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re: Waiting for my real life to begin
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:33 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:33 pm to RogerTheShrubber
FWIW, I apologize for going off on you several years back. I was just starting to travel in a new direction, and was lashing out at a lot of stuff because I felt like I needed to force myself to continue making the plunge I was making.
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Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:34 pm to Doc Fenton
It's all good. Everyone has their bad days
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:35 pm to The Last Coco
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I don't know how a 31 year old doesn't know what makes them tick. That is mind-boggling to me. What's the one thing you can't imagine your life existing without? What's the one thing you always want to be around? What's the one thing that brings you peace?
Do you have any idea how many different interests I have?
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:35 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Thanks
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:37 pm to The Last Coco
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Really it's that simple. Pacific Ocean
Mountains. If I have mountains around me I don't think I can be unhappy.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:37 pm to The Last Coco
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I don't know how a 31 year old doesn't know what makes them tick. That is mind-boggling to me
Wait until your midlife crisis
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:37 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Someone once said, "Don't mess with happy." I think it was Jimmy V. If you are happy, that is a start. Build on it. Don't screw up and wait, pass on opportunities, then force yourself into a situation without options. If you think you are not living your "real life," now...
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:39 pm to Harvey the Rabbit
quote:Just make the best out of, and sincerely appreciate, where you are now, with a kind eye to the future. Doing this is one of the keys to a happy life. Others? Marry wisely and without pressure. Put your family first but with balance to work and career. And drink scotch.
This scares the shite out of me as I feel that I'm working too hard at the present moment and not enjoying myself enough
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:39 pm to magildachunks
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Wait until your midlife crisis
These are awesome. I need another one, I believe
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:40 pm to magildachunks
I hope this idea that you just need to get there, and then once you do then you'll be living your real life, I hope that pays off for you. I don't know you; I don't know what else to say
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:40 pm to magildachunks
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Anybody else feel this way?
I have a job I love, doesn't pay much.
I have flings to fulfill urges, but no SO.
I feel like I'm in the waiting room and the doctor is passing me for other patients.
Make a baby. You won't feel that way for long.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:43 pm to jmcs68
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get that.
I feel that way sometimes.
I was married for a very long time & lived for my family.
Lost myself along the way.
Son is moving on into his adult life.
I will find my way back to myself again.
I'm not being a jerk when I say this, hopefully finding yourself means unplugging from this website for a while. You're going to have a very large emptiness when your son leaves, and I hope you don't fill it with this website. Look around the OT and you see way too many lives consumed by this place. I enjoy it for what it is, but if you hang around here all day and night, you're cheating yourself out of life and moments you can never get back.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:43 pm to badlands
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Someone once said, "Don't mess with happy." I think it was Jimmy V. If you are happy, that is a start. Build on it. Don't screw up and wait, pass on opportunities, then force yourself into a situation without options. If you think you are not living your "real life," now...
I've found this is true, for me. When I start looking at other people and thinking maybe I don't have it figured out, that's when I upset the cart. If it's working, go with it. Maybe it's not like most of your peers, but hell, if your happy, run with it.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:44 pm to magildachunks
If it makes you feel better, I'm 31 and have this "real life" you speak of. There are moments I would kill to be single with no attachments or children relying on me every second of every day.
I wouldn't trade my life with anyone but holy shite I'd love about a two week vacation in the middle of nowhere sometimes.
Enjoy your situation. Search your spirituality, stay active, and just appreciate what you DO have
I wouldn't trade my life with anyone but holy shite I'd love about a two week vacation in the middle of nowhere sometimes.
Enjoy your situation. Search your spirituality, stay active, and just appreciate what you DO have
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:45 pm to Doc Fenton
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Do you have any idea how many different interests I have?
Puhlease. Don't give me that. Everyone has 1000s of interests. There are a handful of things that almost everyone needs in their life for happiness. Everything else is periphery. Find your handful, pursue them with earnest, and enjoy the periphery.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:47 pm to The Last Coco
I'm not trying to be special, but I really have had a variety of things that I absolutely positively felt I needed to do, and it just isn't logically possible for me to do them all. So I always feel overwhelmed and pissed off that I don't have 500 years to live and get them all done.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:48 pm to USMCTiger03
quote:Yea, the work has paid off recently. I can see where I'm headed and it makes my family proud which makes me happy. I guess I just get jealous of all my high school friends that are screwing around in NOLA.
Just make the best out of, and sincerely appreciate, where you are now, with a kind eye to the future. Doing this is one of the keys to a happy life. Others?
quote:Momma's been trying to set me up with uggos from the garden district since I was a child.
Others? Marry wisely and without pressure. Put your family first but with balance to work and career. And drink scotch.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:50 pm to Harvey the Rabbit
You better be a chick.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:50 pm to Doc Fenton
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So I always feel overwhelmed and pissed off that I don't have 500 years to live and get them all done.
I was like that in my early 30's. Really worried that I would choose some interests and miss out on something by leaving the others behind. Probably wasn't til I was in my early 40's that I realized my passions, and put the others aside.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:51 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Well then there's hope for me yet.
I've still got a lot of pruning to do.
I've still got a lot of pruning to do.
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