# Scary paths you could see your life taking **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 27, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-paths-you-could-see-your-life-taking/431389 "2007-12-27T17:37:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Pixilated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aeb1de/32.png) [@Pixilated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixilated)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-paths-you-could-see-your-life-taking/431389/81 "2007-12-30T21:57:59Z")
Just thought of #9! 1. (since I couldnt think of anything at first): To never max out any of my characters on WoW or any other MMORPG game I start playing. Yes, I will be one of those old hags (or maybe a cool grandma?) playin online with a bunch of “kids”! Heck, I may even TEACH them a thing or three- including pen/paper games, cards, reading tarot, astrology charts, etc. =D ---
**Author:** ![notok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@notok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notok)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2007, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-paths-you-could-see-your-life-taking/431389/82 "2007-12-30T23:12:21Z")
Id say an addict in prison not being able to see my family . I’ve struggled with cocaine addiction for the past few years. John T, it ain’t fun and after a while it certainly isn’t testing the waters. Its exspensive and it just simply hurts to walk in a dope house and see stacks of hundreds and i watch as my 50 bucks is added to the pile. Yeah, I could see me in prison for murdering these leeches. The other vision is a hermit with stacks of books and video games around me not wanting to leave. I dream of the writing thing, then fading into obscurity, wealthy of course. However, Im sure I’ll sand and paint cars until I just can’t do it anymore. Yeah. Should have finished that degree in library science. ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2007, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-paths-you-could-see-your-life-taking/431389/83 "2007-12-31T01:01:15Z")
Fusing to my couch. Losing one of my cats in the miscellaneous stuff that I’m starting to just… leave around the house so that my husband and I have something tangible to be upset with eachother over, rather than this vague feeling of unhappiness that lives in our relationship. I worry that I’m going to stay where I am mentally and emotionally, even though I feel myself wilting and shutting down because of it. I tell myself that there will come a breaking point and I will walk away from this and build something new, but every day feels like it could be a breaking point if I only cared enough to treat it as such. I worry that I’ll wake up twenty years from now and see every opportunity I had to be happy and hate myself for letting each and every one slip by. I worry that my kid will grow up and do as much worrying about his mom’s mental health and fretting about how to set boundaries within our relationship as I do with my own mother. I guess I’m truly worried about never snapping out of this. Ick. ---
**Author:** ![enigm4tic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@enigm4tic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enigm4tic)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2007, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-paths-you-could-see-your-life-taking/431389/84 "2007-12-31T05:38:41Z")
Marrying somebody who likes that I buy her stuff and carries on extramarital affairs when she loses interest in me or gets “grass is greener” syndrome. ETA (for extra scary): and yet who I am so hopelessly devoted to that even knowing this i can’t stop myself from continuing to support her because, apparently, I’m an idiot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-paths-you-could-see-your-life-taking/431389.md?page=4)