How do you deal with aging? (Or the idea of aging, if you're a young whippersnapper)

You don’t deal with aging; aging deals with you. “Even children get older” I remember being scared about what a chunk I had already taken out of life when I turned ten. I still think a decade is a substantial chunk of life. For me probably 1/6 or so. The book Denial of Death drilled it home harder. I’m not just being meloncholy when I say there is a lot of comfort in death. It surprises me that so many people are very optimistic about science that significantly delays death and aging. You would just stay the same mediocre you.

Death is the most self-apparent obviously understandable phenomenon in nature. It’s very startling to me that so many people believe in an afterlife since death is so commonly observed. We know exactly what it is yet we still pretend it’s something different. The reality is literally NOTHING to fear. I don’t mind dying because dying is all. Life is the process of dying. Ironically, life is ****ing scary.

2.) What's the dumbest thing you've lost your temper (or angry-cried about) over?

Maybe I’m not mature enough to reflect on myself critically but I’m drawing a blank.

3.) What is something you'll likely always be somewhat bitter about no matter what?

Being abused as a kid and being abused again as a worker.

4.) What is the last thing that sent you into a hysterical laughing fit?

Two or three years ago one of my middle school students showed me one of those corny YouTube clips and it tickled my funny bone so hard I couldn’t teach the rest of the lesson. I ultimately hated that job so much but some of those kids were the coolest. So many of them suffered so much already in life. Dad MIA. Mom in jail. Grandma dying. Like almost all of them had stories like that. Unbelievable.

5.) What is something small that someone can do or say (or give) that can significantly or at least moderately improve an otherwise terrible day?

Fix me a sandwich.

6.) What's the creepiest encounter you've had with a stranger (in real life)?

I met a woman through the personals back before the internet. Our sex escalated to s/m stuff and then got really bloody. It was all consensual and I was just as creepy but damn it was a boundary pusher. There were other probably creepier but that’s a good one for story time.

wait wait wait OH was a school teacher

na

no way

Yeah

I kept it a secret on here until I quit

I was even tenured

Why did you quit? School politics?

1.) How do you deal with aging? (Or the idea of aging, if you're a young whippersnapper)

I'm not that bothered tbh.

2.) What's the dumbest thing you've lost your temper (or angry-cried about) over?

Probably some drunk argument.

3.) What is something you'll likely always be somewhat bitter about no matter what?

This will sound silly after my first answer, but losing my hair at 22 probably. I expected to be a slaphead, but not at 22. That's just harsh.

4.) What is the last thing that sent you into a hysterical laughing fit?

I was in the doctor's once and started laughing to myself when I thought of the 'batlord is a cuck' tags on here. Then the 'no i'm not' ones. Had an image in my head of Charles throwing a tantrum being dragged away going 'but I'm not a cuck!' and the doctor asked me what was funny. I couldn't tell them what it was.

5.) What is something small that someone can do or say (or give) that can significantly or at least moderately improve an otherwise terrible day?

Unexpected compliment I think. Depends who it's from, some people you take it with a pinch of salt.

6.) What's the creepiest encounter you've had with a stranger (in real life)?

One time coming home from the city centre, a guy asked me if I wanted a blowjob. I politely declined.

i’m now 2nd guessing if whether every teacher i ever had was actually a ****ed up internet troll with good taste in music

no offense

Nah, I bet Hawk was noticeably one of the 'alright for a teacher' kinda educators.

Yes. It’s super complicated but a big part of it was I got into ferocious disputes with administration over funding and misallocations of title one funding. I studied the **** out of the school’s and the district’s budget. They were and are stealing money that’s earmarked for poor minority students. They had a way of doing it that was technically legal but unethical as hell. I was like you know this is ****ing bull****. Oh I could go on and on about how it went down. I lost. Big surprise.

my money is the teacher who got caught ****in’ the lunch lady in the janitor’s closet

again no offense