Would this be a good decision on my behalf.....

MikeStrutington

I'm 19 and I am not your typical late-teenager. I watch the news everyday and read newspapers and hold a great interest in current affairs. But since current affairs and stuff is generally depressing I am starting to find that I am a very cynical person!

So, in youser opinions, am I better off not reading about/ tuning into current affairs or the news lest I cement a permanently cynical worldview into my psyche and waste the remaining good years of my life, or do the benefits of knowing whats going on around you (as opposed to obsessing over music, fashion or anything else the average young person considers worth living for) outweigh the costs?

Nehaxak

You're 19, don't bother yourself with all this crap. Save some money, get a plain ticket to some random destination (Oz?) and go enjoy your life elsewhere and away from it all while you're still young.

Biggins

Nehaxak wrote: »

You're 19, don't bother yourself with all this crap. Save some money, get a plain ticket to some random destination (Oz?) and go enjoy your life elsewhere and away from it all while you're still young.

I'm 40+.
Be aware of the basic stuff but don't jump in the deep end if its not in your true character or interest.

As previous poster wisely said - go enjoy yourself.
Your only on this merry-go-round of a planet once.

jimmycrackcorm

Biggins wrote: »

I'm 40+.
Be aware of the basic stuff but don't jump in the deep end if its not in your true character or interest.

As previous poster wisely said - go enjoy yourself.
Your only on this merry-go-round of a planet once.

Unless you believe in re-incarnation in which case this recession is almost as bad as your last one in 1930.

Tech3

Are you in college or in any education?. If not it would be a good idea like the previous poster to save some money and get the hell out of this country and see the world or live in a better more viable place where jobs are not scarce and a better climate

Danbo!

Nehaxak wrote: »

You're 19, don't bother yourself with all this crap. Save some money, get a plain ticket to some random destination (Oz?) and go enjoy your life elsewhere and away from it all while you're still young.

Or take a trane around europe

Jimdagym

Or alternatively, you could get down off that pedestal you have perched yourself upon and walk around down here with the real people. I wonder if looking down your nose at the "intelliently inferior" proles finds you alienated from your peers? I know i would become cynical if my genius was never recognised.

Hazys

MikeStrutington wrote: »

I'm 19 and I am not your typical late-teenager. I watch the news everyday and read newspapers and hold a great interest in current affairs. But since current affairs and stuff is generally depressing I am starting to find that I am a very cynical person!

So, in youser opinions, am I better off not reading about/ tuning into current affairs or the news lest I cement a permanently cynical worldview into my psyche and waste the remaining good years of my life, or do the benefits of knowing whats going on around you (as opposed to obsessing over music, fashion or anything else the average young person considers worth living for) outweigh the costs?

Are you asking should you dumb down to enjoy life more?

You dont become cynical by keeping up with current affairs or have interests different to your peers. The fact that you look down on the average activities of the people of your same age, i think the problem is with you personality.

It doesnt make you smarter than the person next to you because you watch prime time and the other guy watches the Premiership.

peasant

Cynisism is great!

Learn to love it, cultivate it, make a career out of it !

You could become the Stephen Fry / Oscar Wilde of the next generation (being gay is optional).

The world needs more cynics.

Once you've learned to accept that pretty much everything pretty much sucks, you can fully enjoy the few things that don't and just dismiss the rest off hand with a cynical sneer and a snide comment.

Problem solved, no need to change the world.


Please note:
Cynisism does not equate with despair, depression or resignation.

P.C.

MikeStrutington wrote: »

I'm 19 and I am not your typical late-teenager. I watch the news everyday and read newspapers and hold a great interest in current affairs. But since current affairs and stuff is generally depressing I am starting to find that I am a very cynical person!

So, in youser opinions, am I better off not reading about/ tuning into current affairs or the news lest I cement a permanently cynical worldview into my psyche and waste the remaining good years of my life, or do the benefits of knowing whats going on around you (as opposed to obsessing over music, fashion or anything else the average young person considers worth living for) outweigh the costs?

News and current affairs don't make you cynical - you make you cynical.

Read as meny newspapers as you want, watch as many current affairs programs as you want, just don't be cynical. It is only information. What you do with the information, or how you react to it is up to you.

Don't judge other people because they have different interests to you.
I find people who have different interests to be interesting.

I do not enjoy footbal, but it does not stop me from going to join my mates in the pub when they are watching the game.

TheZohanS

Stee wrote: »

Or take a trane around europe

It's spelt tranny.

And if you're going to do that make sure you wear protection.

Danbo!

Stee wrote: »

Nehaxak wrote: »

You're 19, don't bother yourself with all this crap. Save some money, get a plain ticket to some random destination (Oz?) and go enjoy your life elsewhere and away from it all while you're still young.

Or take a trane around europe

Works better when I dont have to post a follow-up explaining

wylo

MikeStrutington wrote: »

I'm 19 and I am not your typical late-teenager. I watch the news everyday and read newspapers and hold a great interest in current affairs. But since current affairs and stuff is generally depressing I am starting to find that I am a very cynical person!

So, in youser opinions, am I better off not reading about/ tuning into current affairs or the news lest I cement a permanently cynical worldview into my psyche and waste the remaining good years of my life, or do the benefits of knowing whats going on around you (as opposed to obsessing over music, fashion or anything else the average young person considers worth living for) outweigh the costs?

In fairness to you, you might be a lot more cynical in the future if you ignore all that depressing stuff, lead a delusional life for the next few years thinking it will all be grand and turn around in your mid 20s with no qualification or decent work experience working in Dunnes.

So to answer your question, maybe you should try use it to your advantage and see what you wanna do with yourself, a journalist maybe?

Gummy Panda

Stee wrote: »

Or take a trane around europe

TheZohan wrote: »

It's spelt tranny.

How does that work?

Do you put a staddle on it or just ride it bareback?

Riddle101

MikeStrutington wrote: »

I'm 19 and I am not your typical late-teenager. I watch the news everyday and read newspapers and hold a great interest in current affairs. But since current affairs and stuff is generally depressing I am starting to find that I am a very cynical person!

So, in youser opinions, am I better off not reading about/ tuning into current affairs or the news lest I cement a permanently cynical worldview into my psyche and waste the remaining good years of my life, or do the benefits of knowing whats going on around you (as opposed to obsessing over music, fashion or anything else the average young person considers worth living for) outweigh the costs?

There's nothing wrong with being a little cynical, if anything it's better because it prepares us for the worst case scenario, Example This recession. I'm not surprised that we have a recession, we've being living it up for years, thinking we had it all and didn't bother to think of the future, our government didn't bother putting some money away for a rainy day, instead they spent it on property development and huge paychecks for their greedy friends and now we've hit a total downfall and the Government is having a clusterf**k of a brainfart.

Anyway us cynics, we just have to have deal with it and move on. If something happens then we just accept it and watch it transpire into something worse. That's the way of the Cynic

BTW I'm 19 and cynical too, so i guess it starts from an early age

skyhighflyer

Yeah go to Oz, man! It's so fcuking random, like, you'll totally find yourself there as well as probably half your fcuking hometown you thought you'd left behind when you go down the pub.

How's that for cynicism?

AlmightyCushion

Don't bother reading the newspapers. I get all my current affairs info from after hours.

Jimdagym

Riddle101 wrote: »

There's nothing wrong with being a little cynical, if anything it's better because it prepares us for the worst case scenario, Example This recession. I'm not surprised that we have a recession, we've being living it up for years, thinking we had it all and didn't bother to think of the future, our government didn't bother putting some money away for a rainy day, instead they spent it on property development and huge paychecks for their greedy friends and now we've hit a total downfall and the Government is having a clusterf**k of a brainfart.

Anyway us cynics, we just have to have deal with it and move on. If something happens then we just accept it and watch it transpire into something worse. That's the way of the Cynic

BTW I'm 19 and cynical too, so i guess it starts from an early age

So how did you being cynical prepare you for the recession any better than anyone else?

MikeStrutington

Hmm. I'd like to point out that I also follow football and listen to music. I go out and get hammered like most people my age, heck I even get with women now and again.

No, I dont "look down" on my peers as somebody said. My friends wouldnt know much about, for example, the financial system and when I ever begin to talk about it they start saying "would you shut up talking about that!". The hate me talking about the probable employment market that awaits them following graduation and the prospects for the economy of this country and other countries for the next few years. I find it annoying that once people my age start to hear anything about the real world theystick their fingers in their ears and say "la la la la im not listening to you cause its something that makes me feel uncomfotrable regardless of its truth la la la la"

Riddle101

Jimdagym wrote: »

So how did you being cynical prepare you for the recession any better than anyone else?

It didn't, I'm still out of money:o. But atleast I can safely say i was right to think so. You'd think people would learn to be a little nicer to people, and have some respect, but all money has done is make people greedy and nastier, and that is why I think it was bound to happen, Karma's a b1tch

Professey Chin

Riddle101 wrote: »

There's nothing wrong with being a little cynical, if anything it's better because it prepares us for the worst case scenario, Example This recession. I'm not surprised that we have a recession, we've being living it up for years, thinking we had it all and didn't bother to think of the future, our government didn't bother putting some money away for a rainy day, instead they spent it on property development and huge paychecks for their greedy friends and now we've hit a total downfall and the Government is having a clusterf**k of a brainfart.

Anyway us cynics, we just have to have deal with it and move on. If something happens then we just accept it and watch it transpire into something worse. That's the way of the Cynic

BTW I'm 19 and cynical too, so i guess it starts from an early age

Ah youre young still. Give it a few years

I'm 23 and a cnut :pac:

skyhighflyer

Don't worry about it anyway OP: my friends tell me I've been a grumpy aul cnut since I was 10 and the economy was fine for most of those intervening years years until now.

Wagon

Leave the country man, you're young. I'm doing the same. Do what I do and don't listen to the news cos it's always the same. There's plenty of tme to be indecisive and dull when you're older like this chap here:

Jimdagym wrote: »

Or alternatively, you could get down off that pedestal you have perched yourself upon and walk around down here with the real people. I wonder if looking down your nose at the "intelliently inferior" proles finds you alienated from your peers? I know i would become cynical if my genius was never recognised.

BAHAHAHAHAHA! That's funny!