Can anyone be friends with me here?

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I’m new here, bub, but i certainly see where you’re coming from. I’m in pretty much the same situation meself. The advice here is sound. Persevere with your Rosary. It was very alien to me at first (as a convert). However, whatever it does, and in whatever way i need it to help, it truly does.
Do go to Confession. I struggle with that also, like many other. It helps me to think of it as reconcilliation, rather than confession. Getting straight with God.
As for feeling down and depressed, exercise could be something to try. Before me injuries i used to run. Give it a try.
Also, please feel free to PM me. No worries.👍

God bless you,
Hallam
 
May I give you some feedback?

It has been my experience that no one can make anyone do anything unless they are willing to lay hands upon them or use a weapon. Somehow, I don’t think that is what you want to do regarding your sister talking with you.

I may be wrong, but it seems as if you are placing a lot of emphasis on ‘feeling’ (I feel this way and I fee that way and so I do this or I do that). I understand that feelings are important, but this sounds as though you have determined that only when you feel a certain way will you do certain things, i.e. pray or attend Mass or go to confession.

Might I also suggest that the focus on what a bad person you are is pride in reverse? It is not that you have taken humility too far; rather, you have discarded it completely and become the absolute worse person ever - and not only is that not true it is a little boastful, wouldn’t you say?

Just a thought. What do I know?🤷
If I read your post correctly, you’re saying that by hating myself I’ve become the opposite of humility. I always knew that, I just didn’t realize that I was doing it. As for the feeling part, I always always knew that devotion is done through faith and not feelings. I always tried hard to do it as I read it off True Devotion to Mary. However, recentlyas in the last few months, I stopped praying so much not so much because I didn’t feel like it, I jsut didn’t want to pray to a person I felt didn’t love me as much as I wanted. I know it was an absolutely false idea and I’m not trying to say its right. I still prayed a little in the sense I was always calling out to Maryand asking for he help in getting better but they seemed to do little help. I put into my mind the idea that me not advancing in virtue was God’s punishment for not haivng confidence yet it was not having confidence itself that was to blame.

Guys, does anyone have more advice on how to open up to the Blessed Virgin. To be perfectly honest, I used to be very, very devoted to her. I would literally go to her for all my troubles. In fact, without her, I feel I wouldn’t have gotten this far in my knowledge of the world and my own morals. I don’t want to follow the morals of the world or the morals of the majority of Catholics, I want to follow what Mary wants and I want to convince people that her ways are the best. I even tried writing a novel about her which I’m finding very difficult to write as I have writer’s block.
 
Regarding my sister, I think I really wll go by leaving her alone and the silent treatment. She told me that she’ll spend some time with me for sure and kept on saying that she’ll spend time with me today. She still hasn’t and tis 6:35 in the evening and she’s going out soon again. I only want 20 minutes to half an hour with her thats it. If she’s going tog et all angry and frustrated at my parents for telling ehr to go spend time with me, I don’t want to be friends with her. If she doesn’t want me and if she doesn’t love me, fine, I don’t flipping care. I’ll only care if she comes begging on her knees for forgiveness for mistreating me so much and for not showing me any love. Its things like these that make me depressed, angry and hating myself but I wn’t fall for that trick again. Thanks everyone.
 
…If she doesn’t want me and if she doesn’t love me, fine, I don’t flipping care. I’ll only care if she comes begging on her knees for forgiveness for mistreating me so much and for not showing me any love…
I think this part is a bit unreasonable. You should really pray for your sister. Leave her obstinacy to God. Commend her to the Saints, the Angels, and Our Blessed Mother for the conversion of her sould and the conversion of all sinners.
 
If ya want someone to talk to, just PM me. The door’s open. 🙂
 
I think this part is a bit unreasonable. You should really pray for your sister. Leave her obstinacy to God. Commend her to the Saints, the Angels, and Our Blessed Mother for the conversion of her sould and the conversion of all sinners.
Yeah your right. In fact, forget my comment compeltely. My sister eventually came and I showed ehr a little anime. She looked interested but had toleave because we ordered takeout and had to go eat. She said she’ll come back and watch the full episode or two tomorrow.
 
I am more than happy to offer my friendship to you. Feel free to PM me. I’m here any time you need to talk. I’ve gone through some very rough times alone, so I know the feeling of what you’re going through. I offer your my prayers and anything else I can give you. Take heart, it will get better!
 
Hey guys, can anyone please tell me what I should do to get some sleep. Lately, I’ve been pulling nothing but all nighters and have only been sleeping from times like 7 o clock in the morning to 3 in the afternoon. Its messing up my day as I could do many things during thosetiems but whenever I try to change my sleep lifestyle, I always revert back after a couple of days.I always have a lot of energy left and I try to reduce it by listening to music and running around my room pretending to be a superhero. Yes, you ehard that right, I am dead serious:o. Its rather embarrassing but if I am depressed, it does reduce the depression a little bit although by the end of the day, I’m still full of energy.

I also gained an eating problem with my depression. I’ve been eating to many sweets lately if only because I wanted to use their sugar to make me think (I hear sugar is good for the brain) yet guess what happened? What do you think I should do? I’m definitely avoiding sweets for now but my sleeping problem?
 
Hey guys, can anyone please tell me what I should do to get some sleep. Lately, I’ve been pulling nothing but all nighters and have only been sleeping from times like 7 o clock in the morning to 3 in the afternoon. Its messing up my day as I could do many things during thosetiems but whenever I try to change my sleep lifestyle, I always revert back after a couple of days.I always have a lot of energy left and I try to reduce it by listening to music and running around my room pretending to be a superhero. Yes, you ehard that right, I am dead serious:o. Its rather embarrassing but if I am depressed, it does reduce the depression a little bit although by the end of the day, I’m still full of energy.

I also gained an eating problem with my depression. I’ve been eating to many sweets lately if only because I wanted to use their sugar to make me think (I hear sugar is good for the brain) yet guess what happened? What do you think I should do? I’m definitely avoiding sweets for now but my sleeping problem?
Whenever I have problems with my sleep schedule, I force myself to be awake and out of bed by 7 or 8 am, regardless of how tired I may be. Then I make sure that I’m in bed at a decent hour - for me, that’s usually around 11pm. After a few days of this, my body gets used to it and I fall back into a regular sleeping pattern. If you’re tired and you tell your body when it’s allowed to sleep, it will eventually listen to you. 🙂
 
Whenever I have problems with my sleep schedule, I force myself to be awake and out of bed by 7 or 8 am, regardless of how tired I may be. Then I make sure that I’m in bed at a decent hour - for me, that’s usually around 11pm. After a few days of this, my body gets used to it and I fall back into a regular sleeping pattern. If you’re tired and you tell your body when it’s allowed to sleep, it will eventually listen to you. 🙂
Thanks. Do you think 12 o clock or 12:30 midnight is decent? I’m not a night person you know.
 
Thanks. Do you think 12 o clock or 12:30 midnight is decent? I’m not a night person you know.
Of course! Tt all depends on the schedule that you want to put yourself on. The time is totally up to you. 🙂
 
I found the best way to manage sleep is to go to bed when tired but wake up at the same time every morning. It takes a bit for your body to reset but it helps if you keep active during the day. Do you have any place you can go jogging at? I always like to listen to music and day dream while jogging. I used to jog 3-4 hours a day (in an hour or two increments) to help burn up energy and de-stress. I don’t know what type of dog you have but you could always walk/jog the dog to the same effect. Exercise for you both!

I also found that praying while jogging relaxes me, especially if I have troubles to work through. I’ll vent out loud and lay all my troubles out to Jesus and Mary. It always made me feel better, I felt I could really get to the bottom of what was troubling me and that now that my problem was laid out clearly to them I’d know what to pray for and they would be there to help me through it.

Other ways to help get tired it to work on mental exercises, to tire out your brain! If I have trouble sleeping I’ll sit up and work on puzzle games, like Sudoku. Good luck!
 
I offer my self to be ur friend. If you want to share anything, you can sent me PM.
Have a blessed day, God bless you.
 
Hey guys, I have a problem I want to discuss and please note I’m not trying to paint myself as a good person here because I can be very rash sometimes. The thing is, I have sister trouble. My sister doesn’t exactly abuse me so much as she ignores me, never spends time with me and is always saying I am the reason she doesn’t talk to me. When I do tell her that I want to spend time with her, she says that I won’t listen to her music at which I rebuff and tell her that I will at which she replies that I only would ridicule said songs. Thing is, I would only ridicule songs which are downright offensive or bad whilst giving my honest opinion on songs which are are good or at least passable. My dad does it all the time with all the anime I show him and it never bothers me in the least.

I also cook for her when mum isn’t available and without meaning to brag, even she admits that my food is good. Thing is, a week ago or so, I overcooked the spaghetti and she told me that I never take good care of her and that I don’t care about her which is absolutely not true. Just because I cooked badly once or twice doesn’t mean that I don’t care yet whenever I call her out on her rubbish, she always says the same tong: that it’s my own fault that she hates me and that I used to be a jerk towards her. Yet I honestly don’t know what she is talking about. I don’t remember ever being a jerk to her. The only time I remember is that when we were kids, there were times I didn’t want to play some of the games we used to play. We would play an ‘acting’ game where I would be a bumbling dad and my sister would be his naughty baby daughter. We had fun and we played it alot but I don’t think its enough to hate me.

Another reason she may hate me could be because when I converted to the Catholic faith, I tried hard at converting her. I never insulted her or anything even though I was rather annoying at first although I quickly stopped converting her with those ways, I reconciled with my parents and me and my dad are best friends and even she listened to me sometimes when I spoke on religion. I don’t know why my sister hates me. Could it be because she’s embarrassed by me? I do have ‘weird’ tastes, as long as you call watching anime, reading comic books, researching religion and Mariology and listening to Japanese and my own taste for music weird. Its weird by this country’s standards which lets be honest, doesn’t have a lot of knowledge on how to spend time outside of work. The worst thing is, despite telling me that she hates me, she acts all sweet and innocent when I cook her food or do her a favor even though when I cook myself food, she complains about the huge mess I make when cooking even though she never ever raises a finger to help around the house. At all. My mother doesn’t even tell her to help me and grandma out so as to avoid there being any fighting between us.

Right now, after another one of her outbursts, yesterday, I told her that I don’t have much of an appetite to cook for her at which she says fine and goes off by herself to her room. Was I being too rash? Its true I used to call her a ***** and a jerk when she would get angry at me for no reason but dad told me to stop as it will not help matters. But I can’t let her do what she wants with me because if I do, she’ll become manipulative and be in one unhealthy relationship after another. She’d become a bad person essentially. Did I do the right thing in telling her I don’t want to cook for her her? Please tell me.
 
Hey guys, I have a problem I want to discuss and please note I’m not trying to paint myself as a good person here because I can be very rash sometimes. The thing is, I have sister trouble. My sister doesn’t exactly abuse me so much as she ignores me, never spends time with me and is always saying I am the reason she doesn’t talk to me. When I do tell her that I want to spend time with her, she says that I won’t listen to her music at which I rebuff and tell her that I will at which she replies that I only would ridicule said songs. Thing is, I would only ridicule songs which are downright offensive or bad whilst giving my honest opinion on songs which are are good or at least passable. My dad does it all the time with all the anime I show him and it never bothers me in the least.

I also cook for her when mum isn’t available and without meaning to brag, even she admits that my food is good. Thing is, a week ago or so, I overcooked the spaghetti and she told me that I never take good care of her and that I don’t care about her which is absolutely not true. Just because I cooked badly once or twice doesn’t mean that I don’t care yet whenever I call her out on her rubbish, she always says the same tong: that it’s my own fault that she hates me and that I used to be a jerk towards her. Yet I honestly don’t know what she is talking about. I don’t remember ever being a jerk to her. The only time I remember is that when we were kids, there were times I didn’t want to play some of the games we used to play. We would play an ‘acting’ game where I would be a bumbling dad and my sister would be his naughty baby daughter. We had fun and we played it alot but I don’t think its enough to hate me.

Another reason she may hate me could be because when I converted to the Catholic faith, I tried hard at converting her. I never insulted her or anything even though I was rather annoying at first although I quickly stopped converting her with those ways, I reconciled with my parents and me and my dad are best friends and even she listened to me sometimes when I spoke on religion. I don’t know why my sister hates me. Could it be because she’s embarrassed by me? I do have ‘weird’ tastes, as long as you call watching anime, reading comic books, researching religion and Mariology and listening to Japanese and my own taste for music weird. Its weird by this country’s standards which lets be honest, doesn’t have a lot of knowledge on how to spend time outside of work. The worst thing is, despite telling me that she hates me, she acts all sweet and innocent when I cook her food or do her a favor even though when I cook myself food, she complains about the huge mess I make when cooking even though she never ever raises a finger to help around the house. At all. My mother doesn’t even tell her to help me and grandma out so as to avoid there being any fighting between us.

Right now, after another one of her outbursts, yesterday, I told her that I don’t have much of an appetite to cook for her at which she says fine and goes off by herself to her room. Was I being too rash? Its true I used to call her a ***** and a jerk when she would get angry at me for no reason but dad told me to stop as it will not help matters. But I can’t let her do what she wants with me because if I do, she’ll become manipulative and be in one unhealthy relationship after another. She’d become a bad person essentially. Did I do the right thing in telling her I don’t want to cook for her her? Please tell me.
Hi MrSylvester,
I have no arguing about this story. I just want to see about ur sister’s mind.
Maybe when she was a kid, you are her idol. But (maybe again), when you are both still a kids, your family (maybe) make her like trouble maker, and you are a good boy at home. It can make her heart wounded too. Or, she always see, all peoples like to talk with you, but not with her.
I’m feel sorry for her. She loves you, but (maybe) her heart wounded (by other peoples I’m sure) make her action like that to you. Try to understand her. If she is angry, just silent. I think that will be safe to you both. Just pray for her to feel Jesus love for her. And always showing her your love, without had arguing with her.
Just say, I love you sister. Maybe she will feel and saying bad for the 1st and 2nd times. Or maybe she will laughing you. But it’s okay. Always pray for her, Jesus will heal her. And your relationship will be good in Jesus.

Sorry, I just want to see from ur sister. I hope I’m wrong.

God bless you, mrSylvester.
 
Say guys, I have this old friend of mine from school. Every now and then, without me asking or knowing, he comes to visit. Thing is, I never visit him back because I don’t know where he lives and mum says that he wouldn’t want to be visited. So, I need advice on how to show my appreciation for his kind thoughts because frankly, while I do look to him as a frind, we’re not what you call close friends at all. We hardly know anything about each other and not meaning to sound cruel here but, he does have a speaking problem making it hard to udnerstand him. What should I do?
 
Not to sound mean or condescending, but you seem to have several friends over at the ‘’ Who likes Anime?’’ thread. Anyway, 'hope everything works out for you, and that you regain your Faith and optimism.
 
Not to sound mean or condescending, but you seem to have several friends over at the ‘’ Who likes Anime?’’ thread. Anyway, 'hope everything works out for you, and that you regain your Faith and optimism.
I think he created this thread before creating the one you are talking about.
 
Thanks everybody for your help and answers.

The thing regarding my prayer life is that, I lost my will to pray because I feel God and Mary just plain dislike me.
Go to the Holy Mother, Sylvester, her love is wide and her patience long. She leads us to her son and advocates for us to Him unlike our accuser (Satan).

If your intuition tells you that your inner-self is not quite refined enough before the the Holy Mother then go to one or more saints and ask for their prayers to God and their help in obtaining that refinement you wish.

Keep your head up. Don’t give up. Keep marching through the night.

Semper.
 
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