u/selfstudyingALevels

It was Mario Basanov/Marijus who truly captured my emotional state when I was 16/17 in 2013/2014, and his music opened the doors to the rest of my music taste. I’ve loved him and his amazing eye for music for a long time, and I love this duo. It was wonderful to see them on my second day wandering around Užupis and Vilnius’s Old Town by myself. I took myself to Vilnius’s TV Tower too and listened to his Antidote Experience set from August 2020 at the top of it, living out the wonderful cinematography and drone footage of Vilnius with his music capturing my imagination for years. I gave myself a quite extended stay in Lithuania, and I ‘accidentally’ fell in love with this entirely non-depressing, atmospheric, lively, homely, burgeoning, mystical, truly unique gem of a place in the world. I even could feel and see influences of your surroundings and the atmosphere of Lithuania in the music I enjoy as a whole. I did not expect myself to come to fancy Lithuania so much, and it’s now a ‘pipe dream’ in me to try to find a new life outside of the UK, namely over there (contingent really on me learning the language above all else). I felt such a deep peace in rainy, always pleasantly cool Trakai in early June. I thought I’d share this random (unexpected) development in me… I was alone there, and I felt happier than ever. And I didn’t even see Nida.

As the title says. Does anybody out there have a pair of the Indestructible Mitts, and would you be willing to sell it?

I’m health-oriented though also disgusted by animal matter perceived/viewed as ‘food’… It doesn’t compute much in me at this point, after such a long time away from it. This way of being to me isolated me while I was at the university I was in and will generally always persist as a hurdle for me in becoming ‘socialised’… I’m pleasant or outwardly not somebody you’d assume is completely isolated/friendless (I don’t exactly ‘look’ like a vegan in my view, and I’m usually thought of as a pleasant/handsome face, eh. I tell myself my jawline, lol, and the skew to my physiognomy, if I’m to put what I’m getting at very vaguely, makes me appear to others like I’m leading a simple or mundane life circumstance and am your generic, omnivorous guy). I essentially am saying I feel pretty anomalous or like the reality of my wider traits (not related to veganism) further exacerbates the isolated life I live as somebody who excludes animal matter from his palette… There’s a lot about myself I’m not touching on. I’ve posted in the past on this subreddit before, on an old/now-deleted Reddit account, on which I was a lot more open or revealing about myself and who I am, to an embarrassing and dumb extent. Anyway, I felt like rambling or typing this on my phone, out to open air, in a bid to gnaw away at my isolated circumstance… I struggle deeply to imagine having the company (I mean to say female company) of omnivorous individuals, in reality, despite wishing to appeal to pleasant people who aren’t vegan eaters themselves. I’m a dietary vegan, but I don’t call myself the V-word these days and only state I’m a ‘whole foods fully plant-based’ eater/person instead. I quite simply care a lot about nutrition and follow the advice/principles of Joel Fuhrman with the Nutritarian diet and Michael Greger, of course. That’s all. I bulk-buy whole foods and healthful powders online a lot, from Forest Whole Foods/WholeFoodEarth, etc. Being this health-concerned way happens to have made me be a cleaner-eating vegan for almost 7 years, but I’m also completely grossed out by the smells made by animal matter cooking in any case. I am this way from a disgust response in me over animal matter smells and tastes (it isn’t appetising to me at all), on top of knowing the damage I’d be causing to my body from ingesting anything not helpful for me.

I care a lot about the quality of what I eat, that’s it, but this is alienating for most people. It’s a very tough or upsetting situation for me, internally, as I’m very lonely in life and there are many I’d wish to know in the world or be likeable to who, of course, aren’t vegan eaters or anything like the way I am in my bubble…

IGF-1 spikes, heavy metal/microplastic/chemical exposures, AGEs/advanced glycation end-products, PAHs/polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons affecting us even from smells as animal matter is cooked, etc… Suboptimal health effects are all I want to avoid by being the whole foods (fully) plant-based eater/vegan I am, which is in a way which is quite rooted in matters external to human constructs or societal matters (aka from science). I’m simply in this as science happens to point to this way of eating being healthiest. I supplement widely too (with Heights and their multi-micronutrient/multivitamin, Vitals, and all sorts of other compounds like quercetin, astaxanthin, gluathione, mushroom powders, lutein, sulforaphane from freeze-dried broccoli sprouts from Sky Sprouts, etc.)

Basically, I’m a pretty ‘straight edge’ guy, to an alienating-for-most extent, or I try my best to be so and do better in this regard daily.

Final thought: I absolutely hate hailing from London and desperately wish to get out of this city after a lifetime here, eventually. I’m put off from going after shared experiences within this environment/this city.