Rich techies make good scratching posts, especially if they complain about having an existential crisis despite their wealth.
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I had similar thoughts when I read Vinayās post. Iāll just never understand people who are bored after exiting the 9-5 grind. There is so much to do and explore!
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I think most people donāt really think too deeply about what they want out of life. Instead of understanding their own desires, they settle for wanting what theyāve been told to want.
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This. Does corporate life make people forget that the world is actually very big and cool? See an eclipse. Build a treehouse. Go to the aquarium and gaze at the whale sharks. Go to the Florida springs and gaze at the manatees.
And thereās a very simple solution to having too much money, that this guy never seems to consider. Give it to people and places and causes that actually need it.
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I shall make manatee noises.
And Iām going to go curl up in a warm soft bed later and purr.
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I call it ācapitalist brain wormsā. Itās a damned epidemic.
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Yeah, the sheer lack of imagination is astounding.
I donāt have hundreds of millions of dollars, but Iām also not working due to disability. Most of my limited energy is taken up by general life and healthcare, but I have huuuuuge long lists of things I want to learn, art I want to make, books I want to read, games I want to play, causes I want to supportā¦ Iām sure if I had normal amounts of energy Iād get through them much faster than I do now, but thereās always more to add!
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this is something iād like to blog about at some point. thank you for touching on it. when i was first told it would be best to seek disability and only work part time at most it was quite a mix of emotions. early in therapy though i was able to make peace with it because i realized the goal of making a difference through my 9-5 job was a little ā¦ naive on my part. that having spare time and the actual energy now to eventually volunteer in my community would make more of a difference directly then punching a clock in and out until i was dead basically
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this is a post about limits. and the phrase i feel many of us feel like we can never say when we need to say it most
https://blog.hypertext.city/2025/01/09/why-wont-you-let-me-say-i-cant/
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After you passed 10+ years measuring everything with the same 1D measure (money), your perception of life becomes one-dimensional. I think itās that simple
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Something I think many of the discussion above misses is the fact that you cannot buy happiness. If all you have chased your entire life is wealth, and by some measure you achieve a large amount of it, you have to adjust your entire life towards something else.
Money is just a tool, and I think thereās a certain amount of dehumanization of the other that particularly online types like to indulge in, in order to get some sort of abstract wealth inequality point off. It seems like thereās a lot of hate in peoples hearts here, in a community intended to connect independent writers from wherever they are, whoever they are, and itās really a shame.
Thereās happy poor people living on the streets, and thereās depressed, nihilistic millionaires sitting alone at the dinner table drinking champagne. Rich, poor, whatever, still human.
Anyway hereās last nightās trailheads, maybe Iād be better off screeching into the void on my own blog but you forum posters act as decent writing prompts from time to time. 
On the off chance that youāre talking about my rant, I do eventually get to whether money can buy happiness, and point out that I too have had moments where Iāve reached a goal and had to figure out what came next. Nor have I set out to dehumanize Vinay. If anything, I think heās all too human; his experience is one I have had to guard against despite not possessing his wealth.
As for hatred in my heart: I wonāt deny it. However, thereās love as well, and I donāt believe that one can possess one without the other. Even my hatred is grounded in love and my need to protect what I cherish; my hatred is the shadow cast by my love.
This is very much the case in my latest post. Itās a rant, written in anger, but that anger is nonetheless grounded in love. If you donāt like harsh rhetoric or donāt want to read negative sentiments about advertising or certain right-wing influencers, you should give this one a miss.
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This is a really interesting post, wow! So often on social media I see insistence that nobody can make it as a writer/artist nowadays unless you can do everything yourself, and I agree that itās all bullshit. I have no doubt in my mind that some people rely on these methods of promotion and social media to make a living, and I donāt want to discount the work they do, but I disagree with the notion that it is inevitable and nobody can succeed without it.
I donāt necessarily agree with everything you say re: artists online, but i do think itās really eye-opening and a good read. Might share it with some of my artist friends!
Also itās always nice to see someone else who was active on google+, lmao :P
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i very much disagree if youāre talking about this community. (also: this is not just a community of writers, fwiw.) iād be careful to judge folksāespecially lately, with a lot of difficult current events happening globally. many blog entries submitted to our blogroll recently have been emotionally driven and vulnerable; itās whatās happening in their lives, their emotions, and their mindsets. it doesnāt seem fair to put a blanket statement like āthereās a lot of hate in peopleās hearts.ā thereās a lot of hurt in peopleās hearts; i think it might behoove you to extend the same grace youāre willing to give to someone in a position of power and wealth, a status that most people right now covet just to survive, to those in positions less fortunate. trying to understand the point of view that you donāt share is more in-line with how our community operates. everyone is entitled to their opinion.
if you have a specific qualm with someoneās blog post, you can always contact them directly, but this isnāt the place to pass judgment on folks (and especially not the entire community)āitās to share our blog entries in a supportive, encouraging place. this isnāt the thread for debating someoneās blog entry topic. :)
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Iām curious where did you get the idea that 32-Bit Cafe is (mainly) a community for writers. 32-Bit Cafe is mainly about making websites. There are people who have their own websites, including those in 32-Bit Cafe, who are writers, and this thread for sharing your blog posts exists because some peopleās personal websites are also personal blogs, but not everyone who makes their own website is a blogger or a writer.
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https://feyfall.neocities.org/blog/jan-10-2025
i made a new blog post about liminality, based on my reply to the qotw about travelling! it gets vulnerable about my mental health history and is written more like im just telling you about something more than im trying to argue a point or anything like that. iād appreciate anybody reading it <3
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Xandra youāre free to make whatever claim you please, but I am speaking from my experience within the community, of which you have been made very much aware. It seems you would prefer me to simply be silent? Why is that?
I do not really appreciate the unprovoked, public amateur digital psychoanalysis. Not that that would, or should, be okay regardless of whether it was provoked. Is there a reason you thought that was appropriate?
everyone is entitled to their opinion.
This sentence is completely contradictory to the rest of your post. I shared my thoughts on the post to push back on the sort of demonization and group think of the posts above mine, and in response you, the owner of the forum, attempt to assassinate my character.
Not entirely sure what thought crime my post committed, but I do think you should note the complete lack of acknowledgement of the entire thread being derailed for the 20 posts above mine, itās all quite fascinating!
This really resonated with me! It took a long time for me to recognize that my disabilities made even part time work not possible ā the only reason I was able to do so for many years was because I had significant caregiving support from my parents and I sacrificed and neglected my health.
Itās hard to say that you canāt do something, but youāre right that doing so opens up more time and energy to do the things that you can. 
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reading how you feel or have felt in text form can be tough at first. but even if you decide to only keep a journal and not blog about it, i would encourage it. while for me personally i like to blog, it is really the act of getting thoughts and feelings out of my head, and navigating them through the act of writing that allows me to make better sense of what i am thinking in the moment
however you approach it if you decide to keep writing, i think it is worth it to try 
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