forget what that baby looked like…definably human but obviously not ready for the world.
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Jul 29, 2015 15:41
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I grew up an only child and then, for whatever reason, my ma started having more kids after I moved out of the house. Some of my happiest memories have been hanging out with them and watching them grow up. My little brother was born on a weekend when I was farm-sitting for some friends, and it was a very nice weekend.
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Jul 29, 2015 15:47
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I'd probably tell my mom that she did a good job raising me and that I appreciated everything she's done for me.
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Jul 29, 2015 15:57
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"You caused irreparable damage to me and our child, before, during, and after our marriage. Most people say what you did to yourself was senseless. For me it, brought peace I thought I'd never have again in my life. Thank you."
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Jul 29, 2015 16:01
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The most important thing to me is never stopping moving, never giving up, never being afraid to take a leap and never taking the easy option.
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Jul 29, 2015 16:04
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Many years ago I had lost several parts of my life I considered immutable and had to start over in an area totally unfamiliar to me. It didn't work out almost immediately, and I left before I was even there a year. It forever changed the way I perceive others. This is the last photograph I took while living there, and was the total summation of what I owned after leaving, excluding the furniture and speaker.
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Jul 29, 2015 16:08
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My family is going through an excruciating dissolution of shared assets with my financially irresponsible aunt. We're going to have to sell the gorgeous farm my grandparents worked so hard to build just to cover her debts, and she hates us for it. She's accusing my dad (her brother) of never loving their mother.
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Jul 29, 2015 16:10
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I just got my first job after leaving school and I'm trying really hard to fit in and prove my worth. 
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Jul 29, 2015 17:34
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We took a spur of the moment trip to the beach, and we stayed in an ocean front room with a balcony. It was an amazing weekend.
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Jul 29, 2015 17:41
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"I owe everything I am to you. Your strength and compassion inspire me every day. I wish everybody in the world had someone like you showing them how good people could be for no reason."
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Jul 29, 2015 17:56
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"Thanks for believing in me."
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Jul 30, 2015 22:17
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I try to be authentic and not lie about "what really matters" but there’s really nobody that knows me and that's because I've been keeping everyone in my life so compartmentalized. I would really like to end that and just not have to deal with it anymore, but I think I will probably lose a lot if I do.
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Jul 30, 2015 22:20
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The saddest thing in my life is learning my father is dying slowly of heart failure and emphysema. Rather than post a recent picture of him in his decline, here is a picture of a soldier in the Vietnam War having a quiet moment with a beer. He looks like my father did back when he was there. 
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Jul 30, 2015 22:24
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What do you do when your best friend gets married to someone he's incompatible with, and they're either going to hate their relationship or get divorced, and even the latter isn't a good option because he'll probably always lack the self esteem to put himself in healthy relationships?
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Jul 30, 2015 22:32
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My best friend and roommate called me at 2 in the morning to let me know that, after going home to visit his mother for the weekend, he found her dead on the couch. It seems kind of lame that the saddest moment in my life didn't even happen to me, but something in the way he told me what happened and the tone of his voice stuck with me. Up to that point I hadn't experienced much death, and I had seen her a few weeks before in good health.
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Jul 30, 2015 22:38
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"I forgive you for pushing me. We all forgive you for pushing us, for yelling at us, for groping us, for scaring us when you got into your car drunk. But we can't tell you this until you come to the realization yourself that you bear responsibility for these actions and ask for forgiveness. You've used up your free passes."
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Jul 30, 2015 22:45
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I was hysterical with the joy of being alive.
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Jul 30, 2015 22:46
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