Do you ever feel as if life is passing you by?

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Martin

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the older I get, the more I get this feeling. The feeling that the world is full of different things waiting to be discovered and experienced, yet your everyday life and routine is forcing you to live a life which is mostly devoid of these.
Work is nice, but you're still going to the same place doing the same thing 5 days a week. Sure, projects change, you learn new things, but its not like one day you're a web developer and the next a national geographic photographer.
And of course, this feeling only gets stroner with time. When you're young you still tell yourself "I am young, all these poeple that have achieved so muc are older, I still have time" and then one day you realize, "these poeple" are now younger than you and you missed the train.


anyway, feel free to ignore my blues-induced rantings....I think I just need a girl or something :\
 
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A girl will not improve that feeling, however a different girl each day will. ;)
 
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PrayForDeath

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How old are you, OP? If you're under 30, then shut up! :p
Am still 18, so I can't comment actually :D
 
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Originally posted by: Martin
the older I get, the more I get this feeling. The feeling that the world is full of different things waiting to be discovered and experienced, yet your everyday life and routine is forcing you to live a life which is mostly devoid of these.
Work is nice, but you're still going to the same place doing the same thing 5 days a week. Sure, projects change, you learn new things, but its not like one day you're a web developer and the next a national geographic photographer.
And of course, this feeling only gets stroner with time. When you're young you still tell yourself "I am young, all these poeple that have achieved so muc are older, I still have time" and then one day you realize, "these poeple" are now younger than you and you missed the train.


anyway, feel free to ignore my blues-induced rantings....I think I just need a girl or something :\
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You want fulfillement OP? Go to the Bloor Street viaduct, cut the barricade wires, jump, and give the City the finger because you just proved those stupid wires were pointless afterall. That's fulfillement! :)
 
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Martin

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I'm 22, so at this rate, I'll probably be suicidal by 30 and dead by 40 :laugh:

 
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yobarman

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I don't feel this way at all, and I'm 22. I look forward to each and such. It s like a new adventure, especially if i dont have to do school work.
 
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Well I am over 30 and have come to realize that I look back on things and think...dang that was neat or I wish I could go through that again...but in reality you are experiencing experiences now that you will recall later in life...so enjoy now as it is and hope for the best...
 
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Martin

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Originally posted by: Bozono
You want fulfillement OP? Go to the Bloor Street viaduct, cut the barricade wires, jump, and give the City the finger because you just proved those stupid wires were pointless afterall. That's fulfillement! :)
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funny you should say that, I really do hate the way those ****** wires ruined the viaduct. I used to be great walking on it, now its hideous..
 
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montanafan

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I don't think it's so much that you get older as that you get set in a routine. The routine can be a good thing like having a steady job over many years, but you just wish you could take a break from it and try some other things for a while. It would be nice if every job offered a sabbatical after several years.
 
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Martin

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Originally posted by: yobarman
I don't feel this way at all, and I'm 22. I look forward to each and such. It s like a new adventure, especially if i dont have to do school work.
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what's new about going into work every day? you see the same poeple, work on the same things. the changes are there, but they are incremental and slow.

one time I relaly did feel like the "every new day is a new adventure" cliche was when I was on a long vacation and would go to different places every few days. Best summer of my life...
 
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iwantanewcomputer

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i feel the same way. i am actually happy doing what i am in school and for a living, but i feel it keeps me from enjoying my youth, especially my time in college. i feel like i have missed out on a lot of girls and friends the last few years and it is too late to make up for it
 
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yobarman

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Originally posted by: Martin
Originally posted by: yobarman
I don't feel this way at all, and I'm 22. I look forward to each and such. It s like a new adventure, especially if i dont have to do school work.
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what's new about going into work every day? you see the same poeple, work on the same things. the changes are there, but they are incremental and slow.

one time I relaly did feel like the "every new day is a new adventure" cliche was when I was on a long vacation and would go to different places every few days. Best summer of my life...
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Because I work for myself... I can see the "fruits of my labor" as they happen... the work i put in during the day is directly related to how much I earn. So its a challenge every day!
 
Chaotic42

Chaotic42

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I was thinking about this the other day.

I just kind of float through life. Time passes so quickly that it seems like I wake up and it's a new year.
 
Connoisseur

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<Just turned 22. Save up your vacation days buddy. Don't buy that cool-looking gizmo. Save your money to go on that wicked trip to the Himalayas. Go rafting in Colorado. Hike across the glaciers in New Zealand. That's what I'm waitin for dude.
 
Platypus

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"No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day."
 
JetBlack69

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I've got 2 songs for you:

Pink Floyd - Time
Nine Inch Nails - Everyday Is Exactly The Same
 
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i was like you, OP, when i was your age.

i didn't know what my life was meant for till I married and had kids.

it seems every time i commit to something the more freedom i get in life. the more i understand what it is i want. my biggest problem when i was younger was, i thought that commitment meant loss of freedom, i could only see the things i might miss. now i know, ultimate freedom is making those choices and sticking to them.

fact is, none of us will ever have the time or resources to do everything that we might think we want to do. we just have to accept that there are opportunity costs in life, if you choose one path, you have by default given up on another.

that to me was how i discovered freedom, by commiting to things.

just some thoughts from a 40 yr old.
 
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