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Hi Strangers or let’s say my future SO, this is kinda funny kasi I’m posting this over the internet to look for my SO. Anyway, are you tired of being in relationship with an energy vampire (emotionally immature, toxic)? Are u also tired na ba sa temporary people lang? Then let’s end that era na and tara na sa walang hanggan.
About Me: - Emotionally Matured they say I’m too grounded, and serious - Loves adventure, movies, and heart2heart talks - Looks? 7/10 pero idk why may rating here Lol - Good conversationalist - Working - QC
About you: - Emotionally Matured - Good conversationalist - Looks? Idc about it coz I value your attitude/behavior - Working
Ps. Make reading a habit kasi I don’t like answering question na already mentioned here. Pps. Don’t msg me if trippings lang or Hi and Hello, instant decline
~Sleep na ako haha. See u later coz iffilter ko if nonsense

I'm at my 5th year second sem dentistry ( a 6 year course) and I'm burning out maybe, it's expensive I feel bad asking for money for materials I decided to go to study that's kind of near my home so I didn't have to dorm(I feel like I regret that) I do chores when I'm at home I don't feel comfortable having down time(like if I decided to relax and play video games I feel anxious instead) I feel like time is going to fast and I'm sorry I hate the classes are getting canceled because we need that time to do our requirements which is patients (can only be done at school with a cleanical instractor kind of thing) and I wanna take a break maybe make excuse I wanna paise a bit to make money because we are kinda tight with that too, altho my dad doesn't want that and now pldt is broken my dad want to transfer to comverge and he want me to take care of it because I'm still just a student aka ig I'm not busy: meanwhile me having school 7 am to 6 all week.
Well my fault for taking this course, like reason why I did is fam was pressuring my older sibling that wanted to pursue arts to take dentistry(asian mindset things) they finished a 4 year medical course as premed they passed boards then my parents still wanted them to take dentistry because fam reasons so I was like ako nalang mag dentistry god past me u fucking idiot, I low key wish I didn't and just my younger sib( who is youngest child) that took dentistry and not me, I just feel like I've been studying to long now, on top of 6 years I took the k12 thing and I'm just tired.
Another funny thing I wanted to take computer programminh or somthing with technology because I had interest in it way back then dad said it's pointless to take that course because I'd get replaced by robots ahajahahha, I tried explaining he wouldn't believe me or listen back then, years later in the future youngest sib is studying computer science and he supports it ah nice.
I wanna give up but I only have technically a year left and then I prepare for boards but currently I'm just tired and scared and I feel stupid all the time. I hate the pandemic maybe if it didn't happend I would have realized sooner dentistry isn't for me. Or maybe I would have learned more and be better idk
Sorry for long post
Tdlr: I wanna stop studying or maybe take a break for a year but I feel like that's to late aha (also I regret taking dentistry)
Ps for those hs who wanna do dentistry it is fun but, like most things needs hard work time(6 years!) dedication and well...money because there's like no student version and no student discount(most places) but like compared to other medical fields of becoming a doctor is 6 years minimum instead of 8-10 years
Pps being a dentist is being a doctor fuck u, because like i heard somone say dentist aren't doctors that fucken bitch

it's my first time playing this amazing game, I've already made several attempts at a good group a couple of times, but so far I don't feel satisfied with any of them, but in my most recent game I was able to kill the demon commander in the nautils, so I have enough exp and a good feeling, so I would like to ask for advice for my characters and what equipment, skills (spells, druidic rituals, illicit powers, etc) and subclasses I should give each character, my ideas are:
TAV: half-orc, battle master fighter, I doubt I'll have to worry about multicalsear, I'd just like some advice on equipment and maneuvers in the different acts.
Karlach: tank, will start as a warrior with defense, at level 2 I will multiclass to bard college of swords for defensive flourish and additional attacks and finally at level 8 I will multiclass to life cleric until the end of the game, similar to the previous one, I am looking for advice on spells and equipment throughout the acts.
Shadowheart: spore circle druid, her main role is to be a support for the group, heal them, put advantages and disadvantages, besides the equipment and spells/rituals already mentioned, I would like to know if I should multiclass her with some other class.
Gale or wyll: tempest cleric until level 2, and then multiclass it to sorcerer for the rest of the game, the main purpose of this build is to do crowd control through electric damage, I know that in act 1 there is a very good staff for that, in the burning mansion, again, what would complement well to the electric spells?
PS: English is not my native language, so I'm sorry if some of what I wrote sounds strange.
PPS: this is unrelated, but does anyone else seriously hate most of the druids in the grove? with the exception of the playboy bear and the healer dwarf, the vast majority of them are a bunch of smug hippies, while the Tieflings are mostly nice (alfira, dammon), justifiably bitter, or at least memorable (like those thieving kids, they're kind of brats, but oddly adorable and funny), plus points for being refugees and sharing race with karlach.

(Warning: extremely cheesy yet honest love bomb post… that literally no one asked for LMAO…)
I don’t really know what makes a person, a person. I don’t know how much of who we are is MBTI. But I can tell you that each person that I’ve had the deepest most profound love and admiration for throughout my life just so happens to also be an ESTP. (Best friends, family members, hopefully someday my future husband lol)
Even when I was really young, everyone I have been completely drawn towards and adored… the one thing they had in common was being ESTP (I know because I had them take an MBTI test years later in adulthood lol and it’s obvious)
It’s your cool demeanor, yet laid back free spiritedness Spontaneity Super practical The very down to earth way you see the world Surprisingly (no offense) deep care and affection for those you love Very aware of the current state of things Childlike playfulness yet will stand up straight on the battleground while everyone else runs in fear Adaptable and open in many ways (Lmao sidenote u are always so hot, stylish, and fashionable without trying like wtf is with that, that’s so amazing lollll 😭)
Most of all, from as far back as I can remember, I’ve looked up to you like no one else. Which is funny because when I was young people would praise me as “wise beyond your years“. But maybe what I really craved wasn’t wisdom but rather your practical intelligence.
You’ve always been a part of me that got lost along the way, and you represent a missing piece of myself that I long for… it’s such a relief whenever I find one of you, because it’s like I finally get to spend time with the part of myself that I miss so much and wish I could be around more often. But just… you’re infinitely better at being what I always always longed to be 🥹
I can’t promise we will always understand each other because often we miss the mark with each other a bit. And sometimes we are so different that it’s shocking, because otherwise I can feel so close to you at times. But I can promise I’ll always try to hear you out.
Because there is no love for me like there is with an ESTP.
PS have fun guessing my type, I’m sure it’ll be very difficult lmao
PPS I don’t know that I’d EVER give this to any ESTP I am close with in real life 😂

Hi boys, yesterday I was in a very dark place...again. For the first time in years, I had active suicidal thoughts. Not like "Yeah, I mean you could but we're not gonna do that.", but like: "Nobody would miss you. You're alone and you're always going to be. Nobody loves you. Why not just end it here and now, razor blades are in the bathroom. End the run. Maybe it's a Rogue-like and you're gonna respawn stronger."
And I was shocked by that, cause I thought I was done with that shit. In fact, I was very driven and focused in the last couple of weeks. Despite suffering from self-pity, I could make some rational thoughts: "Why now? What happened? What changed?"
For context: I'm a 31 y/o german male. I have a high IQ above 130 and also a high EQ (emotional intelligence). In the past, I was quite successful with women. Romantically and sexually. But I was never satisfied with their intelligence. I focused too much on their looks and good sex instead of their character or intelligence - and I wanted to change that. "Online Dating will be great for me, cause you can use the perfect search filter to find the women I think fit the best." I wanted to date smart women - but I ended up feeling deeply unworthy.
It's the passive rejections that are so brutal to my self-worth. Rationally I have no problem with rejection. I know that I'm a smart, funny, intelligent, complex, and interesting person. I know that it is ok to be rejected and that it is a game of compatibility/congruency, not about a person's worth, but...(oh boy, here we go)
The way these women treated me when dating, just hurt my inner child. I have a long history of inferiority complex (my father rejected me. many years of bullying in school. also got sexually and domestically abused by an ex gf). But after years of therapy and hundreds of pages of journaling, I thought I'm done with this. I also had a very healthy 3-year lasting relationship I learned to set boundaries.
I have no problem when a person isn't vibing with me or has good reason not to date me further. But they don't. They may think they have - but I feel they just have unrealistic expectations toward men.
They just ghosted me for no particular reason. Not once - often. Women I found really interesting. Women who texted with me for weeks or even months. I had multiple, genuinely funny and interesting phone calls with them. Women who asked me to meet them. And then...nothing. For context: All of these women are highly educated. Like bachelor's or master's degrees and having well payed jobs - because I specifically looked for these women. I'm just not objectively successful yet (again - I had a huge downfall from a rather successful career due to my mental problems 5 years ago - and I'm financially still recovering from that)
There was a girl, that asked me out for dinner - but when I agreed and made some suggestions, I never heard from her again. Ever. Weird. I can't see how that was my fault.
This other girl, after flirting for two months just told me: "I'm not the woman for you. Bye" The f*** do you know about what I need?! I hate it when people do that shit.
This other girl who is an engineer also told me out of the blue, after texting and calling for a couple of weeks, that she "thought about it. and it's not gonna happen." - then she blocked me.
And there are even more examples...but you get the idea. When something like this happens once or twice - okay. But EVERY time?
The question I'm asking myself all the time is: "Is it me, or is it them? Or is it both?"
It would be easy to go the "It's the women's fault"-route and block it all off. But is it? Women are people too. Therefore they are also victims of their surroundings and social programming like I am. Therefore I truly don't think it's more of their fault as it is mine. It has also never helped to resolve an issue with anyone by pointing the finger at them and telling them that it is their fault. They are not going to change because I want them to. Also finding reason for myself not talking to them anymore because I fear their rejection, will end up in me being lonely. In gamer terms: You need to risk loot to get loot. Not participating won't bring you any closer to your goals
"But when it's not their fault...it must be you!" What else could I conclude from this experience? I'm not seeing it.
I'd love to quit dating for my mental health. But it stays in contrast to my deep wish of becoming a loving father, building a family, and being a great husband. I have a big heart and so much love to give. But women nowadays make me feel like I'm a piece of shit and unworthy of them. wtf?! I already thought about giving it a try with men. lol. But I can't romantically. Yes, I'm desperate.
I'm fine today again. I journaled for multiple hours and it helped a lot. I found so many examples where people showed me that I'm important to them. But how do I learn to REALLY ignore how others see me? Sometimes I think I would be so happy as a truck driver. Just me hitting the road - nobody judging. I wish I could just fall in love with my work and not care about relationships. Just work or build an empire. But "god" (or childhood) made me a very caring and loving person...and so I need to suffer.
Also: How can I regain trust in flirting? If even weeks or months of good conversation end up in ghosting me overnight - it's like walking on eggshells. You can never be safe of knowing that they won't end it all tomorrow "just cause they feel like it". Why can no one have more rational relationships? I mean, is this how you treat people nowadays? Thats just brutal.
Should I give up? Or is it "just" some perspective I need to change? Because the way it is now, it's just not worth it. So much energy for such negative outcomes.
How do I truly learn to love myself? Because I think I want to be loved, cause I don't love myself enough. Pls help. Thanks!
PS: Thank you guys. You have already given me some very good answers to reflect on, think about, and points to research. I also want to thank all of you, who gave some insights into their online dating experiences, which seem to be quite familiar - which is sad and shows, that it is more a problem with the system than with us people. If you found that post interesting, read the comments. They're great!
PPS: Appreciate all the good comments in this thread. Seriously. You guys helped me so much! :)

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I met with my boyfriend to talk about it once again. Someone in the comments brought up that I could share my location with him through my phone when I go out with my friends and I thought that this is a great idea and it would ease his mind. So I said we could both share the location on our phones when we go out, that way he would know where am I and I wouldn't worry about him getting hurt during his bar crawls with his guy friends.
But he seemed to have already made up his mind. He said that in the meantime he wrote to my friend’s wife on facebook (I have 4 close male friends whom I meet with regularly; one has a long term boyfriend, one a long term girlfriend, one has recently become single and is casually dating on Tinder, one is married – my boyfriend reached out to the wife of the last one). He asked her how come she is alright with her husband spending time 1 on 1 with me. She said that for her it’s normal and that she also has close male friends, she’s never been jealous because she and her husband have a strong marriage and she never sensed any inappropriate vibes between me and him. So after this conversation my (now ex) boyfriend told me that he’s not mad at me, he understands that me and my friends have a more liberal mindset than him, but for him it’s a dealbreaker and he will never feel comfortable with my friendships if I don't accept his terms.
So we broke up. It sucks and I’m really sad right now but I know it will pass and it was a good decision. I genuinely wish him all the best and I hope he will find a great girlfriend who shares his values. Next time I’ll stick to the guys about whom I know in advance that they are okay with male-female friendships. I think I’ll add a new dating rule for myself: only date men who have at least one close female friend.
My father tried to cheer me up and he actually said something that really resonated with me. He said that not only he never felt threatened by my mother’s male friends, he actually has always been proud of how good of a friend she is to them and how all of them became better people – better husbands to their wives, better fathers to their daughters, better sons to their mothers – because of her advice and her friendship. He also said that he learned a lot from his female friends and that my mother often said “thank God I didn’t have to teach you all of this myself”. All my life I’ve considered them to be a perfect couple – they rarely fight and are tender, affectionate and loving to this day. I hope one day I’ll have a relationship like theirs.
Oh, and for those of you who said that I will remain single for life because a woman cannot have a committed relationship and close male friends at the same time – I will update you on my love life in a couple of years, if I won’t forget! Right now I don’t mind being single, I have tons of projects to work on and a major grant proposal to write. Also, I need to take care of my parents who are both not well physically – it breaks my heart that these might be my last years with them. This whole situation made me realize how important my friends and their unwavering support are for me and that I will never ditch them for any relationship. I would much rather end up unmarried and with lifelong friendships than married with no friends (but still, I firmly believe that I won’t have to choose, just like my parents didn’t have to).
Thanks for your input. I created this account solely to post my story so I will be off reddit now and probably won’t answer the comments on this post.
PS. My friend’s wife reached out to me, the one whom my (ex)boyfriend messaged on fb. She said that he seemed somewhat creepy and showed me his messages. It was something like “how come a beautiful woman like you accepts her husband hanging out with another girl”. He did not ask her out or anything, and to be honest, she is truly beautiful, one of the prettiest women I know, so I guess he was just stating an objective fact, but I understand why she felt uncomfortable. Both she and I have male friends but they absolutely never comment on our looks (and vice versa), that would be boundary-crossing for us. She said she’s sorry about the breakup but that it’s probably for the best. We talked for a longer while and figured out that the two of us should hang out more cause we have a lot in common. We’re set up for dinner on Saturday just the two of us – so maybe I’ll have a female friend after all. I’m looking forward to that, at least something good came out of this situation.
PPS. Also, I found it pretty funny that a lot of people commenting on my OG post imagined me and my friends as some sort of wild party animals with rampant sexuality. We are actually all mathematicians with degrees in formal logic – the most boring people on the planet. It’s not like we go clubbing and dance provocatively while doing shots. We talk about set theory and play chess, for God’s sake, nothing sexy has ever come out of it.
TL;DR: We broke up, I wish him well, I’ll manage.

I want a complete ban on any and all private enterprise relating to healthcare and nutrition, and de facto life imprisonment for price gougers.
I don't think I need to tell you that healthcare prices are fucking CRIMINAL with a capital C, and that universal healthcare is just objectively better. It's basically a truism at this point. Universal healthcare would not only be cheaper, saving 450B in expenses annually, but would also save an estimated 68 THOUSAND lives per year (S).
However, given the kind of softball, half-measure promises made by certain pseudo-folksy demagogues, I think it's worth taking a closer look at how deeply entrenched these issues are.
Seriously, we are a fucking mess of a country. We have a lower life expectancy than Cuba (source). We have a worse maternal mortality rate than SYRIA (S1, S2). (By the way, the data for the US was taken pre Roe V Wade overturn, which is a whole 'nother issue.)
We have a scientific replication crisis, which means that scientific research is becoming worse as researchers aren't able to secure the funds to reproduce studies to verify their results. I shouldn't need to tell you why that's bad fucking news, especially relating to healthcare.
This of course is terrible, because it means that a huge portion of researchers and scientists rely on private industry to fund studies, ergo, there is a massive bias for fund allocation that is profitable for the corporation over what society needs. For example, only 10% of rare diseases have effective treatments (S), meanwhile, about 8 BILLION DOLLARS were spent on pharmaceutical ADVERTISING in 2021 (S).
Side note, it's fucking weird that medical advertisement is even a thing to begin with. It's medicine. It isn't (or, SHOULDN'T BE) a personal preference that can be swayed with an effective argument. If anything should be evaluated empirically, it's medicine. The notion that PATIENTS should be suggesting possible treatments to PHYSICIANS based on commercials of all fucking things is insane to me and speaks to just how distorted and mutilated our society has become to conform to market logic.
Speaking of insanity, financial conflict of interest is completely out of control, particularly in the field of psychiatry. The DSM, the guidebook for psychiatric diagnoses used by pretty much every medical professional in America, is written by a supposedly unbiased panel of experts. However, over 60% of panel members involved in the creation of the DSM-5-TR (the most recent edition of the DSM) were found to to have a DIRECT FINANCIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST in the form of payments from corporations which added up, in total, to 14.2 million (S). An earlier study found that for sections on conditions in which medication is a front-line treatment, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, 100% of panel members had FCOI (S).
100%.
This is particularly ghoulish when you consider that people with schizophrenia have a life expectancy of 15-25 years less than the general population, much of which is attributed to hypertension and obesity, which just so happen to be relatively common side effects of antipsychotic medications (S).
I want to be clear, this is is not to insinuate that doctors and researchers are colluding with evil big pharma to deliberately invent fake psychiatric disorders in order to give patients mind control pills that also give them heart attacks as part of some nefarious overarching plot that has something to do with DA JOOOOS and/or Freemasons.
Schizophrenia is a very real, life-destroying illness, and medical professionals are doing the best they can with what they have. Certainly, sometimes you need chemo to fight cancer. However, this does not change the fact that FCOI and other corporate fuckery has undoubtedly contributed to thousands of premature, preventable deaths.
And you bet your sweet bottom this isn't an issue constrained to a particular field. If you're old enough, you might remember the Got Milk? and food pyramid campaigns. Turns out, literally just fucking advertising campaigns (targeting children) (S1, S2) whose supposed health advice ranged from false, but not egregiously so, to demonstrably lethal (S).
Our government is so blatantly corrupt, it's funny. Seriously, food and agricultural companies have our politicians by the fucking BALLS (or labia. #corruptgirlboss) (S). This is why the government still fucking subsidizes dairy despite having so fucking much of it they are forced to create CHEESE CAVES under Missouri.
Repeat that in your head until you feel a deep wave of despair wash over you. Our government is so corrupt, we have cheese caves. CHEESE CAVES. LOBBYIST CHEESE CAVES.
This would be hilarious if it weren't for the fact that nearly half of the US population are obese (S). Not overweight, obese. Because when you create massive fucking quantities of a particular food, it ends up in everything. We feed poor people massive quantities of government cheese, and wouldn't you know it, poor people end up the most obese. This is why corn syrup is so prevalent in the US, but not elsewhere (S). It's also not funny because factory farming conditions are basically a primordial soup for potential zoonotic diseases (S), but that's apparently neither here nor there to the people we entrust to govern us.
Another fun fact is that food regulation in the US is pitiful. Our food is literally full of additives that are outright banned in other countries (S). And we wonder why people are getting colon cancer in their 20s now.
And this is only one side of things. In 2011, first year resident physicians (doctors in training) were limited to 16 hour shifts, because unsurprisingly, sleep deprived medical workers lead to more dead patients. What a boon! Unfortunately, the limit was overturned in 2017, allowing hospitals to force their resident workers to work 24hr shifts again. (S).
TWENTY FOUR HOURS! Literal slaves weren't typically forced to work that long. Not only is this inhumane, it's extremely dangerous in a life-or-death field such as medicine. Sleep deprivation causes as much impairment as alcohol (S) would you want to be treated by someone who just did 5 shots?
And no, this is not a necessary sacrifice. America's ratio of medical professionals to general population and available space in hospitals is abnormal (S), and I think the cause is pretty fucking obvious. If a 4 year degree costs 100k, how is ANYONE supposed to afford nursing school, MCAT prep, med school, a graduate degree, dental school, EMS training, and/or struggle through residency and specialization on top of that?
Seriously, the going rate for med school is 212k (S) not including cost of living, which becomes an issue when you're 26 and don't have a job. There are medical students on foodstamps, for christssakes. Maybe physicians and surgeons wouldn't need to do 24 hour shifts if the vast majority of the population wasn't de facto barred from application, let alone the satanically devised process of admission.
Then there's the issue of politicization of healthcare. I don't want to turn the comment section into a total flame war, but it is an objective fact that politicians pick medical issues to turn into political issues to get re-elected. You see it with abortion (S), gender dysphoria treatments (S), basic precautions regarding infectious disease, and of course, vaccines.
I seriously cannot express how disgusting it is to me that innocent people have and will die to score some fucking poll points in the nightmare circus that is our democracy. This may seem a deeply unserious quotation, but it does remind me of that line from breaking bad. "He poisoned a kid... just as, like, a move!"
And holy shit, don't even get me started on public health issues. I personally DO NOT have the time to cover such massive issues to a satisfactory level in this post, but environment and fuckcars provide a thorough (if biased) discussion about how environmental damage and car-dependency respectively impact public health. Health is another good sub for discussing public health issues.
While there are thousands of ways I could continue this post and millions of horrible things I could point out, it does have to end eventually. So, here's the cherry on top of the shit-sundae: Around 10-12% of animal euthanizings per year (roughly 480,000 of 4million) are due to the owners being unable to pay for veterinary treatment (S). Corporations are literally murdering puppies and kittens.
So, yeah. Nationalize ALL healthcare, including research + all education costs, institute mandatory unionization for all medical workers, completely abolish ANY private activity in the realm of healthcare + nutrition, repeal the patriot act, and require mandatory life sentences for corruption. Negligence on a national level is worse than serial killing, because no serial killer has ever killed thousands of people.
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“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

-John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

I have no history of reflux and gastritis prior to my helicobacter pylori-induced gastritis 2-3 years ago.
I defeated helicobacter (both breath tests and biopsies confirmed that) and gastritis but have been very gastro-sensitive ever since. I hardly drink alcohol and drink a single shot of coffee a day. No fried food and have in general a rather a very gastro-mindful diet. The moment I deviate a bit from this (eg a couple of two shot coffees during the week, or some that a meal with trigger foods over the week), my stools go funny (hard/loose) and my nighttime reflux threatens to come back---came back recently after a week with a little bit of extra coffee.
My issue is that I want to go back to life before helicobacter. To eating tomato sauce, lasagna, and all normal foods like onion and garlic that are not recommended for people with gastritis. I have always had a healthy diet and perfect blood tests, so not looking for excesses.
Does anyone have any clue on how to achieve that?
PS I have a small sliding hiatal hernia, which really shouldn't have any impact on the above symptoms.
PPS people down-voting while not engaging with the issue are not of any help.

Dear community, I have this thought since long ago and I'm not even sure if this is something I can translate into a side hustle or even main job (in the future). I have a really good job in a big company and I get more than a decent salary. Part of my work, is to provide presentations on how things are going, challenges, milestones, etc. I am the head of a department with duties also in looking for other stakeholders willing to get the services from my team (=bit of internal sales, if you stretch a bit the concept of the sale).
I noticed (I am not a native English speaker) that people seems very engaged with my speeches and my accent, they interact with me and apparently they also love my accent. I felt I can "bring" the audience where I want and they follow me. And usually these meetings should be "boring", but somehow I find ways to make them enjoyable even if we talk about business stuff. Basically they get all the info they are looking for AND they get also the fun out of it.
Probably the skill I'm talking here, is to be able to describe something very practical and real into something understandable and funny.
Have you been in a similar situation and being able to make it as second job/passion?
Or do you have any suggestion for me so that I can explore further to better understand my self and what I can do with this?
PS: I don't think I'm good enough to make a "presentation skills" course for example. I think, there are people way better than my self for this PPS: I don't see my self expert enough to have periodical content for a YT channel and with a large community happy to follow me PPPS: maybe the PPS above, are just my bias preventing me to unblock this situation :D

This post and its comments contain of spoleirs to ACOMAF and probably of other books as well
What a ride! I just finished the second book and I’m so. I don’t even know where to start.
I’m soooo smitten by Rhysand! I knew I liked him in ACOTAR but oh boy I had no idea how much I will fall in love with him in ACOMAF. I love how we can get to know him pretty well because of the bond and his and Feyre powers. I loved how we eventually get to see his vulnerability. Even tho it’s written from Feyre pov we get so many hindsight to what he’s thinking and feeling. Somewhere in the middle, I realized that we never got this with Tamlin and how little we actually know about him.
What surprised me was that so little time past in the book. I thought it was like at least a half a year, close to one and then Feyre dropped the bomb “oh I want to be with him so bad, but I’m a traitor because it has been only two months”. TWO MONTHS??? What a busy bees.
I enjoyed the progress in their relationship so much. The space Rhys gave to Feyre but also pushed her to get better. Funny thing is I started the series because I had Instagram full of “girls, you need to read smut” and this series was one of the recommended one. (Was little disappointed at the one only scene in acotar hahah). And I was looking for the spicy scene between Rhysand and Feyre but I reaaally enjoyed the flirt and the tension between them. That’s something I’m gonna miss because at the final chapters it was all my mate, my mate, my mate. Like I get that SMJ wanted to highlight the power of mate bond but the fact that Feyre fell in love with Rhys because of who he is, was more appealing. Ah, I can’t remember when was the last time I giggled so much at the flirt scenes!
I also really enjoyed every one of the member of IC and can’t wait to get to know them more. I think I’m gonna save my thoughts about them to another post.
Last, to get back of my first rant about I posted few days ago. My “rage” about unfairness toward Tamlin is a bit softened. Not that I completely changed my opinion but because I now know why some people feel so strong about (against) him. The thing he did at the end of ACOMAF was assholish and I’m mad at him (but not hate him). And I think it’s okay to feel that strong feelings against him but I’m also standing by that he was also a victim of horrors as everyone. But he got little to no support to get over it. Did he grabbed it by the wrong end and instead of talking to Feyre, he basically run to the world to find answers? Yes. But on the other hand they both basically ignored the each other’s struggles - something Feyre even admitted. What I didn’t like was her claims he tried to get into her pants in UtM. She did it first ffs :D I hope there is some kind of redemption and happy ending waiting for him. He’s like Dean of Gilmore Girls.
Overall I think ACOMAF was soooo much better then ACOTAR.
PS: if I’m gonna do a shot for every roar and growl, I’m gonna be under the table after two chapters.
PPS: this is the first book sub im engaging in. And I just wanna say THANK YOU! I love hearing others people opinions even if they are not the same as mine. And can someone please explain. What the Fluff/Rave flair means? 😅

Hey guys! I am watching TVD for the 1st time. I am on S5 E10 and Erin was shocked to see Damon alive bc he had shot him on his head. Erin asked Damon “How are you still alive? I thought I shot you” to which Damon says “Because you went for the head. Go for the heart next time”
This reminded me of Avengers infinity war when Thanos says to Thor “you should’ve gone for the head” when Thor had axed Thanos in his heart. Then i just made a joke in my mind that Thanos probably was a TVD fan to go for Thanos’ heart. I know its a stupid connection but I found it funny so I thought I’d share it here xD
I am in LOVE w TVD so far and I am excited to finish it! I just hope the ending is wholesome and nice and they haven’t ruined it some how!
PS I’m on phone so excuse any formatting issues if there are any.
PPS English is my 3rd language so please excuse if there are grammatical errors.

• Hello first time post here, so by all means please take it down if I breached any of the community guidelines. So I am artistically equal to a piece of gum on the bottom of your shoe, lol but I somehow convinced myself to make a gaming channel.(sheer boredom of being out of work) I would like to ask the help of the amazing redditors in this community to see if you guys or girls or humans would like to help out another by creating a profile picture that would be displayed on all my profiles as well as becoming my Youtube banner. If I may add by all means put your style in it as well just like the ink on my body, I always tell the artist to add some of their "Flare or style" into it so it can be even more unique and cool as the next. I am nerd first things first lol but the type of nerd who grew up playing counter-strike source and competitively too. Things to know that may help the brainstorming process.
• I am an Awper on CS and have been even in my young days of telling adults on video game to get a life instead of giving me the guff that would shatter the hearts and minds of even the hardiest of snowflakes.
• Favorite colors are red, white, black, purple, gold (please don't make me go on) etc.
• my name on CS is Kloud's cause i have yet to smoke away the braincells that make that name seem "funny or witty" to me. PPS (despite better judgment here is my profile on steam if anyone wants to game with a guy who will make you laugh or cringe)ppps results may vary.
• https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197992383519/

• Hello first time post here, so by all means please take it down if I breached any of the community guidelines. So I am artistically equal to a piece of gum on the bottom of your shoe, lol but I somehow convinced myself to make a gaming channel.(sheer boredom of being out of work) I would like to ask the help of the amazing redditors in this community to see if you guys or girls or humans would like to help out another by creating a profile picture that would be displayed on all my profiles as well as becoming my Youtube banner. If I may add by all means put your style in it as well just like the ink on my body, I always tell the artist to add some of their "Flare or style" into it so it can be even more unique and cool as the next. I am nerd first things first lol but the type of nerd who grew up playing counter-strike source and competitively too. Things to know that may help the brainstorming process.
• I am an Awper on CS and have been even in my young days of telling adults on video game to get a life instead of giving me the guff that would shatter the hearts and minds of even the hardiest of snowflakes.
• Favorite colors are red, white, black, purple, gold (please don't make me go on) etc.
• my name on CS is Kloud's cause i have yet to smoke away the braincells that make that name seem "funny or witty" to me. PPS (despite better judgment here is my profile on steam if anyone wants to game with a guy who will make you laugh or cringe)ppps results may vary.
• https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197992383519/

Looking for friends is kind of the easy part, keeping friends can be a little harder, especially when you're getting older in my experience, you come across all walks of life, all at different stages in it, and you just hope you click with anyone, got chemistry, can keep the laughter going, if there's something wrong, fix it together, and so on, otherwise gotta hit the road 💚🦖
I have a great group of friends, but I miss meeting new people, even with such friends, I get lonely sometimes, and become a sadchad 😔 😔
Am I greedy, lol, can you have too many friends, I just want to meet more people who I share values with, whom I can share my likes and dislikes with, talk about our daily lives, support the light and the heavy stuff, share music, movies, and telly 📺 🎶 🎬
A little about me: technically I'm still 30, but I'll be 31 in a few short weeks, whoa-hoo 🥳 🎉 🪅 🎊
I'm a poet and aspiring author, currently working on a novel, please don't ask to read it, you can when it's published 👍👍👍
I like badminton, tennis, ice skating, football, hockey, and competitive swimming, and more 🏊‍♀️ 🎾 🏈🏒⛸
I enjoy chess, other table top games, wonder if there's real life Jimanji, computer games and books 📚 📚 📖
I'm interested in sewing, I appreciate fashion and like my own sense of style 😎 👌
I normally do take out, but can cook, mostly American and Asian cuisines 🥞🧇🥩🍳🥘🍲🍜🍣
I have mint hair, brown eyes, and wear glasses, nerd alert! 🤓💚
Current fave movie, Mandy Current fave song, Good Puss by Cobrah Current fave food, 🍣
And am an atheist, left leaning queer!! 🌈
Please message me anything including your age, pronouns, and name!! We can share secrets and become mystical... 🧚‍♀️ 🧚‍♂️
PS, I don't know what sadchad means, it just sounded funny to me 😆
PPS, you're more than welcome to read my post history searching for like minded peeps and learn more about me ♡

Title explains it all, well, not exactly
I identify as aroace. Specifically though I like the idea of being in love but at the same time, I dislike the thought of getting into an actual relationship with other people because of multiple reasons
Here's the thing. Lately, I've noticed that I've been thinking weirdly about one of my friends, I'll call him M.
Lately, I've been thinking about how handsome and cute M looks. At first, I thought this was normal because thinking about how good-looking my friends are isn't really a romantic connotation... but M is just different to me. I've been thinking about how funny and likeable he is and how I wanna get closer to him. I am happier than usual when M is just there with me and we're doing the things we usually do like talk and joke around with our circle of friends. I get really excited when he just does something simple like text me or something
A lot of people probably have a crush on him too because he's a conventionally attractive person but most of them don't really know him as a friend. But I don't want to know him as a friend. I want to know him as a lover.
And I just hate it. I hate my feelings towards him and I feel so embarrassed because I want to deny that this is real. This has happened before to one of my closest friends and it has ruined the way I perceived them and our friendship. I feel so aimless about this, I don't want that to happen to him too.. but I'll probably just let it pass
PS I'm not really looking for advice because I came here to rant about this and not get advice, I also think that only I can understand how I feel, but feel free to give advice if you want to.
PPS I don't know how reddit works apart from those videos with ai narrators and baking videos in the background, but this is one of my only because no one knows I have a reddit account
PPPS Sorry if this is weirdly worded, English isn't my first language
PPPPS Sorry there are so many postscripts I'm genuinely just a weird person and I haven't talked about something like this to anyone before
UPDATE: Hello, I'm back!!! Thank you so much for the overwhelming support because I honestly didn't really expect it :-)
After reading some of the comments and doing some looking up on these labels, I've realized that I am indeed orchidromantic. Thank you to frying-fish for the suggestion!
Anyways, I'm sorry to disappoint but I don't think I have the guts to actually tell M that I like him because I don't want to ruin our friendship. Maybe I'll tell him if I ever (hopefully) lose my crush on him and get closer to him in the future.

I got an INC this sem from an elective offered by our degree program, problem is I dunno why I got an INC, or was it prolly because I failed my exams. I've been crying and questioning myself bakit ganun, because God knows how I tried my best (or di lang talaga enough yung effort ko for my prof). Funny thing is, mahal ko tong elective na to, I engage myself during lectures, apakadaldal ko nga here in fact.
I am hating myself kasi bakit parang kulang pa din kahit na binigay ko na lahat lahat. First time kong magka INC, and 3 sems pa lang ako sa UP, pero parang dahil sa INC na to nagsiself pity ako. This may seem shallow to others, pero di ko lang gets bakit. 😭
PS
Will meet my prof next week for the compliance as per her email to me. Ano ba usually ginagawa if nagkucomply ng INC. Natatakot ako na kinakabahan na ewan, at the same time gusto ko malaman san ako nagkulang. 😭
PPS
Your kind words will mean a lot to me. 🌻 TYSM!
-paranoid iska🥺

Mine is definitely "Puka-Porta Casanova". It doesn't help that my friends shortenes it it to PP Casanova, because it always leads down the same discussion train; "No I'm not interested in PPs", "I'm a lesbian", "PP stands for Puka-Porta", "No I will not tell you why I got that nickname", "stop looking at me like that".
Sometimes my friends wants to be cheeky but "nice", they only call me PPC.
That leads to worst nickname nr 2; P2C... just read it out loud and you understand why my friends finds it so "funny" to call me that in public and at festivals.
So, what's you funniest and weirdest nicknames?