This is an awesome comment! Thank you for writing it. I sincerely mean that. It helps me maintain my tenuous grasp on faith in humanity, haha. You seem super cool. :)
I get you. <3 It's all about finding a good balance. Just do what you reasonably can when you reasonably can without harming yourself, and you'll be better off than most people. Like a sort of harm reduction approach, ya know? There's only so much we can do with the way the world around us is set up.
Try to be kind and understanding to yourself. You deserve that. This life is hard enough without us being so damn hard on ourselves like you and I seem to! We don't have to be perfect. Doing what we can to be good enough is better than trying to be perfect and inevitably imploding in the process.
You're not incorrect, but I doubt you're telling OP anything they don't already know. It sounds like they're not able to and/or are struggling to. Maybe you didn't mean it that way, but replying like this came off kind of mean and shitty. You could've just scrolled on by and kept it to yourself. OP is clearly suffering, they deserve kindness.
I really, really, sincerely doubt it. The only people I've met who've said they're those things are very much not those things. (Honestly, they're usually awesome.) The people I've met who one could argue are those things? They don't think they are, they think they're hot shit and everyone else is the problem.
Also, I've seen you around for a while, and you just don't seem like it! You seem cool, thoughtful, intelligent, and interesting to talk to. I genuinely mean it.
But, I totally get and understand the feeling. I do the same thing, unfortunately. Our brains tell ourselves some silly shit in order to try to cope with our fucked up situations, and it often starts in childhood. So it's some poor little kid just doing their best to make sense of things in there, ya know? They deserve kindness.
I'd appreciate it if you'd do what you can to try to be more kind and understanding to my cool acquaintance Mac. Mac deserves that. :) <3
(Would you believe that this is the short version of what all I wanted to say to you? Ha! My genuine apologies to you if it's obnoxious or unwanted!)
This was really interesting and informative. I enjoyed it. Well done and thank you for sharing it with us here!