
FrothySolutions
There's no gym for my squandered youth.
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"Memento Mogee" or "Tell Me What You Don't Like About Yourself"
From the start of 2019 all the way through to the end, I'm gonna try to inventory my day. I'm gonna try to do this every day. Probably at the end of the day to make sure I've inventoried everything. Or maybe I'll do multiple posts in a day. I don't know yet. But at least for today, January 1st, this is my journal. A year in the life of me, an oldcel called FrothySolutions.
Why am I doing this? Because Master over on Incels.is said I could. Now he did say this over on Incels.is, but I figure if it's allowed there, it's allowed here. And it's probably safer to post it here because Looksmax is a little more open to what might be considered bragging. And if by some crime of nature I ascend, I can't post that over on Incels.is.
Nah, but seriously folks, I'm actually afraid of getting burned for worship. Which is another thing Looksmax is more open to. And Offtopic is pretty safe out of the way so this shouldn't bother anyone. But why make a journal at all? Because I gotta take stock. "Self-authoring" I think they call it. The years are either speeding by, or stretching out so far that stuff I thought happened in 2017 surprise me to reveal themselves to have happened in 2018. So if I write down my whole year, I'll have an actual record of what did and didn't happen, down to as minute and inconsequential the details as I choose. Thoughts that come to mind, attempts at doing things like a normal person, and so on. And I can look at what I did, the results I got, ask myself if I like those results, and if not? Make the necessary adjustments in 2020. Suppose I was inspired by Uninstall over on Incels.is. His saga of rejections. Maybe I wanna build my own sandcastle. My own small but gradual labor that grows into something big. Not necessarily interesting, but still, wow, he posted, like, every day, didn't he? Something like that. Or maybe I just feel the need to sperg out and this is my outlet. Or maybe if I put the words out in to the ether, a solution will come to me somehow. If I can get it out of the tangled and random cluster of impulses that is my mind as soon as possible, and get my hopes and dreams and fears into plain text.
***
So it's the start of a new year. And there's something electric about it. Because a new year is just pure potential, isn't it? There's this feeling of "Anything can happen! I'm so excited to see what will happen!" This even affects the lowly incel. Maybe not the same as the privileged, but maybe at the start of the year the incel feels just the slightest lowering of inhibition and says "Well why not? Why not go to that bar? Just to see what happens?" Inn't that what the New Year is about? Inn't that the main appeal? Just seeing what will happen? And that's how it is for me too. Sometimes a year seems short, but I think if I write it all down I'll be surprised at how much stuff can surprise me in a year. So maybe I can try and put some purpose behind these days.
In the incel community you've probably heard of something called a "memento mori." It's basically some kind of image or thing or whatever to remind you of your mortality. And I always thought that was kind of a fucked up way to think and live. "Just a reminder: Don't get too happy because you're probably gonna die someday!" The incel community is full of "daily reminders" like these. And they're just the most minor of annoyances for me. But there is this one "daily reminder" that really speaks to me personally. It just perfectly encapsulates everything I want and why I can't have it. And that's why it's my exception to my rule about memento moris. I call it a "Memento Mogee." A reminder that I am mogged by the young, and their hang is not my hang. Even though I want it to be.
Here it is. This scene from Varsity Blues.
I would never creep on high schoolers, what I'm trying to recapture is a shot at college, not high school. But it's still pretty close. This bald guy,about 20+ years older than everyone there, is trying to be part of the crowd. He graduated in 1980 and that party is taking place in 1999. Yadda yadda yadda, the main Wide Receiver for West Caanan hits him in the nuts. Everyone laugh. I do think there's purpose in remembering certain limitations. As long as it's something more than "Everything is pointless because of human mortality." For instance, remembering your limitations might be important if you decide to fight a dragon. It serves the purpose of keeping you from getting eaten or barbecued or kept as a pet. Or hit in the nuts. But I think what really keeps me re-watching this scene is because I want to know my limitations and the things I don't like about myself so that I can know what my problem is and hopefully try to address it. Or take my problems to someone who can help me and get them fixed. I wanna say to someone "I feel like Robert Lott in Varsity Blues. What do I do? How can I be happy?" Maybe 2019 has the answer.
From the start of 2019 all the way through to the end, I'm gonna try to inventory my day. I'm gonna try to do this every day. Probably at the end of the day to make sure I've inventoried everything. Or maybe I'll do multiple posts in a day. I don't know yet. But at least for today, January 1st, this is my journal. A year in the life of me, an oldcel called FrothySolutions.
Why am I doing this? Because Master over on Incels.is said I could. Now he did say this over on Incels.is, but I figure if it's allowed there, it's allowed here. And it's probably safer to post it here because Looksmax is a little more open to what might be considered bragging. And if by some crime of nature I ascend, I can't post that over on Incels.is.
Nah, but seriously folks, I'm actually afraid of getting burned for worship. Which is another thing Looksmax is more open to. And Offtopic is pretty safe out of the way so this shouldn't bother anyone. But why make a journal at all? Because I gotta take stock. "Self-authoring" I think they call it. The years are either speeding by, or stretching out so far that stuff I thought happened in 2017 surprise me to reveal themselves to have happened in 2018. So if I write down my whole year, I'll have an actual record of what did and didn't happen, down to as minute and inconsequential the details as I choose. Thoughts that come to mind, attempts at doing things like a normal person, and so on. And I can look at what I did, the results I got, ask myself if I like those results, and if not? Make the necessary adjustments in 2020. Suppose I was inspired by Uninstall over on Incels.is. His saga of rejections. Maybe I wanna build my own sandcastle. My own small but gradual labor that grows into something big. Not necessarily interesting, but still, wow, he posted, like, every day, didn't he? Something like that. Or maybe I just feel the need to sperg out and this is my outlet. Or maybe if I put the words out in to the ether, a solution will come to me somehow. If I can get it out of the tangled and random cluster of impulses that is my mind as soon as possible, and get my hopes and dreams and fears into plain text.
***
So it's the start of a new year. And there's something electric about it. Because a new year is just pure potential, isn't it? There's this feeling of "Anything can happen! I'm so excited to see what will happen!" This even affects the lowly incel. Maybe not the same as the privileged, but maybe at the start of the year the incel feels just the slightest lowering of inhibition and says "Well why not? Why not go to that bar? Just to see what happens?" Inn't that what the New Year is about? Inn't that the main appeal? Just seeing what will happen? And that's how it is for me too. Sometimes a year seems short, but I think if I write it all down I'll be surprised at how much stuff can surprise me in a year. So maybe I can try and put some purpose behind these days.
In the incel community you've probably heard of something called a "memento mori." It's basically some kind of image or thing or whatever to remind you of your mortality. And I always thought that was kind of a fucked up way to think and live. "Just a reminder: Don't get too happy because you're probably gonna die someday!" The incel community is full of "daily reminders" like these. And they're just the most minor of annoyances for me. But there is this one "daily reminder" that really speaks to me personally. It just perfectly encapsulates everything I want and why I can't have it. And that's why it's my exception to my rule about memento moris. I call it a "Memento Mogee." A reminder that I am mogged by the young, and their hang is not my hang. Even though I want it to be.
Here it is. This scene from Varsity Blues.
I would never creep on high schoolers, what I'm trying to recapture is a shot at college, not high school. But it's still pretty close. This bald guy,about 20+ years older than everyone there, is trying to be part of the crowd. He graduated in 1980 and that party is taking place in 1999. Yadda yadda yadda, the main Wide Receiver for West Caanan hits him in the nuts. Everyone laugh. I do think there's purpose in remembering certain limitations. As long as it's something more than "Everything is pointless because of human mortality." For instance, remembering your limitations might be important if you decide to fight a dragon. It serves the purpose of keeping you from getting eaten or barbecued or kept as a pet. Or hit in the nuts. But I think what really keeps me re-watching this scene is because I want to know my limitations and the things I don't like about myself so that I can know what my problem is and hopefully try to address it. Or take my problems to someone who can help me and get them fixed. I wanna say to someone "I feel like Robert Lott in Varsity Blues. What do I do? How can I be happy?" Maybe 2019 has the answer.