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My life has fallen apart - temping in the most boring job ever, love life dead, getting embarrassingly fat, smoking and drinking way too much... When I returned to London back in May, I had so much hope and optimism and ambition. Summer was wonderful and I felt blessed. It was always sunny in my world, each new day brought promise, sparkle, I was always smiling. More recently have been very depressed. No, that's not true, more just numb. I don't like this feeling, but something inside won't let me shake it off. Yesterday, strolling through lovely Bloomsbury, the weather shit, my mood at a new low, I just thought fuck it. I feel like such a failure and I'm lost and feel like I have no control over my life anymore.
In a few days I fly out to India. One way ticket. I've given up. But the prospect of a winter of this blackness is too much to bear.
So this is a goodbye for now. Will try my very hardest to not post, except maybe on the book thread, and absolutely zero whines of tropical ennui, promise. I'm thinking I'll have a pop at writing a book. All my friends seem to be working on one, mostly about sexual despair and giant billboards, and I wanna join the party. No doubt whatever I manage to produce will be total shit, but so what, this is for me. So that's my plan - maybe write a book, and come the New Year figure out what the fuck I wanna do with my life.
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Good luck Vikram - I'm sure India (and escaping the aggressively dismal London autumn) will help you get your mojo back. Have a fantastic time out there and get yourself back in shape - I reckon everything else will flow from that.
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Good luck with it mate - whatever you are looking for I hope you find it .I'll have Tania ready for your return - keep us posted when that is.
Anyone up for a whip round to send Snorton off to find himself - Like preferably in the middle of a minefield? Can't wait for the day when your at lowest so we can all stick the knife in - you might learn some humility.
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Sorry to hear that life is quite so poor at the moment - are you sure you have thought this through? I would imagine that having no plan in India will be much the same as having no plan here, except cheaper, better weather, more diverting, but with fewer of your friends around. If this is not the case, and it's a considered move, good luck, and I hope that it helps you get out of what sounds like a fairly dismal rut.
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I should have said this sooner, Vikram, but recently you have been "OK" in my book. You don't have to go to India. I'm fine with you staying in London and continuing to post.
If this means you lose the deposit on your ticket or something, I'm sorry about that. See you on the boards...mate.
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a change of scenery can be a good way to revive your energy i wouldn't consider making such a hard decision 'giving up' - more like tackling your challenges from an alternative perspective 'sides if it doesn't work more material for your book. safe journey.
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: That's just small, and mean, and totally uncalled for in these circumstances.
Small? Maybe. Mean? Certainly. Uncalled for? Brr. There are only a few people on here whose aqueous humour I would like to remove with a rusty spoon, and Vikko is one of them.
Being in any way kind would be like Tony Blair saying "he was a good guy" if Saddam kicked the bucket.
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I wasn't going to contribute to your thread, Vikram (not being around much anymore, I didn't think it would be appropriate); however, Samuelnorton’s brilliant marketing campaign on your behalf - his clever use of playground cattiness to engender sympathy for your plight - has drawn me in. So, good luck, I hope it all goes well for you in India and you find sufficient inspiration for a novel.
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Do you actually know what this means? It's like Ben used it once when ripping the piss out of you and you decided to adopt it as your own but, having no idea how to effectively deploy it, you just randomly thrown it into sentences whenever you feel like and to be honest I'm embarassed for you when reading your fat-fingered attempts to use it effectively or even correctly.
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I don't know you and I know nothing about you Vickram, BUT! I always admire people who instead of complaining about how their life is and doing sweet f a about it, get off their butts and make some changes. So, basically, GO YOU! I hope it all goes really well for you and you find what you're looking for.
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quote:Originally posted by Bamba: Do you actually know what this means?
When I use this term is meant to provide a textual illustration of my blood running cold. Which was what I felt when Thorn suggested that my post was "uncalled for". I don't know in what context Benno uses it, nor do I care.
Now stop playing forum policeman and fuck off.
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quote:Originally posted by Bamba: Do you actually know what this means? It's like Ben used it once when ripping the piss out of you and you decided to adopt it as your own
And I stole it from London. I also stole 'Eh.' from Thorn. The only thing I've been able to coin for myself was the use of a line of capital Xes to signify a division within a post. Oh, and 'I don't know.' as an ungracious way of expressing sketicism about what someone's just said without going to the trouble of constructing a proper argument. :eyerolls:
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Good luck Vikram whatever you choose to do.
I'd add that the short period you've been back from your travels hardly seems sufficient time to have decided that you're a failure of any sort, maybe you should eat some oily fish and take St John's Wort or something, but I can certainly understand your desire to flee these shores at this time of year.
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quote:Ben And I stole it from London. I also stole 'Eh.' from Thorn. The only thing I've been able to coin for myself was the use of a line of capital Xes to signify a division within a post. Oh, and 'I don't know.' as an ungracious way of expressing sketicism about what someone's just said without going to the trouble of constructing a proper argument.
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The best thing I ever stole from ben was the line "Back then, a six pack was six cans of lager held together by a series of plastic rings, not the tortured abdomen of a latent homosexual".
I've used that loads of times: passing it off as my own and then basking in the subsequent applause.
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