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My Idiot Cousin

submitted by Trope to TellUpgoat 4 hoursMay 10, 2025 22:36:42 ago (+6/-0)     (TellUpgoat)

I won’t go into much detail as the dude has wasted his life without much hope of retiring with dignity. Had to cut him out of my life after he made a sneaky plan to not pay his rent then ask the extended family to borrow money to prevent eviction in some sort of pity party. Even his mother and other cousins warned us not to give anything.

Still, there’s something very humbling about my semi-retarded loser cousin: If he could only learn to shut the fuck up, listen more, and try someone else’s way for once: then he could spare himself years unending pain, suffering, and hardship. He is like a Chinese finger trap in that he struggles and fights to do everything HIS way. His own ego destroys him.

Then I think to myself: Maybe I should shut the fuck up, listen more, and maybe read a book. No way to know what I don’t know.


9 comments block


[ - ] paul_neri 2 points 3 hoursMay 10, 2025 23:46:27 ago (+2/-0)

Could be worse. Could be a brother.

[ - ] albatrosv15 0 points 16 minutesMay 11, 2025 02:40:28 ago (+0/-0)

Could be worse, could be a sister.

[ - ] CoronaHoax 1 point 4 hoursMay 10, 2025 22:51:24 ago (+1/-0)

I mean his way could work, if he was willing to evaluate his own way and full and was willing to make changes he fairly saw should be made.

We're all learning machines. We've got the capability to learn anything so long as we sit down, assess our experiences in full, make a list of changes we think will help improve ourselves towards our goals, actually DO those changes, reassess the new experiences and repeat.

[ - ] Bottled_Tears 0 points 1 hourMay 11, 2025 01:46:06 ago (+0/-0)

So we have the same cousin

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 0 points 3 hoursMay 10, 2025 23:15:55 ago (+0/-0)

He likes the victim role.

[ - ] Trope [op] 0 points 2 hoursMay 11, 2025 00:04:57 ago (+0/-0)

I believe he’s a narcissist. He constantly talks about how hard he works and how all his misfortune are someone else’s fault. Strangely, I’ve never heard him talk his children, his wife, or his goals. And now his wife is gone.

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 1 point 2 hoursMay 11, 2025 00:35:36 ago (+1/-0)

Narcissists can never stfu. They also will never snivel. A real narcissist will brag day in and day out whether they are sucking at life or not.

[ - ] Ducktalesooo000ooo 0 points 4 hoursMay 10, 2025 22:39:29 ago (+0/-0)

You think we have years huh?

[ - ] albatrosv15 0 points 15 minutesMay 11, 2025 02:41:58 ago (+0/-0)

A worthless comment.