Stress and Greed
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The more stress you get, the more greedy you get.
Because of living in your past, your present gets afflicted with mental diseases that no doctors could diagnose. It becomes a vicious cycle whereby one would buy stuffs to pleasure oneself and hurts oneself financially, most of what we buy is not a necessity but of greed and gluttony. Release the shackles of burden, breathe in and out, look into the windows view. Appreciate your health and your youth. One does not steps into this life to suffer, to be addicted to gaming and movies. Break free, and live again. Unleash the real you, the one that has been dormant for all these years, afraid to be hurt again. What you see is what you want, what you think is what you are attached to. But you control what you do, for what you do is the only thing that matters. Your past does not defines who you are. You do not have to release stress if you do not take in stress. You do not have to spend if you already appreciate what you have. Last bumped on Apr 27, 2022, 7:02:17 PM
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7/10 would buy again!
Current Build: Penance Brand
God build?! https://pobb.in/bO32dZtLjji5 |
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Seems like a thinly veiled buyer's remorse take...
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
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my shoes are 20 years old. They're comfy, but they're absolutely falling apart. The leather insoles died in pieces over 2 years ago, I'm walking around on the jute batting. The sides are fissured and cracked and let all the elements in, but I only wear them indoors now. Still comfiest shoes.
During the pandemic I looked at my shoes and said, "hey if I'm good to you, you'll get me through until I can go out and try on some proper new ones, right?" And they lay there in silence obediently waiting for my feet, because I'm old and batty, but not so batty that my shoes talk back to me. Well, now they are literally rotting away. This has been a wet and cold spring, and my shoes are legit sodden and stinking of mildew. My feet feel raw and stank after wearing them doing chores. They're still comfy, and our wood floor is in poor condition and has splinters. So I wear them but they are going through a fetid premortem phase. Should I go out and brave the shops to get new shoes? Should I order online, knowing that it's safer because you're not trading germs across a pair of display shoes, but also not fun if the pair you order arrives and it's not quite a good fit, or lumpy, or pinches your toes in some unforeseen way? (It's not quite that simple, I have old foot injuries from football and fallen arches, so shoe buying is a major hassle even in the best of times.) [19:36]#Mirror_stacking_clown: try smoke ganja every day for 10 years and do memory game
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" Keen shoes are very comfortable. I especially love their sandals and hiking/walking shoes. If that isn't your thing then buy a new pair of the brand you like. Also, you may want to look into getting arches for whatever shoes you decide to buy. Good luck! Over 430 threads discussing labyrinth problems with over 1040 posters in support (thread # 1702621) Thank you all! GGG will implement a different method for ascension in PoE2. Retired!
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https://linktr.ee/wjameschan -- everything I've ever done worth talking about, and even that is debatable. Huh. My mace dude is now an actual cultist of Chayula. That's kinda wild. Last edited by Foreverhappychan#4626 on Apr 21, 2022, 6:24:58 PM
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" Correct. I bought some earplugs which I need together with more D&D books on impulse which I do not need. |
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" This is one of my favourite and most enduring real-talk perspectives from Terry. Always has been. Sort-of-on-topic: My better half marched me out and made me buy some replacement shoes. The exact same size, model, and materials as the ones I bought decades ago. the moment I slipped them on, it was clear that wearing despair and squalor strapped to my feet for the last few years has taken its toll. The arch supports, lateral and plantar contouring, and insole cushion felt alien and weird, in a mostly good way. fwiw they're Ecco oxfords:  . I have not addressed the soles of my winter boots, which began as a GOOD pair of boots (not Sgt Vimes' proverbial cheap gunboats) but 12 years of cement have destroyed. The uppers are fine, but the nature of non-slip soles is that they are lifesaving on floors coated with grease, ice, or water, but wear 3x as fast on virtually every other surface. A bit of poking around suggests that it might be cheaper just to buy a new pair than to try and resole these. Might be - it took me almost as long to find a pair that fit the last time around, due to the misaligned fractures and fallen arches and shit. I like these old boots, and would hate to see them go to waste. [19:36]#Mirror_stacking_clown: try smoke ganja every day for 10 years and do memory game
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I have unusually fat feet, which has caused me no small measure of discomfort and pain growing up (Australia=school uniform=very inflexible black shoes), so when I buy shoes I waver between the quality argument and comfort. When you have fat feet, these aren't always the same thing.
And as you have no doubt surmised, I am an incorrigible creature of habit, so when I find what works, I really stick with it. I wore the same leather sneakers for almost 10 years and across four continents. They carried me through 6 years of university, through the piss-thick mud at metal festivals, up and down endless stairways in Japan's endless shrines, and finally several weddings (they were JUST formal enough to pull it off). Then they died, and I had to buy replacements. Thankfully something very similar was still on the market even a decade later. I haven't bought shoes in person in forever. I dread the day I can't find shoes like those. Not that I've actually worn shoes in months. Don't go out much and when I do, thongs suffice most times. Straya. https://linktr.ee/wjameschan -- everything I've ever done worth talking about, and even that is debatable.
Huh. My mace dude is now an actual cultist of Chayula. That's kinda wild. |
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Yeah ordering shoes online may work for some, but I've got just enough asymmetries and podiatric misdemeanours to make blindly ordering and trusting my feet to untried goods, risky.
One foot is 1/2 size larger than the other, a good deal flatter, wider, and exorotated than the other. The right foot still has a bit of arch left, is narrower, but the 3 outermost toes are all hammered sideways from a poorly healed 4th metatarsal distal head fracture. Basically broke my foot playing Ultimate Frisbee, and it didn't heal right because I took the brace off too soon and was walking around on the side of my foot to ease the pain of it not healing right. Even when I go to the shoe store with the orthotics specialist in person, she rolls her eyes and instructs the staff to pretend she joined the Foreign legion or was pressed into jury duty. JK I try to be very respectful with folks whose job it is to deliberately break up pairs of shoes and mismatch the sizes and handle people's nasty ol feets all day. As the foot is the foundation of everything you do all day everyday, you should not feel guilty about going the extra mile and hassle to get the best fit shoes, the best care for your feet. And the folks who keep your feet in serviceable condition deserve your utmost respect. They're literally supporting you. [19:36]#Mirror_stacking_clown: try smoke ganja every day for 10 years and do memory game
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