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68% (13)Just talking with Mikau now about personal things. I told him about a ritual my friends and I would do if we were feeling particularly down. I dubbed this ritual the "Emotional Mobil Run", because that's exactly what it was.
The low down: Mobil is a 24/7 petrol station on the edge of the city. A fair walking distance for any of us. With exception to one friend, who doesn't know the ritual, so that's all good.
Anyway, the way it works is, if someone is feeling down, they'd contact the person who was either closer or just the one they wanted to talk to. The one they trust the most, if you will.
The two (it is only ever done with two) would meet up somewhere in the middle between their current locations, and they would slowly walk to Mobil, discussing everything that was on their mind. IE: What was making them unhappy.
Once the petrol station was reached,we would purchase a bottle of soft drink each and maybe something to eat. Once done, we'd then walk to the cliff, which hangs above a beach, near the port. This cliff is pretty high, you'd definitely feel it if you jumped, hell, I'm willing to say you probably wouldn't survive if you did a direct jump. If you grabbed some of the trees and what have you growing out of the side, and didn't get hit by a car when you landed, you'd come out reasonably okay.
Back to the point: We'd stand on the cliff edge, and discuss everything that was going wrong, and we'd each exchange ways to fix it. After which, we'd realise it was an ungodly hour in the morning, and return to our places of residence to sleep the rest of the night away. Somewhat contented to get that stuff off our chest.
So tell me, have you and your friends got some kind of ritual like this? If so, what does it involve? If not, wow, you'll find life is a lot kinder if you can actually talk to people about what bugs you.
I can honestly say, the majority of my problems exist because I have no one around who I can actually perform this ritual with now.
Poll: Do you have a similar ritual with your friends?
The polls are now closed.
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Nov 26 2007, 4:50 am
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GoodDoggyTreat
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I just come onto Chat/ters. :\
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I live about 25 miles away from most of my friends because I go to a school near where they live rather than near where I live, so even meeting them halfway between where I live and they live would take a 12 mile walk.
[EDIT] coincedentally, the song 'A Walk' by Bad Religion came on just as I finished that. | |
I listen to pounding bass techno and get high, does that count?
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On a more serious note. I'm clinically depressed and hate my life.
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I personally go for a walk into the middle of no where find a nice place to sit and just watch the sky float past. Back in my days before the army I would take a little weed with me and catch a nice buzz and think about stuff. Now I just think about stuff.
A lot of the time though the simple act of talking to someone else about our problems is enough because we see that we are not the only one with problems. | |
I don't have those kind of friends. :\
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Go for a drive with a friend for our "Burn Cruise" aka Get high.
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Actually I do. Instead of walking to the mobil, me and a friend walk to Subway which is about 10-15 minutes away. We dont really do it when we are down really, but we do talk about a lot of things. On the way we pass our old elementary school. Sometimes we will just sit there and think about the old days. I would trade that for a cliff though anyday. That would seem like a cool place to go.
EDIT: But I have to add in that ever since I started driving the walk has just become a pain in the ass :P. | |
I do drugs. The 'bad' ones, according to everyone else.
@ Jermman: Clinical depression ftw!!! (I has it too) | |
We usually just talk it over a game of 1 on 1 in basketball, and usually end it with a walk around where ever we are. Then just go out to eat, usually the depressed person pays.
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It's been my experience that people who admit to clinical depression, don't actually have it. And I wonder how many of you could actually continue through life without your precious weed.
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I don't believe in Clinical Depression. I think it's just a fabricated lie doctors came up with in order to be able to make a diagnosis, like ADD and ADHD. Those things don't ACTUALLY exist. People who are "Diagnosed" with ADD or ADHD don't actually suffer from some neurological disorder. They're just like that because that's how their personalities are. Honestly.
The so called "Clinical Depression", is simply something to make depressed people not feel so bad, because they can bench their blame on a make-shift disease as opposed to actually realizing "Hey, I could DO something about this!" | |
Dixon wrote:
I don't believe in Clinical Depression. I think it's just a fabricated lie doctors came up with in order to be able to make a diagnosis, like ADD and ADHD. Those things don't ACTUALLY exist. People who are "Diagnosed" with ADD or ADHD don't actually suffer from some neurological disorder. They're just like that because that's how their personalities are. Honestly. Thanks tom cruise, we will keep this in mind. Thank god we have experts like you to keep the rest of the world in check. | |
for once, agreein' with Masterdan
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Makes sense though. When I was a kid, we didn't have ADHD or ADD. We had "wanker" and "poorly raised child". Now, when I was hitting year 12, it was like, "he has a disorder that makes him like that".
I was like "dude, I was like that, a few powerful slaps from my parents beat that crap out of me in no time". | |
Masterdan wrote:
Dixon wrote: I'm sorry Masterdan, but I agree with DDSR here. It's perfectly valid to assume that these 'diseases' aren't diseases at all. You don't need to be a doctor to make a philosophical conclusion on the matter. It's simple, our philosophy on a disorder is limited when it comes to a 'mental' one. I don't think it's nice to consider someone 'insane' just because that's their personality. I've always thought this way about ADD/ADHD and drugs. Simply,anyone can get addicted to something. But it depends on your personality and mental condition to determine how much of an influence it holds on you. Also, stop being an ass Masterdan. You're not cool and no one respects you for posting bullshit like this. | |
That's amazing... You don't know what I'd give to have friends like that....
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Well, me and my friends hop in a car...and drive around, talk about life, destroy "the Man's" property, and get drunk. The only catch is that we're rarely depressed when we do this(the exception being the occasional emo moment by someone in the group).
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I used to do something like that, usually after a heavy night of drinking, not really when I was depressed. But I stopped after I got my license.
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