The 'healing' power of Glastonbury

[philipsteak]

23 hours ago, boredawn said:

I once read a proverb that's 'my sore finger is worse thank your broken leg' and it highlights that pain is subjective, rather than objective. We all have our struggles that fit into a glass, but the capacity for liquid in that glass is different for each person and all our troubles are very real and personal to each of us. 

I wish I was a person who practice what they preached more, but your future isn't limited by your present. You should always 100% believe in your capacity to change and improve your life, because you ( us all I guess) deserve happiness. Keep the faith that the very fact you recognise that the present isn't keeping you satisfied will spur you on to a better tomorrow. I definitely remember that stage of my career where I had just graduated with and English degree during the crash of 2008, and suddenly the advice of 'go get a degree, any degree, just get one' was useless and had turned to 'why did you study English if you don't want to be an English teacher'. All of a sudden I went from working in Sainsburys to... working in Sainsburys with a useless degree . It took a post graduate course and a lot of volunteering/sessional work, but I now have a job I love in criminal justice working. It's not the dizzy heights of some other careers, but I enjoy getting to see both side of the justice system from the inside/out, and I'm fortunate that my post is mostly about rehabilitation and helping people to overcome their past and strive for a better future. 

Best employability advice I can give anyone is if you are going to train, pick someone vocational and tied directly to an industry rather than something abstract like English or geography etc. Things like a trade, programming, social work, teaching etc line you up for an actual post when you finish... from my humble experience of giving careers advice.

Thanks for the kind words.

[RichieSpenno]

I can't even put into words how I feel about the festival, its mad!

But I can say I've been struggling with mental health the last couple years add the fact that I haven't been since 2017 ill probably be a blubbering wreck the whole weekend I'll just be so happy to be home.  

 

Best god damn place in the whole world.