longish response and hopefully not too arrogant on my part
@chimerror I honestly think there's an intersection of;
* A lot of "successful" people I know work out to be a lot less successful than they seem on the surface because they run into all sorts of psych issues, and/or how society just isn't built for neurotypical people.
* Any well paying job seems to have BAD crunch times and suddenly coders/lawyers/doctors don't seem quite as enviable.
* YMMV but my elitist grade/high school experience definitely held up the idea that the good, valued kids (and I was not one) had it all together and were therefore far happier (as they not I deserved). But I think that's an artifact, I think that's what I was *intended* to think to motivate me to do what people desired rather than an accurate reflection of reality or how happy the "successful" kids were.
re: self-worth, re: jarring tonal whiplash
@Oneironott It is okay to be happy; no adult is going to notice it then do something to put you back in place or anything like that, if that's what you're feeling.
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dude, someone posted the whole Toto soundtrack. and how can this be?
oh we're Duneposting again thanks to this conversation in the Plaza on Tapestries MU*
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the beginning is a very delicate time. know then that this is the year 10191. the known universe is ruled by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV, my father. in this time the most precious substance in the universe is the spice melange. the spice extends life. the spice expands consciousness. the spice is vital to space travel
the spacing guild and its Navigators whom the spice has mutated over 4000 years use the orange spice gas to fold space, that is, to travel without moving.
oh yes I forgot to tell you the spice is found on only one planet in the known universe, a desolate dry world of great deserts. hidden away in the rocks and crevices of those deserts is a people known as the Fremen who have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah, who would lead them to true freedom. the planet is Arrakis, also known as; Dune.
"This is what it's like to awaken on a Necron Tomb World" uh let's see;
* the alarm goes off several centuries too soon and it's a tinny version of Steve Martin's "King Tut"
* sarcophagus emblazoned with Tomb World 's mascot, Sammy Scarab
* coffee and a bagel are for organics, such things are long in your past
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