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still looking for geek advice | by roquentin | 2002-04-28 09:45:47 |
| geek advice? |
by sonofabusch |
2002-04-28 10:49:17 |
...maybe it depends on how you define geek; there may be some people here who call themselves geeks and are capable of offering good advice, but that probably comes from the non-geek components of their personalities...
your question could be addressed on many levels, from the flip and superficial (why? ... why not?) to the profound, philosophical, and even religious.... speaking only for myself, I think there have been many times in my life when the biggest thing keeping me alive was the 'fear factor' -- a religious belief in an afterlife, and a serious 'thou shalt not' from a higher power......
my life is still not perfect; sometimes I think it's pretty crappy, but on reflection, I would have missed out on a lot of good things if I had killed myself the first time I was dumped by a girl I thought would be the one true love of my life (I have since married someone better -- 25th anniversary coming up!) or if I had killed myself the first time I was laid off from a job I really loved and thought I would stay at forever.
There are many things I'm still not happy about, and I don't know whether things will get better or worse. I don't have a great desire to go on living for a long time; I don't want to be old, decrepit, and useless; but I also know that I have made some bad decisions in the past and am capable of making more -- the decision to end my own life would certainly be bad and irrevocable.
I hope something in these meandering thoughts might be useful; I enjoy reading your comments (even with the typos!) and hope you will hang around and keep on contributing to the board. |
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