I would live a much more peaceful, happy, and productive life without constant internet blatherwick, but I'm just so starved for human interaction and discussion that this is all I have left (if my wife and I didnt see each other for half of every day, most of the time we would qualify as complete hermits with little to no social interaction other than the internet).
People trying to be nice and avoid your problems has clearly not worked for you. If you had suggested for one moment you were
satisfied with your life, we would not be having this discussion. This isn't about whether or not I'm better than you. I don't know you. I can't judge. But when someone suggests something like WFE is "all they have left", they need help.
And Brent, forgive me for saying so, but I find it hard to believe you were some dashing and debonair man about town before your finances fell apart. There is little, if anything at all, I've seen you say or think that you wouldn't have said or thought 8 years ago.
(also, there are people in this thread who get it.)
Patito, of course I play WoW because I enjoy it. But I am also happy with my life. If I were unhappy with my life and I could not honestly say WoW was improving things, I would be on the lookout for a new hobby. I'll expain further. Some may remember
this post.
Do you know who that wiser-than-me individual was? An old woman I met in an Oprah's Book Club study group I found on meetup and attended one day because I was bored. We were discussing the Time Traveller's Wife, and this woman, who had been married 45 years and was still in love with her husband, dropped this science on us which added more perspective and insight to my life than years' worth of posts of WFE whose personalities I already know and experiences I've shared. It is only through new experiences and change that people are capable of growing as human beings and it's only through growth that we're able to become happy. That is why they want you to read Catcher in the Rye in 10th Grade.
