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VDarkAge
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Bio

Hello there! :)

I'm a girl, I live in Sweden. I'm 28 years old.
I am here on 7 Cups like many members because of the need to talk.
Everyday it is just......so expected to say that you're fine.
When in reality you might not be fine.

So I am here to just say that I'm not fine, at least not always.
Am I dealing with anything?
Well I'd say I'm stuck, so I'm trying to deal with getting unstuck.
I might be at rock bottom, not sure. Building up motivation or a drive to do anything can be...a challenge. I have also dealt with depression at some point, though perhaps not a very severe variety. I suppose I have some anxiety as well.

I'm quite a calm and open minded person, I'm very organized also a bit stubborn. I've been called an existentialist. Because I wonder a lot why we do things, meaning of life stuff and so on. I am very ambitious. Though sometimes my ambition kills me, I can't live up to it. I consider myself a bit old fashioned, because I value loyalty, honor, respect and honesty.

Other than that I have a dog and he cheers me up. Over the past two years my first dog ever passed away. Less than a year after that my first cat and first pet ever passed away. My cat was with me half my life, so it was difficult and to this day I can't say if I'm ready to get a new cat yet. So it was a lot of heartache in a relatively short time. Nowadays I have a young Labrador, second dog ever.

I have a variety of interests and hobbies. I like animals, my favorite top 5 animals are: lions, wolves, horses, orcas and eagles. Top 5. Of course dogs and cats get a bonus spot up there on first place. I like exploring and traveling, I'd love to climb a mountain one day. I like the ocean and I like to swim. I like science, specifically astronomy and I love using my telescope. I can use it for an hour and completely lose track of time.

I got some at home hobbies like listen to music. I can just listen to the same song 20 times over and over again, but I also love movie and video game music. I like to watch TV-shows or some movie. I'm also a gamer, PC gamer. RPGs are my favorites, like Mass Effect and Dragon Age. But I also like several MMOs like Elder Scrolls Online and World of Warcraft. Open world games are the best. I love the idea of being able to embark on some fantastic and amazing adventure. Unfortunately in the world we live in today we can't just pack up and go on some adventure, like Bilbo Baggins hehe. So I am glad I can at least do that in a simulated world.


Hmm what else...my favorite color is blue like navy blue and I'm an Aquarius, that is pretty much the basics about me.
I'm a Canadian, and proud! Canadian who lives in Sweden.

Lastly I suppose.
I got a dark side, I suppose we all do.
I'm quite proud and don't like to talk about "feelings" ish. I like to seem strong, I hate looking weak or anything like that. I always like to appear strong. So yeah, that's one reason I'm not to keen to talk about feelings. I can sometimes find myself feeling like a dark empty husk.
If I excel at anything it's keeping how I feel to myself.

Well yeah, that's it about me.

Nice to meet everyone here. ^_^



Recent forum posts
Senior Dog Health Issues - Grief, Loss
Grief & Loss / by VDarkAge
Last post
November 21st, 2023
...See more Hey everyone. This is not a happy post, be warned. I just really wanna vent or let things out somewhere. And well, here feels like a pretty good place. So yah, my dog, wonderful unique fella. Mix of Labrador, Dalmatian and Golden, is pretty much terminal. He's 12 years old so we (me and my parents) kinda figured he wouldn't have much longer. It was just such a shock. We were at the vet last night, they checked him out and did an x-ray. I kinda just figured "we're in 2022, medicine has taken huuuge leaps surely they can do something to help him." And then we hear the opposite. He has arthritis, which we have known about for years. And it's like narrowing or "hugging" the nerves in his lower back. Not squashing but yah effecting them negatively. He doesn't walk well, sometimes it's like he forgets that he has hindlegs. We have medicated him for about two years but it doesn't seem to be doing a lot lately. Sooo....we're in a predicament. The vet said they **might* be able to do surgery, which **might** help and give him more time. But his quality of life is of course also a factor. I'd just love to get him a better ending. Like yah do a surgery which would make him better for a while. Just so he could at the very least enjoy the time he has left, walk properly for one. But we got a lot of "the odds are, chances are" etc. Surgery might not do much, then he might just have post surgery things to deal with. And at best it might only buy him a year. Ahh man.......soooo we are like.....get him some more time. But what kind of time would that be, more discomfort?? Or maybe, put him to rest within 10 days or so. He's my first dog that I practically grew up with, so yah......this sucks! 😢😢😢 We don't really know what to do. Of course we don't want him to suffer, or get worse. But I don't want him to have a bad ending where he struggles to walk properly. I just want more time. Well who doesn't. The vet also said the kindest thing to do might be to put him to sleep. I'm just super duper grateful I still got a cat, healthy cat. Senior cat, but at least cats typically live longer. Anyone who has been in a similar predicament who has any insight? Btw we live in Sweden. Soo yah treatment options, procedures etc is different from country to country. Maybe I'm silly, but feels like my dog would have more options in the US or even in the UK.
Did you build your own sinking ship?
Anxiety Support / by VDarkAge
Last post
March 27th, 2019
...See more Hi everyone. So the title says it all, perhaps I should explain. We make choices everyday. Small decisions like which pair of socks to wear and big once like which high school to attend or what job to get. But you can make bad choices. Choices that don't necessarily have to seem bad at the time. But then you think back and regret it. Some time later you look back and see the choices that got you where you are today, those bad choices put you in the situation you are in today. Which might not be a great situation. Say you picked a dead-end job for example. You built your own sinking ship, dug your own grave and all those similar metaphors. I've done this yup. Following the metaphor I built my own sinking ship, dug my own pit which I fell into. I made the choices, and today my life is the way it is because of those choices. Nothing is terrible no, but things could have been better if I had just made different choices. Sooo this post is to come to terms with this I suppose, acknowledge my mistakes or bad choices. I know bad decisions are just a part of life. Some do say that you learn more from mistakes, they make you wiser. Mainly I'm kinda curios, has anyone else built their own sinking ship? And now we are just trying to stay afloat or get back to shore, perhaps repair the ship.
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