How satisfied are you with your life?

[greg]

I don't quite understand what you guys mean by "stuck at home." Care to elaborate?

i'd rather not elaborate again.....
but, basically, we have no job, are not in school and have no car (i don't know about him). No one cares about hiring us, never calling back, etc. living with our parents, wanting to get into school soon (but we need a job before we can go to school because we need money), it's probably over 100 degrees where both of us live (in totally different places, btw) and there's no place to go for miles.... it's similar how it is with him, though not exactly the same.

[Sean]

My contribution here is that my life's been rather polarised: some things have gone well and some not so well, which maybe the case for most but my personality tends towards extremes and as I sometimes say, has often taken the line of most resistance.

I see the two key aspect in a good life as the vocational and the love/ social: hence the good things for me are that I've done a fair range of work and had a range of girlfriends, with the bad side that I didn't get a good career going that could have paid far more money, and that I made a catastrophic mess of things with the girls I most wanted.

I've also been able to listen, think, read, write and even travel for great periods of time, and though I feel I've made great gains here, Prospero and his books casts a long shadow over me.

[Haffner]

To paraphrase Wagner, my life started at 35. Before then, I suffered from a profound amount of self-hate. I would never wish such on anyone else. Period. My local Church would say I was in Purgatory. It took me forever to realize that not living in Love (God) was not living, period.

There's an old song which states that you're nobody until somebody loves you. Once I met my mermaid, Jasmine, I realized that walking in darkness, away from Love, was the same as being dead.

Since then (2002), I "came home" to Roman Catholicism (not a conversion, I was baptised as a baby), and found that being especially devoted to the Immaculate Heart of Mary allotted myself a peace of mind that was mostly unattainable otherwise. Many consider her to be the "logical" extension of the ancient goddesses such as Inanna, Ishtar, Isis, etal. But whether "archetype" or, as I believe, God's earth-visiting Mediatrix; Mary's act of complete submission/acceptance to the will of the Higher has most profoundly, positively enhanced my life.  She, like Jesus, is the embodiment of Perfection for me, and I see glimpses of myself living a perfect life by venerating her and Jesus' examples.

[Tancata]

Life's a piece of shit when you look at it

You left out the most important part for our down-on-their-luck chums...


Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughing as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.

    And always look on the bright side of life...
    Always look on the right side of life...
    (Come on guys, cheer up!)

da capo


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[Sean]

Haffner- unity with woman is next to unity with God.

[LaciDeeLeBlanc]

You left out the most important part for our down-on-their-luck chums...


Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughing as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.

    And always look on the bright side of life...
    Always look on the right side of life...
    (Come on guys, cheer up!)

da capo


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Spamalot is freakin' hilarious!

[Haffner]

Haffner- unity with woman is next to unity with God.

JA! Hi Sean... maybe I should've just written what you did, huh?  You pretty much summed it up.

[Tancata]

Spamalot is freakin' hilarious!

It's from Life of Brian at least originally...

[beclemund]

You can retire at 36 and live off the government. They'll provide you with free housing, healthcare, food stamps, etc. My parents live in Bronx, NY and nobody who lives in the Bronx works. They just sit outside their project houses, play basketball, play dreadful hip-hop on their cheap radios, and walk their even more dreadful animals.

An interesting generalization of all the people in one very large borough. But no, I could not retire at 36 because I probably have very different expectations, desires and responsibilities than the individuals you may be talking about in your anecdote.

[Guido]

i'd rather not elaborate again.....
but, basically, we have no job, are not in school and have no car (i don't know about him). No one cares about hiring us, never calling back, etc. living with our parents, wanting to get into school soon (but we need a job before we can go to school because we need money), it's probably over 100 degrees where both of us live (in totally different places, btw) and there's no place to go for miles.... it's similar how it is with him, though not exactly the same.

Stop complaining and start working on doing stuff that will take you to your goals! Businesses don't owe you anything, so call them back yourself and be persistant. Create your own activities, meet friends, play music, compose, do sport, whatever... You've only got one life so stop pissing it away! You'll never get these seconds back.

In my life there is nothing to complain about - I'm good at academic stuff, I'm good at playing the cello, I have passions, good friends, live in a beautiful house, am healthy and have my whole life ahead of me. Excellence in any field has yet to happen, but I am optimistic. I wish I found it easier to speak to new people (including women), but that's something I can work on. I often wonder at the disparities between the Western world and the third world, how people so similar can lead such different lives due to an accident of birth, so I am thankful for all I have and all the opportunities that I have been given just by accident. Religion and environment change (or rather people's attitudes towards) worry me quite alot.

[Don]

Stop complaining and start working on doing stuff that will take you to your goals! Businesses don't owe you anything, so call them back yourself and be persistant. Create your own activities, meet friends, play music, compose, do sport, whatever... You've only got one life so stop pissing it away! You'll never get these seconds back.

In my life there is nothing to complain about - I'm good at academic stuff, I'm good at playing the cello, I have passions, good friends, live in a beautiful house, am healthy and have my whole life ahead of me. I wish I found it easier to speak to new people (including women), but that's something I can work on. I often wonder at the disparities between the Western world and the third world, how people so similar can lead such different lives due to an accident of birth, so I am thankful for all I have and all the opportunities that I have been given just by accident. Religion and environment change (or rather people's attitudes towards) worry me quite alot.

Excellent attitude!!  Folks like Paris Hilton might get the world handed to them, but most of us are on our own.  So stop bitching about life and start living it.  If you don't have a job, get one.  If you don't have a signficant partner, get one.  so on and so on.

[beclemund]

Life is, after all, what you make of it.

[Haffner]

Peace, as a general rule, is a big winner for me.

If I have peace, and a mind-frame that always finds the positive/humorous in even the most "serious" subjects, I'm happy.

Nietzsche wrote that if you have to analyze your happiness too much (or question it), than you both weren't and don't deserve to be happy.

So that's it .

[Steve]

My mood will certainly be aided with the return to campus. Nothing quite like it. 

[PaulR]

Can you confirm this for us? 

what part?  That it's better than being dead or that my life needs improvement?

[Mozart]

what part?  That it's better than being dead or that my life needs improvement?

That its better being alive than dead 

[Mozart]

Stop complaining and start working on doing stuff that will take you to your goals! Smiley Businesses don't owe you anything, so call them back yourself and be persistant. Create your own activities, meet friends, play music, compose, do sport, whatever... You've only got one life so stop pissing it away! You'll never get these seconds back.

How can you judge the difficulty of someone's life from a few sentenced they wrote?

Excellent attitude!!  Folks like Paris Hilton might get the world handed to them, but most of us are on our own.  So stop bitching about life and start living it.  If you don't have a job, get one.  If you don't have a signficant partner, get one.  so on and so on.

Ughh yeah working for 1/3 of your life for 7 dollars an hour thats really living the high life. I can't get a job because I really don't want to do anything but study. I have this little habit of running numbers before I actually start to do something, and to go to the cheapest UNI in the US, at 7 dollars an hour, 40 hours a week (which is unlikely unless you get 2 jobs) you would have to work for a year,$14,560 (before taxes this is) to support yourself for 1 year, and this is just the minimum expenses of food/house books and tuition and personal supplies. If you don't qualify for financial aid, and you don't have rich parents than what over option is there?

Life is, after all, what you make of it.

You must watch Hannah Montana too. Hehe

[Guido]

How can you judge the difficulty of someone's life from a few sentenced they wrote?
Ughh yeah working for 1/3 of your life for 7 dollars an hour thats really living the high life. I can't get a job because I really don't want to do anything but study. I have this little habit of running numbers before I actually start to do something, and to go to the cheapest UNI in the US, at 7 dollars an hour, 40 hours a week (which is unlikely unless you get 2 jobs) you would have to work for a year,$14,560 (before taxes this is) to support yourself for 1 year, and this is just the minimum expenses of food/house books and tuition and personal supplies. If you don't qualify for financial aid, and you don't have rich parents than what over option is there?
You must watch Hannah Montana too. Hehe

I thought the idea was to get a loan? Over here in lil' old England, everyone gets a loan to pay for university, and then pays it back once they're done. Is it a different system over there?

And I'm not judging the difficulty someone's life. I'm saying being proactive is healthy and that people make their own luck.

[Mozart]

I thought the idea was to get a loan? Over here in lil' old England, everyone gets a loan to pay for university, and then pays it back once they're done. Is it a different system over there?

And I'm not judging the difficulty someone's life. I'm saying being proactive is healthy and that people make their own luck.

You need a co signer, which I have none.

[Guido]

Can't your parents do it? You literally know no one with an OK credit history?