When you see all the cool, impressive things people did in the bear market and how they all got rich, fit, and hot, and learnt important life lessons, and went on exciting dates, and became a philosopher and trained for Iron Man, and you spent the bear market unemployed, broke, and glued to your laptop.

I guess that means I failed the marshmallow test.

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Nah

Nostr was the marshmallow.

I was all over Nostr this bear.

Setting up nodes and mining, bought a house, renovated it all this past summer.

I'm a fit, sexy 38 year old father of a 10 month old baby girl.

I haven't been to the gym since about 22 years of age and although I totally miserably failed nostr:nprofile1qqsz7543nls5prmfac8fp8kcljkp8rzlxuxqth3y7rvrwzk6096jxgcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09usplzwa 100 squats to 100k experiment - you can rock climb my abdomen. And I eat like a king if anyone followed my loser posts of my dinners this past summer.

There are other reasons you're a so-called "Marshmallow". But, there's always more of you for your husband to love.

I've actually never worked this hard, for this long, in my life. It's been months and months of grueling physical and mental labor, though, and not "working out" or "sports" or "dieting" or "studying", so it gets me no street cred.

Work has gone completely out of style, as a self-improvement effort. It's all about doing things in order to look hot or cool, rather than doing things because they just need to get done.

Work/life balance rears it’s head! God knows what you have done.✝️

So I guess this entire thing was essentially you fishing?

Most men won't say you look great or you're absolutely gorgeous and perfect as is with eyes deeper than the moon on Nostr.

Because they worry about stereotypes or sending the wrong message.

I'm impervious to that mental place, and am happily married and that doesn't mean I can't express my admiration for the beauty of another women.

You're doing fine considering what you spent the bear doing. Secretly, most guys like some marshmallow on their women. So long as your skin doesn't end up looking like loose sheets after your marshmallow phase.

But even in that context, there is a market for any type of women. It's really a statement on the sad state of masculinity these days lol. (Don't twist this last statement).

You hawt.

Street cred. Ppfffft

God's reputation of you is all that matters.

I failed too. Doesn't matter though because now is all there is.

You are not alone 🫂😅

They may have a six-pack, but I drank a few of them, so it seems sort of even.

I don't like six-packs.. prefer glass ones 😂😅

What have people been doing when?

I've spent this year buying a house and fixing it up.

This coulda been us, but we were painting walls.

For real.

I keep wanting to plan an investment strategy, look into buying some Bitcoin, or whatever, but we have to cash flow home projects, so that all has to wait.

We'll probably finish that then have a baby and be in the same boat lol.

Worth it, though.

Guess you'll just have to keep earning Bitcoin, instead of buying it. Sucks to be you.

Yeah that's the plan!

Man, I would be so much wealthier and sexier, if I'd kept the part-time secretary job and hung out at the gym all afternoon, like a sane person.

Imagine all of the guys that could have stared at me through the glass wall, at the studio, like a 🐟

This is what they took from us.

Who has time for the gym every day?

A part-time secretary with a handsome boss.

Try to keep up, dear.

Who has time and money to be at the hospital all day because they didn't take time to workout? The gym is time consuming but at home calisthenics only takes 20-30 minutes 5 days a week. Time management is very important life skill!

Anyone with discipline

Well, Michael is regularly engaging in other forms of physical exertion.

getting fit and hot and learning important lessons can also happen while you are broke just sayin

Agreed, I’m hot and broke!

Well, if we were all hot, then it wouldn't be something special, anymore.

I'm not worried, tho, as I have an unattractive personality. So, I'm just gonna work that angle, instead.

Indeed but it is a bit harsh for everyone else.

Life isn't fair.

That’s what I keep telling them.

Does it really matter what other people did? What are your own goals? Please don't confuse "your" goals with the propagated implanted goals. Look deep inside and find yourself. This is what is important, the individual is important. If you need time to think, move to Japan, buy an abandoned house and meditate with zen cats until you discover your way.

Sure, the corn rid the poor out of me; though the tsjaad hotness is due the Noderunners-Network. I have no proof, yet no doubt about this.

Tsjaads never doubt.

maxis minted in the celsius/luna fiasco of 2022 are in their first maxi-cycle

that's me... i was a coiner for years and was just chasing programming work really but after that fiasco i became a maxi and now i am on the straight path

You're one of my favorite npubs, now.

nah, you'll hate me next week again, i guarantee it

😂 I can't tell, if that's a prediction or a threat. Love you, man.

What’s the marshmallow test?

Work done in 2018 and 2024 found that the Marshmallow Test "does not reliably predict adult functioning"

Correct, but it's become a meme. 😂

Ahh, I’ve lost count of the tests I’ve failed over the years but I’ll have a go at this later. I can do a retest right?

I did my part of work in last 30 years.

Now I know that I'll never know enough. That's the only lesson I learned.

Still punk, ancap, still don't give a shit about others opinions, diets, excercising, or other crap.

Please, could someone give me some piece of advise about how should I live my life? /s

Its fun being one of the cool kids😎