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by orangish
written by orangish

I want to be sufficient. I want to do something that matters.

I hate money, and I hate having to need it. I’ve decided I don’t want to go back to school, and I’m OK with that choice. My family thinks I’m crazy, though. If I do go back to school, it won’t be for computer science, even though I have only a few credits left to get a degree.

I like things how I like them. I don’t want a career. I don’t want an occupation. I don’t want a suburban lifestyle.

I want something more self-sufficient. A plot of land somewhere so I can maybe start […]

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Among your greater sorrows let’s still take a minute to mourn yet another significant loss of freedom for me

by The Absurdist
written by The Absurdist

Welp, I “finally” start working on Monday, which is quite frankly an unmitigated disaster. Not only I’ll be alone and hopeless as usual but robbed of about 80 % of my time for the sake of stupefying grinding slavery.

Because life always does get better doesn’t it? Can’t even do anything “drastic” for a quite while, honor bound to certain parameters and whatnot. So the trap is truly and well closed.

Let’s have a toast to a life of ever increasing resignation and small everyday horrors.

Dear office dweller,
Perhaps you like your job? Or even love it?
Perhaps you don’t mind doing it for forty or fifty […]

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Note

by kcmm
written by kcmm

Note

Tonight, I am going to end my life. What follows is the only memorandum I will leave in my absence. Forgive me for the lengthiness of this ‘note’, but just in case there are those who are left confused or puzzled by the decision have I have taken, this writing should clarify the choice I have made.

For the best part of 20 years I have been physically and mentally abused by my family, namely my mother and sister. For the past two or so years, I have been living alone (but not independently), and for the past year I have been, health-wise, in a state […]

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