@Ereiam
I’m wearing 37 pieces of howdy!

@WaynePonePone
T.G.I. Howdy’s

@Mr.Myoozik
Wendy’s

Whody? Whatdy? Wheredy? Whendy? Whydy?

@ABronyAccount
Funny you say that, Manson mentions the Buddha in the second chapter of his book.

@ZhaoZoharEX
That sounds a howdy-lot like the teachings of Buddhism or Stoicism too. They both emphasize the importance of consciousness of one’s own experiences on a kind of meta level, so that one can howdy through the good feelings as well as the bad with equanimity.

@Dirty Bit
You can find enlightenment in the strangest of places sometimes.

For what it’s worth, I’m okay. I’m going to be okay. I can keep moving forward. I read a book over the past week that honestly really changed the way I look at the world and my life in particular. It’s called “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Better Life”, by Mark Manson. I highly recommend it, it’s something I really needed to hear especially given my history of mental health and a suicide attempt many years ago. I’m honestly considering reading it again just because I want to.

We’re all responsible for what happens in our lives. That doesn’t mean you’re at fault for everything and should take the blame for all the misfortunes that happen to you, it just means you’re responsible for how you handle them. You can’t control everything that happens to you, but you can control your perception of what happens to you. Your life is the story of you, told by you, and how you tell it to yourself is everything, it’s the difference between utter despair and great triumph.

DWK (the guy who did Totally Legit Recap, and goes by Absolute Unit now) taught me that in another video, one that I’ve found myself coming back to a lot and probably will in the future. Heck, I’ve linked it at least twice in this very thread. It’s one of the most important videos I’ve ever seen. So when you go through life, Tell Yourself The Right Story.

I feel like shit, I really do and I probably will for a very long time. But… who gives a fuck? Not me. I’ve got something greater than adversity to care about, I can break that feedback loop from hell.

Just keep moving forward.

Edit: Oh and I just wanna give another howdy for good measure. Howdy.

Zhao’s link leads to one of those ‘Totally Legit Recap Episodes’ on YouTube. I skimmed a bit of them in my earlier days in the fandom, and they’re pretty funny.

@Dirty Bit
Recap parody? What do you mean?

Also, howdy to anyone still here.

Damn, that’s a pretty hard line from a recap parody.

@Dirty Bit
Remember that seeking help is a strength and not a weakness, that’s a lesson I continuously have to learn and will always have to remind myself probably for the rest of my life. Sure, it’s probably easier to do nothing, but what kind of life is that?

I’m dealing with borderline depression and resurfacing anger issues along with the general stresses of being an autistic high school dropout trying to build a good life for myself and my family. I hate feeling like this and feeling trapped, I hate stagnating in a feedback loop from hell, and I hate the dark thoughts that have been plaguing me lately. I’m tired of lacking motivation and energy to do the things I want to do with my life. So I want to do something about it. Like a wise drunkard once said, “if death is so certain anyway, what’s the harm in trying to live a little longer? At worst, you’ll be dead, just like you wanted, but at best you might actually be happy.”

This. I don’t have the strength to seek a therapist, myself.

@ZhaoZoharEX
My sympathies, Zhao. I hope things improve for you. Sympathetic howdy from me to you.

I need to say howdy to a therapist, I can’t continue the way I’ve been going.

@Space Pirate
Splatfest? As in Splatoon Splatfest? Is that still a thing?

Keep in mind I haven’t played any Nintendo games in several years now.

@WaynePonePone
That….doesn’t sound like the sort of howdy that would scare me. Also, lovely seeing Wayne again. Kind of wish I could talk to him more often though understandably that’s difficult due to time zone differences.

@Castellan Fyor
If you howdy in the forest and then hear howdy back in a cute Apple voice, would you be scared?

My go-to greeting is a howdy, not that the Splatfest cares.

If I howdy in a forest where no one can hear it, then is it a greeting?

@Background Human
There is a joke about spiders thread somewhere in here but I don’t have the energy or desire to find it.

@Eragor14
Time travel is howdy that way.

@Background Human
You have been among the howdyism for quite some time, longer than me I think. So I am definitely curious about how you first came to this little howdyfest on this site.

I’m not sure how I got here. Has to do with Spider-Man, I think. I’m still figuring this thread out, but I think a bunch of guys like us should team up. Could do some howdying.

Howdy everypony!

@ABronyAccount
Hi