114 thoughts on “7”

1. Crikey, I swear I looked at your site at 3PM Eastern and nothing was on it! Cept the Elfman post, of course! If the Internet Rumor(tm) is more than a rumor, then it’s Paramount’s loss. And I just thought I’d add a little more Llama:
   “cuidado las llamas” (Monty Python)! Seriously, mucho mojo coming your way from back east PA way. Nolan and Ryan have a great stepdad!
   Karen

2. Thank goodness for #1 – I know you’re having a personal crisis and I should address that but I’m thinking how thoroughly bummed I was to hear that Wes wasn’t going to be in the next movie. I mean for goodness sakes, tracking down the rumors that Wes was going to be in the movie was how I found this site in the first place. What would have been the point of going to see yet another Trek movie if Wes wasn’t there???????? So thank you for your moment of clarity so that you would seek out more info, thanks to your manager for passing along cheerier news, thanks to all the wwdn visitors who channeled good mojo when needed.

3. Glad you got a handle on your bad day Wil, now I need to do so on mine..LOL Rock out this weekend, and enjoy yourself!
   Hmmmmmmmmm will it be on the news Monday? >:)

4. Wil,
   I have kind of a motto that I try to follow: “Being yourself is sometimes the hardest, most challenging way to be.” And I find that if I am not true to myself — not someone else’s version or impression of how I should be — but how I need to be to love myself, then I might as well give up. I am sorry to bring up the original series of Star Trek here, but my favorite line actually is from the first pilot: Dr. Boyce to Capt. Pike: “You either face life head on and lick it, or you turn your back on it and start to whither away.” Loving yourself is the first step.
   Good luck, Wil.
   Ken

5. Wil,
   Well, hon, maybe I am just one of those earthy-crutchy lesbian types, but I am here to tell you that you are coming into the end of your Saturn Return; This is the time of a person’s life (from 27/28 to 30/31)when your life changes dramatically… I changed careers and got into therapy, bagged a bad relationship and got another degree…
   My brother is in the same place and having similar problems, especially the part about “losing the funny”..
   The trick is having people who care about you and people to talk to… and lots of these folks here seem to genuinely care about you, Famous Person Status aside… and it sounds like you have others more directly in your life who care too..
   Hang in there, Wil… Wait until you get to your early 30’s.. it’s fun as hell
   Laura

6. Excellent.
   My hope is on #6…specifically The Far Side calendar. Gary Larson knows most things, Wil.
   Have a real good time at the bachelor party.
   Keep up the awesome site. And take care.

7. Today seems to be a day of affirmation for everyone I know. Everyone else on my daily blog read did the best Wanton Wednesday ever. 5 things you really like about *yourself*. It was very affirming… just like your list. Keep on truckin’.

8. re: ur funny
   Dood… the funny isn’t lost. It’s resting. As is your ability to see all the good mojo and good fortune that you are still surrounded by. Sometimes the balance just shifts. But it always shifts back. That’s why we call it a balance right? and PS, they’re not going to cut your scene. I so decree it. Therefore it is. be well.

9. I’m relatively new to the page. Just checked it out after having sent a birthday wish to a close personal friend, congratulating/teasing him on reaching the advanced age of 44. (I’m only a few months younger).
   What struck me was that I had just mentioned that I was pleased that, even at MY age, I had just performed my first public sax solo last night, and am planning to run my first 10K race on Saturday. “I’m amazed that even at 43, there are so many new things left to try.”

10. Holy Crap on a Crap Cracker! Wil’s on TV… Doing the TNN life game.
    heh heh…
    “When did you become interested in girls?”

11. Wil, me boy –
    remember the words of George Harrison (sorta): All things will pass.
    Je vous aime.

12. As long as you are going down this nostalgia trip, try remembering the one 80’s phrase that came screaming back to me when I got laid off 7 months ago. What the fuck! That has got to be the most liberating phrase on the planet aside from “its not your baby.” It gives you the power to not care about a bunch of mindless shits who have to cut into you just to make themselves feel better or justify their pathetic little lives and carrers. It gives you permission to say honey I’m heading to hooters to drink beer and look at large breasts. It also gives you permission to not worry so damn much and just let go of what you can not control and smack around what you can. So go get a 12 pack of coronas and turn on Cspan. Trust me when I say that by the time you get to the 6th corona you’ll have pleanty of funny material.

13. Wil:
    Peace, bro. Glad for your clarity. And time with the FAM and your friend is better than being in any freakin’ movie, dude.
    I’m happy for you. Your good news gives me a chin up – it’s all good and it all goes around.
    Thanks (again) for this site. I’m enjoying myself and the others herein with their perspectives…
    Be good.
    -sam

14. Thirty’s easy. I just turned 39. Try staring down the barrel of forty.
    Actually. it ain’t that bad. My age will soon pass my waist size.
    Peace,
    Greg

15. So Wil … If we wanted to let the Paramount *people* know how many of us want to see Wes in the movie … is there an email address for messages such as this?
    I’m 50 … and it’s not so bad either. 🙂

16. Wil Wheaton Rules!

17. Long Time Listener, First Time Caller.
    So it looks like the storm is passed.
    Glad to hear it.
    I too know how bleak and… bleah that feeling is. I remember playing Illuminati (both the “money” and INWO collector card versions) til the wee hours with my friends. I remember fondly and sometimes still ache for one more weekend or two of my mispent youth…
    When it hits me I just have to remember: I get 3 squares a day and I have people who love me.
    I’m 34 and presumed I’d always be “the perpetually single Uncle John” – but the fates are kind, I am getting married this fall, to a woman who brings out the best in me and lets me do the same for her. She’s got “eyes like the sea after a storm” – and she loves me like nobody ever has.
    Thank you for an excellent blog.
    Thanks for not becoming another statistic child star.
    Thanks for keeping this site going. It’s really quite funny, intimate-but-Not-TOO-intimate, humane, and most importantly… genuine.
    It reminds me that the world isn’t all corrupt, and that there’s still positive “juju” out there in the big wide world.
    I appreciate it.
    You’re a good man, Wil.

18. You know something, Wil?
    You’re alright. There’s a lot of good stuff in this last post that you made, and I respect that.

19. Hi Will: Your words got me. I am 44 now,and have studied in earnest many hundreds of life belief systems from many books, since I was 12. Ways of attaining peace, direction, personal strength,love & success. And now tonight I can say I have no advice for you that would matter. I doubt I will ever know you but I am stricken by your words and feelings in the past 2 days. Things that sound so familiar to me. These same feelings I have felt, similar thoughts I have pondered. Coming from someone I held as living this perfect life, reminds me that nobody escapes the experience of being human. It just feels difficult to be alive sometimes, to be out there. To be guiding our “boat” the best we know how through life’s waters, hoping the ride will be fun and safe and with good, loving companions.
    Good night to all the people, all of us who have connected here. And thanks Wil for sharing with us your world.

20. Just thought I’d give you a hand:
    Instead of using ™, I suggest holding down ALT while you type 0153 on the number pad. When you let go of alt, you will see: ™
    When I discovered that trick, I was the happiest little boy ever.
    I have a weakness for humour involving adding ™ to things. Everyone needs a weakness.
    -Oscar

21. one time I saw a comedian with sweat-stains on his underarms and he was not funny

22. I got your funny in my pants. Want to reach down and get it?

23. Ummmm, Wil: Your words went right over my head. Oddly enough, I feel as if I don’t know you at all. I am juvenile, and have not studied a damned thing since I dropped out of high school to major in coffee shop banter. Subsequently, I possess very little peace, direction, personal hygiene, love or success. Yet tonight I can say with conviction that yes, indeed, I have some completely useless advice to impose upon you all, no matter how creepy or unsettling. I doubt I will ever know you, God willing because I KNOW we’d be best friends, but in case I am ever discovered on your property by local authorities, I want you to know that your words and feelings over the past 2 days really miffed me man…completely. Really, I mean really truely baffled the shit outta me — in the literal sense. It all sounded just so strange and foreign to my clogged ears. I never expected to be so out of touch with you, thinking your life was almost as farked up as mine. But it turns out that you’ve led a perfect life, proving once and for all you have somehow completely escaped the experience of being human at all. You have no idea how easy it is to feel alive out here, asleep at the mental wheel, apathetic and oblivious to the turbulent emotional alarm and duress we place our loving fantasy companions, such as yourself, through on a routine basis. But of course, you’re on the inside looking out…and in times like these it’s perfectly ok to be afraid…and lock the doors. Go ahead, I’ll wait out here.
    Goodnight to all the sane levelheaded people who appreciated this tongue-in-cheek interaction for what it is. The rest of you can get a life.
    Wil…your funny is never very far away. Just stop looking for it, and it will come to you like it did to me just now.

24. Hey Wil,
    I had some chinese fortune cookies the other day and I want you to have part of my fortunes…or better yet I want to share these fortunes with you so they become our fortunes.
    1# aLL YOUR HARD WORK WILL SOON PAY OFF.
    2# YOU WILL MAKE A SUDDEN RISE IN LIFE.
    Let me know if you want to know the lucky numbers as well. I mailed off about 7 portfolios a couple of weeks ago to book publishers. So heres wishing both of us luck…you and I.

25. Hiya Wil
    Don’t worry about feeling down and unsatisfied, it happens to me all the time. If you start to feel comfortable you don’t push for what you want, and don’t achieve what you can. You just have a personality that must push and push and succeed as much as you can or you are left feeling unhappy. This is why you left TNG in the first place, you know you could do better. Use this determination to succeed again.

26. Wil,
    I got to read both of these entries this morning. You’ve heard it all already, but it’s so important and so hard to keep perspective, especially during the storm.
    Maybe it’s the “milestone” of 30 that’s got you down, but I realized that it was just another year. Some people that I grew up with are very “successful”, much more than I. Others are “not”. But who really is to say? The “sucesses” had to sacrifice things to get where they are, and may look at my life and wish for things I have to help complete themselves. The “nots” may look at me and say “good for him, but I have something he can never have.”
    Have fun this weekend. I will bet you that when you return, you will be revitalized in a way you won’t expect!

27. Hey Wil ! I think, it’s not as easy as many people think to just rely on yourself exclusively… I for example could not exist without my two “best friends”… but on the other hand, it’s funny… we are so close, that telling them something about my fears/problems/happiness/sadness etc. is basically like telling it to myself… I don’t feel that I’m relying on others, you understand ?
    Enjoy your time with your friend, I bet, it will help you ! ! !
    Take care, man !

28. Renew! Renew! (okay, that takes care of ObLogan’sRun.)
    When you hit any Big Chronological Odometer Event (birthday ending with a “0”), you’re gonna hit self-reassessment. I learned a lot from my wife when she hit her BCOE that it’s a matter of perspective and being happy with yourself and how life is treating you. We kept it a secret from friends (saying it was a birthday, but not a Birthday), but when she alluded to it being a BCOE, they thought she was ten years *younger*, which was a major egoboost.
    You’re never washed up, and you’re as young as you feel. And I better wrap this up before I get all George Bailey/Frank Capra inside.
    Peace.

29. WIL U RULEEEEE

30. If you never get another job in show biz, you’re still the luckiest SOB around. Your wife is letting you play with the guys away from home for FOUR DAYS!?!?! Sir, I salute you.
    Seriously, good luck and hang in there. Of course you’re going to bomb every now and then; it’s good for you. It makes the times when you slay the room (and you will) mean that much more.

31. Glad to hear that the Nemesis issue may only be a rumor. I won’t watch it if you’re not in it. Clarity rules too! 🙂
    Ness

32. You are funny.
    And you’re doin alright.

33. Sounds like things are falling into perspective. Have a great weekend.
    Doug in Phoenix

34. If Eastern Philosophy might be able to inspire peace within yourself (and if you don’t already have a copy,)I highly recommend you pick up a copy of the “Tao Te Ching” by Lao Tse. (There are various English interpretations available, and it has helped me a great deal with my own chaos, as like you, I am yet another almost30-er worrier.)
    At the very least, it’ll be good bathroom reading fodder; but(no pun intended) on the other hand, it might just provide you with some enlightening gems for your ‘self’.

35. Can you mention the fact that your turning 30 any more times? How about making up a symbol for it like prince and putting in at the start of every sentence? And I thought *I* aged poorly.

36. Congratulations on your epiphany. It took me a long time to come to learn that lesson – I think I’ve been struggling with it since I was a little kid in grade school. It’s actually a lesson that we have to learn over and over again as we grow up (which apparently can go on for at least 60 or 70 years).
    Don’t try to hold other people up to your expectations (you’ll only be disappointed), and don’t hold yourself up to the expectations of others. This last one is really important – you don’t really know what others’ expectations are, you PROJECT onto them what you THINK they expect of you. Just skip that extra step and ask yourself what YOU want. Take control of, and responsibility for, yourself. Challenge yourself, make commitments, follow through and do your best. I’ve found that setting these goals and boundaries for myself means I’m always accomplishing something, and I’m more likely to be satisfied with myself and my efforts – regardless of what the people around me may do or say.
    The big truth is that no one can make you miserable. It’s how you respond to other people and your situations that can make the difference between making yourself miserable and feeling content.
    Peace

37. Wil, YOU ROCK!
    That is all.

38. Are you one of the people that’s going to be playing Pong for the next seven days on G4? Maybe against Tiffany? 😉

39. To gain some more funny, I recommend watching at least one episode of “Who’s Line Is It Anyway?”. The English version, then the American version. That’ll make you laugh!
    Wisdom is good, faith is great, but knowing when to say “Screw it” can be the best piece of wisdom I have ever been told… when saying that, you’re not giving up on anything, you are admitting that you can’t change what’s going on so you’ll deal with it as is.
    I’m happy everyone has been passing on their blessings to you. I do so as well! Smile, things can only get better!
    If none of this helps, give Ferris a big hug.

40. Wil,
    Glad I found your site. I have been enjoying it. I can now think differently about Wesley.
    I was once told that it is physically impossible to be depressed while your eyes are raised up (looking towards your forehead). We naturally tend to slump and lower our head and eyes when felling down, so changing your body language can change your outlook.
    I though it was crap. But it works for me.
    Hope your seen is not cut.
    Cybex

41. Nice to see you sounding somewhat cherrier b/c I was about to virtually slap you upside the head 🙂
    I turned 35 a few wks ago and for a min I thought well this sux, life is flying by me, but then I slapped myself upside the head and it passed. I know it sounds super corny, but be thankful for what you have instead of dwelling on what ya don’t. You tasted fame (and still do/will etc) and some ppl struggle for that their whole lives and never get that. You have a wife and kids and there are a lot of single, lonely people out there who wish they had that. For EVERY complaint/perceived unfulfilled wish you have there is someone who would say I wish I had what he has right now. Remember that.
    My work here is done 🙂
    K8

42. Wow,
    I am really impressed with all the love out there.
    I am new here and I think this is great.
    I think everyone should give themselves a pat on the back for all the awsome advise and wonderful thoughts they are “willing” to share!
    (sorry about the awful pun)
    It looks like LOTS of people get you Wil.

43. “All conditions are transient,
    There is no self in the created or the uncreated.
    All of us
    Are bound by birth, ageing, and death,
    By sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair,
    Bound by suffering and obstructed by suffering.
    Let us all aspire to complete freedom from suffering.”
    Right on. Take care, man.

44. Hey – Just wanted to say thanks for sharing. The cool thing about your blog is that you aren’t afraid of talking about what’s really going on with you, good or bad. – It is very cool and the cool people who gather here seem to be some of the coolest on the net. The fact that people know who you are from “Stand by Me” or “Star Trek” or whatever, doesn’t matter. A cool blog, is a cool blog.
    Thanks!

45. I hope they don’t cut Wesley Crusher from the film. I’ve always thought of Wesley as a positive and welcomed addition to the Star Trek family.
    Best wishes,

46. 1. My partner, he is great (i won’t get musshy)
    2. My friends who are supportive/funny
    3. Wil and the community his site brings.
    4. I love my job as an IT Mangaer, it’s a great company!
    5. The weather is soooo nice today in Marin (CA)
    6. Dilbert, the source of all that is true
    7. The Internet.

47. Hey Will
    I doubt you’ll read this, but last year I was feeling the same way as you regarding my career. I think one of the biggest mistakes your making is that you are trying to find happiness in yourself. ALL happiness comes from God. Don’t believe me? Try it. Give your problems to Him and see how greatly your life will become.
    Mike

48. To quote the great Mike Jittlov:
    “Nothing Stops the Creative Spirit!”
    and also,
    “May all your good dreams and fine wishes come true!”
    I look forward to seeing you in trek X, (hope it’s better than OSX !) : don’t belive what you read on the internet! (or anywhere for that matter!)
    Good luck with all things!

49. You know Wil,
    Losing your funny for just a short while is just payback for the April Fools gig you put on us. Payback sometimes really is a bitch, don’t you think?

50. Hey Wil,
    Saw you on Lifegame last night on TNN. You still have the funny, man.
    Tim

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