Recent content by driftboy87

Reaching out to old friends...a subject that's been in on my mind for several months now. Basically there are only four outcomes: 1. You reach out, they're happy to hear from you, or at the very least receptive, the two of you get a conversation going and rekindle the friendship. 2. You reach...

To be honest in my childhood and early teens, I was so fat that doctors thought I would more than likely be bedridden by my 20s. So I know people can lose weight, since I'm still here at nearly 30 and train in krav maga while holding a full time welding position. But I lost that weight because I...

Well, the title pretty much says it all. I had met this girl on OKCupid about a week and a half ago and we got to messaging each other heavy. She gives me her number and we get to texting, in the space of a week we had exchanged almost 500 texts. Seemed to click pretty well. She's younger than...

Yeah, I've definitely discovered that I need to be my own best friend before anything. Self love, whatever you want to call it. This was an alien concept to me for a long time. Sadly most of the adults in my life when I was a child either hated me or just didn't care at all, so it's a lesson I...

I remember how I felt the first time I posted to this site. I was young, confused, and feeling very desperate for some empathy. This time, I don't expect anything. I guess this is going to be an introspection of what I've earned in the last six years. I've matured a lot since 2010. I've come to...

As I've mentioned before, I moved around a lot growing up. New school every couple of years at least. Four different states. Now after 4 years living back in New England, I remembered how much I truly can't stand the people here. I knew this back in middle and high schools and yet I powered...

Be careful with self-help books. In most cases the author is just as screwed up as the intended audience. I read a self-help book once that said exercising daily is as damaging as drug abuse since it distracts you from your true thoughts. Another passage said that if children are giving you...

Hey ALL. It's been about four months since I've joined and I'm happy to say that things are looking better. Here's an entry I posted on an online blog post I used to frequent that sums up the progress: I posted here around 5 times over the last few years, and I figured I would come back and...

I last got rejected for a dating/romantic thing back in December. A very cute girl sat down next to me at work (I was working in a call center) and I literally couldn't keep my eyes off of her. We talked for a little bit and she was pretty cool. Because the place I worked at was run by...

My last major panic attack was what made me get some help. The most important thing to remember is that once a panic attack starts, you can't just shut it out with good thoughts. That adrenaline is already in your bloodstream and you'll have to ride it out. Try belly breathing, it works a lot of...

My experience growing up in New England was much different from yours. Well, I guess it depends on the state. Maybe all of New England was an overgeneralization, but Massachusetts is by far the most miserable place I've ever lived in. Eastern CT isn't far behind. It's not just me either...

Yep, sounds like New England to me. I can't wait to finally get out and STAY out of this place. I graduated high school here, graduated college here. My family are third and fourth generation Nutmegs and Bay Statahs. Almost all of them have moved south and west in the last ten years, as well as...

LMAO @ ColdSoul: Pot killed my father! And raped my mother! :D I smoke it if I've got it, but I'm not every day for months like I used to be back a while. It does make me too lazy, but on the other hand if it wasn't for pot, I doubt I'd have ever finished college, since it made the absolutely...

I guess the takeaway point I was trying to make was that if you put relationships first in terms of your own life worth, you're giving up A LOT of the power you could be using to make yourself happy. I first read that idea about 6 months ago, and it's still sinking in. Now whenever I get a...

Ever since I was seven or eight, I've had periods of months to years of having nobody to hang with, call, etc. Lately has been one of the longer periods (haven't really had a good clique since 3/07, haven't hung out with a close friend since 3/09...and he screwed me outta $15!). People deal...