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what would you say are the highlights of your life so far?
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2019-02-28 at 7:33 PM UTCActually I'll just kind of throw together a bit of chronology/timeline:
2008: I enroll in some high school night classes.
2009: I start taking some first year uni classes as well.
2010: I'm done the high school classes and am now exclusively taking uni classes. Also, my heroin use starts increasing, but it's still not an every day thing yet.
2012: I'm about wrapping up my final credits. I also start working in a (cognitive psychology) research lab and doing an honors thesis. I'm also deciding which grad schools to apply at. I also end up switching to IV heroin, and am using pretty much every day at this point.
2013: I get my B.A. I also make the switch to (prescribed) methadone.
2014: Mostly a blur until winter time, which is when I make the executive decision to wean myself off methadone rather quickly, and use heroin to help taper (irony levels over 9000). December of 2014 was my last time using any opiates whatsoever.
2015: Working odd jobs, living out of a van. Later in the year I start teaching myself to code.
2016: Move into an apartment and keep learning and coding.
2018: Manage to stumble into a paid gig.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-02-28 at 7:38 PM UTCthis morning when i got stoned and ate some cheese enchiladas and 5 minutes ago when i just ate some etizolam off of a pencil. more to come
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2019-02-28 at 7:46 PM UTC
Originally posted by gadzooks Actually I'll just kind of throw together a bit of chronology/timeline:
2008: I enroll in some high school night classes.
2009: I start taking some first year uni classes as well.
2010: I'm done the high school classes and am now exclusively taking uni classes. Also, my heroin use starts increasing, but it's still not an every day thing yet.
2012: I'm about wrapping up my final credits. I also start working in a (cognitive psychology) research lab and doing an honors thesis. I'm also deciding which grad schools to apply at. I also end up switching to IV heroin, and am using pretty much every day at this point.
2013: I get my B.A. I also make the switch to (prescribed) methadone.
2014: Mostly a blur until winter time, which is when I make the executive decision to wean myself off methadone rather quickly, and use heroin to help taper (irony levels over 9000). December of 2014 was my last time using any opiates whatsoever.
2015: Working odd jobs, living out of a van. Later in the year I start teaching myself to code.
2016: Move into an apartment and keep learning and coding.
2018: Manage to stumble into a paid gig.
Your turnaround is both commendable and inspirational. I bid you good fortune for the future. May your success never be reversed, and you find the solace I hope yet to attain.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-02-28 at 7:58 PM UTCVery nice, gadz. Well done.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-02-28 at 8:35 PM UTC
Originally posted by tee hee hee Is it a trip somewhere nice? Meeting someone special that changed the course of/your life? Getting a job promotion you always dreamt of (lol i know it's nis but still..)? Or maybe getting an award for kung fu or your art? Etc. Feel free to share.
One highlight of my life was when I was traveling solo in Taiwan. Probably one of my happiest moments ever.
I studied Chinese enough to at least have basic conversations. My written is not so good, but I was still able to talk to native speakers about different places in the city that I wanted to visit, and talk about the weather, and ask directions, and all that good shit.
One of these people told me about a massive day long hike up to the top of a mountain with an absolutely amazing view overlooking city/mountains/ocean, so I decided to go.
The hike was through some pretty thick jungle. It was a mixture of hobbly dirt and rock paths and massive, massive stretches of stairs. Idk if you guys have ever started climbing stairs and not been able to see the top, but it's pretty fucking imposing. There's stairs for hours and hours because otherwise it would be rock climbing. I think it was like 10,000 feet at the top but I'm not sure how far I hiked exactly. Took me about ten hours total. I saw quite a few monkeys and even a very rare to see species of fanged deer (muntjac). Lots of different butterflies and bugs and interesting plants, like the sugar palms which actually smell like sugar, or the giant corpse flower which is infamous for it's stink (wasn't in bloom though.)
At the top there was this white temple type building with benches and a rest area. Amazingly, nobody was there. I decided to climb the stairs to the roof and have lunch when it began to drizzle, which was the best fucking thing ever. Sat on a bench, opened my umbrella, and proceeded to have some local jerky and a beer while I looked over one of the most dramatic landscapes I've ever seen in my life.
I actually started laughing because I was so fucking happy. I felt like I had taken drugs, but no. It was good to honest waves of natural and hard earned euphoria that I've probably only felt a handful of times in my life.
That night I went to the night market by my hotel and made friends with a sausage vendor, who started hooking up my sausages FAT every day after that because I was eating at least one a day every day I was in that city. It's a red sausage with a rice bun and pickled garlic, cilantro, onion, and some type of savory spicy sauce. Took one of those back to my hotel room with this seafood coleslaw things, some fried squid, and a small bottle of fresh star fruit juice (with pulp!) It was maybe five or six bucks total.
Took a cold shower and fell asleep in bed watching Naruto in Chinese. It was easily one of the most satisfying days of my life, and I cannot wait until I'm able to do it again. I got some tripe noodles the next day and sat in the park feeling really tired and content. Absolutely worth the hike. It made me realize I need to move to an area where I am able to do that more regularly, so that's what I'm working on doing right now. -
2019-02-28 at 8:48 PM UTC
Originally posted by GGG One highlight of my life was when I was traveling solo in Taiwan. Probably one of my happiest moments ever.
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I wasn't totally sure if I should share specific moments like this or just macro trends in my life. I just went with macro trends kinda arbitrarily.
But I'm glad you mentioned this story because now it's got me thinking back for similar occurences in my life.
I haven't been anywhere with wild monkeys running around though. :( -
2019-02-28 at 9:11 PM UTCThat sounds amazing G!!
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2019-02-28 at 9:18 PM UTC
Originally posted by gadzooks I wasn't totally sure if I should share specific moments like this or just macro trends in my life. I just went with macro trends kinda arbitrarily.
But I'm glad you mentioned this story because now it's got me thinking back for similar occurences in my life.
I haven't been anywhere with wild monkeys running around though. :(
Lol they're actually kind of annoying and gross.
The first time I saw wild monkeys there was on a different trail which has a fuck ton of them. I wasn't sure about how close I could get. I started going up this one path and there was a monkey blocking it, so I started creeping up to see how close I could get. Was standing still when this old ass Taiwanese dude comes jogging down the stairs like 2ft away from the monkey and it gives no fucks.
So I went up the stairs, really nervous about this monkey, and it still gave no fucks.
Later on I walked into a troop of about 20 of them and there were baby monkeys screaming and fighting and falling everywhere. The adults were grooming and playing with their genitals and assholes. One of them had a massive fucking abscess on it's already big, bright red ass.
It was then that I realized how much we truly have in common with these animals. -
2019-02-28 at 9:19 PM UTCI once had 2 sisters at the same time.
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2019-02-28 at 9:21 PM UTC
Originally posted by GGG One highlight of my life was when I was traveling solo in Taiwan. Probably one of my happiest moments ever.
I studied Chinese enough to at least have basic conversations. My written is not so good, but I was still able to talk to native speakers about different places in the city that I wanted to visit, and talk about the weather, and ask directions, and all that good shit.
One of these people told me about a massive day long hike up to the top of a mountain with an absolutely amazing view overlooking city/mountains/ocean, so I decided to go.
The hike was through some pretty thick jungle. It was a mixture of hobbly dirt and rock paths and massive, massive stretches of stairs. Idk if you guys have ever started climbing stairs and not been able to see the top, but it's pretty fucking imposing. There's stairs for hours and hours because otherwise it would be rock climbing. I think it was like 10,000 feet at the top but I'm not sure how far I hiked exactly. Took me about ten hours total. I saw quite a few monkeys and even a very rare to see species of fanged deer (muntjac). Lots of different butterflies and bugs and interesting plants, like the sugar palms which actually smell like sugar, or the giant corpse flower which is infamous for it's stink (wasn't in bloom though.)
At the top there was this white temple type building with benches and a rest area. Amazingly, nobody was there. I decided to climb the stairs to the roof and have lunch when it began to drizzle, which was the best fucking thing ever. Sat on a bench, opened my umbrella, and proceeded to have some local jerky and a beer while I looked over one of the most dramatic landscapes I've ever seen in my life.
I actually started laughing because I was so fucking happy. I felt like I had taken drugs, but no. It was good to honest waves of natural and hard earned euphoria that I've probably only felt a handful of times in my life.
That night I went to the night market by my hotel and made friends with a sausage vendor, who started hooking up my sausages FAT every day after that because I was eating at least one a day every day I was in that city. It's a red sausage with a rice bun and pickled garlic, cilantro, onion, and some type of savory spicy sauce. Took one of those back to my hotel room with this seafood coleslaw things, some fried squid, and a small bottle of fresh star fruit juice (with pulp!) It was maybe five or six bucks total.
Took a cold shower and fell asleep in bed watching Naruto in Chinese. It was easily one of the most satisfying days of my life, and I cannot wait until I'm able to do it again. I got some tripe noodles the next day and sat in the park feeling really tired and content. Absolutely worth the hike. It made me realize I need to move to an area where I am able to do that more regularly, so that's what I'm working on doing right now.
that does sound amazing. i had similar experiences and i was totally sober for an entire month (other than doing a tab of acid once) while there for the first time in forever so i felt either extremely anxious or extremely euphoric the whole trip. -
2019-02-28 at 9:26 PM UTCI took a shit once and when I wiped the paper came back cleanThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-02-28 at 9:27 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-02-28 at 9:28 PM UTCThank you for sharing G! 😚
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2019-02-28 at 9:32 PM UTCknocking one out to op
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2019-02-28 at 9:38 PM UTC
Originally posted by OG_GREENPLASTIC_JOHNSON_III that does sound amazing. i had similar experiences and i was totally sober for an entire month (other than doing a tab of acid once) while there for the first time in forever so i felt either extremely anxious or extremely euphoric the whole trip.
Damn that sucks. Idk if you remember but I weaned myself off all of my bad habits a month before going so that I wouldn't have any problems lol. It worked out pretty great. I was kept busy enough that I didn't really crave anything but a tallboy of
Taiwan Beer (brand) before bed. DID cave and buy cigarettes a few times, but that was it. I even dumped out most of a bottle of kaoliang jiu (local sorghum liquor) because it was gross and I didn't really wanna get drunk anyway. There was so much I wanted to do. No time for hangovers.
Being active is so important for your mental health. -
2019-02-28 at 9:39 PM UTCOPPY has yet to post her highlights...
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2019-02-28 at 9:41 PM UTCBeing in Nairobi, partying with and fucking a hooker, spending mad money and going around all the hot clubs in the city.
I remember being in a cab and looking out at all the poor niggers on the street and realising "wow, this must be what life is like for rich people". -
2019-02-28 at 9:42 PM UTC
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2019-02-28 at 9:42 PM UTC
Originally posted by MORALLY SUPERIOR BEING V: A Cat-Girl/Boy Under Every Bed Being in Nairobi, partying with and fucking a hooker, spending mad money and going around all the hot clubs in the city.
I remember being in a cab and looking out at all the poor niggers on the street and realising "wow, this must be what life is like for rich people".
Nairobi?! Cool. -
2019-02-28 at 9:49 PM UTC
