Maybe.
Day 29:
Hey, that's pretty brillo! Never thought of recording yourself and scheduling the publication.Venusy wrote: βWed May 15, 2013 6:20 pmFor those of you reading this from after November 15th, here is that video. The horse mask was only there briefly, but YouTube thumbnails still thought it was important. For everyone else, here's the letter I based it off (sent with the video as a FutureMe email).
Yep, that's the part of your brain that gets triggered.PonderSketch wrote: βWed May 15, 2013 10:23 pmMy eyes tend to go up or up and to the left. That's where my memory's stored? Neato.
Public transport works great too!Also, thanks for the eye contact advice. I imagine it'll be easier to practice with people you are just passing by, as opposed to people you're having a face to face conversation with.
I would certainly be game for something like that. More arting means more getting more better!
Sweet!
I took a really long time with those two as well. I'm sure you'll think of something though.Nightsong wrote: βThu May 16, 2013 12:42 pmI know everyone else is coming to the end of the challenge, but I just finished day seventeen. It took me most of the day but it seems my most important values are resilience, decency, diversity, love and happiness. Tomorrow is call of the cutie mark day and I'm so worried all I'll be able to write is 'nothing' over and over again...
You've dug in pretty deep and unearthed some gems, just keep digging and you'll find something even more preciousNightsong wrote: βThu May 16, 2013 12:42 pmI know everyone else is coming to the end of the challenge, but I just finished day seventeen. It took me most of the day but it seems my most important values are resilience, decency, diversity, love and happiness. Tomorrow is call of the cutie mark day and I'm so worried all I'll be able to write is 'nothing' over and over again...
Woooohoooo
Where do you live?Aracat wrote:My only regret is that Isaak is on a different continent, which is most definitely out of hug range.
I always wanted to go to a chiropractor
Go Ponder Go !
Go for it! It's never too late or earlyKirinith wrote: βFri May 17, 2013 4:35 amI know it's way too late by this point, but between going through the throes of graduation and trying to put everything in order, I wasn't able to work up the time or the nerve to post here yet. Reading through this thread has been a wonderful experience, and it's inspiring to know that so many others are having the same problems I am. Now that I have more spare time to throw around, I'm definitely interested in giving these steps a go myself, and I really wanted to thank Isaak for putting all this together, and everyone who took part in this for all being such cool dudes.
Thank you, Isaak, for leading us on this Interesting journey.
Nightsong wrote: βFri May 17, 2013 4:02 pmWell, my first attempt at day eighteen (cutie mark crusade) got metaphorical fast.
Why am I here? What is my purpose?
I have no purpose. I have no reason for being here. I am nothing.
To make my parents happy?
To experience life?
To hide how empty I am. To pretend to be a real person with hopes and dreams and passions and a purpose.
To build a bridge over this hole inside me and get to the other side. To find out who I am without the black hole of depression and self-hatred swallowing everything I try to fill it with.
To walk with firm ground beneath my feet - a sense of self-worth.
To nourish the real me that's at the bottom of that black hole.
To grow past the confines of the black hole into a fully grown tree that has a place in the landscape.
The only bit that had me in tears was facing this empty, unfillable emptiness inside me.
Besides which, I just don't know what any of that means practically. Why couldn't I just write down 'read a lot of books' or something? I'm going to take another crack at it in a minute.
Sometimes it is right before you, but you may have to sort it out from all the other things in front of you. Other times, it is inside or under something, which requires a bit of digging around. And yet other times, it is entirely outside of your present knowledge, and finding it means expanding your view to entirely new areas.
Nice! I find myself turning the pages of the notebook every now and then and recapturing what I felt like writing things down.PonderSketch wrote: βFri May 17, 2013 11:38 pmI'm cautiously optimistic about the future. Having something like this waiting for me half a year down the road offers some additional motivation. Current Ponder has some high while still being realistic expectations for Future Ponder, and by the time I become him, I don't want to have let what would then be Past Ponder down. I tend not to think that far ahead, which has led to my current life. I need to continue keeping the future in mind, and hopefully this will help me do so. If it works, I'll probably continue to write notes to myself half a year down the line, giving myself new subgoals to strive towards in order to get me closer to achieving the big ones.
Thank you! These past 30 days have been a pretty wild rideThank you for putting this together, Isaak. You are an awesome dude. It's been getting me to think about the important things, which, unfortunately, I wasn't very good at before.
I would totally join you in this if I had the money and no other commitments.
Thank you Perpetual Lurker for being the reason Isaak brought up the challenge in the first place, and I'm sorry you didn't have the time to devote to the daily challenges. I'm glad it sounds like you're starting to get a hold of things anyway. We'll all be here to offer guidance and support when you need it.
Abluh? Aaah I'm awake I'm awake!
I feel you're trying to seek intrinsic purpose in life and, using your knowledge about the world and how you arrived at this present moment, concluding that there is none. That is okay. It's alright to hold that view. Some people live carefree and with no greater purpose and it never bothers them. For those who do desire a purpose but don't have one, though, it can be depressing...Nightsong wrote: βSun May 19, 2013 5:28 amI'm still stuck on day eighteen. I can't think of anything non-metaphorical that I'm here to do. I'm here because my parents decided to have a kid. That's all. Everything is random. I'm not here for any special reason. I just am.
It's very frustrating. I was so hoping this day would provide some important answers for my life and I'm getting nothing.
Thank you, we should hang sometime again
It's going to take a while before I can, but I'm in no rush
Haha, I guess I did. It's easy to lose perspective on it. Thanks for reminding me.
I'm so happy for you!ScionVyse wrote: βSun May 19, 2013 1:38 amAbluh? Aaah I'm awake I'm awake!
I haven't been posting my stuff here too often, but it's done! I just generally don't have the time to do much anymore.
But anyways, thanks a lot for this Isaak! You're awesome and this challenge was awesome! It was a good push that I really needed, and it's already done a bunch for me!
Nightsong wrote: βSun May 19, 2013 5:28 amAdding my thanks to Isaak
I'm still stuck on day eighteen. I can't think of anything non-metaphorical that I'm here to do. I'm here because my parents decided to have a kid. That's all. Everything is random. I'm not here for any special reason. I just am.
It's very frustrating. I was so hoping this day would provide some important answers for my life and I'm getting nothing.
This is what happened to me, sort of: I got about 3 days in and then got sick for about a week and felt like I fell too far behind, given that each activity takes a good chunk of time (30 minutes or more, depending on what's involved) and I missed, like, 7 of them in a row. It's funny 'cuz I told my therapist "I'm participating in a thing and we're doing it together as a group and it's gonna be great. " and then started to feel sick after I left his office.Lhet wrote: βMon May 20, 2013 7:01 pmBit of feedback about the whole thing though: A lot of these were super time consuming, and it was really hard to catch up after missing a couple weekends spent away from my computer (especially considering the extra time spent pursuing new goals/habits). Also the challenge really didn't really support catching up (A lot of challenges could only really be started in the morning, almost every one asked about how yesterday went).
Related - I'm on day nineteen (took a few days off because I got busy). I also took another crack at day eighteen today and still couldn't come up with anything. I wrote over a page of things I could do with my life, and had absolutely no emotional reaction to any of them. I know I can skip this day and move on to other days, but it's really bugging me that I do not have an answer to this. In fact, it's been bugging me since long before the challenge. Ever since I left university I have felt like my life is purposeless (and therefore worthless) and it really upsets me. I don't really know what to do about it.Momar wrote: βWed May 22, 2013 2:39 pmFYI, so people don't lose track of this thread, it will be unstickied and returned to The Fence Post on Friday.
Also, can I get a list of people that are still going, and what day they're on? This thread is going to remain open until everyone who wants to finish is finished.