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by ecargnfx 5796 days ago
Agreed. That's why the whole FMyLife irritates me so much--there are bigger things than those trivialities to fret over. There are actually a few Steve Jobs' quotes I find greatly inspiring that touch upon that.

""If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." ...I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."

Right?

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fml is, really, just a humor site and a place to vent when some perfect storm of events comes over your life. No matter how hard you try to remember the temporary nature of life, most people will still get upset were some of those things to happen, and rightly so.

Like this one: Today, my package from Maxim Electronics came in the mail. My parents thought the package was from Maxim magazine. I am now grounded for months, and they threw away hundreds of dollars of electronics. FML

Haha, yeah I know what you mean. I just meant the instances where it became so mainstream that people around me were saying such things as "I chipped my nail. FML" which was very irritating.
Show your parents the recept.