17 year old me tried to save a young kid from big waves by going in. Caught his hand, tried to pull him towards me thinking he'd be good, then a wave promptly separated us, was swept on the beach and there was nothing I could do about it.

Kid was saved moments later by pro rescuers. Big respect for them cause man, it's effing hard.

Ouch that one dampened my joy quickly. This is a tragedy.

Currently at Z. What happens if I fail again ?

Being kind does not equate to being naive. And being kind is not about the benefits you get from it either.

I've known loneliness and it was a fucking dark path indeed. Thinking about suicide very often, being depressed all the time, it's utterly destructive. I still bear many scars from that time.

Having some alone time can be great. Being lonely ? Not so much.

It doesn't mean they'd be worse either. Seriously, let people cry over shit. Saying people to relativise all the time is toxic. Not motivating

To be fair, everything about the universe, it's scale and the kind of things like black holes fascinate me but also break my understanding of things.

How would that work, considering even light cannot escape that pull and it is the fastest "thing" possible ?

Do we agree it's stuff that orbited around it and got accelerated but not really stuff that got beyond event horizon and then got expelled (cause unless I've understood nothing that should never be possible) ?

It's not what this says.

"Try hard" is sound advice.

Saying "want to win to win" is, first, false (survivor bias), and also culpabilizing people for failure : it litterally says "you didn't want hard enough".

Survivor bias : Scott Hamilton said after he achieved some victory that he had decided to achieve it. And discarded conveniently the fact that many people who tried as hard as him failed.

To sum up : what a load of crap.

Ah yeah, the good old "internalize your feelings, be strong, never weak, keep positive".

Then one day after all this positivity, you end in ER after a major mental breakdown.

Litterally fuck that. Bad things happen, people get hurt, they should never be ashamed of showing weakness or despair. It's a normal answer to some punches life delivers.

It's litterally "you're unhappy ? Stop."

Not the person you're asking but they bought the rights to adapt a novel, then litterally massacred what made the novel unbelievably good, its ending.

It's a fucking shame cause the revised ending sucks. Why would they do that ?