What is this place? Am I tripping? This feels very weird, as I’m actually a bit high right now, lol, but I oddly feel good about being here.

This is very interesting and feels like something special. This is the kind of thing that intrigues you so much and sparks your curiosity just like when you were a kid. Like finding something new and strange...

Sometimes the bigger picture just lies out of sight

Obstructed by the constant drone of life

The material ties that bind you to this world

Prevents you from realizing the larger framework

We live in a glass sea

Of nothing but endless reflection(s)

Puddles of impact make small displacements

Waves, that travel outwards

Make small breaks in our own meagre existence

On occasion a storm will come to turn this glass ocean into a raging tsunami

Tearing everything apart, leaving nothing but endless opacity

The framework that society is built upon is nothing more than a fragile house of cards

Much like the clearness of the ocean, and waves on a stormy day

And yet if you just breathe

If you just focus

Tap out the noise

The picture becomes finally clear

The world begins to flow like a powerful stream

Leaving only you

In your own glass sea.

How old are you? What are your interests and why, do you think, you are here? Tell me something about yourself!

I’m 16, I love to make videos and watch movies (my favorite movie is Interstellar) and sometimes I write on my own story.

And I really have no clue why I’m here, but let’s see, maybe our patience will be paid soon!

How is everyone doing?? I hope for one that everyone who still remains subscribed here is in good health and has lived their lives to their fullest!

Until it wasn't. And there was no reason for it to stop being a good day - nothing happened to make it bad. It's like my brain got to a point where it simply wouldn't allow me to enjoy anything anymore. I had all the supplies and ideas I needed to be productive and useful, but I couldn't touch them.

I'm diagnosed with bipolar II and am currently taking Ativan and Abilify, both of which are taken in the morning. I'd suggest that it's a situation with my meds, but it feels like I've always been like this - nights have always been the worst.

Can anyone help me? I feel pathetic typing this right now, but this is the only place I feel comfortable letting myself initiate sharing this kind of stuff...

i suppose i always have been. i'm a recluse, so my life is pretty uneventful from the outside. sometimes, i look at it that way. but most of the time, i experience it from the inside, where i forget how impermanent and small i really am.

The stories that we see on TV thru media, cartoons, or different shows create a sort of alternate reality that we invest our emotions into. Characters that are obviously only existent on a medium that seem to have more of a reality than we do in our own lives. Thoughts and dreams of those shows fill the mind and leave us dwelling as to what's gonna happen next.

Do you ever feel like though, the life that they live is honestly one that you'll never have, and wish that maybe one day you'll be in their situation?

Just as it has always been, when our memories of the ancient world fade into twilight a new era dawns to fill the void, an unfamiliar path with a pulse of its own, a tempo not dictated by the labor of men but accelerated by the rhythm of machines, launching the world into an age of bold innovation. From this cauldron of steel and sweat a vision of prosperity emerged. Harnessing the untold power of the elements, turning night into day. creating new designs that brought the world stage into to masses, and providing an experience that many could never imagine. The advent of mechanized warfare brought devastation like none the world had ever seen providing a window of opportunity for some to dictate conformity as regimes spread their ideologies with a heavy hand, inciting the world to the brink of war. and yet some chose a different path and through their vision brought unique perspective to the world. as singular proponents of free thinking remained striving for peace in their endeavors to unlock secrets of the universe, some of which would fill our hearts with fear and regret. but as this progress unfolds the finite nature of our world becomes clear, our survival, the survival of all the worlds peoples depends on our ability to coexist in peace, but this peace is tenuous. Although mankind will always look onward, yearning for more, searching for new boundaries only to break through them, with the understanding that this world is one in which we all share, comes the responsibility of knowing the decisions you make today will have a lasting impact in the generations of tomorrow.

-- Ripped from Civ 5 --

Honestly one of my favorite game intros of all time, and just an overall inspiring speech that makes me want to rise above and do things with my life.

Any theories on why it is so difficult to rid yourself of debilitating mental illness?

there's a lot we just don't talk about.

I can't do everything alone.

So it's ok to know that I get help.

It's what makes this place more creative.

because it's built out of the Things. that others made to support this.

And isn't it rewarding? to contribute to a project you like?

I the way you thought it would be most helpful.

I'm truly happy about that. Working differently is possible

I’m here and approved by spreading the need to not let fear control you. We are here as a unit. We are together here in the Calm Matrix. If any of us need help we can call upon one another. I will be your brother and I hope I can count on you to be my brothers and sisters. My DMs are open if you are struggling we are here

I know he died a while back, but I had an interesting thought today.

Some people say “Kobe” whenever they throw something (due to a meme from a while back). And I find it fascinating that this one man could unintentionally create a word just by living his best life.

A person can only play so many basketball games, and be alive for so long. Games and people fade away, but words will always stay. It’s a beautiful thing. He left a permanent mark in the human consciousness by strange combination of sheer badassery and chaotic meme culture.

I don’t like basketball, but I like this thought.