I stumbled across Roost by accident and have been having a great time with it. It’s an indie pen-pal app where messages travel at the pace of the birds, and I’ve really enjoyed meeting people from around the world, if you decide to join my referral code is SFJSPN. Feel free to join & send me a message I’d love to hear about whatever you’ve got to say! Ciao for now!

I stumbled across Roost by accident and have been having a great time with it. It’s an indie pen-pal app where messages travel at the pace of the birds, and I’ve really enjoyed meeting people from around the world, if you decide to join my referral code is SFJSPN. Feel free to join & send me a message I’d love to hear about whatever you’ve got to say! Ciao for now!

(To mods not sure if this fits this community but I felt like I can travel & meet people without traveling so it’s pretty green & this is the closest active lemmy community it seemed to fit)

Hi Dad, this is hard for me to say, & I know it might be hard for you to hear, but I hate myself. I don’t like the person I’ve grown into, & it’s not because of anything you did wrong in fact, it’s the opposite. You gave me a good childhood. You were present, supportive, & loving. You helped me through school, college, my relationship, & advice for getting a good job. On paper I am doing well but I don’t feel that way. I tried to do everything right but I still can’t shake the hate I have for myself. That hatred that used to motivate me now just a heavy weight. I’m so quick to give up. I feel tired all the time, like I’m running on empty, even when I’m doing nothing. And the worst part is I can’t seem to push through it, even when I know something might make me feel better, I don’t have the energy or will. I just feel stuck doing things I don’t really enjoy since they don’t require any energy to do. I hate that part of me. For me, when things get hard, I now stall & I hate that about myself. I guess I’m reaching out because I want to understand how you’ve kept going. How have you always gotten up when you’ve felt miserable. I feel like you gave me so much potential & I’ve squandered it.

I plan on going abroad in the coming year & want to know enough of the local language to ask basic things. Does anyone know something like 100 or 250 words that I could memorize to get across basic ideas & questions? I don’t care about being grammatical correct just enough to cave man speak during my time there.

What word would be the equivalent for sir or ma’am for a person not in the gender norm. I like greeting strangers with it while working retail & have always wondered what would be the right why to respond to someone who did not want to be called either sir or ma’am.