its sweet, once you stop fussing over shit, things just fall into place. I just spent the last of my money on groceries and a quarter of herb this week and was kinda thinking I should step up my efforts for getting a job. As I checked my email when I got home from class tonight I found an email from a laboratory I applied to a few months ago saying that they need me now. A little thought manifestation it seems to me and now I don't feel so guilty about buying that quarter. All you've got to do is complete the first step and life seems to do the rest.
i couldn't agree more. people spend to much time worrying about this and that. people need to chill, life is always rolling on. might as well hop on for the ride, things always have a way of working themselves out, at least for me.
You can't always get what you want. But, if you try, sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need.
i think our society has lost it's grasp of what is truly needed, and what we all just want. did you know that the national income savings of each family has dropped from 8% to under 0% in the last 2 decades, with a majority of american houses spending money they haven't earned yet on top of spending all the money they earn.
it's amazing how a temporary change in priorities can change your whole perspective on things. when I was a young man, I was very adventerous. one thing I used to like to do, especially when life was getting stressful, is to just take off for a couple of weeks. I don't come from money, in fact, just the opposite, so this isn't exactly one of those things someone could say, "easy for you to do". I remember probably my greatest adventure was when I was 19. I hitchhiked over 3,000 miles. I left with 12 dollars in my pocket. when living every day to find a way to eat, and a relatively safe place to sleep for a couple of weeks, and you get back to normal life, some how, having to wait an extra week or two for the things I want cause I have to pay electic bill, or I don't have quite enough left over from groceries to do something I've been wanting to do, just isn't as stressful.
Dude. I feel the same way. I'm not hitching, and I got a little more than 12 bucks...I got a car, and about 500 bucks. But im drivin from minnesota to california to make myself. Its a change of priorities for me. Im a stoner nobody here in minnesota, but im going to leave to pheonix, then cali...to get a job and get on my feet, with noone to help me. Teach myself some self disapline. it goes in to what the person who created the thread said. He felt better about getting the weed, now that he has a job. Been there man, i smoke all the time, cant stop. When i dont have a job, i feel like crap, but when i do have a job, its alright....
best of luck in your adventure. 20 years from now it will be something your proud that you tried, no matter what happens. try and keep in touch, when you can. be safe, it can be a scary world.
Yeah, generally people are wound too tight. No doubt. But don't give me all this "life will give you what you need" horseshit. Life sucks, plain and simple. And you say, "Oh, but life is full of joy and the triumph of good!" Yes, fine. Great. It's also full of relentless entropy and the incomprehensible inevitabilities of death and infinity. "But we just can't comprehend the full measure of Life's purpose!" Yeah? Well why the fuck not? Why are we subjected to this special torture of self-awareness? We're being punished? What the fuck did *I* do? No wait, we're being educated? Yeah, well this class fucking SUCKS. I want my tuition back.
wow. I don't really know what to say. I'm really having a good time with my life. you make me feel guilty, skidoo. I mean even with all the mishaps and painful times and unanswered questions, if someone came down and said look you want to hang around down here for another 150 years or so, I wouldn't mind, I mean as long as I can still get around and feed myself and wipe my own ass. I love the idea of going home and getting all my questions answered, but I'm in no hurry. I wish I knew how to get you to see the glass half full, peace bro.
wow. I don't really know what to say. I'm really having a good time with my life.[/quote] Just give it some time. But that's not the point anyway. Wow, I must be really powerful! Yeah, again: Not the point. My life is fabulous, compared to most. So what? Come on man, don't be dense. I didn't say I was suicidal. Oh brother. Do you really think I'm that shallow? Please re-read what I wrote: Life sucks. Not my life, not your life: Just life. I'm afraid whoever set this whole thing up wasn't too bright.
I apologize, from your last thread, I pictured a middle aged house wife in the tub with a pair of scissors. peace bro
"whoever set this whole thing up weren't to bright". you're way ahead of me bro, to be judging such beings. I have a hard time making a square from 4 pieces of 2 x 4 and a hammer and nails. I couldn't began to come up with a set up like this.
Hmm. Well, I can tell you if a hotel sucks. I sure as hell couldn't build a hotel. Couldn't design a hotel. Couldn't run a hotel. Although, that's not entirely true. I suppose I could learn the skills required to do all those things. But that's not the point. What I'm saying is (to switch metaphorical gears): I don't have to understand the details of automobile engineering to recognize a jalopy. Ditto life. This jank is some piece-of-shit American car or something.
if you look for flaws, you will find flaws in paradise. i was hitchiking last summer, i had 20$ in my wallet. no sleeping bag or tent, just some clothing. at nights it would get to the mid 40's. that day some nice guy picked me up and gave me 50$ which bought a tent and a sleeping bag. that night it rained and the temp was cold as hell. if i didnt get that 50$ from a random stranger i might have died of hypothermia. another story . im very lazy, im 20 and at the time i havent had a job for over a year. so im determined to get a job. i go out get a few applications. on the way home a friend calls me and i got a job at a resturant down the road.
I'm not talking about "flaws." I'm talking about profound, fundamental problems. Don't trivialize infinity, man. Yeah, but your good fortune does not make life any less mean. The fundamental reality is this: Pain is necessary for life. And that fucking sucks. Yeah, the Four Noble Truths and all, blah, blah. But the fact is, suffering is part-and-parcel to SURVIVAL. Suffering is how our bodies communicate their inescapable mortality. And suffering is how we experience that mortality psychologically. The cessation of suffering is not the answer to the problem of reality. The cessation of suffering is easy. Unless you consider it suffering to labor under the question, "Why?" Which I do. Wow. Amazing.
it wasnt the fact that i got a job or 50$. its the fact that the presence of a conscious infinite energy source is felt and tapped into. have some faith