Thread: I hate my life

The whole point is to survive, to get through it all and be able to look back and say I’ve had a good life. Now I didn’t realize that until I was out of high school, until then I felt the same as you, I sit here all day listening to people “teach” me things that I care little or nothing about so that I can work for the rest of my life making someone rich. No this isn’t a rages to riches story. I didn’t go to college nor do I want to, I believe that I’ll learn the things I really like doing, and no I don't make a lot of money but I'm happy most of the time. People around me keep telling me that I have such great “potential” why don’t you become a doctor, lawyer, scientist, or something. Answer it won’t make me happy I won’t be able to look back and say I had a good life. Schools need to be reformed like lots of other things around this world, but I don’t see that happening soon. Once you get into the real world and the latest fashion and what John Doe did in class yesterday isn’t the biggest thing since sliced bread things will get better, or at least you might start feeling better about your life.

Sorry if I rambled,
JrFaust

[ 02-05-2002: Message edited by: JrFaust ]

Yeah, i hear ya... School is sooo pointless. But it is a nessecary evil. I just think of the things that make me happy in life. (my car, my gf, etc) and sit there and daydream. you have to dream. that is what keeps me going.

Hold out through high school - don't kill yourself, but don't slack off, either. You want as many choices as you can get. Freedom to choose whether you go to college or work is such a great feeling. Move away from the 'rents and you are in charge. Choice is a very awsome thing.

guy, mellow..
in the end it doesn't matter.
finnish high school, make choices to make your life enjoyable the way you want it to be.
don't put much value on anything cause who know when its gone

read an interesting book, smoke some interesting drugs. experience life in every way.
University.. Hmmm well there is always next year (or so i tell myself), hell i dont even know if i want to go.

lstrunk: i was in the same exact spot just a few years ago and my first year of college too. my anger and depresion came from having barely any friends and not giving a damn. i then transferred to a larger school and was away from home for the first time. wow, i can now say that i am very happy now. i have more friends in college now than i ever did in high school. yes, high school is a bore and some of the crap they teach you will never be used again, but just hang in there. whenever people told me that i just blew them off, but it ended up holding true. i am now in my 2nd year at an awesome college away from home and i love it! its amazing how changing your lifestyle for the better can make such a difference. my reason for waking up tomorrow is to see friends, finish my education and have an awesome top end computer job, instead of working at McDonalds making crap for money for the rest of my life.

To those who hate their lives and school:

I come from a small country in Central America. We had a civil war back in the late 70s/early 80s. I saw so much blood that I can still remember its smell. I lost many of my best friends, I still have in my mind the image of their lifeless bodies lying on the ground. I still remember the whistling sound of bullets over my head. Yes, I saw the face of Death and it was at that time that I realized how beautiful and preacious life really is .
I had to quit my studies ( I was in college then) and leave the country because I wanted to LIVE.
I'm 42 now and I wish I could go back in time and finish my studies. Education gives the power to do a lot of things that you want to do, that's something that you'll learn with time. Trust me, I know.
So, come on guys! Cheer up! Enjoy life! Stay in school, do your best and do it for yourselves!!

Intresting thing that "life" isnt it but at the end its you who maps the path in it that you would like to take.
Some poeple know what they want from life others dont even think about it and just going with the flow...
I persionally believe that everyone has to input something for humanity and for this world sometimes in their life, otherwise we will come and go and that would be it.
That something can be even things like rasing your child to be a good person give him/her education... Or even plant a tree somewhere on earth. Everyone chooses how much they want to input...
Like the previous poster (Miel Gibson) i have seen some hard time in life but i always planed my life ahead. Tried to do everything in my ability to get where i wanted to be... and i tell you with bit of luck its possible, things you dream yesterday can become a reality tomorrow.
I finished High school 4 years ago and sometimes i really would give anything to be back in there just for a day... even though it wasnt anything special.
I think that education is most important thing in life... at the end of the day you get respected not for how much money you got but how much you know.
I'm starting my university this year, doing part time course in engineering even though im working in a position that some people would probably dream of. And i heard so many people saying "What the hell do you need a digree for you already got pretty good job so why waste years of your life". To me its not a waste its chance to get better in what you are...
Believe it or not but we constantly learn though out our lives... To be it through experience or some other means... and it will never stop until our heart is stop beating.
So i guess the first question you need to ask yourself is... "What do i want to do with my life" and when you come up with the answer then plan your life to achive that!
If it means 10 years of non stop education... if that what it takes to achive your goal then stick to it and do it till the end.
I just cant understand the people who live with the next day... If I go to sleep without knowing what im doing the next day, next month, next year.... I rather never wake up.
Now the choice is yours... you just like any of us get one life to live so lets make it a good!

[ 02-06-2002: Message edited by: Fosgate ]