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"To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to others is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.

But risks must be taken,
because the greatest hazard in life is to do nothing.

The person who risks nothing,
does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing.

They may avoid suffering and sorrow,
but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.

Chained by their attitudes, they are a slave,
they forfeited their freedom.

Only the person who risks can be free"


this is how i feel.. i'm a nobody.. i'm nothing..

This is SO Beautiful!

You're anything but a nothing and a nobody, ShawnWilliam.

And don't you forget it!! !

i should clarify that I didn't write it.. i stumbled upon it.. but suddenly it described how i feel exactly.. im so emty inside because i risk nothing.. im such a waste of life.. i dont laugh or cry.. or dont risk being rejected or failing.. ughh..

thank you though..

Just the same a good feelings pass, so do bad. Don't feel bad. Let it fly away from you. You are free to be you at each new passing moment. Leave the past behind and only see the possibilities of tomorrow. We can get caught up in tornadoes and hurricanes, or we can hunker down until the storm has passed. The storm of sad feelings will be over soon. Relax, take a deep breath and trust.

i'm not sad.. im depressed.. because i dont see any happiness in tomorrow.. or the day after.. there is nothing good coming my way.. my life is full of nothing.. everything i work towards is for nothing.. i seriously want to die.. maybe i will..
be myself?.. never.. not in this place.. too many godamn distractions.. and i get stupider with each passing day.. my mind cant focus on the things i want.. im so uninspired..

I have a long history of depression, which I now more think of as sadness. It's different for everyone. I'm very familiar with the feelings you're talking about. I only know that some days feel worse than others and the worse days seem impossible.

I'm sorry you're feeling so bad. You can get through it. Sometimes it doesn't seem worth it, but then the next day something beautiful happens and you think back on the very bad time you barely got through and you say, god, I wouldn't have wanted to miss this. Hang on, it always passes. Something beautiful will happen.

What beautiful thing?.. nothing that I want to grace my life does.. I understand you have to work for these things.. and i lose the courage just thinking about it.. my extreme loneliness will be the death of me.. i cant have anything i want because i cant work for it.. i just dont have it in me... UGH.. this really really sucks.. fuckinoqi3jr9930-040044^#%&Y% it's not even about not being lonely.. it's about wanting certain things so bad and realising i dont have it in me!.. it's enough to drive me crazy.. being so self diluded.. there's nothing about me worth appreciating anymore..

thank you for listening though... -_-

Okay...but I'm sitting with you anyway and believing in you.

You're not alone...even if it feels like you are.

I share similar feelings so I understand what you're going through and how you feel.

I would attack Kamchatka. Their defenses are weak and they will give you an easy in into North America.

thank you *hugs*

i think your very good in playing guitare and singing i would love to have that talent

I thought this thread may have been about the board game.

**Hugs** you back. I hope you're feeling better today. I'm thinking of you.

awh, you're very sweet.. I am actually feeling a tiny bit better given that i stayed up alll night without sleep and am still going.. mainly just to switch over my sleeping schedule.. AND it seems as though I may have a job very soon.. i talked to my old boss..
although i am very confused right now and feel torn inside.. at least it feels okay to know things aren't sucking me down the whole way.. i did put a little extra effort in, but still im confused.. im not sure if my life will turn out how i wanted it to, and im sure many people have this problem.. but you see i placed all my hopes and dreams in music, but the more i reach the further away it goes.. i feel so unbelievably hopeless.. i feel myself going into a cave that i never wished to go, enjoying things that i previously forbid myself to enjoy because I was too proud.. im sure it doesn't make sense on the surface. But I hope this is a step towards maturity.. even given all that information, i wont give up on my dreams.. i made a promise to myself that i intend to keep. . and I even feel silly posting about all this on here. . it's just not something that someone who is strong and can accomplish his dreams would do.. i constantly feel stupid. But I suppose things are as they should be right now.. I'm just not sure when rock bottom is truly rock bottom.. it scares me to think that things could get worse .. if i try to accomplish my dreams then they will. What a desperate moment this is.

Any how, aside from that rambling I think im okay for now, I just have so much thinking to do.. ._. I hope I have it in me to fulfill ONE goal in my life.. I owe it to myself, and I need to prove it to myself.. but then when i think that way i get scared of failure.. ahah.. even though i understand failure very well is a part of success... *sigh*

That was good for venting.. i think ill be spending less time here and on the internet in general, but I surely wont abandon it.. Thanks again aspiartist

Last edited by ShawnWilliam on 13 Sep 2008, 3:42 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Thanks buddy ahaha

That's great news! Your strength and courage is very evident and you did well to not be alone with it. You can have both. Maybe move more toward the type of work that would be more of interest to you, but always find time to develop your creative accomplishments. You have great depth and I admire that in you.

I need to spend more time elsewhere for the same reasons.

Thank you for being a friend. I'm sure we'll cross paths again...