Today, I'm fasting for Lent. I'm a copywriter and my current client is a food company. I have to research about, and look at pictures of food all day. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I spent an hour photoshopping my face onto super skinny models as inspiration for a diet. FML
Today, I was working and eating. I was so tired that I bit into my pen and smeared my chocolate-filled pastry on my exercise book. FML
Today, I worked from 8 to 7 without a break and I'm still not done with my assignment. Meanwhile, my coworker crafted a piece of paper looking like a watermelon slice and posted a picture of herself seemingly taking a bite out of it. FML
Today, I'm participating in a 30 hour awareness-raising event on famine in Africa. I'm supposed to hand out leaflets to people from my booth. My school decided to hand out a literal crate-load of free cupcakes right in front of us. FML
Today, I have to pretend to be vegan for a week while visiting my in-laws to avoid eating there. While they are absolutely wonderful, kind, loving people, their kitchen is absolutely disgusting, and their food handling habits are atrocious. I’m so hungry. FML
Today, my boss was hosting some client representatives for a meeting and had offered to buy everyone lunch. The "healthy" place he's ordering from made me sick last time, so I'd politely opted out. At lunch, the reps glared at me in the meeting room as I ate my homemade chili con carne. Turns out they're all vegans. FML
Today, it seems I do, in fact, have an addiction to food. My employer has put on a weight loss challenge with a 1000$ prize, and on day 5 of 100 I'm already lying to the calorie counting app I installed on my phone. FML
Today, I was quickly eating lunch during a work meeting. I ended up inhaling some of my sandwich so I've had toast stuck in my sinuses for the last hour. FML
Today, I'm desperately trying to complete a project for a client. However, I have to stop every hour to provide the client with an update of the progress. The deadline is in mid July. FML
Today, on my first day at as a photo editor at a print store, I had to spend over an hour editing a full shoot of a fat man eating a baguette in a bathtub, closeups included. FML
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okaymyfriend 9
Look it's fine to do religious things, but don't complain about it. You chose this, and the whole point is to give something up that's hard, isn't it? I'm not religious, but I think you're missing the point.
TheNewGuy03 29
In a sense, you Lent yourself to this inconvenience
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Comments (24)
Dave_Davington 34
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
Not being a grown ass adult with an imaginary friend would fix your issue.
bgbwtp 13
Not being a jerk and belittling people with different beliefs would be a great start for you.
Dave_Davington 34
Unlike most, I don't believe that religion should get a pass for being blatant bullshit just because not pretending otherwise offends people.
bgbwtp 13
How does OP's belief do anything to hinder your life? Oh, it doesn't? It has absolutely no bearing on your existence whatsoever? Then don't call them bullshit. You're entitled to an opinion. That doesn't make you exempt from being called out as an asshole.
CSSDimian 6
Agreed. Complete nonsense.
CSSDimian 6
You can be indignant and offended all you want, that doesn't make religion any more than stories that got blown out of proportion before modern communication methods existed.
Dave_Davington 34
+bgbwtp I wasn't calling it bullshit because OP's religious practices directly effects my life in a negative way (though religion in general certainly does). I was calling it bullshit because it's bullshit. If that offends you, then that's not my problem. I will not go out of my way to validate religious people's delusions just to spare your precious little feelings.
bgbwtp 13
I love that you think I'm offended after calling you out for being a dick. No, I'm just saying that OP is allowed their own beliefs. You being a twat and mocking them for it just makes you look bad. You can have your own opinion. I never once said you couldn't. Personally, I'm not religious. But there's never a need to belittle others' beliefs because you somehow think you're above them. Besides which, clearly FML staff folk agreed that you were out of line; your comment was moderated. Try framing your opinion less like a douche next time, if you please.
Dave_Davington 34
You say you're not offended, but you arguing so passionately about how religion deserves my respect says otherwise. As I said earlier, if you want me to respect religion, give me a good reason why (and again, religious people being offended does not qualify as a good reason, nor does you being offended on their behalf). Until then, I shall continue to treat it like the unsubstantiated bullshit that it is.
bgbwtp 13
You don't seem to understand what "passionately" means, boyo. A comment is not passion. A comment is just that: a comment. I literally only called you out for an insensitive comment. I never told you not to have an opinion, just that your opinion made you look like a jackass (why? It was unsolicited and phrased incredibly rudely). But please, tell me again how I'm in the wrong for saying that OP is allowed to believe what they want, just as you are. That definitely won't make you look infantile.
TheNewGuy03 29
In a sense, you Lent yourself to this inconvenience
CSSDimian 6
I like you.
okaymyfriend 9
Look it's fine to do religious things, but don't complain about it. You chose this, and the whole point is to give something up that's hard, isn't it? I'm not religious, but I think you're missing the point.
Lennellie Sml 12
As a Christian, I agree,.. but OP may just have wanted some attention from this community besides acknowledgement from OP's abba Father - whdya know... :D
clair_brodie 35
Like.. you are going to not eat for a full 40 days and nights? Or just a day at a time? Or more specifically, were you merely fasting on Ash Wednesday for Lent but then going to eat for the rest of the time?
amarie2009 22
My heart bleeds, the world is on fire and you are complaining to have to look at food pictures all day. Lots of people in the world are not fasting, but are actually starving. So stop complaining and do your job,.
jbuckets_404 39
OP, I feel your pain.... :-( Hang in there! :-)
ImZakki 15
Just don't fast then.
Tripartita 45
Reminds me of the time I shoved a nail through my hand, knowing it would hurt, and it HURT!
ImminentDisaster 12
Any particular reason, or just cuz you felt like it?
pelletman67 16
So you are fasting for 40 days??? No food for 40 days???? Who are you? Ghandi's grandchild? ?
Stan017 6
OP here. Hi, I just wanted to say I wasn't seeking attention. It's my first time doing lent. No, I'm not not eating for 40 days, I'm fasting breakfast and lunch. if you read up, it states fast for a time, but there's one full meal per day. Also, I do get the point why people fast and I do know how they feel because I'm used to not having breakfast or lunch since I was 13 because I don't come from a fortunate family. I save what I can, eat minimal at home so my siblings can eat and won't be hungry, trying not to burden my parents with needing money. I'm not complaining about the religion or about Lent but just stating a FML about looking at pictures of food all day because of a client. It isn't helping me being hungry and tempted.
Morggle22 2
The point of Lent is to give up something and spend the time you would have spent on that reading scripture or worshiping or otherwise devoting yourself. If you are used to not eating then you actually haven't given up anything, and if you are spending that time working (and not devoting the time to God) then you're completely missing the point.
Stan017 6
I did give up chocolate as well, so that's consistent. And yes, I do get the point, and yes, I do my devotion and time with God during my fasting time.