Dear Niggas, Zokleteers, Totseans, DHers and everyone else
First of all, this is not a "fuck yalls".
I hope you can read this and take something away for yourself. As is the nature of this community, you will definitely make light of this, and that is why I love you all. But please consider it quietly for yourself as well.
Over the past few weeks I have felt a lot of different emotions about a lot of different things. One of the primary subjects of my considerations has been the topic of who I am and why i do amything I do.
Ultimately, my goal is to be happy. Anything I do must serve this goal in the short or long term. If something isnt making me happy, or its making me unhappy, then it is in my best interest to do something else.
But life is more complex than that. Some things make us happy but also hold us back.
I came to thinking about why I participate in forums and social media at all. And I realized that for me, it was because I was an informational sponge and the type of information I could recieve, the ideas I could expose myself to and espouse, in cyberspace was so much more open than in meatspace. In particular, I found this in Totse and Zoklet. I found Totse through some tutorials that popped up on a search engine, and I found something way bigger than that. It allowed me to express aspects of my true inner self with far greater freedom than anywhere else. Thats why I ised these forums.
Recently however, I have lost joie de vivre. Something is missing and I think it is because I am not allowed by society to bring many aspects of my personality into my daily life. I have grown and fleshed these aspects out in this community, and they are not all positive or negative, but they are an important part of me and I cannot live any longer as two, three, four different people.
More importantly, I use this place as a place of comfort; some people "know" me, some dont, but I can always say what is on my mind. But comfort and happiness seem at odds with one another. I have reinforced a lot of negative mental traps through here, because what I found at first to be acceptance of my true self has now become reassurance and comfort in my negative self. I also use it to channel those negatives like a heatsink: I can channel and dump my problems here and walk around like a relatively normal person. And I often find myself now choosing comfort over happiness.
I must bring myself all together and become one. I must cull those negative aspects of my mind. I must find a way to be haply, and I think this place, as much as it has helped me, is becoming a mental prison that I hold the keys to, but I'm not leaving. Well I am now. And meatspace takes precedence because thats the guy I walk around as when I'm not jacked into the matrix.
I see the same problems in many of you but I am not going to call you out. I just want you to know that it isnt pointless to try to change, comfort isnt happiness, and life is out there. If you are using the internet as a crutch, let go and fall on your face, crawl along the ground like a snail and try to replenish your atrophied muscles. I think you will be happier for it.
I dont know, most of this doesnt make sense but yeah. I hope you all do well and find happiness, whatever that means to you.
Later.
Love, Cap