Working... Hard?

Some things in our life require a lot of dedication... Others require no dedication at all... Others are just... There, for us to dedicate ourselves as much as we want.

It's kinda funny when you start thinking about it... I mean... If you wish to learn a language, you can rest assured you'll need a lot of dedication... If you need a job, you'll need to dedicate some 8h of your day everyday for some 40 years... It's a pretty harsh environment.

On the other hand, if you just wish to read a book you need... To pick up the book, there isn't much more to it, really.

And then there are those strange things that... Don't really require dedication, but can suddenly need lots of dedication... They're the funny part I guess? Dunno, it's a bit funny to think of it for me at least.


People probably noticed already that a few new trophies were added a while ago, basically... 100 threads, 50 blog posts and 2 years on NU.

None of those are particularly easy to get (unless you have a ton of novels you forgot the title of I guess? I'm Looking For can help quite a bit), but... It's not like they matter for anything anyway, so it's not like it requires dedication to get them, you can just... Well, wait? They'll come with time.

Somehow though, I have a strange feeling of working towards those pointless goals... I'm really drawn in to the most pointless of stuff, while I don't really care that much about many things that should actually matter... I guess I'm weird, but I never minded being a weirdo anyway.

But at some point you just start to think... Why do I even bother? I mean... I do have some thread and blog posts ideas that were unused, I just need to spend some time polishing them and put the ball rolling... But at the same time, I really want those things done... Why? Why do I feel like I should work hard to get the 1st spot on the trophies? It's as meaningless as it can get, but I want it anyway.

Rather, I want to be on all the top X list of everything on NUF, which includes making more blog posts, and I was already working on that... Though it's kinda hard to compete with the people that make poems... T.T

And still... I keep on thinking, what other thing can I do to make a new thread? Or to make a new blog... Somehow this pointless trophies kinda haunt me and make me want to do my best to get them.

Like... Hey! I just got max trophy points a while ago! Don't you dare take them away from me!!!

It's really weird to wish to work hard for this kind of pointless things... And well, at the same time, it's not really hard work, you know?

I mean, I can just try to think of some old mangas I finished reading and try rediscovering their names and make some threads for them... Or I could make some whimsical blog posts about anything and everything, but... Where is the fun on that?

I can't simply go and make a shitpost thread to rack in thread creation counter! I need to make a quality shitpost thread! My pride is at stake in there! The trophy isn't worth it if I don't make my threads with as much effort as I usually make them!

So... My showering time today has been filled with thoughts of ideas to make threads or blog posts, and how can I actually make them... I really feel I shouldn't dedicate myself to these things, but I want to anyway... Hooray for being a weirdo I guess?

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*rolls*


Edit: Oh, for heavens' sake, there is also a trophy for 15k messages now!? And it is worth less than the 10k one!? I worked really hard for that one, okay? I don't wanna get more active on General and Novel General again... Don't wanna don't wanna don't wanna!!!