Teaching myself the hard way

OK, so I'm broke. Absolutely penniless. No money, no food. It is my own fault as I disregarded my impending financial crisis over the past 2 weeks. I spent the last of my money partying hard about 48 hours ago, even though I knew that I would not have anything to eat and no way of earning money until Wednesday.

The thing is, I could easily borrow some money from friends as I will have money coming in on Wednesday but I have chosen not to. It's not that I feel bad about asking for the money though, I just don't want to take the easy way out. If I borrow the money, then in some ways, the idiocy of acting like I did will probably not have the same impact on me.

I am hoping that by feeling hungry and stupid for a few days, I will have learnt my lesson and maybe be a bit more responsible in the future.

What would you do? What do you think about this type of self-punishment?

 

I think I'd do the same thing. I mean its only untill Wednesday. You can go hungry till then.

 

I agree, till wednesday can be seen as healthy. I'm generally not into selfpunishment though :tongue:

 

I don't really see this as "self punishment" though... But I wouldn't borrow money from someone because I spent all of mine, I'd just do without... But I personally have a thing with borrowing money from people, I don't...

 

Doing without food is not that hard to be honest although I haven't had a bite to eat since Saturday evening and it is now, Monday night. I'm also without any cigarettes. Way more difficult to deal with than hunger.

 

My friends would force feed me....but they all watch my eating habits as if I'm trying to slowly starve myself.

I wouldn't ask though. I only ask to borrow money in desperate times.

 

well, my belly is rather full so it's easy for me to say that "it's only a couple days" but if I go even 6-8 hours without eating, it's rumblemania over here.

however, like you said, you were foolish and decided to party and piss away the last of your cash, knowing you'd be without money until wednesday. maybe a couple of days of starvation and, consequently, reflection, will do you a world of good in the long run.

what would I do? well, I wouldn't have partied away the cash in the first place (no food = torment.) I would've probably had someone spot me money for beers on the night of party. but, if I found myself in your particular predicament, I would have loaned some cash, just because I can't fucking stand being hungry. I'm all for beating yourself up though, don't get me wrong, I probably would have told the person I loaned from that I'd pay them back double what I loaned to teach myself a lesson. give the extra to charity if they wouldn't take it.

 

Mine would too, but I have sort of isolated myself so as not to meet anybody.

I want to remember this time.

 

Borrow the damn money Red, life is just one big party, no lesson to be learned here

 

Red ask some friends to invite you over to dinner, and try to learn a damn lesson without spanking yourself.

And not in the way I approve of.

 

That's what my belly is saying to me. And it's getting louder by the second but... i really feel a little ridiculous over allowing this situation to develop. As I said, I have no problem borrowing money when I need it, and that has happened before, but not really because of my recklessness.

I need to be a little more self-aware.

 

I think you should also give yourself a good spanking.

This is a good opportunity to quit smoking.

 

I think you can still borrow the money, your able to pay it back in what, 2 days right? And still learn a lesson, but it happens man, if they are really your friends they wont mind. Im sure youd do the same for them

 

I suppose if you think this is the only way to discipline yourself, it is a good idea.

God Speed Red.

 

Hmmmm this is why I always keep things like thirty pound bags of rice in my house.

 

Without a doubt, I would lend a friend the money, and 100%, they would do the same for me. It would be about $3 to feed myself well for the next 2 days, but I really don't think that I would learn the lesson well enough this way.

If the temptation arose again in the future, I would probably act the same knowing that I could fall back on the generous nature of my friends. Sounds a little stupid I know, but hopefully there's method in my madness.

 

Self-flaggelation is not as fun as having somebody do it for me.

But yeah, I think that the lack of cigarettes may actually prove to be a good thing, eventually.

 

haha. I once had twenty dollars to feed me and my buddy for two weeks, so we bought 10 kilos of rice for like 13 dollars, some honey and milk and ate rice with milk and honey three times a day. I don't think I could ever eat that again.

 

I don't want my Red starving to death! Borrow some money! You haven't eaten in almost two days - isn't that enough punishment?

 

That's ok, I won't starve. I just really want to remember this experience.