| Anyone else feel life is like that? You work to pay the bills, and then you're always just working to make someone else richer. Sure you get raises overtime, but then gradually your expenses rise too. Wake up, shower, eat, go to work, come home, lay back a bit, eat, sleep. Repeat. You want to take a vacation... but it takes forever to save up money for one directly, as well as enough to cushion the financial loss incurred from taking time off. One would assume making $100k+ driving a BMW is a paradise, but the reality is many of those people just end up with more toys and/or other expenses and at the end of the day are no more happier/better off. Or get into a bad relationship/marriage and lose half+ on the way out. There are exceptions to this of course: family financial support and/or working an irregular job(s) with long gruelling hours to save a significant amount above your expenses to one day escape. Though the latter is more of a rarity, as the stress often just forces one to spend more or quit. |
| This is a pretty interesting blog OP. Although I do get what you mean. |
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| Think outside the box |
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| The entire world is structured a certain way, and the government raises children to live by this structure. It's the world we live in, and we can either be part of it and receive all the benefits (an income to earn money and spend it on wants and needs) or we can try living in a forest. |
| I know exactly what you mean. Though, I wouldn't call it living in a box. I think you're just thinking about "sheeple" (no reference to my name). But life isn't about conforming to social norms. Everyone wants a good job with a BMW, but it's pointless if 1. you hate the place you work at and 2. you don't even like BMW. For me, I found myself living in a box, the way you defined it. Wake up, eat, go to school, play games, go to sleep, repeat. But the reason why I found myself living in that box is because I realize I haven't been making my life exciting even though I have the power to do so, as busy as our schedules usually are. I was just following the norm (in my life) and not trying to seek anything more. I think the point is to seek more and actually pursue what you think will take you away from that box. I found mine, and if I'm still inside this box, then it seems to me that I'll be breaking out of it pretty soon. If you're the kind of person that wants a BMW just to please the neighbors, go ahead, but it sounds like you don't want a BMW for that reason. You don't always have to opt for a BMW. You can always buy something more exciting. :P |
| Just need to find out how to quote this every time so I can dodge the stupid 30-character limit. |
| Economic Dependance is just a new and nicer sounding form of Slavery. |
RedArmyShogun said: Economic Dependance is just a new and nicer sounding form of Slavery. Maybe I should just leave this here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ7mt30A6aY |
| Just need to find out how to quote this every time so I can dodge the stupid 30-character limit. |
Tsuyuu said: Anyone else feel life is like that? You work to pay the bills, and then you're always just working to make someone else richer. Sure you get raises overtime, but then gradually your expenses rise too. Wake up, shower, eat, go to work, come home, lay back a bit, eat, sleep. Repeat. You want to take a vacation... but it takes forever to save up money for one directly, as well as enough to cushion the financial loss incurred from taking time off. One would assume making $100k+ driving a BMW is a paradise, but the reality is many of those people just end up with more toys and/or other expenses and at the end of the day are no more happier/better off. Or get into a bad relationship/marriage and lose half+ on the way out. There are exceptions to this of course: family financial support and/or working an irregular job(s) with long gruelling hours to save a significant amount above your expenses to one day escape. Though the latter is more of a rarity, as the stress often just forces one to spend more or quit. I wouldn't blame society for something you can fix yourself. The masses almost always try to impose some uniformity because it gives a lot of people security. They're happy to pick the brand and color of their car, TV etc. and what type of job they want that's considered appropriate for them. Looking to external factors as the source of an unfix-able problem is usually a diversion from things you could be doing to make your life what you want it to be. Granted, many people have shitty life situations, but I'm one of those people. Personally I try the opposite. I stick out like a sore thumb. The old proverb or whatever "the nail that sticks up will be hammered." Well, I haven't been hammered down but I'm a pretty beat up nail. So yeah, I'm trying to be who I am while not making the people around me uncomfortable. I have aspergers, so I guess you could say it's easier for me to be unique. However, it doesn't mean you have to be on the autism spectrum to be different. Heck researchers are still debating as to whether Aspergers is just made up anyway lol;) |
iSheep said: RedArmyShogun said: Economic Dependance is just a new and nicer sounding form of Slavery. Maybe I should just leave this here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ7mt30A6aY I'm sorry I don't understand dishwasher. |
RedArmyShogun said: iSheep said: RedArmyShogun said: Economic Dependance is just a new and nicer sounding form of Slavery. Maybe I should just leave this here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ7mt30A6aY I'm sorry I don't understand dishwasher. Then learn. |
| Just need to find out how to quote this every time so I can dodge the stupid 30-character limit. |
| Nope, clearly you're not a Shepard life's more fun when you lead people. |
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| Nope, All i do is wake up and go to paradise. paradise would be my PC |
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Tsuyuu said: Anyone else feel life is like that? You work to pay the bills, and then you're always just working to make someone else richer. Sure you get raises overtime, but then gradually your expenses rise too. Wake up, shower, eat, go to work, come home, lay back a bit, eat, sleep. Repeat. You want to take a vacation... but it takes forever to save up money for one directly, as well as enough to cushion the financial loss incurred from taking time off. One would assume making $100k+ driving a BMW is a paradise, but the reality is many of those people just end up with more toys and/or other expenses and at the end of the day are no more happier/better off. Or get into a bad relationship/marriage and lose half+ on the way out. There are exceptions to this of course: family financial support and/or working an irregular job(s) with long gruelling hours to save a significant amount above your expenses to one day escape. Though the latter is more of a rarity, as the stress often just forces one to spend more or quit. Finally. Someone else who realises that money is god and that we're slave to its ways. My advice, get a job that you like so much that it doesn't feel like work. I only like design, music and video editing. I'm doing admin at the moment and it sucks. I can't wait for this apprenticeship to end! |
| I'm in a box. I was just looking at it, and suddenly I got this irresistible urge to get inside. No... not just an urge, more than that. It was my destiny to be here, in the box. And when I put it on, I suddenly got this feeling of inner peace. I can't put it into words. I feel... safe. Like this is where I was meant to be. Like I'd found the key to true happiness. Does any of that make sense? You should come inside the box... then you'll know what I mean. |
| That is the reality, although I try not to think of it that way as it is a depressing thought. |
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| You're right, but try being a bit optimistic for a change! :p |
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| You can't live without routines and patterns, no matter how much you hate it. |
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Thrashinuva said: I'm in a box. I was just looking at it, and suddenly I got this irresistible urge to get inside. No... not just an urge, more than that. It was my destiny to be here, in the box. And when I put it on, I suddenly got this feeling of inner peace. I can't put it into words. I feel... safe. Like this is where I was meant to be. Like I'd found the key to true happiness. Does any of that make sense? You should come inside the box... then you'll know what I mean. Brilliant. |
| I feel like I'm in a legit box for the past 3 or 4 years. |
| Ha. Ha. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. I'm laughing because you got hurt. |
| Yeah i feel that way, because no matter what you do, your life will always revolve around wasting over half your day to be able to literally live and eat and the only time you get to end this cycle is after your to old to really enjoy life to its fullest if you even make it to that age of retirement. This is one of the biggest reasons that their is no real purpose in life, we live to survive and thats it. |
| I'm rather curious what you expected life to be like. |
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zoknimano said: I'm rather curious what you expected life to be like. To have some type of purpose, something to look forward to. How can someone be content living in this world and be happy, i can't see it. |
| You should really just accept that such is life, and set up little goals for yourself instead of expecting to be some kind of magical meaning behind it. It sucks that humans are intelligent enough to realise the meaninglessness, but it doesn't have to be too bad. It all depends on you. |
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zoknimano said: You should really just accept that such is life, and set up little goals for yourself instead of expecting to be some kind of magical meaning behind it. It sucks that humans are intelligent enough to realise the meaninglessness, but it doesn't have to be too bad. It all depends on you. And what goals would i set for myself that would make me truly happy because i honestly don't know. What makes you happy and content with your life? @Heredity, Material items don't really make me happy in fact i think i feel happier the less i have and the simpler i live. I can think clearer with less stuff for some reason. |
| You just sound lazy and unmotivated. |
| It's the human condition. To some extent, most of our lives are centralized to some sort of routine like you describe: work, come home & relax, sleep, work, and repeat. In my opinion, it can be very easy to become lost and disheartened sustaining existence from one day to another. Then you begin asking yourself, what the point of it all is? Is it for those little moments of enjoyments you have? You may go full philosophical mode and ask yourself what the meaning of life is, or you may be more humble and ask yourself what activities gratify you. Within all this intertwined is the inevitable fact that all life eventually ends. There is a fear of morality looming in the shadow. Is your struggle for vague 'better' future worth it, if you may die tomorrow? It really makes for great plots in anime / movies when there is a major event or breakthrough in a person's life which causes the person to deviate from the norm and explore new things. Unfortunately, real life is often not as exciting as movies -- so you have to work to make it interesting. I guess how people go about doing that depends on the particular person. Though from my experience, partaking in productive hobbies seems to correlate with general well-being. |
| Me and my turtle live in a box, we are quite happy. |
| WHAT IS THIS |
RedArmyShogun said: Economic Dependance is just a new and nicer sounding form of Slavery. we live in a prison |
Tsuyuu said: RedArmyShogun said: Economic Dependance is just a new and nicer sounding form of Slavery. we live in a prison or you just lack the motivation to move somewhere a job will pay you what you feel your time is worth sorry op, sounds like you're gonna have an unfufilling life :c |
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| Fun Fact: You don't have to do anything that anyone expects of you, ever. |
kiss said: Tsuyuu said: we live in a prison or you just lack the motivation to move somewhere a job will pay you what you feel your time is worth sorry op, sounds like you're gonna have an unfufilling life :c Do you have any idea what a move costs? without considering if you land the job first, finding a place with affordable rent, the cost of living goes up in the city so you have to get a better job and then you have mortgages tying you down. Your simplified argument doesn't take real life into much consideration. If just going out finding a well paid job and moving was that easy, everyone would do it. |
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| I don't know if my self in the box is dead or alive. |
| Life is a bitch. Then you die. |
| This is pretty much why I fear the real world. I'm in college just to stall having to work/doing something with my life. Sometimes I wish I could just drop every part of my place in the world and go live in a Chinese temple up in the mountains, living off the land. |
IneedHelp said: There's so much more in life than the pursuit of money. |
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