ince this made it impossible for me to achieve any “valuable” goals, i would be able to accept having no goals as a suitable alternative… Despite Scoring in the 99th percentile on standardized testing, I was resolved to avoid college.
What did you do all day? Weren’t you bored? …Then again, I should avoid generalizing from one example and assuming you shared my tendency to get antsy if I wasn’t doing something “productive” during a significant enough fraction of my time. Obviously you didn’t have this tendency. Or the tendency to get incredibly frustrated with yourself and feel worthless if you weren’t progressing towards your goals at a steady rate… If you did feel this way, you must have been miserable.
Anyway, I’m glad to hear the Sequences helped you out! Just out of curiosity, what are you planning to study in college?
i never really had that problem. I usually feel less bored wasting time in my room than working towards something productive. When i do take up a task i always feel relieved when i have an excuse to give up and not worry about it any more. most of my troubles came from the realization that the world would not allow me to live a comfortable life doing nothing.
im only in Junior year and havent actually got accepted anywhere but im planning to study something in the way of computers or science.
most of my troubles came from the realization that the world would not allow me to live a comfortable life doing nothing.
Good to realize that now, rather than later! I have an acquaintance who is in his mid-twenties years old, failing his way through various college programs, living at his parents’ house with his girlfriend (they have a young kid together), and still doesn’t seem to grasp that he’s not going to be able to live comfortably and do nothing forever. (Actually, I’m being kind of hard on him...he does work part-time at a clothing store in a mall, his first part-time job ever, which he started around when the baby was born. Quite a change of habit for him. And he’s an awfully likeable guy, partly because he’s so laid back. It just drives me insane sometimes watching the way he drifts through his life.)
What did you do all day? Weren’t you bored? …Then again, I should avoid generalizing from one example and assuming you shared my tendency to get antsy if I wasn’t doing something “productive” during a significant enough fraction of my time. Obviously you didn’t have this tendency. Or the tendency to get incredibly frustrated with yourself and feel worthless if you weren’t progressing towards your goals at a steady rate… If you did feel this way, you must have been miserable.
Anyway, I’m glad to hear the Sequences helped you out! Just out of curiosity, what are you planning to study in college?
i never really had that problem. I usually feel less bored wasting time in my room than working towards something productive. When i do take up a task i always feel relieved when i have an excuse to give up and not worry about it any more. most of my troubles came from the realization that the world would not allow me to live a comfortable life doing nothing.
im only in Junior year and havent actually got accepted anywhere but im planning to study something in the way of computers or science.
Good to realize that now, rather than later! I have an acquaintance who is in his mid-twenties years old, failing his way through various college programs, living at his parents’ house with his girlfriend (they have a young kid together), and still doesn’t seem to grasp that he’s not going to be able to live comfortably and do nothing forever. (Actually, I’m being kind of hard on him...he does work part-time at a clothing store in a mall, his first part-time job ever, which he started around when the baby was born. Quite a change of habit for him. And he’s an awfully likeable guy, partly because he’s so laid back. It just drives me insane sometimes watching the way he drifts through his life.)