I'm not passionate about anything and I'm not good at anything. I have no dreams and I'm basically going through the motions until I die. Hope this helps!
I guess I'm doing fairly okay, although my only creative outlet is a play by email anime RPG and I have absolutely no feeling of having a "calling" in life and I'm terrified of even the idea of starting a relationship with anyone. I'm just kind of coasting on the inertia of nothing being particularly wrong with my life.
Oh yeah, and I'm taking a Russian class, that's fun, I guess.
I'm just kind of coasting on the inertia of nothing being particularly wrong with my life.
Yeah, although there's nothing quantifiably wrong - I possess a sense of lack. I suppose I only have ten years to figure this out before it becomes the desire for a sports car and a 16 year old.
Uh... Sadly I mostly agree with unsi_sempai. But... I know a person who had a very good life. And accomplished most of what she wanted. And was pretty happy. And she told me that she sat down and over several months. Thinking very seriously. She made a list of the things she wanted to accomplish in her life. She took her time and really thought it out. And made the things she chose be simple down to earth concrete goals. (No concepts or ideas. Only well defined goals.) And then she set out one by one to do them. She formulated a plan for each goal. Took her time. And over the years she did them. She was quite successful. Both in family life and financially. And she was fairly happy, kind and generous person. The kind of person other people brought their troubles to.
Maybe the key she found was to break things down into a bunch of small goals rather than one big concept of how life should be. She had small manageable goals that she tackled one at a time.
It's not so much that I really don't know what to do, sequentially, like I would have difficulty with organizing my life toward some sort of goal - it's like I really don't have the drive to actually put any of that into motion.
I'm curious what tips people from being into doing, and I've been wondering that pretty much my entire freaking life. I know it happens, I see people who do it - but there's some kind of disconnect there. Like some mystical fairy dust or fusion engine they plug into to just...go.
Either I am missing that or I'm just a lazy bastard, and well, I'm not entirely certain which of those is preferable.
Sorry I did not answer this sooner. I did not check my email for few days.
And yeah. I got an idea what you mean. The lady I mentioned above. She just had the get up and go to do things with her life. I just don't quite get it. What is the difference between her and people like us? From an emotional standpoint -- and I knew her quite well. She was a relative. From an emotional standpoint... I cannot see anything that makes her different.
I actually have wondered... If the difference might be something more biochemical. For instance they are finding that zinc is a neurotransmitter. And that rats with induced zinc deficiencies have decreased pleasure seeking behaviors. Sometimes I wonder if it could be something like that? Maybe zinc. Maybe something else. Or a combination of things.
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It is contrary to how I felt things were goin' with ya, though.
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Oh yeah, and I'm taking a Russian class, that's fun, I guess.
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Yeah, although there's nothing quantifiably wrong - I possess a sense of lack. I suppose I only have ten years to figure this out before it becomes the desire for a sports car and a 16 year old.
*shudder*
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Maybe the key she found was to break things down into a bunch of small goals rather than one big concept of how life should be. She had small manageable goals that she tackled one at a time.
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I'm curious what tips people from being into doing, and I've been wondering that pretty much my entire freaking life. I know it happens, I see people who do it - but there's some kind of disconnect there. Like some mystical fairy dust or fusion engine they plug into to just...go.
Either I am missing that or I'm just a lazy bastard, and well, I'm not entirely certain which of those is preferable.
Wangst here, incidentally.
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And yeah. I got an idea what you mean. The lady I mentioned above. She just had the get up and go to do things with her life. I just don't quite get it. What is the difference between her and people like us? From an emotional standpoint -- and I knew her quite well. She was a relative. From an emotional standpoint... I cannot see anything that makes her different.
I actually have wondered... If the difference might be something more biochemical. For instance they are finding that zinc is a neurotransmitter. And that rats with induced zinc deficiencies have decreased pleasure seeking behaviors. Sometimes I wonder if it could be something like that? Maybe zinc. Maybe something else. Or a combination of things.
Just a wild thought.
Good luck.
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