[-] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I went through a very similar experience with my dog who was my best friend. It's been a couple of years now. He also had terminal cancer around the same age. If you need anyone to talk to who can relate, hit me up.

It hit me pretty hard and had me down for a long time. There have been a few things I came to realize while recovering from the grief that I wanted to share.

The first realization that helped me was understanding that I did the right thing letting him go and not making him suffer from cancer. I felt a lot of guilt because I made his last appointment. I don't know if you've felt that or might feel that, but know that you're doing the right thing, it's just a very hard thing to do and it makes you an even better person for doing it.

The second realization was that my pup would have wanted me to be happy and that I can choose to honor him through my happiness. This one actually came to me in a dream about my pup where he let me know "life is for the living" and that he'd rather me be happy

The third, and probably most powerful, realization was that the life I gave him was one of the most beautiful things I can comprehend. We all have our time here and then we must go. I feel so unbelievably honored that I was able to make his time here as amazing as possible. He spent his whole life being extremely loved and able to give that love back. He didn't have to suffer the cancer, or suffer aging and deteriorating. From start to end we were able to make his life amazing, and it sounds like you did the same for your pup. You should be incredibly proud of that.

I still miss him terribly and think about him all the time, but when I think back now I feel incredible pride and happiness. Make sure you get some keepsakes to cherish, we did some plaster paw prints and also cut some of his hair to keep (maybe weird but I don't mind that.) The keepsakes gave me some comfort and helped me process everything.

My heart is with you, let me know if you need anything an internet stranger can provide <3

[-] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Once I was working on some music and got so excited about how it turned out I hit ctrl S like 5 times, it corrupted the project and I lost it 😭

[-] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago

He once fired a pregnant employee because she wasn't married and therefore must have had premarital sex. They've fired 9 people for pre marital sex. Wacky

[-] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 month ago

That's a very high quality post, I appreciate you sharing it

[-] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 months ago

This is only remotely true if you have a box dedicated to doing one single thing and nothing else. That is almost certainly not the case for the vast majority of Photoshop users

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[-] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 20 points 9 months ago

Clippy goes away and you are now alone in the black void. With the removal of this character the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed void you have created.

[-] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

Speaking from experience depression has the power to render everything you used to find passion and joy in utterly unenjoyable. It sucks, and you get bored, and then you feel bad that you are bored and not doing the things you are supposed to enjoy. Have some empathy for those of us struggling :)

[-] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

I think co-pilot works better because it has the context of the whole project for reference when suggesting auto completion. I've gotten a lot of unusable junk from it too though

[-] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was dealing with some pretty intense nihilism after my beloved dog passed away. I had thoughts like "Why put effort into anything when in 100/1000/10000 years everything I love and care about will be dead, gone, and forgotten?" It's a terrible philosophy to have and live with, incredibly depressing. I was able to escape mine through meditation with some chemical assistance. Realized that just because things don't last forever doesn't mean they don't have meaning. The fact that we're alive and conscious, experiencing things everyday, means our lives have value. The cosmic odds of us existing here and now are staggering, we're so lucky to be alive! So, to me the value is in the experiences, in the day to day.

(early 30s, also bought sports car)

[-] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

11 years here. I was very aware the quality of content there had gone down the drain before the API stuff, so when that happened and Lemmy presented itself as a good alternative I left for good!

[-] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm in the US and have a well off friend who had his Facebook hacked. The bad actors sent messages to his friends asking to borrow $500 until tomorrow because his bank accounts were locked and he needed the cash. Someone who was messaged by the bad actors posted a screenshot of a deepfaked video call he received that caused him to fall for it. Wild times we live in!

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