Hello comrades and welcome to the fifth improvement megathread of March! 
There's only one more day of March left, it's a good time to make some plans or intentions for April.
Some discussion ideas:
- How was your March?
- Do you have any plans for April?
Poster caption: "The victorious growth of Socialism in the USSR will find its expression in the great growth of socialist based national cultures."
spoiler
The woman illustrated on the poster is wearing an Uzbek costume, and she is a Soviet-era depiction of educational success. Her education came about through the campaign of Likbez (Liquidation of Illiteracy).
With Likbez, an individual became “semi-literate” after six to eight hours a week of study over three months. An additional six to eight months of study was then required to achieve full literacy. The Likbez Commission re-doubled its efforts among the population to reach the target of full, national literacy in time for the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution (1927).
Likbez withered after its commission missed the goal for October 1927. In time, the government closed the literacy centers and the resources once earmarked for them were put towards technical and higher education programs during Stalin’s First Five-Year Plan (1928–32).
March was pretty solid in the LGOrcStreetSamurai part of the universe. I'm making strides in a lot of areas but I'm also realizing two things.
The first being how far I have to go to get where I want to be in terms of physique, mental acumen, reading, and generally all my goals. I have quite a long road ahead of me and it won't be easy either. I'm very glad I'm making progress, but it's one of those things you don't realize how far you are until you start moving towards something. Staying still in has been detrimental in the sense I stagnated a lot over the last couple of years and being in motion for a few months doesn't magically fix everything.
The second thing i realized was how bad a lot of areas of my life was. For example I didn't realize just how depressed I had been until i cleaned out my apartment and i realized I hadn't really cleaned it in months. Which is kind shameful in a sense but then again you don't think about your chains until you try and move. Yeah it sucks, part of breaking the chains yanking on them and hit them over rocks and all those sorts of things. I was really in a bad spot for a long time and i'm not quite out of it but I think people don't really realize how bad things are until you take account of conditions. Which is part of the reason I think people don't do it because it's really sad to see how shitty things are for real. Taking a honest and sober account of things makes you realize how fucked things are.
However, I see that an opportunity to at least start trying. Yes I'm in debt and unhappy and a host of other things, but i'm taking action to address them and actively doing better in a lot of ways so I'm very proud of myself in that sense. I'm also really happy that katz like @moonlake@hexbear.net do these weekly threads because I really benefit from knowing that internet people I will likely never ever know are also struggling and getting better too.