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[triplestation]

youre kirk lazarus

 

[FreeMufasa]

I remember having this when I learnt about slavery and the historical position of black people. I learned late too

 

[Forkball]

If you think your identity crisis is bad, just wait until your infinite crisis.

 

[_Isaac]

Who's had one?

Just finished uni and i'm thinking that I have no idea who I am, what I truly believe in, where I want to be, what i'm passionate about and what I want to do with my life.

I like alot of things but I don't love many, I spread myself quite thin in general with relationships, friends and hobbies. I like many genres of music that are all quite different and quite enjoy going to anything from renaissance art galleries to gaming expos. I feel as though as I have plenty of breadth but not much depth in my life. Other people around me seem so sure of who they are!

I don't know if I'd call it an identity crisis. For the most part though, I have no passion for much of anything and I don't really truly believe in anything. I rarely have any opinions, and if I do, I usually don't feel too strongly about them. I'm willing to just switch opinions at the drop of a hat, I guess. I am just generally too indifferent of everything for the most part. I don't know if it bothers me or not, but it sure as hell bothers other people.

 

[Wag]

I liked that comic book.

Fuck you ECLIPSO!!!! Fuck you!!!

 

[Conciliator]

I wouldn't really call it a crisis; I'm in a perpetual state of self-identity confusion.

 

[Newline]

plz explain

Well i've been working a few things out, been talking to a few people close to me and trying to get a bit more perspective in my life. Dropping E funnily enough helped me get a bit more perspective.

I'm not a heavy drug user, I don't smoke week and I can count the times i've dropped E using just two hands. I would be lying if I said E didn't help give me a bit more perspective to my problems but that post was rather dramatically wrote, i've been opening up to those around me more which has been the greatest beneficiary.

 

[BakedPigeon]

Thought this was about Thrice. Oh well.

 

[CyclopsRock]

"Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.

Get plenty of calcium."

 

[Newline]

i don't even know who i am or what i value. i'm nothing. i'm worse than nothing, i don't even fill the void that nothingness fills. does nothingness fill a void? i'm talking out my ass.

Lol. Props to you for that, making me sound like a damn piece of melodramatic Lichtenstein artwork.

 

[Pau]

garbage

Thank you. It really is.

Spoiler

So what I might have a signed copy. I had already bought the book... might as well get it signed right?

 

[la flama blanca]

I was born in Ecuador, yet I don't speak a word of Spanish. Because of my complexion and how well assimilated I am, Hispanic people don't recognize me as a Hispanic, but white American people obviously don't recognize me as white either. I grew up extremely poor, but am spoiled beyond belief. I consider myself a true American, but was an illegal immigrant for most of my life. When I was younger it was easier, close knit group of friends, but now in the real world it's extremely difficult especially with my own people. I feel like I am sometimes labeled as some kind of traitor or people think I'm pretending not to know Spanish because I want to seem like I'm from higher class then they are. I should just change my name to John Paul Smith and be done with it.

 

[akira28]

hahaha identity is an illusion. a useful self delusion! hahahahaaaaa...

(this may prove problematic should one elect to explore further. best to just try not to think about it and proceed as well as you can.)

 

[Newline]

My name is Juan Pablo Sanchez, I was born in Ecuador, yet I don't speak a word of Spanish. Because of my complexion and how well assimilated I am, Hispanic people don't recognize me as a Hispanic, but white American people obviously don't recognize me as white either. I grew up extremely poor, but am spoiled beyond belief. I consider myself a true American, but was an illegal immigrant for most of my life. When I was younger it was easier, close knit group of friends, but now in the real world it's extremely difficult especially with my own people. I feel like I am sometimes labeled as some kind of traitor or people think I'm pretending not to know Spanish because I want to seem like I'm from higher class then they are. I should just change my name to John Paul Smith and be done with it.

Slightly similar situation myself, being mixed race (half Jamaican, half white British) i've found it hard to identify fully with either culture. Does pose a problem growing up, I always felt like just moving to a different country and starting again. I've just graduated from University though and now that i've started making decisions for myself i've become a hell of a lot more grounded. If this 'episode' i'm going through has taught me anything it's that I need to carve my own chunk out of life and jump into the driving seat of my own destiny. Less time thinking, more time doing! I guess coming out of uni I had a hell of a lot of time to think about how my life is panning out and obsess over it, now that i'll be starting a job that will have to take a back seat.

hahaha identity is an illusion. a useful self delusion! hahahahaaaaa...

(this may prove problematic should one elect to explore further. best to just try not to think about it and proceed as well as you can.)

I don't really care about the true semantics of 'identity' but more as to what I personally choose to identify with. Trickier that it seems when you're an indecisive fool such as myself. Guess I can't sit on the fence forever, time to start taking some sides

 

[besada]

Other people around me seem so sure of who they are!

They aren't. Most people aren't. The best lesson you can learn as a young man is to understand that most everyone is as confused as you about how to go about life, and the ones who aren't are generally deluding themselves.

Better to grapple with these feelings when you're twenty than forty.

 

[Slayven]

garbage

Let me fix that.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Yo, that comic was so ass. I think it permanently banned rape from DC/Marvel comics forever...and good riddance

 

[Pau]

Yo, that comic was so ass. I think it permanently banned rape from DC/Marvel comics forever...and good riddance

Nope, unfortunately. It sure as hell opened the flood gate of having female characters with rape back stories though!

 

[Newline]

They aren't. Most people aren't. The best lesson you can learn as a young man is to understand that most everyone is as confused as you about how to go about life, and the ones who aren't are generally deluding themselves.

Better to grapple with these feelings when you're twenty than forty.

Sound words!

p.s I love the identity crisis this thread is having, so fitting. Am I about peoples issues, am I about a DC comic. I dunno.

 

[Parallax]

Let me fix that.

I see what you did there

 

[shuri]

Good day, you have discovered that life is really not as deep and special than the medias and movies want to make you think it is.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Reading some good books can also be a big help when you haven't found your own identity.

Do you have any particular books in mind?