Who are YOU going to be?

[Kai]

I hope this all gets archived somewhere so we can look at this thread in 20 years and compare notes.

20 years ago, I was online with a group of people I am still connected to today. In fact, many of them have become my closest friends. One of them is now my ex-husband, one is my best friend, and another is my current paramour. They have become my closest community. Last week, we roasted a pig, and people came from the East coast, Puget Sound, and San Francisco just to hang out and party together.

People pooh-pooh this online shit, pixels on a screen and all that, but when it's used to forge social connections it's an incredibly effective people-connecter, and I suspect that most of us will still be talking to each other in 20 years. Strange as that may sound.

I've said before that PD is either directly or indirectly responsible for everything good that's happened to me in the last 9 years.

[LMNO]

I agree. PD is directly responsible for the largest non-musical achievement I have executed so far.


And I'll answer the OP, I just need to think about it.


Why do I seem to remember us doing something similar a while back?

[P3nT4gR4m]

I wrote an email to my future self about 15 years back. I'll see if I can dig it out and post it here for the cringey embarrassment factor. I really was an incurable fucking hippy back then 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I hope this all gets archived somewhere so we can look at this thread in 20 years and compare notes.

20 years ago, I was online with a group of people I am still connected to today. In fact, many of them have become my closest friends. One of them is now my ex-husband, one is my best friend, and another is my current paramour. They have become my closest community. Last week, we roasted a pig, and people came from the East coast, Puget Sound, and San Francisco just to hang out and party together.

People pooh-pooh this online shit, pixels on a screen and all that, but when it's used to forge social connections it's an incredibly effective people-connecter, and I suspect that most of us will still be talking to each other in 20 years. Strange as that may sound.

I've said before that PD is either directly or indirectly responsible for everything good that's happened to me in the last 9 years.

Rock on!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I wrote an email to my future self about 15 years back. I'll see if I can dig it out and post it here for the cringey embarrassment factor. I really was an incurable fucking hippy back then 

Awww that's cute!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I agree. PD is directly responsible for the largest non-musical achievement I have executed so far.


And I'll answer the OP, I just need to think about it.


Why do I seem to remember us doing something similar a while back?

Hmmmm I have no idea. It would be cool to see, if we did.

[Sita]

I think we did something similar in one of the Open Bar threads recently.
I definitely remember getting yelled at for my answer at the time (being in one of my down moods* I think I said something like I'd just be not dead)





*I really have to stop posting when in a down mood. The world always looks doom and gloom and hopeless during that time. And I always end up regretting whatever I've said.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I think we did something similar in one of the Open Bar threads recently.
I definitely remember getting yelled at for my answer at the time (being in one of my down moods* I think I said something like I'd just be not dead)





*I really have to stop posting when in a down mood. The world always looks doom and gloom and hopeless during that time. And I always end up regretting whatever I've said.

The Nigel Rule applies when I feel that way.

I go outside and get cooked to a withered husk by the angry god in the sky.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Anyway, basically, my question is...
what do you look like in 20 years?
What do you do for fun?
What have you accomplished in your life?
Who are your friends?
What is your economic status?
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If I'm still around, I will be a bony old woman and hopefully not too scary looking.
My mom is holding up pretty good, so I'll probably do the same things as now, just slower or less or whatever.
I've managed to raise a couple of decent kids on a fucking shoestring with people trying to fuck with us 1000 ways the whole time. I like to think I've done some good along the way too, even if it was just stuff like taking in stray dogs or giving a couple of bucks to some street bum.
If I like people, I keep them forever until they die or do something so shitty that I just *can't*. So some of the same friends I have now, and some newer ones.
I don't see economic status getting much better without some kind of lucky break, and it could easily get worse. America, etc.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I think we did something similar in one of the Open Bar threads recently.
I definitely remember getting yelled at for my answer at the time (being in one of my down moods* I think I said something like I'd just be not dead)





*I really have to stop posting when in a down mood. The world always looks doom and gloom and hopeless during that time. And I always end up regretting whatever I've said.

The Nigel Rule applies when I feel that way.

I go outside and get cooked to a withered husk by the angry god in the sky.

I don't understand this angry god of which you speak. Does he live on the other side of the great grey water in the sky?

[Ben Shapiro]

I'll post in a few more hours.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I think we did something similar in one of the Open Bar threads recently.
I definitely remember getting yelled at for my answer at the time (being in one of my down moods* I think I said something like I'd just be not dead)





*I really have to stop posting when in a down mood. The world always looks doom and gloom and hopeless during that time. And I always end up regretting whatever I've said.

The Nigel Rule applies when I feel that way.

I go outside and get cooked to a withered husk by the angry god in the sky.

I don't understand this angry god of which you speak. Does he live on the other side of the great grey water in the sky?

Water in the sky?   

[The Good Reverend Roger]

This is what happens when you don't control your water.  You let it run around loose.  You won't have it when you need it, because it flew away.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

This is what happens when you don't control your water.  You let it run around loose.  You won't have it when you need it, because it flew away.

We also have a whole bunch of it lying on the ground, getting in the way.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

PD is 169% of the reason I write.  And looking back on my early stuff, it's been a big help in every way.