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More to it than this?

  • 07-03-2007 10:40AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,005 ✭✭✭✭


    There's more to it than this, right?

    I'm sick of it all:
    getting up, going to work, getting over-worked and under paid, going home, having dinner, playing a bit on the PC/watching TV, going to bed - repeat five times a week.
    getting boozed up at the weekends, fooling around with the missus for a bit of comedy relief,
    never having any money, alway 'getting by', never making a difference.....

    .........and repeat til retirement/ death/ cranial explosion.

    where's the reason for living? I feel like i'm stuck in a cage, but with no way to get out, and nowhere to go anyway.

    I signed up for excitement, adventure and really wild thing, all i got was a bland, grey, broken record.

    I want my money back, this sucks


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,128 ✭✭✭dellas1979


    Jees - what a terrible life you have ........

    Those poor people around the world must be having a great time in comparison to you.

    My advice? Wake up and smell the coffee. If you are unhappy find out why and do something about it.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,661 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    No, that's not all there is, OP. [PI cliché]Why don't you take a holiday, or go travelling for a year? Backpack around Asia/Australia, interrail around Europe... You're never too old to do those things! Alternatively, look for a new job, one that excites you and pays you enough. Think about moving to a different country if the one you're in doesn't fulfill your needs. Take up an exciting hobby, like skydiving or flying a plane.[/PI cliché]

    Life is what you make of it, don't forget that!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,224 ✭✭✭✭Kinetic^


    As faith said, it's what you make out of it yourself.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭Petey2006


    fooling around with the missus for a bit of comedy relief,

    Hahahahaha! Anyways, why not take up a hobby? It may seem fairly obvious, but if you find something you feel passionately about, you'll feel a whole lot better about life.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,005 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    If you feel thats all there is too life, then thats all there will
    be, you need to STOP looking at all the bad stuff and start
    seeing the good, sure everyone has their days were they think
    'whats it all for' but you only get one go at life, yes you
    have to go to work to pay the bills etc but there is also
    alot of other cool things you could be doing, get a hobby etc.,

    What does your girlfriend think? is she the same?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,401 ✭✭✭✭Anti


    dellas1979 wrote:
    Jees - what a terrible life you have ........

    Those poor people around the world must be having a great time in comparison to you.

    My advice? Wake up and smell the coffee. If you are unhappy find out why and do something about it.


    What type of a responce is that ?


    OP i know how you feel, in my last job i had the same,and hated it. For me to change it i just moved countries, got a great job new friends ect ect. All is great now, i wake at 6am every day with a smile. instead of wanting to throw myself under a bus.

    So i would suggest that you change things. jobwise first, then your social life. Maybe take up a sport.
    Anyway best of luck.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    Anti wrote:
    What type of a responce is that ?
    It's pretty good advice if you ask me.

    If you get stuck in a rut, then the one person best able to start you off again is yourself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    There's more to it than this, right?

    I'm sick of it all:
    getting up, going to work, getting over-worked and under paid, going home, having dinner, playing a bit on the PC/watching TV, going to bed - repeat five times a week.
    getting boozed up at the weekends, fooling around with the missus for a bit of comedy relief,
    never having any money, alway 'getting by', never making a difference.....

    .........and repeat til retirement/ death/ cranial explosion.

    where's the reason for living? I feel like i'm stuck in a cage, but with no way to get out, and nowhere to go anyway.

    I signed up for excitement, adventure and really wild thing, all i got was a bland, grey, broken record.

    I want my money back, this sucks

    so, what are you doing to change it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,395 ✭✭✭Marksie


    I signed up for excitement, adventure and really wild thing, all i got was a bland, grey, broken record.

    I want my money back, this sucks

    So the job desription changed. and you dont get anything on credit

    If i get into a rut i do something slightly different to break the routine:

    Consequently I can:
    ski
    fish
    parachute
    use meditational tantra
    have great partners
    play with software
    ride a bike
    walk
    swim
    make candles
    have an eye for photography
    etc.
    etc
    etc.
    Oh an go on boards and meet new and interesting people of like mind .

    and guess what..sometimes all i want is a bland broken record at times.

    So as WWM says wahta are YOU going to do about it. You won't learn to snorkel on the sofa.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 102 ✭✭mickith




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭imeatingchips


    I signed up for excitement, adventure and really wild thing, all i got was a bland, grey, broken record.

    I want my money back, this sucks

    It's fairly obvious that the only thing you signed up for was a crap job and sky digital. what are you bloody whinging about? you stay in your crap job (cos it's too much hassle to move isnt it?), you sit on your hole watching telly, few gargles, the odd grope with the missus and you do shag all else but somehow, you feel you are owed, by life and/or other people, some amazing show especially put on for your entertainment?

    either:
    a) You've occupied yourself with too much trivial crap and haven't thought about what you really want to do - in which case, go for a walk and have a little ponder to yourself
    b) you're too afraid to leave your comfort zone to do anything - in which case grow a set of balls
    c) you're a lazy bollix - in which case, stop being such a lazy little bollix

    imeatingchips to the rescue

    ps you probably could do with a nice snappy slap too


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,005 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    'Sounds like you dont go out much during the week and only see your girlfriend at the weekend - maybe you need to get out more - can you not go out with her during the week or maybe even go out with friends. I know from experience that its very lonely going home to an empty apartment (I only lasted 6 months then the girlfriend moved back and things got better) Life is too short to spend it alone!!

    Get out there and live - excitement wont find you - you need to find it.'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 239 ✭✭onemanband


    If you have kinds the cop the fcuk on and start being a responsible grown up and a good father to them.

    If you don't (and i suspect you don't), quit your job, dump your missus, cash in your assets and jump on a plane. You may have a ball or you may end up dead. Either way its better than being the miserable sod you are at the moment!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,772 ✭✭✭✭The Corinthian


    where's the reason for living? I feel like i'm stuck in a cage, but with no way to get out, and nowhere to go anyway.

    I signed up for excitement, adventure and really wild thing, all i got was a bland, grey, broken record.

    I want my money back, this sucks
    Cry me a river. You're grazing through life like cattle without a modicum of initiative or self-determination and wondering why someone isn't coming up to you and handing you a purpose in life or some excitement. Seriously, it's people like you who join cults.

    We make our own purpose, our own excitement. If you don't like your life the way it is, then change it. If you think you're missing something, then go out and find it. Whining about it is not going to do that for you and no one is going to hand you a purpose unless they want to convert you to some fruitcake religion as part of the deal. All that whining achieves is that it might make you feel like a martyr - and if that does it for you, well, who am I to deny you your little pleasures.

    So if you're unhappy, do something about it. You and you alone are the only one who can do that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,658 ✭✭✭✭The Sweeper


    Consequently I can:
    ski
    fish
    parachute
    use meditational tantra
    have great partners
    play with software
    ride a bike
    walk
    swim
    make candles
    have an eye for photography

    OP: buy a box of tampax and you too can have a life like marksutton's...

    But no seriously. If nothing else, try and find an evening class - it might stimulate some interest in something else.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,349 ✭✭✭daiixi


    Faith wrote:
    No, that's not all there is, OP. [PI cliché]Why don't you take a holiday, or go travelling for a year? Backpack around Asia/Australia, interrail around Europe... You're never too old to do those things! Alternatively, look for a new job, one that excites you and pays you enough. Think about moving to a different country if the one you're in doesn't fulfill your needs. Take up an exciting hobby, like skydiving or flying a plane.[/PI cliché]

    Life is what you make of it, don't forget that!

    To be perfectly honest with you Faith if the OP is bored with life as it is then he's going to get pretty damn bored of travelling too. There's only so long you can constantly be on the move, live out of a backpack. There's only so many waterfalls, cliffs, hills, churches etc that you can see before you crave the normality that is a 9-5 job. Before all you want to do is walk through a supermarket and now that you can buy a weeks load of groceries and actually have a kitchen to keep/cook them in!

    The only person who can make the OP's life worth living is the OP.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14 siners71


    There's more to it than this, right?

    I'm sick of it all:
    getting up, going to work, getting over-worked and under paid, going home, having dinner, playing a bit on the PC/watching TV, going to bed - repeat five times a week.
    getting boozed up at the weekends, fooling around with the missus for a bit of comedy relief,
    never having any money, alway 'getting by', never making a difference.....

    .........and repeat til retirement/ death/ cranial explosion.

    where's the reason for living? I feel like i'm stuck in a cage, but with no way to get out, and nowhere to go anyway.

    I signed up for excitement, adventure and really wild thing, all i got was a bland, grey, broken record.

    I want my money back, this sucks

    that the very least you are fooling around!!! be thankful for something:)


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,661 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    daiixi wrote:
    To be perfectly honest with you Faith if the OP is bored with life as it is then he's going to get pretty damn bored of travelling too. There's only so long you can constantly be on the move, live out of a backpack. There's only so many waterfalls, cliffs, hills, churches etc that you can see before you crave the normality that is a 9-5 job. Before all you want to do is walk through a supermarket and now that you can buy a weeks load of groceries and actually have a kitchen to keep/cook them in!

    The only person who can make the OP's life worth living is the OP.

    Aye, I'm not suggesting he goes traveling for years, maybe just a short period of time to get a new perspective on life, and see that there's actually more to the world.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Cry me a river. You're grazing through life like cattle without a modicum of initiative or self-determination and wondering why someone isn't coming up to you and handing you a purpose in life or some excitement. Seriously, it's people like you who join cults.

    We make our own purpose, our own excitement. If you don't like your life the way it is, then change it. If you think you're missing something, then go out and find it. Whining about it is not going to do that for you and no one is going to hand you a purpose unless they want to convert you to some fruitcake religion as part of the deal. All that whining achieves is that it might make you feel like a martyr - and if that does it for you, well, who am I to deny you your little pleasures.

    So if you're unhappy, do something about it. You and you alone are the only one who can do that.
    Respect. This deserves reposting. Now, The Corinthian is a smartarse. fact. Luckily for you and the rest of us the former syllable of that description far outweighs the latter by a country mile('bout 15K for the metric newbies), so that advice is worth re-reading and absorbing. Though I do see where Minesajackdaniels is going with the whole tampon part, but that's just us...

    Look, bear with me while I respectfully suggest that you cop the hell on. Let's recap; You have a job, you have a "missus", who must really love this "comedy relief" lark. You have food in your belly and a roof over your head. That woe is me stuff went out with the bow and arrow for people in your position. If you really look at your life you'll see you're way better off than you think. If you're not then The Corinthian's advice to look to yourself is well worth heeding.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,005 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    Very good question. And I know the feeling. But not many people care, yes. You need to realise you are 1 of only your own world the rest of society lives the same, wonders the same about the higher meaning bull yes. But I don't think it's bull.
    Here,
    If eyes, eyes are proven by sight(our basic learning sense of many abilities-reading writing etc), prove that you have an eye. You can't disprove what you can't see, so what lies at the minds eye other than neurotransmitters etc, is not provable or disprovable as a high energy mind that is capable of many talents. But for this day, we need to make career and a social life so we are adjusted to believing life is about what we see as the norm.

    I'm a 22 year old male, and I'm abstract 3 thousand percent more than most people. And gifted yes, a social dunce yes. A clown of the class, yes. a reject, yes. So I'm neurotic to a lot but, i think differently and on a different level than most people so I see what some can't
    I'm dyslexic and people see words better than me but I can't read as well what others write, but instead I think deeply and abstractly about things they write about in logical sequence. You think deep, to a medium degee like me. But I'm not dared by life at all, I call life a hill of crap; too boring and predictable for people like me. And I call everyone ba)*tards etc, because life to me is a tedious journey that I use stimulants, high stimulation holidays etc to numb out of boring queues and boring days i need to fullfill to live(so they say).
    So I started using my thought, my abstract reasoning to explain my reason for my existence. I was an airbrain, NO. Very intelligent, but I hated doing schoolwork, and anything to read, I wrote and talked very smart but people laughed Ifailed because i was too busy dancing and thinking why take life seriously? The setup of life is not my way, why should I suffer the label " a failure" for other peoples standards? And that defies individual character of our society. We must conform as a society not as individual people in a respect of 100 percent. Laws, etc are necessary, but being expected to get A's etc in college to be a somebody is ridiculous and non sensible.

    I mean, take time to reflect on who you are and why you are here.
    And 45% of the population have not questioned they're here and who they really are.
    You ask yourself this, do I belong in a life as bad as this, If I have attained social success. And attaining a life of downs and ups. The down is a chemical state of your biological predicament.And the upper feeling is the belief in higher meaning, and our confidence is incresed and our work is better, our outlook more positive.

    I badly think when we die, our chemicals cease to influence our emotions, and physical debilitation of our upper feeling; when we die we travel beyound current existence of physical and mental conditions combined as 1 to a door of black hole of matter than we are on the edge of here in life. And our minds are intuitive enough. Hope you're allowed up, feel good. I can't call proof on that, but I'm a cake of lowlife here, but why am i born? To reproduce, NO I hate that. I'm not for the norm at all. You're killed by dark clouds now, But kill you're downer feeling DE it's for after eternity to know.GOODBYE.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Have you considered letting Jesus into your life?

    But seriously I reckon It's the telly thats doing you harm.
    It's so easy to get stuck in a rut with telly around, you sort of plan your week around it. Then you watch things just for the hell of it.

    All/Most of your fellow passengers on the dart/bus/luas or in cars and on bikes and on foot making their way home from their similarly crap jobs probably have the same things on their minds, "oh i must watch such and such at 7 then at 7.30, I'll record that and watch blah"

    I do it too myself, then I get an invitation to go out somewhere and my initial thought is 'aww but I'll miss...''then I go and have a great time and forget all about missing my telly timetable and kick myself for being so sad.

    In conclusion, tv monopolises your productive you time.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Very good question. And I know the feeling. But not many people care,
    Wrong. A surprising amount do care, though you may reject such advances
    yes. You need to realise you are 1 of only your own world the rest of society lives the same,
    Yes and you are still an individual in that society of apparently lessors.
    wonders the same about the higher meaning bull yes. But I don't think it's bull.
    It's not bull, depending on your viewpoint. Discovering one's viewpoint in relation to that is the real trick
    If eyes, eyes are proven by sight(our basic learning sense of many abilities-reading writing etc), prove that you have an eye.
    Jam a fork in it and find out.
    You can't disprove what you can't see,
    Only in basic cereal box philosophy maybe.
    so what lies at the minds eye other than neurotransmitters etc, is not provable or disprovable as a high energy mind that is capable of many talents. But for this day, we need to make career and a social life so we are adjusted to believing life is about what we see as the norm.
    Eh?
    I'm a 22 year old male, and I'm abstract 3 thousand percent more than most people.
    Good for you.
    And gifted yes, a social dunce yes.
    The former aspiration often informs the latter in the mind of the cocksure. What is genius if it doesn't involve the mundane in a different, yet recognisable light for everyone else?
    A clown of the class, yes. a reject, yes. So I'm neurotic to a lot but, i think differently and on a different level than most people so I see what some can't
    Again it must be great to be you.
    I'm dyslexic
    So what? So am I and many others. It's a challenge as well as a gift.
    You think deep, to a medium degee like me.
    Don't see much depth TBH, more an all too obvious adolescent reaction against what is construed as the "rest of the world"
    But I'm not dared by life at all,
    That's a good thing if you can pull it off.
    I call life a hill of crap;
    Stumbling at the first hurdle there Ted.
    too boring and predictable for people like me.
    You're not the first to see it like this and you won't be the last. Doesn't pan out in the long run though.
    And I call everyone ba)*tards etc,
    You will grow out of that. Trust me.
    because life to me is a tedious journey
    So you're better off than the wage slaves who think it's just peachy then? Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
    So I started using my thought, my abstract reasoning to explain my reason for my existence.
    Like many travelers before you.
    I was an airbrain, NO. Very intelligent,
    Making up one's mind is the beginning of wisdom.
    why should I suffer the label " a failure" for other peoples standards?
    Agreed.
    but being expected to get A's etc in college to be a somebody is ridiculous and non sensible.
    Agreed again.
    I mean, take time to reflect on who you are and why you are here.
    Good advice in principle. In practise no man is an island. Life is not always about abstraction. Sometimes, but pick the right time.
    I badly think when we die, our chemicals cease to influence our emotions, and physical debilitation of our upper feeling; when we die we travel beyound current existence of physical and mental conditions combined as 1 to a door of black hole of matter than we are on the edge of here in life. And our minds are intuitive enough. Hope you're allowed up, feel good. I can't call proof on that, but I'm a cake of lowlife here, but why am i born? To reproduce, NO I hate that. I'm not for the norm at all. You're killed by dark clouds now, But kill you're downer feeling DE it's for after eternity to know.GOODBYE.
    Mmmmmmm. M'kay. You've lost me there and I'm dyslexic. Must be thick then. I knew the whole dyslexia tag was just to make me feel better... BTW You do know what a black hole is?

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    boreds wrote:
    Have you considered letting Jesus into your life?
    Muhahhaha. I'm sure if he was about, he would have better things to be doing.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,005 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    boreds wrote:
    Have you considered letting Jesus into your life?

    But seriously I reckon It's the telly thats doing you harm.
    It's so easy to get stuck in a rut with telly around, you sort of plan your week around it. Then you watch things just for the hell of it.

    All/Most of your fellow passengers on the dart/bus/luas or in cars and on bikes and on foot making their way home from their similarly crap jobs probably have the same things on their minds, "oh i must watch such and such at 7 then at 7.30, I'll record that and watch blah"

    I do it too myself, then I get an invitation to go out somewhere and my initial thought is 'aww but I'll miss...''then I go and have a great time and forget all about missing my telly timetable and kick myself for being so sad.

    In conclusion, tv monopolises your productive you time.

    That's called a quarter life crises. I never watch Tv and i never let cars crash my life either. I never failed my driving test to need to luas, You may have got rejected by a filling station type job like me but I don't hold grudges on so called crap jobs.

    If my dad had a high paying job, aka invented idea based on elated ego of ones social status; I suppose I'd consider killing myself over him calling me a dunse.
    And that's your mentality. And I'll consider you a success sir/man, if you consider the people you have classed in your post as worth living the rest without hindrance to sterotypes or bias.
    Did you kill your cat for a thrill ever? That's morally wrong, but killed by a man of a high paying job, does that consider the cat wrong and him right to satisfy his high stimulation of cat murder? Just an example don't comment on the stupid example as I'll question you'r motive to do so.
    And a failed driving test is why some walk not drive. You sound rich, middle class.
    failed driving test, 2nd time I don't think so!
    So I walk to walk, maybe.
    You watch Tv, i know you're lying; im guessing :p.

    Never judge a clown by their tricks if you don't laugh, question you're humour first, as not all clowns are funny as not all entertainees are dry or wet rags. So you decide how you take others, but don't force your opinion on others without considering the effects first.

    You're agnostic yes, so Jesus is nobody to you so why do you care to mention him if you're agnostic!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,005 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    '
    Wibbs wrote:
    Wrong. A surprising amount do care, though you may reject such advances
    Yes and you are still an individual in that society of apparently lessors. It's not bull, depending on your viewpoint. Discovering one's viewpoint in relation to that is the real trick
    Jam a fork in it and find out.Only in basic cereal box philosophy maybe. Eh?
    Good for you. The former aspiration often informs the latter in the mind of the cocksure. What is genius if it doesn't involve the mundane in a different, yet recognisable light for everyone else? Again it must be great to be you.
    So what? So am I and many others. It's a challenge as well as a gift. Don't see much depth TBH, more an all too obvious adolescent reaction against what is construed as the "rest of the world" That's a good thing if you can pull it off. Stumbling at the first hurdle there Ted. You're not the first to see it like this and you won't be the last. Doesn't pan out in the long run though. You will grow out of that. Trust me.So you're better off than the wage slaves who think it's just peachy then? Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

    Like many travelers before you.Making up one's mind is the beginning of wisdom. Agreed. Agreed again.

    Good advice in principle. In practise no man is an island. Life is not always about abstraction. Sometimes, but pick the right time.
    Mmmmmmm. M'kay. You've lost me there and I'm dyslexic. Must be thick then. I knew the whole dyslexia tag was just to make me feel better... BTW You do know what a black hole is?
    I never said dyslexia was dump. And I'm not a manic depressive. And I don't say the hill start failed my test.
    So if it's good for me to be 22, why do you say that? Its for the benifit of your understanding me and my post. Do you take anger controlling substances?
    Do I take drugs u asked about me. Yes a prescribed medication for a lung disease maybe cystic fibrosis.
    U said am I for real, yes I think I am. And sticking a fork into the eye is your method not mine perhaps.
    And I never left my country for this place, u questioned am i foreign, yes. Partly
    You 3 are drinking now they said to us in college. that's not good
    Black hole, u assumed I was dumb, and I got an A1 in honours maths not a C.
    And you're not dyslexic.'


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ballsofire23


    Wibbs wrote:
    Wrong. A surprising amount do care, though you may reject such advances
    Yes and you are still an individual in that society of apparently lessors. It's not bull, depending on your viewpoint. Discovering one's viewpoint in relation to that is the real trick
    Jam a fork in it and find out.Only in basic cereal box philosophy maybe. Eh?
    Good for you. The former aspiration often informs the latter in the mind of the cocksure. What is genius if it doesn't involve the mundane in a different, yet recognisable light for everyone else? Again it must be great to be you.
    So what? So am I and many others. It's a challenge as well as a gift. Don't see much depth TBH, more an all too obvious adolescent reaction against what is construed as the "rest of the world" That's a good thing if you can pull it off. Stumbling at the first hurdle there Ted. You're not the first to see it like this and you won't be the last. Doesn't pan out in the long run though. You will grow out of that. Trust me.So you're better off than the wage slaves who think it's just peachy then? Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

    Like many travelers before you.Making up one's mind is the beginning of wisdom. Agreed. Agreed again.

    Good advice in principle. In practise no man is an island. Life is not always about abstraction. Sometimes, but pick the right time.
    Mmmmmmm. M'kay. You've lost me there and I'm dyslexic. Must be thick then. I knew the whole dyslexia tag was just to make me feel better... BTW You do know what a black hole is?

    I agree on a little of what you said Wibbs, but is bliss a state all too ignorant to happiness? If you're 25 and suffering depression like some, and you're family are working class, it's not viable to sit exams to prove your existence worth it. My son had 5 major cancers, 1 called leukemia and made it through.
    I'm middle class, yes, if you'll treat my post with some consideration.
    I lost my husband to spleen cancer and I had no hope left, but by being ignorant to others beliefs, you may upset them intentionally or unlikely but maybe unintentionally.
    If you laugh at dyslexia, my son got an A 1 in maths hounours, for his leaving cert, and decided a girl in Germany was too good to study without. And he's now a successful mechanic and works for mercedes.
    So ignorance is bliss, but I lived my life having tea/coffe with my own ignorance to working stress.
    But dyslexics can't argue their point as good as you Wibbs, so fair play, you made that young man look stupid.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 269 ✭✭nicolo


    Check out the Podcasts on here just right click the links and save as...
    http://www.stevepavlina.com/audio/

    I know it sounds like a stupid self help crap thing but the guy makes alot of sense and the more you listen the more he gives good ideas on how to get your life out of a rut.
    good luck!


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    I agree on a little of what you said Wibbs, but is bliss a state all too ignorant to happiness?
    Obviously not ballsofire. Sometimes you can over think things. Sometimes the obvious simple answer is just that. Obvious and simple.
    If you're 25 and suffering depression like some, and you're family are working class, it's not viable to sit exams to prove your existence worth it.
    If you're suffering depression you can get help. This forum is full of those who did and came out the other side better people. In any case exams are not the be all and end all of judging one's worth. In fact all they can do is tell your worth in the subject of the exam. Too many people with very high exam results fail to translate that into any sort of success or happiness.
    My son had 5 major cancers, 1 called leukemia and made it through.
    Which is an incredibly brave and hard thing to have to see your son go through. You and he made it through. Rightfully proud you should be.
    If you laugh at dyslexia,
    Eh I'm dyslexic.
    my son got an A 1 in maths hounours, for his leaving cert,
    Mathematical ability apparently a common trait in dyslexics. Sadly I didn't get that one.
    and decided a girl in Germany was too good to study without. And he's now a successful mechanic and works for mercedes.
    And given what you've gone through is a result to be justifiably proud. The OP should read your post. It may help.
    So ignorance is bliss, but I lived my life having tea/coffe with my own ignorance to working stress.
    I never said that. I was making the point that that poster regarded others as somehow lessor because they're not as "abstract" as him.
    But dyslexics can't argue their point as good as you Wibbs, so fair play, you made that young man look stupid.
    Ehhhhh. Dyslexic here. Your statement itself is saying that dyslexics can't argue their point, which is limiting them. In any event stupid is like beauty, in the eye of the beholder.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,395 ✭✭✭Marksie


    OP: buy a box of tampax and you too can have a life like marksutton's...
    Damn hadn't thought of that... do you get coupons in the back for such activities???:p Or are you calling me names :D

    Actually i am going to get a bit literary on your ass, with something written 2000 years ago. It is good and relevant advice, the ideal to change has got to come from your own mindset.

    "there will be a great raise in spirits if one can change the way they think, so that instead of having in the heads the idea of "what is going to happen to me?" they may think "what action am i going to take?"" Xenophon


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    "there will be a great raise in spirits if one can change the way they think, so that instead of having in the heads the idea of "what is going to happen to me?" they may think "what action am i going to take?"" Xenophon
    If you're not suffering from debilitating depression and even if you are that hit's the nail on the head.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



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