The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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Welcome to the Motte. When you say "this" is so very tiresome, what is the "this" you are referring to? Existence? Or the navel-gazing that you may be prone to? In my experience eccentricities are what make the world go round. Short of those who are intolerable, I like variety in individuals (and in the end I may be one of the intolerable ones for many).
Also is there not always the opportunity to--once you know what you do not like about yourself--change it? Generally I agree with those who say most people do not change, or, if they do, they become worse, but I don't believe this is true for people who take a sudden decision to alter themselves. Sometimes this is because of an outside event (e.g. someone dies, they themselves almost die, etc.) but it can also be a moment of realization, a quiet epiphany brought on by something otherwise benign. It's possible to do better.
Neither? Both? I want answers, a resolution, good or bad.
I don't know if you are going to be able to get that here. Certainly nothing definitive. Though you may get reassurance--that everyone at some point, or at many points, has experienced and will experience a similar feeling.
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