Who else thinks time is running out!
If I live past 30 i will probably be useless by then. So I'm giving myself only a few years to get as much done as I can. Then i won't get lazy as I've set myself a time limit. Basically I'm not going to 'wait until I'm older' to get things done. I'm in good health now so it's the best time to take action.
Is anyone else thinking like this?
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In a sense, I put a lot of pressure on myself to succeed now because I feel like I've wasted so much time already. I'm 24 and I've missed out on most of life's experiences, I'm not independent, I don't have much of anything so being already delayed makes the pressure of succeeding now pretty overwhelming for me at times since there does come a point where it is pointless. Why kill yourself trying bring yourself up to other's level if there is no realistic chance of being happy? A lot of middle men there that can be cut out. I can't even sit around for another 6 months, this month and half before school has been tough for me.
I see what you mean. I wouldn't worry so much about being independent. Just focus on doing good work. Not necessarily employment; just put something out there that is beneficial for yourself/others.
I won't ever kill myself. Just that i might become disabled or ill at that age. I wouldn't be suprised. Also that everyone is replaceable, when you get older people see you as worth less than a younger person even though it's not the truth. Everything holds less weight when an older person does something rather than an child.
When I die I'd rather it be doing something I love. I'd rather die for a reason although it's not like we can always choose lol.
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You're lucky if you can love or have a passion for anything in your life like that, I can't say I do. Success to me is just no longer being ashamed and embarrassed of my life, being independent is part of that but only part. The chances of success seemingly growing smaller as you get older, the pressure is building. Either you succeed or you fail, I don't know how many failures I have left in me.
I've always kind of figured I'd die young, I've just always felt that I am unlucky so it would make sense for me to get cancer or be a terrible car accident. The odds approach one that eventually life will serve a **** sandwich like that to you, if not to you to someone you love. There really is no winning, everything is fleeting. At my own hand? It's hard to say where your mind will go, I don't think I am capable of it now but who knows 5 10 or 20 years from now. I figure eventually things will change for the better or completely unravel, there is no middle ground to maintain.
I've always kind of figured I'd die young, I've just always felt that I am unlucky so it would make sense for me to get cancer or be a terrible car accident. The odds approach one that eventually life will serve a **** sandwich like that to you, if not to you to someone you love. There really is no winning, everything is fleeting. At my own hand? It's hard to say where your mind will go, I don't think I am capable of it now but who knows 5 10 or 20 years from now. I figure eventually things will change for the better or completely unravel, there is no middle ground to maintain.
Hmm some kinds of passion can be a bit of trouble and can be risky. Don't be trapped by what society or your family etc consider success. I think this is why a lot of people are unhappy. There is an expectation from other people to conform. I agree though, chances of success do grow smaller as you age. It's okay though. I think even if you have failed sooo many times it's definitely possible to change things of you take it slowly. Personally I have improved so much by that way of thinking. I'm a lot different to how I was in the past. I'm not saying that's easy though because it's not easy to change.
Also some bad and painful experiences can turn into good ones.
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Is anyone else thinking like this?
It's smart to live everyday like it's your last because then you don't procrastinate and waste time. You get a lot done that way. I need to start thinking like this, too. It helps to not feel blase about everything.
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Ha, I remember reading a post here suggesting that there is nothing worth living for after age 50, as one will be old and frail with no chance of happiness.
That can be true if one believes it and makes that a practice of life.
But on the other hand, if one believes that life is gonna get better and actually takes action everyday to make that happen; that is possible too.
Anyway, I've felt like I was 105 years old at age 21, a thousand years old at age 47, and 16 years old now at age 55.
And to be clear, I never felt like 16 before; life was hard; now it is a piece of cake, and I enjoy the icing everyday with more empirically measured strength and peace of mind in body and mind balance; more friends; and yes, more happiness in general that I ever imagine can be possible, before I seek it, find it, and practice in flesh and blood action always now..
We CAN CREATE OUR Lives IN PRACTICE of what we want that to be. But the bottom line is THAT takes practice in flesh and blood life; and more or less; life online is a waste to achieve that; it takes flesh and blood to grow a human life; sitting still before a screen truly can become ritual of a scream of screen; not unlike that famous portrait of 'Scream'.
I am forced into spending all the time in front of this box; when I am totally disabled and shut-in; but doing it freely is in my opinion, the worst nightmare of any Twilight Zone TV show ever imagined; and yes, at least one does portray that reality now, then, in many folks life of one stuck in the prison of a box that is a home; and now it is a much smaller box illuminated as a screen.
The first step to happiness is to move all around; and not just on sidewalks.
Same truth as forever in the flesh and blood reality that can be human bliss.
The answers lie within in human innate instinct and intuition to human bliss.
Most of the others stuff is just cultural illusion and lies established to make order; subjugate folks through illusory fears; and gain a profit of materialism in the byproducts of culture through that control of humans as slaves; rather than the free humans beings of nature they can potentially become in much greater human potential if allowed to go free range out of a metaphorical bird cage in a mine of mind like a canary.
Anyway, my life is proof of that human truth and I document THAT in flesh and blood that life is a process of improvement and strength throughout the life span, if one practices that and does not sit still and let their life pass in memories of the past, and dreams of a future that will never happen, if one continues to sit still, in one place of life.
Again, the greatest truth humans are made to move and connect to each other in flesh and blood; and there is no fooling Mother Nature AKA GOD without paying the piper of consequences. There is only now and no Saint John 3:16 quick fix to the real heaven of now that is possible with continuing practice in greater human potential, NOW.
Time is only running out if one does not believe in forevermorenow. Now is all there is in reality; all there ever was in reality; and all there ever will be in reality; any other thought is the illusion; now is the reality to choose a real heaven in it; or hell; depending on one's practice and or choices in life; if they have any clue what those practices and choices are through innate instinct and intuition; and that takes the work of a lifetime in practice to find the answers and exercise them always now for human bliss; a much better choice and practice than the OTHER PLACE..
When I am a shut-in, too sick to even live the car when I take my wife to Walmart, sitting in the parking lot, I notice the sour lemon sucking looks on younger folks faces; and the looks of contentment on older folks faces.
The older folks figure it out; this thing called life. It's that simple, and of course that is a generalization, as exclusions can and do always apply in the rainbow spectrum of humanity..
I GET IT all figured out, for me at least; and THAT is for each person to figure out for themselves, along with a 'little help' from friends, if they are willing to be open-minded enough to hear it and try it..
To each his own; BUT LIFE can literally be a breeze of FEELING WHEN one just gets it figured out and practices it with success in peace of mind in a life of kindness and courage..
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I knew before I was 18 that Social Security (USA) would never provide for a "retirement." So, if I wasn't in a capacity to get a job that provided a good pension and/or income to have enough private savings, I'd likely work until I die.
It's amazing how many of MY generation didn't grasp that, but now it's common knowledge.
I've also learned another thing....
You have no assurance you will live long enough to "retire" at the normal age to retire.
You have no assurance you will have the finances to do all the things you put off doing until you "retire."
You have no assurance you will have the health needed to do all the things you put off doing until you "retire."
Hence, I encourage people to pursue the things they want to do NOW, as best as they can on what finances they can manage while they have their health. A trip cross-country sleeping in campsites is easier on a younger body than it may be on an older one.
When you get to 40, all bets are off.
I also believe society benefits the young(er). Once you hit 40, opportunity is based more on what you've accomplished and can put on a resume. Otherwise, most times a younger, less-experienced person can be picked for the job...and it only gets worse as you get older.
Frolicking about without a "life plan" is no longer viable. You have a limited number of years to show you can be counted upon to get a job done before your age is seen as a liability with not countermeasure.
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