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Friday Fun Thread for July 18, 2025

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I just turned 25 today, since I have some time and it's a quarter of a century, ama. I hope this isn't seen poorly lol. But I'm quite happy to have seen this milestone.

AMA? What would we even A you about? Come on man, you can do better than this. Give us a little more to work with.

Unsure really. You can probably ask me about life experiences or events, I do think I'll probably do one with a girl if I want to commit to her.

I've had some interesting experiences, with or without substances. Ask away friend.

What's the most interesting place you've traveled and why

Pai, Thailand, unsurprisingly.

My startup LARP, where I went along with people despite having zero skills or money, was fucking with my head. I knew that I had to quit and start learning real things from scratch. Pai felt alive, it's not a real place. I felt like a child in a massive sandbox of a summer camp, surrounded by people my age who wanted to have fun. I did drugs, consumed liquor, met girls, and made friends.

My head was at peace. Throughout my life, the mistakes of my past always resulted in a negative feedback loop; I could never fully relax. Everyone around me had a perception that I wanted to maintain and behaving differently in any way would get me judged, not there. People did not care. My last post on my previous account (practical_romantic) or the first ones here are about my week there.

A creepy pajeet I met by chance in Chiang Mai told me to to go there as he saw me gaming in the clubs there and asked me to go there since getting laid there was easier, I spoke with my then founder who was footing both our bills since he had a good rmeote job and he encouraged me to go there, I did not expect that and went along, he gave 10k baht even though i wanted to just take 2, that 10k lasted me a full week.

I did not get laid there, I got close, but I experienced a level of aliveness I have never before or since, by the end, I really did not care about getting laid. I met the two Danish girls and shared some things that I cannot disclose. Living out a lot of fun stories that are bizarre even for movies. Meeting that girl who pulverised my obsession with my oneitis, microdosing acid, doing mushrooms with two girls and the rest of that incident.

By the middle of the week, I could not stop smiling. I would wake up drunk or high and experienced life to the fullest. The place is magical, I feel torn about it since it also made me aware of the temporary nature of existence. Everyone I met there was only in my life for a short time, unlike people who i have a lot of memories with, these people are very transient. There is a saying that you cannot step into a river twice. If I go again, I would meet different people, and that is alright because there are many out there who I would have a lot of fun with since time passes by, a day or a decade are the some once they are gone. I got to be in the memories of people who helped me have a fun time.

Leo DiCarpios or rather Danny Boyle's beach makes sense to me now that I did something similar. Pai is an amazing awesome youthful hedonistic hippie paradise. My direction in life is directed mostly by yogic teachings that you internalise or at least are aware of, to experience something that is so different from it and come out of it alright was fun. I hope to visit it soon, someday, once my sabbatical is done and I have something valuable locked in. I feel grateful about life because most people I know never experience what I could, god is kind. I don't want to bum around or anything long term lol, it's good for the heart to do it occasionally.

Sounds like a fun place for a young person! Shame it leaves you with a longing for the people instead of any lasting connection though.

All life is temporary in a way, connections via the internet are a shadow of what one feels. It was great for what it was and I'd never been around as many young people who were looking to have a good time. These places are amazing in small doses, much like the drugs found there.

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