[AnnonUSA]

9 Bad experiences that make you better

April 21st, 2008



1. The death of a parent
Meaning, the death of a parent who was actually there and at least attempted to parent you.
What you get: Until you lose your parents you never exactly lose the feeling of being accountable to, or being responsible for, them. You also don’t really think about death or being on your own. You also don’t lose the idea of a safety-net out there to catch you when you fuck up in the real world.
2. Being cheated on in a relationship
One where you became genuinely attached to the other person.
What you get: Sure, you can be bitter and untrusting, but that’s exactly the way you should be about other people. Monogamy is an artificial, unnatural state, that can only be maintained by people who are exactly the same kind of control freak, with exactly the same level of compulsiveness.
3. Getting your ass kicked in a real fight
Having the shit kicked out of you by someone whose intent is purely malevolent, in other words.
What you get: A very clear understanding on why you need to learn to fight well. Also, the feeling of having to prove yourself never leaves you after that, it makes you vicious, a dirty, desperate fighter whose ego cannot handle losing, which is a good thing if you regularly get into brawls with guys on the street.
4. Being homeless
I mean living on the street, with no money and no way out.
What you get: You get an appreciation for how fortunate even the working poor are. Just to have someplace to sleep is a big deal. Life and the world are constantly conspiring to kill you by starvation, by exposure, to drive you to kill yourself, every meal you pay for is a blow struck against them.
5. Being betrayed or abandoned by a friend
Which is a different animal altogether from betrayal in a romantic relationship.
What you get: You get an understanding that every man is an island. That no relationship with people is truly intimate and no one is worthy of trust. No, that’s not an exaggeration, that’s just how people are. They fake affection in order to get other things, and that’s how you need to do it too. Hypocrisy is the engine behind all non-sexual, non-familial relationships.
6. Watching somebody die before your eyes
The act of dying is a separate state altogether from being alive and having a future, and being dead.
What you get: An appreciation for the profound nature of death. It’s a kind of birth, it’s a person being forced out of a familiar place to which they can never return, into a previously unknown state. The dying can see this more clearly than those of us with a little time left. They see the greatness of their fate, the fact that it cannot be altered no matter who you pray to, no matter how many doctors you can pay. A man who is conscious and in the process of passing out of this life is wiser than everyone he he leaves behind.
7. Living in a 3rd World Country
Not like a tourist or an exchange student, but like someone who can’t leave the minute they feel like it.
What you get: The understanding that history and inherited wealth means way more than intelligence and hard work. The Third World is full of intelligent people who work harder than you and who will die poorer than you. There is nothing you can do about it, and there is nothing they can do about it. You learn that no situation is as simple as it looks on CNN or the BBC, that there is no “simple life”, no “vacation paradise”, and that “savages” in the literal sense, do not exist.
8. Complete and total public humiliation
Where you lose your reputation, your job, and where your face is on the front page of a major newspaper, that kind of humiliation.
What you get: A complete lack of interest in what people think, a distance from the rest of humanity that will never be bridged, and an understanding that you don’t need people to like you to survive in this world, in fact, it’s a lot less stressful if they don’t.
9. Having a major anxiety attack/Knowing what it is to be suicidally depressed
Every human being should break down at least once in their lives, and I don’t mean minor blues because you lost your job or your girlfriend dumped you. I mean full-on, wholesale, mental-hospital shit where your landlady calls the cops because your apartment stinks because you have not gotten out of bed to feed the bird which is now a pile of maggots and feathers in the corner of its cage. That kind of thing.
What you get:
If you ever get to the point where you know that you really could kill yourself, where it would be easy, as opposed to the self-pitying call-for-help fantasies that most people consider “suicidal”, then you know that it feels wonderful. The minute you know that you can do it, you are free, you aren’t trapped, you have a way out risks become less risky, you worry less about your cigarette consumption, and life feels more like an option than a fucking prison.



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[The_Egg]

Interesting. But If you experience them all you may turn into a fucking lunatic.

[AnnonUSA]

Too Late!

[Slutter McGee]

5 out of 9 for me.

Sincerely,

Slutter McGee

[scarymoose]

10. Eatting at taco bell
This needs no explanation to why it is a bad experience. The intense butthole burning, extreme stomache churning, or burrito induced diarrhea. After the food has run through your system you will run to the toilet as it gives you the runs. A few days later you can look back on this experience and realize what it is to be in good health.

[elroypornlab]

8 of 9 jesus i was a looser in my day

[katchafire]

6 outta 9 aint too bad I spose.

[katchafire]

and I would say the worse one outta all of mine would be the public humiliation I still cringe about it till this day and it happened like 12 yrs ago.

[elroypornlab]

Mine was being a homeless drug addict scummy shit and seeing some of my old friends and they recognized me so I really got a twofer there

[Gag]

4. I've go some catching up to do.

[Gag]

Worst one for me would have to be when I was like 9 years old.

I was on the zipper at the circus, and I was wearing those shitty tear-away pants that were a fad in the late 90's... Anyways, somehow in the ride all the buttons came undone, and my pants came off, boxers too, and it was a fairly chilly day outside. Anyhow, when I got off the ride, I was bare assed, and the whole line up at the zipper saw my 9 year old dime roll dick and started laughing hysterically. Or a good portion of it atleast.

Do you have any idea how many people wait in line at that fucking thing? It takes like a half hour just to get on that ride. Had to of been close to 100 people.

[Gag]

And to add to the shittiness of that, I was locked in the zipper cage with my sister, baby dick a floppin'.

[Mr Skinner]

Well according to the list, I've made a few people better.

[TheDriver]

Originally Posted by Gag

Worst one for me would have to be when I was like 9 years old.

I was on the zipper at the circus, and I was wearing those shitty tear-away pants that were a fad in the late 90's... Anyways, somehow in the ride all the buttons came undone, and my pants came off, boxers too, and it was a fairly chilly day outside. Anyhow, when I got off the ride, I was bare assed, and the whole line up at the zipper saw my 9 year old dime roll dick and started laughing hysterically. Or a good portion of it atleast.

Do you have any idea how many people wait in line at that fucking thing? It takes like a half hour just to get on that ride. Had to of been close to 100 people.

Underwear?