^ Most are made up.
I agree. Most are indeed fake. Quite sad really
The following post isn’t about helping me get through tough days, but rather how to handle a tough conversation. It is as follows:
Some guy who I sort of like but also generally irritates me with his bombastic and ostentatious personality wants to hang out with me later this week. One way to describe this person is as a “frenemy,” like in Mean Girls (a favorite movie of my recent ex-gf, who was somewhat of a “mean girl” herself back in the day). Anyway, this guy has wanted to hang out “later this week” for weeks in a row now without actually picking a place or establishing anything else about our potential meet-up. But just today, he finally decides he wants to hang out for real, actually comes up with a place to go to, and says to me “Yo man…me, you, Friday…let’s raaaaaaaaaage!”
Now, I’m all for hanging out with brosephs every now and again, but this one fellow is over the top. I just can’t see myself spending an hour and a half of my Friday night with this guy, especially since I’m slightly beyond my frat-tastic days (he should be as well since we’re the same age). Can anyone here suggest a polite but hilarious way to decline this broski’s invitation?
I look forward to hearing everyone’s “raging” advice.
I say do some shots before you head out the door and roll with it. Mixing it up a bit and keeping it fresh outside your comfort zone keeps things interesting. Great stories too, I’m sure. Just tell your gf if she’s going that hey, they guy’s a handful. Lets do some shots before we leave and just genuinely have fun with it.
Throw on your younger tough guy swag and just blow off steam man. Challenge someone to shots, yell at someone for looking at your gf, who cares, it’s good times once in awhile.
It’s possible Numi, that he went through his Rolodex of ‘Yo’s! Let’s rage’, and now he’s onto your name…
I’d do some investigation and see who else he asked, and try to get other people to come along with you two, and then it’s alot easier for you to decline the invite a day or two before or actually go Friday, and slip out for a cigarette and never go back in…
Tell him you’re showing up with friends. Say they like raging too. You can always tell your friend 1 hour in to say he has to leave and you have to drive him back. Like that it isn’t your fault you’re leaving early, you have to give a lift to your friend.
tell him you’re in training for the upcoming city marathon so you’re body is a temple at the minute and you have very strict training regimes etc, so you can meet up but can only drink tomato juice or what not and need to go for an evening run after you meet up so can only stay for half an hour. Then suggest that you’re still up for meeting up but can understand if you he’s not keen anymore so happy to leave it until after the marathon.
Tell him you have two tix to the ballet, and maybe he wants to come. 
Realise that suffering is an inevitable part of life. Sometimes life just sucks but the good thing is nothing last forever and that includes the shitty times. Understanding this being consistent/persistant and having faith that the future will be better has got me through really shitty times.
Also what I think you may find helpfull is every day before you go to bed write a list of ten things you are grateful for. Also, try keeping a mood journal so you can document how you feel emotionally and the thoughts and behaviours you were engaged in at the time. That is a cognitive behavioural technique that can be usefull in identifing distored and harmful thoughts.Keep in mind that alcohol is a very powerful CNS depressent and will only make you feel worse in the long run.
…or two tix to ‘brokeback mountain’; 
In one of the more recent episodes, Rob Kardashian had to move back with Khloe cause he couldn’t afford a home…you guys should seriously take from his experience and learn from it…
Someone posted a quote on a blog that resonated with me, it’s attributed to a yong pastor in North Carolina: Steven Furtick. It goes:
“One reason we struggle with insecurity: we’re comparing our ‘behind the scenes’ to everyone else’s ‘highlight reel.’”
Which is just an unsuitable comparison. At the very least, we should be comparing our highlight reel to theirs, and - perhaps more importantly - our behind the scenes to theirs.
Some people respond to this insecurity by exaggerating or making up stories about their highlights (man, I banged this chick and she was totally crazy, and then her sister came in and got in on the act, man and then…). Over time, these people often feel the need to outdo themselves and the stories - whether real or not - get more and more boundary-pushing.
Others maybe don’t respect boundaries and so the highlights are perhaps true, but the behind-the-scenes is horrific: drug or alcohol addiction, families abandoned, STDs and other diseases, heart attacks waiting to happen.
Life has boring moments sometime… and pretty much no one is as happy as they appear on Facebook.
Bchad, are you saying the kardashian lifestyle is not what its made out to be? i have seen behind the scenes footage and its every bit as real as the stuff that makes the highlight reel…
Numi - it’s ok if you don’t like someone and its ok if someone doesn’t like you. Sounds to me like you either need to go rage and have fun or tell this guy you have something else you’d rather be doing. He’s a male, he should be able to handle/respect that.
Bring a 3rd dude.
palantir is volunteering…
This line of reasoning misses the point. certain people are insecure BECAUSE they compare themselves to others (i.e. they derive their value in reference to other people). people who understand happiness, know that value is derived from within by using your mind to accomplish a worthy goal.
Anyway, for the OP, do the following:
(1) watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwmOvHGzq1I
(2) strap on a pair, grab the bull by the horns, think of a goal worth pursuing, and go out and accomplish it.
Please stop being kardashian’s pimp. Everytime I read their name, it makes me throw up.
Stop hanging around people like this… life’s too short to put up with it.
haha