u/Chengweiyingji

So if I shared a video in, say, a Discord server, anyone who clicked on the video would get a pop up saying “(name) shared this.” I obviously don’t want to be sharing my identity like that - any ideas on how we can get around that?

I paid all my bills and was blindsided by having to pay a higher sales tax to register my car, so I'm left with just about nothing. I want to make sure I can make it to payday next week.

I’m turning 26 soon. I’m dreading it. I feel like I have achieved nothing - no career or career goal, no degree (I graduated high school), dead end job I hate, barely getting by, blah blah blah. But whenever I get close to my birthday, I feel it at its worst. The feeling that time is running out.

I know it isn’t. I know 26 is “still young” and there is plenty of time and all. Lots of people have told me that. But I can’t shake it. I hear about people my age and younger making big movies or other major achievements and I hear about older people finally hitting their stride, and none of this makes me feel better.

And even worse, every time I get the notion that I might want to do something, something in my brain makes up ten different reasons why it won’t work or why I can’t do it. I hate it when people tell me to just start something because I immediately think why it’s a bad idea and I don’t consider it. Sometimes the only thing that seems to stick is death, and I don’t want my life just to be “I was here and then I died.” I get so worked up about it and yet I feel so powerless.

I have had coworkers pull me aside to talk about ambition, I have had people affiliated in my current field pull me aside and tell me to get a move on and I can’t. I feel paralyzed.

An American soldier and a North Korean soldier meet at the Korean border. In an act of kindness, the American soldier offers the North Korean soldier a cigarette and, much to his surprise, the North Korean soldier takes it and lights it. The American soldier watches the North Korean soldier smoke the cigarette for a minute before he decides to say something.

"Say, if you hate Americans, why are you smoking something made in the US?"

The North Korean soldier takes a long drag from the cigarette before he answers.

"My friend, I am not smoking it," the North Korean says, "I am burning it."