Friday Afternoon Diversion: F My Life

2009_02_pathetic.jpg It's almost Valentine's Day, the retailer-manufactured annual reminder of a) how tragic our sex lives are, or b) how woefully inadequate our relationships are at filling the cold black void of our intrinsic longing for validation.

So, you find yourself sitting in your crappy cubicle at your crappy job, watching everyone else get Valentine's flowers while waiting to be laid off. However should you spend the rest of today? At F My Life, of course, where ordinary folks share tales of woe that'll make your meager paycheck or lonely V-day seem like small potatoes. A sampling:

"Today, after being in the hospital for 2 days with no visitors, I got my first phone call. It was my best friend asking if he could date my ex girlfriend. FML."

"Today, the girl I love and I went to visit my parents out of state for the first time. My father grinned and acknowledged that she was a "keeper", at which she laughed and said we were "just friends". I was going to propose to her next week. FML."


"Today, I gave my girlfriend non-alcoholic beer as a joke. In slurred speech she tells me I have the body of a monk seal. She then takes my keys, staggers to my car, and drives away. She crashed into a tree 2 blocks later. She's fine. FML"

If that's not enough, you can always revisit this douchebag to feel better about yourself.

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Here's an idea: Suck it up and take responsibility for your own happiness, and don't depend on other people to provide it for you. You can't control other people's actions or feelings, but you can control your own. Other people don't make you unhappy - you let yourself be unhappy.

So feeling sorry for yourself is just an excuse to not be accountable for controlling your own life.

People always get what they deserve.

I take you got what you deserve?

Hah I typed in "accepting responsibility" into google and found some interesting results! Even Lance Armstrong has something to say on this topic:

http://www.livestrong.com/article/14698-accepting-personal-responsibility/

How can failing to accept personal responsibility result in negative consequences?

* Overly dependent on others for recognition, approval, affirmation and acceptance.

* Chronically hostile, angry or depressed over how unfairly you have been or are being treated.
* Unsuccessful in personal relationships.

just to name a few...

Dude, take it easy.

It's supposed to be funny.

The post or that website? I think it's funny that people would look at that website. Every sentence starts with "Today" and there 83 pages of it. Now that is funny!

What you say is true. However one can still enjoy that site as a collection of humorous anecdotes.

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VultureProtein is INTENSE.

J-hop is a rooster that drinks beer out of a shot glass.

im addicted to fml, but I came across a site called http://www.fwhyme.com and I think it's much better than fml. and also fwhyme is american. I rather support an american site. and they also don't start all their articles with "today" so u can post things that happened yesterday

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