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a "normal" life (pg. 3)
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| ali92 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Tranc3
Sounds kinda like what I've been going through. Second year Computer Science major, basically just programming. I was thinking about it a few months ago and realized I don't want to be programming for an entire day, let alone the rest of my life. Around the same time I started looking at music more seriously, as a possible career. Eventually I realized that it's very hard to break into the entertainment industry, and through an economic standpoint, I'd be better off (statistically) pursuing a "stable" job for a central means of monetary support, and trying to break into the music entertainment industry "on the side." I figure if I get good enough, and recognized enough, eventually I can leave the so-called day job and go into music full-time, but if not, nothing's really lost. At the end I've given my dream a shot, and a good one at that, and if it worked out, great, and if not, well, at least my life didn't fall into the gutter because of it.
And no, I'm not going into computer science, I've decided to change to Physics and Music so I can get into a good acoustical engineering school. |
That's exactly what I'm thinking about doing. |
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| whiskers |
| quote: | Originally posted by marco.V
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The first rule is: go watch "fight club"... |
the second rule is to READ Fight Club
the third rule is to read every other book by Chuck Palahniuk
especially Invisible Monsters:
No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense that you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
You're a product of our language, and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule about you has already been thought out by some million people before you. Anything you can do is boring and old and perfectly okay. You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. You can't imagine any way to escape. There's no way you can get out. The world is your cradle and your trap. And if you can find any way out of our culture, then it's a trap, too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap. The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger. Don't do what you want. Don't do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to do. It's the opposite of following your bliss. Do the things that scare you the most.
just like Tyler says, LET GO. |
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| ali92 |
| quote: | Originally posted by whiskers
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No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense that you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
You're a product of our language, and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule about you has already been thought out by some million people before you. Anything you can do is boring and old and perfectly okay. You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. You can't imagine any way to escape. There's no way you can get out. The world is your cradle and your trap. And if you can find any way out of our culture, then it's a trap, too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap. The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger. Don't do what you want. Don't do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to do. It's the opposite of following your bliss. Do the things that scare you the most.[...] |
A lot of this is right... |
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| UglyDave |
i knew i was gonna get in trouble for that post :)
anyways, my post didn't refer totally to drugs, but like, the effects they have are pretty damn amazing.
my opinion anyways.
yes, i am also well aware that there is a whole lot more out there in this big world of ours which does not involve any drugs at all!
but i dont wanna be there in my death bed thinkin to myself.. i did it wrong. .i should've gone there when everybody else did.. i shouldn't have gotten a big off mortgage so young & tied myself down so much.. when ur there there in ur death bed, there's all u can do. |
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| whiskers |
| quote: | Originally posted by UglyDave
when ur there there in ur death bed, there's all u can do. |
yeah, you'd probably be screaming for more morphine, not thinking "damn, i blew it, i knew i should've done it with that chick in college" and that's provided you DO live to be on a death bed and not get nuked or killed in a car crash. |
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| UglyDave |
| quote: | Originally posted by whiskers
yeah, you'd probably be screaming for more morphine, not thinking "damn, i blew it, i knew i should've done it with that chick in college" and that's provided you DO live to be on a death bed and not get nuked or killed in a car crash. |
which is why we all go get mashed right now :)
and incase i do regret not doin it with any chics, i'll got for a wank right now! |
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| AnotherWay83 |
| if you wanna know what really matters in life, talk to someone who's dying. |
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| Massive84 |
well it's for everyone diffrint..
every couple of seconds someone die in this wolrd..but not 1 soul(except the releated ones) stand still by it, because it's me me me and no1 els i think about..
this how life is at the moment...this centuray is what dave described, school, job, wife, kids, die.
used to be diffrint in the middle ages and before. life evolves, like everything on this planet..to what no1 knows, but i do know you controll you own life and it's your choice of doing what..
wanne live it up?, live it up, it up? it up.
though you have to understand, for everyone it means diffrint..some people like using drugs for example...and they call it live it up, others say no to drugs and call it up..
so the story ends up again to you and no1 els.
my opnion. |
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| UglyDave |
well, regardless of what i've said tonight.
i'm going to bed, and i'm gonna get up tomorrow and go to UNI and study. i'll travel up and down on the bus. i'll have to wait in the rain for that bus.
chat all you's want. most ppl dont live it up.
be great to do so, but tomorrow, i'm gonna go along with my conformist lifestyle as usual.
the way my life's directed at the minute:
high school
universiry
job
marriage
mortgage
retirement
death
b great to go life an classy lifestyle! but that chances of me actually gettin up and doing that lifestyle, are slim.
i've gone to school for the past 16 years. if i up now by going on some wee wannabe adventure tryin to live a crazy fun lifestyle then there's a high chance i'll up the current lifestyle i've been moulding for myself for the past 20 years - regardless of whether or not it's a good life or not!
good nite folks!
David |
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| SuperFarStucker |
I wrote up a HUGE abstract for this talking about the chained fallatic logic applied to "living life" but then I realized my post and primer was a victim of the very same thing and it served only to look foolish. SO instead: remember, there is way more to it than you think. If you can come up with a list or "process" of life, you really aren't looking at it close enough, and your life will probably feel incomplete as a result. Truthfully, it always will be, that's what drives us on "borne back ceaselessly into the past"
SCRUTINIZE...
and then do it some more
probably still not enough. |
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| DC76 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Essential1
go to high school
graduate
go to college/uni right after
then either continue through school or get a 9-5 job
get married
have kids
retire
am i the only one who sees something wrong with this? the "american dream"? it’s more of a nightmare if you ask me.
how can so many people live their lives according to what society moulds as "normal"? most people who go to college right after high school either change majors after the first year or just drop out.
i’m the type of guy people like to point fingers at, and many say i’m going nowhere in life because i’m no longer in school. however, those are the same people who will die without living a single day. so many people are constanly worrying about the future that they froget about what they should be doing with the present.
i don’t know why i posted this, i don’t exactly know what point i’m trying to get across, but for some reason i feel i should post it anyways. |
High school - been there, done that... it was hell, too. Not that I was bad academically, but being the socially inept, physically awkward Asperger's-afflicted guy that I was and still am, I had a hard go of it.
University - almost heaven here :D The people are SO much nicer (for the most part... I have had to pull a couple extra psychological knives out of my back, though :rolleyes: )
9-5 job - Good God, I hope not! I'm a musician and a composer, and I'm hoping to take that as far as possible. And even if I don't, I want a job that I can actually put my best assets to use instead of working a dreadful office job, or worse :p
Get married - knowing my luck, probably won't happen :( But there always is that 2% chance ;)
Have kids - see "get married"
Retire - if only officially... God's work ain't over 'til it's over, so if I do live that long, I will likely take up involvement with the Church.
And by the way, spontaneity is good. Helps me write music :D |
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| Orbax |
| quote: | Originally posted by AnotherWay83
if you wanna know what really matters in life, talk to someone who's dying. |
(hint: living) |
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