I was in a shitty mood the other day, and I wrote a terrible post. It didn't get any response, it barely got any looks, and rightly so. It feels like, when you are feeling sad, or down, or frustrated, or angry, or even depressed, you have this energy that just drips right out of your words and on to the screen, and people tend to avoid you like a virus. And for good reason! I would guess that most of us, here in this forum, are feeling sad or frustrated or depressed, to some degree, but we are all keeping our shit together, for the sake of our family, or our work, or our sanity. It's tough out there, and a little more negative energy but be too much and tip the balance.

But, holy hell, those days when you are feeling particularly down... Sometimes those are the days you need someone to talk to the most! Someone who will understand where you are coming from, in a way that the people in your real life, the people you love, might not understand. Someone who will not judge you for the choices you have made along the way, like say, turning to the reddit personals in an attempt to find some human interaction. Honestly, we should all be in therapy instead of here, but it feels like finding a therapist that you feel comfortable with is even more difficult than find an online affair partner that you feel chemistry with... And it's fucking expensive!

I am not a therapist. I am just a regular and humble married dad, who has probably been doing this reddit thing for way too long. I genuinely enjoy meeting people in this way, and hearing their stories. I have found a long the way that I don't mind those long and winding walls of text that people will apologize for sending afterwards ...sometimes you have to get the whole story out. I have also found that this place, in these connections we find with each other, is a great place to vent about ALL of the things that are driving us crazy in the real world, and yet it feels like people hesitant to let loose because of the reasons above. Finally, and I think anyone here that found someone for a moment and lost them knows already that this is the ONLY place that you can talk about the things that drive you crazy in THIS place.

I know we are all here looking for ...something... I get it and I am right there with y'all. I didn't write this post with the intention of being some clever meta attempt to find someone that will take their clothes off for me.y intention for this post is a genuine offer to anyone that was in the same shitty place as I was a few days ago, if you just need an empathic place to talk through some stuff and you can't talk through anywhere else, then message me and blow off some steam and then bounce. Or stick around for some non pushy conversation. Or tell me about how your OAP or your kids are driving you crazy... I have both and yeah, I know!

I don't actually know what this post is, I just know that sometimes you need a place to duck into for a moment, to get out of the storm, so to speak, for a bit, and maybe this post can be that for you. Good luck out there!