How are you doing? - Kiwi Farms Wellness Check

[WhoBusTank69]

I ate the thing I shouldn't have and now feel like a self-inflating life raft. Fuck it I'm fasting.

 

[Zhores Medvedev]

I happened upon an old friend from high school. She was kind of a wall flower and a she really struggled with people bulling her. Highschool in general was really not pleasant for her, but holy shit did she turn it around. She ended up getting a degree in physical science, dropped 50-60 pounds and now works as a physical trainer. It was really cool to see the transformation, we chatted for about an hour at the store and it was the most refreshed I've felt in a long time. Let it be a lesson that you totally turn things around given the time and effort.

 

[Ratboy Genius]

Haven't posted hopecore slop in a while so here is more of that. For the 0.001% of KF users that like it.

Spoiler: image dump

as you may have noticed, there's a focus on social anxiety and self worth issues, and that's because i struggle severely with that
and now some generally wholesome things to hopefully give warm fuzzies:

 

[Taz Tyger]

Doing pretty good. Had a good day at work, ate some good food, got some fresh air, and the weather cooled down a little compared to the past few days.

 

[Ratboy Genius]

Sorry to double post but here's a little story. Recently I went to a zoo. There's a thing where you go into a big enclosure with lorikeets (parrots) holding a cup of nectar, and they flock to you. It's so fun having adorable birdies on your hands, arms, shoulders, even on your head. As I was about to leave, I saw a little girl (age 4 or 5 maybe) and her mom come in with a cup of nectar. I watched as the mom knelt down, and right away a lorikeet was perched on her hand eating the nectar. The little girl stared in awe. Her mom soon passed the cup to her, and they held onto it together. I was worried that she would startle and spook the birds, but as one, two, more and more of them came, she started to laugh and smile. She laughed and laughed in pure delight as lorikeets perched on her arms and shoulders. I couldn't tear my eyes away and I found myself grinning and laughing too. How could I not? Such joy is infectious.

I'm grateful I got to witness one of the moments that demonstrates that life is beautiful.

Spoiler: it's like this (not my picture)

to help you imagine

 

[Jason Wynn]

Family member is starting to really wind down and is getting near the end. Their cognitive ability has declined significantly and they’re essentially bedridden at this stage.

I’m 40 and you try to prepare yourself early on for the future, get your emotions in check for the inevitable but there’s no way to fully accept and deal with the fact that you’re going to lose them soon, no matter how old and mature and “with it” you think you are. You just have to keep going for their sake and do everything you can to make them comfortable and content right now, worry about yourself later. Some days are better than others, but you deal with it as best you can and just focus on one day at a time.

 

[Foltest]

Things are looking up.
Have an interview this week for a job which is not what I really want, but I hope it can open up a door so I can work with my field.

 

[Fascist Kirk]

Since I got my tri-force pink Triangle things are great! my FX trades are winning, My garden is growing, My rooster's are roasting, my hens are laying.

Balance is coming back to the farce

 

[DenseDeerFather]

I'm okay. Increasing my work hours which is a bit intimidating but worth the try. I work kinda low hours due to some shit that happened in 2021 so I've been in the process of rebuilding my everything.

Also tax returns in two days, hurray. My laptop and savings will be fed.

Also got a late birthday gift from a friend of mine.

 

[IKOL]

It's getting better and I've got a raise of my interest in job I'm about to do.
That's pretty much about it.

 

[Slav Power]

I thought my router died. Of course, it's been dropping connection a LOT lately. Perhaps it just needed a reset, but it's also kind of old.

But after a while, it just came back to life. Still, nothing more fun than trying to figure out router instructions when you haven't touched them in a minute (oh, the SSID is on the SIDE? Well, fuck me all the way to Toledo.)

Is it an ISP router or a cheap chink router like TP-Link? Cuz both are known for being dogshit in one way or another. ISP's always go for cheapest AIO shit they can get, and those cheap TP-Links will start going retarded when running for an extended period of time without restarts.

I'm a MikroTik fanboy and I'd shill their offerings, but ehh, they are not for novices so unless you really know what you're doing when it comes to networking then you should go for something like Ubiquiti which is essentially the Apple of home network hardware. My MikroTik has an uptime of 30 days, the last time it got rebooted was for a firmware update. I forget that it's there which is a sign of good networking hardware. Cheap shit that can't handle constant uptime and has issues the longer it's online is not good networking hardware.

 

[Iamthesun]

Besides the alcoholism and night terrors i'm alright

 

[PsychoJenny]

Honestly I'm kinda lonely. I moved to a new area a couple of years ago to re-attend University (late bloomer over here) and I haven't made any friends yet. I mean, I met a younger girl and a younger guy and they're nice but they obviously have their own friends and shit and why would they really want to hang out a lot with an older guy like me? Just kinda sucks. I want to go out and go to bars and have some drinks. I have a lot of friends back where I came from, but internet friends only fill the void so much.

 

[Blarmed&Dangerous]

I'm feeling remarkably sad about the state of the internet. I had a revelation today that the biggest reason we can't go back to the internet culture of the nineties to mid 2000s is trannies. You can't have an old style forum where people just talk candidly.

Either you allow troons and they either take great offense at something innocuous, or insist on posting absolutely horrid tranny madness

OR you disallow troons and you become the kiwifarms, unable to actually be candid or organize offsite because you're constantly hunted by insane trannies for the sin of not accepting insane perverts.

I just miss how things used to be. I miss an internet before trannies.

 

[WASR96]

I'm feeling remarkably sad about the state of the internet. I had a revelation today that the biggest reason we can't go back to the internet culture of the nineties to mid 2000s is trannies. You can't have an old style forum where people just talk candidly.

Either you allow troons and they either take great offense at something innocuous, or insist on posting absolutely horrid tranny madness

OR you disallow troons and you become the kiwifarms, unable to actually be candid or organize offsite because you're constantly hunted by insane trannies for the sin of not accepting insane perverts.

I just miss how things used to be. I miss an internet before trannies.

I know how you feel. One of my closest friends I met through a get together on an old forum I used to be on. Ended up hiring another person from that forum after seeing a post from him lamenting about his workplace never allowing him to use his skillset. It was a really close knit community from 2004 to around 2012 that would flame the shit out of new members who showed up trying to dictate how the site was ran. Some of them would go to reddit to whine about the site being mean to them which is always a sign you're doing something right if reddit doesn't like you. Admin roles changed hands, new admin cracked down and created a "flame free zone" for new members and the site went to shit. It's completely dead now with maybe one new post a year which makes me sad to see, it was amazing back in its prime.

 

[Cranjis McBasketball]

I'm feeling overwhelmed. Interviews, finals and all the shit I need to do but don't do is weighing down on my brain. It makes me want to just shut down and do nothing, but I need to buckle down if I want to unfuck my life. Worst of all I'm worried I can't do it and that I'll be a loser forever. I just need to keep trying.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Had a really good day today, nice and sunny eveerything was fine.

 

[Betonhaus]

I ate the thing I shouldn't have and now feel like a self-inflating life raft. Fuck it I'm fasting.

It's easier when you live alone. like 6 or 7 years ago I went though a deep self-loathing thing and did a pretty extreme diet and actually lost a lot of weight, but towards the end I got dizzy when i stood up and could fit into a size medium despite not being healthy at a size medium.

But then lockdowns hit and SkipTheDishes became popular.

 

[Jew and Women Hater]

Frankly, I’m at the lowest point of my life right now, it’s never been worse than it is now. I understand that all things are temporary, and rationally I know things will change eventually, but holy shit I’m getting my ass raped by life. I’ve gained a lot of weight, haven’t shaved in months, and I’ve been getting pants on head drunk nearly every night just to cope with a recent betrayal. I’m now faced with the fact that I’ve wasted 5 years of my life on someone who turned out to be living a double life. You think you know someone. Had to move cities, relationship with family is rocky, and I’m lonely as shit.
I see a lot of you guys have been having a good time lately, which is awesome, genuinely makes me happy seeing people actually happy and content despite the world going to shit and people being evil everywhere.

 

[Barbarella]

I saw two f-15 strike eagles flying in circles over my neighborhood today. I even got a grainy picture and a 2 second video.

Very cool.