#self-pity

[macrolit]

I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.

Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom

#mitch albom #tuesdays with morrie #self-pity #self pity #feeling sorry #pity #quotes #quote

[catandgirlcomic]

Self-Pity Party

#self-pity #yorick #alas poor #doggerel

[dk-thrive]

How unfair, this life. My wounds are so much deeper than yours. The arrogance of victimhood. Self-pity. Suffocating.

— Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!: A Novel (Knopf, January 23, 2024)

#Kaveh Akbar #hurt #grief #loss #wound #pity #self-pity #victim #Martyr!

[theomnicode]

The self-delusions of Saitama

Saitama: "There's no point trying to provoke me. My emotions have already started to become numb."

Also Saitama when actually provoked:

Saitama, honey, we need to talk about this. This self-delusion and pitying attitude.

As much as your powers seemingly sap away at your emotions, you also can't keep bottling them up and living in this self-deluded state where you think you can't express emotions anymore, because you clearly do and the more you feel this apathetic, the more your emotional control lapses and you become impulsive. This lack of self-perspection and introspection will be your undoing.

This close-mindedness and self-pity too, that King rightfully calls out to be immature and something of his own doing bullshittery, that he supposedly cannot learn anything anymore, cannot learn new moves or cannot get stronger, got directly proven wrong in 168.

He literally got stronger, so strong that he could have destroyed the solar system if he so wanted and learned to time travel.

Fucking time traveling.

Saitama: There's nothing left for me to learn from anyone Also Saitama: *learns how to time travel from Garou*

It's not just a shallow look of himself because he's not wise enough yet, it's also dangerous.

If Genos role in Saitama's life is to provide growth in terms of emotional stability, King's role in Saitama's life is to provide wisdom because in this, he is more mature than Saitama is and has more experience in life, despite not being that much older than Saitama. Saitama's look about himself is coloured by his lack of self-esteem and the alienation his powers bring him, so he cannot perceive himself without those goggles. His situation is difficult in general, but it is not an excuse, not any longer.

He cannot allow it to be an excuse any longer.

The sweet irony of King, who is a fraud hero, lecturing Saitama about heroism and now in 168 Saitama reflected on those same sentiments and found them to be correct.

Real friends will tell you unpleasant truths, not just what you want to hear but what you need to hear.

"Life is a journey with no destination. If you wanna see new things, you have to make a path for it yourself."

Saitama may not consciously know it yet, but the clock is ticking.

Ticking down when it's too late to come to these realizations. How to grow as a person and how to become a true hero.

I am glad that Saitama has found some good friends. Cherish them and learn from them and this is how you can grow, Saitama.

(Inspired by reddit post)

#opm #one punch man #opm spoilers #king #saitama #friendship #character growth #opm manga panels #self-delusion #self-pity #opm meta discussion

[donnerpartyofone]

The Makeup Experiences:

* I was maybe 12 when I first tried to apply some of my mother's eye makeup and lipstick. When she spotted it she scowled at me and sort of hissed, "Are you wearing makeup?" Her attitude was so jarring that I said "No!", ridiculously, and took it off and sent myself to my room. We never discussed the incident or even the subject of makeup.

* A few years later I experimentally put on lipstick and eye makeup to go to school. One of my best friends, with whom I had a pretty one-way friendship in which my main role was listening to him and not really contributing anything uniquely personal (and who had pursued me romantically and later violently denied this as if I were unbearably shameful), saw my face and gave me a little "This isn't the real you" type of speech. I was too embarrassed to ever try it again.

* I started wearing makeup regularly in my late 20s, after I gave in to the fear of looking like "the real me" at my fancy brother's wedding. One of my closest friends was a burlesque dancer and 24 hour glamorpuss. It took me a while to realize that she probably spent so much time with me because she looked way hotter if I was next to her for comparison (I eventually noticed her habit of posting photos of us where I looked extra ugly, which another friend acknowledged). One night at a party at my house, I asked her if she would do my makeup, which I thought would be like a cute bonding thing for us. She seemed strangely affronted by this and said "Uh...sure," and despite her expertise, she just dabbed on this hideous sky blue eye shadow and pink lipstick, and I had to look like a total fucking clown for the rest of the night because I felt bad about taking it off.

Nowadays I almost only wear an eyebrow pencil to fill in the patches of hair I rip out of my hands aren't busy, and some foundation to cover my chronically inflamed skin. I have to say I kind of like the look even though it's all necessity. Now I'm thinking of all kinds of incidents where I turned to another woman for help in feminizing myself and they kind of just preemptively gave up on me and/or enabled me to publicly humiliate myself, but I won't mention them. It's true that I'm a natural tomboy and I don't totally hate the fact that every feminine thing I try to do has to be my own offbeat version of the accepted thing, but I do often wonder what it would have been like if I had had a mom who was interested in me or female friends who were willing and able to teach me more girl stuff.

#self-pity #this has been your early morning overshare

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

Boasting is the voice of pride in the heart of the strong. Self-pity is the voice of pride in the heart of the weak.

John Piper

#self-pity #pride #weakness #strength #boasting #heart #John Piper #Christian Quotes

[hussyknee]

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Still fighting the mortification of having begun my day by traumatizing one kid and then beefing with another. And then whinged while apologizing because I was doing damage control while still half triggered.

I know that having CPTSD isn't my fault even though my actions are my responsibility. And that this was mostly a tragic case of timing. But still. My emotional dysregulation is a source of deep embarrassment. I wish my trauma response was set to flight instead of fight. I'm not brave or anything, my brain just sees a threat and decide it needs killing.

I know I need to disengage badly but I'm no more capable of doing that than I could leave my rescue animals to die out in the street. It's my personal obligation to fill every single deficit of caring in the world, you see./s

I wish that feelings had some kind of currency, rather than being things that begin and end with me, of no use to anyone else.

#knee of huss #personal #self-pity #processing

[suparhythm]

Beyond Anxiey and Self-Isolation

The ceiling fan creaks a monotonous lullaby, a mocking counterpoint to the symphony of anxieties swirling inside my head.Sunlight bleeds weakly through the dusty blinds, illuminating the dust motes dancing a chaotic ballet in the air; each particle a tiny reflection of the disarray that is my life.My reflection in the mirror across the room mocks me,dark circles under bloodshot eyes, hair a…

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[paradoxical-plutonian]

January 3, 2023 

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[myinterestsvary-writes]

That Colleen Ballinger apology video is peak white women tears

#self-pity #woe is me #YouTube #youtuber #colleen ballinger #miranda sings

[agentrouka-blog]

Alayaya was whipped by Cersei's men to take revenge from Tyrion. He stopped it by threatening Cersei. Alayaya was grateful to him. Though he used her as cover to save Shae. In same book Sansa was beaten by Joffery's knights which Tyrion had stopped. But later he married her and molest her. In a way he tried to be savior to these girls but he also was responsible for their assault.

I was first tempted to argue that her whipping was not Tyrion's fault, but... it kinda really was, too.

Tyrion wanted to laugh at her. It would have been so sweet, so very very sweet, but it would have given the game away. You’ve lost, Cersei, and the Kettleblacks are even bigger fools than Bronn claimed. All he needed to do was say the words.

Instead he looked at the girl’s face and said, “You swear you’ll release her after the battle?”

“If you release Tommen, yes.”

He pushed himself to his feet. “Keep her then, but keep her safe. If these animals think they can use her . . . well, sweet sister, let me point out that a scale tips two ways.” His tone was calm, flat, uncaring; he’d reached for his father’s voice, and found it. “Whatever happens to her happens to Tommen as well, and that includes the beatings and rapes.” If she thinks me such a monster, I’ll play the part for her.

Cersei had not expected that. “You would not dare.”

Tyrion made himself smile, slow and cold. Green and black, his eyes laughed at her. “Dare? I’ll do it myself.” (ACOK, Tyrion XII)

He could have had her released immediately. He chose not to. To protect the prostitute he had been warned not to bring along, and because it’s “a game” that he wants to win. He’s angry, but he’s also simply playing and enjoying the upper hand. The threats he makes are ostensibly to keep Alayaya safe, but they have the absolute opposite effect and if he’d tried for a second to think clearly, he would have known. His little power trip even made matters worse for Shae herself.

This is Tywin:

“It was you who had Yaya whipped.” It was not a question.

“Your sister told me of your threats against my grandsons.” Lord Tywin’s voice was colder than ice. “Did she lie?”

Tyrion would not deny it. “I made threats, yes. To keep Alayaya safe. So the Kettleblacks would not misuse her.”

“To save a whore’s virtue, you threatened your own House, your own kin? Is that the way of it?” (...)

“And make no mistake—this was the last time I will suffer you to bring shame onto House Lannister. You are done with whores. The next one I find in your bed, I’ll hang.”

(ASOS, Tyrion I)

Not to make excuses for Tywin here, and Alayaya was obviously violently assaulted before Cersei revealed her capture to Tyrion, but he still provoked the horrific violence she suffered in direct retaliation to his own - unnecessary (!) - threats. Even though he could have had her freed, and chose not to.

There’s an echo of Eroeh and Dany in there, which doesn’t surprise me at all. Tyrion sends Alayaya some nice jewels to make up for her horrible violation and later gets mad that Bron dares have sex with her whens he has returned to her profession. Yeah. Thanks, Tyrion. 

The same inability to see his own responsibility in her ordeal informs his relationship with Sansa, yes. “Yeah, I’m a Lannister, she has no reason to love me, her forced husband. But why won’t she sleep with me? Is it because I am ugly? Let me feel sad for myself that she dared to abandon me while obsessing about Tysha and raping redhaired slave prostitutes in Essos. Waaaah.” 

Perish, villain.

#anti tyrion lannister #alayaya #shae #sansa stark #asoiaf villains #violence #sexism #objectification #self-pity #anti daenerys targaryen #just to be safe

[amazonsart]

A piece of advice from a Ukrainian warrior

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[dk-thrive]

I briefly allow myself a spasm of feeling miserable and contained. Allowing myself that self-pity feels close to freedom. But also, how calm I can be, when I can reorganize myself.

— Kate Zambreno, The Light Room (Riverhead Books, July 4, 2023)

#Kate Zambreno #miserable #down #sad #self-pity #depression #mental health #calm

[the-stoic-goat]

#twitter #@TheStoicEmporer #self-pity #procratication #stoic quote #goats and quotes

[patcegan]

Pitty Pot

Woe to yea who sits on the Pitty Pot woe is me poor, poor me why do bad things always happen to me On and on we go dumping darkness on whatever we pass sucking up sunshine stepping on joy We've all had these times sitting on our thrones of misery refusing to be consoled bathing in our mud of misery How does one break away from this darkness hopelessness, sadness what is the key to joy Prayer,…

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#Christian #depression #faith #grateful #gratitude #inspiration #photography #prayer #self-pity

[wildflowers-inthemeadow]

I feel like shit. Listening to sad music and wallowing in self-pity tonight.

I need this right now.

#crush #unhappy crush #self-pity #me #personal