What are you thinking RIGHT NOW?

[KopsTheTerminator]

While there's usually some truth in self help books I swear I get so easily put off by how absolutely unrealistic they are, "oh yeah I can do this in 20 hours... because I've already stuggled for ages trying to figure out how to do this properly in the first place but yes lolol".

Holy crap, unwarranted optimism pisses me off to no end.

[FireAndSun]

^ I agree. Those self-help books are beyond unrealistic to me. They all act like there's some magical fit-all solution to everything, when it usually isn't that that simple. I won't say they're all pointless, but I feel they don't work most of the time. Plus those self-help folks are often just as messed up as everyone else. They just try to pretend they aren't. This story I found on a website called Narratively just proves that. http://narrative.ly/confessions-of-a-fa ... help-guru/

[Rollo]

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[linnea]

I might see my gurl.... soon

[KopsTheTerminator]

^ I agree. Those self-help books are beyond unrealistic to me. They all act like there's some magical fit-all solution to everything, when it usually isn't that that simple. I won't say they're all pointless, but I feel they don't work most of the time. Plus those self-help folks are often just as messed up as everyone else. They just try to pretend they aren't. This story I found on a website called Narratively just proves that. http://narrative.ly/confessions-of-a-fa ... help-guru/

Yikes, that's pretty bad. But yeah sometimes they do contain helpful hints but the ridiculous claims that "ALL OTHER BOOKS DON'T HELP BUT THIS ONE IS THE ONE THAT WILL HELP... WITHIN 2 HOURS!!" are really just a marketing gimmick because people would like to think that there's a way to do stuff quickly without effort so that sort of crap sells like pancakes.

[FireAndSun]

^ People are either lazy and don't want to put in the work necessary, or they just want an easy fix-all solution because they worry about the hard avenue. I wish there was a magical fix-all for everything, but there isn't. And I hate that self-help books try to capitalize on that. I almost feel like they're scamming people out of their money.

My brother is so rude to my parents, I swear. He acts like he knows everything. That kid has some growing up to do, I swear.

[KopsTheTerminator]

^ I don't even know how I got a hold of this book. I was really looking for something to help me teach myself how to study properly yet walked out of the library with this instead...??? I don't know what my thought process here was besides "I'm self-conscious standing here trying to find something so I'll just walk off with these books".

Welp. Wada Kouji, the main singer used for the original Japanese Digimon anime (and a few dubs, including the Greek one I grew up with), died this year.

I feel old.

EDIT: In fact Sora's Japanese voice actress has died to cancer as well this year, what the hell? I didn't even know either of them were battling cancer considering they still worked on Digimon Adventure Tri. Man, some of the cast just have some much love for the series and it shows. ;A;

[Carl]

"I got a zombie army, and you can't harm me..."

[KopsTheTerminator]

Welp, Digimon just won't be quite the same now. Neither Kouji Wada nor Yuko Mizutani survived to even see the end of Tri, this is such dreadful news and even more dreadful timing. I don't think my heart could handle hearing a finale song sung by a completely new singer for what's supposed to be a Digimon Adventure celebration anniversary, either.

[Gemini]

I have an exam in 24 minutes and I'd prefer to do well, thanks.