@Claude: Because school, really. It's a real pain and I can't believe I have so many more years for me to go after I've already spent so many. I could just quit now, but there's my future and everything to think about...
I'll be fine. Whatev's. I'm gonna try to be successful, but if it all falls apart, I know I can always fall back to managing a shitty pizza place or something somewhere and make enough to get by, and live a mediocre life 'till I die.
@Claude: Because school, really. It's a real pain and I can't believe I have so many more years for me to go after I've already spent so many. I could just quit now, but there's my future and everything to think about...
Yeah but does that really suck? You're still making progress towards a future which is more than a lot of people can say. I'm sad that I'm 20 and just starting my post-secondary education but hey, progress is progress. Plus I get to be wiser than everyone else.
@Claude: Because school, really. It's a real pain and I can't believe I have so many more years for me to go after I've already spent so many. I could just quit now, but there's my future and everything to think about...
Yeah but does that really suck? You're still making progress towards a future which is more than a lot of people can say. I'm sad that I'm 20 and just starting my post-secondary education but hey, progress is progress. Plus I get to be wiser than everyone else.
Stay true to your goal. College or higher learning is nothing more than staying true to yourself.
@MikkaQ: I liked to think that it was just teenage angst or whatever that was blinding me from what was really important in the past, but I'm turning 18 in literally a week and I don't really think that's the case anymore. This may be too dramatic an analogy, but it really is as though I'm traveling in a dark tunnel and there's no sign of an exit at all. The courses I'm taking aren't too easy for me and I don't even have the motivation to study or exert any effort because I'm beginning to ask myself "What's the point?" Finals week starts next week and I've barely studied for my Calculus or my Mechanics exams and I won't if I don't have a sudden change of mind during the weekend. So I'll probably fail three courses out of the seven I took in my first semester of Cegep.
Heh, didn't really want to delve into it but I guess it feels well to unload.
@Claude said:
Stay true to your goal. College or higher learning is nothing more than staying true to yourself.
If only staying true to my goal meant staying true to myself. If I was to do what I'd really want to do, I'd have left school a long while ago.
@FluxWaveZ: Yeah I've been there before, there's really nothing one can do but to just tough it out. Self-discipline is something I still struggle with, but you just gotta force it. And keep it mind it gets better later. Cause come on, be realistic. It does.
@Claude: Yeah I'm starting to learn I gotta focus on what I'm actually trying to get done. Especially in university that throws so many irrelevant courses at you. But 4 years isn't a long time, and by then I'll be so wrapped up in improving my skills that I won't even notice it's done.
I'm not sure how this fits into a proper scale. One could have a sucky life while also thinking everything is owed to them. I meet a lot of people like that.
I don't even know how to interpret this. This is some kind of phrase, right? Maybe if it was worded differently? How can life owe me anything? I'm living ... but I don't know how, yeah.
When you think life owes you something (or the world owes you something, that's another way to say it), you feel like somehow you should be getting more. It's something self-centered people think. They think they deserve more than they have, and thus it's the world that is supposed to give them that. It's a backwards way of thinking, because regardless of how fair or unfair the world is, or what you do or don't deserve to have, the only person who can actually reliably do anything about it is you. Going around thinking the world owes you something will get you nothing, because there are no hand-outs like that. You need to earn your way, and even though that's not a guarantee that you'll succeed, or even get what you deserve, it's the right way to do things.
I'd say the best analogy to this would be the words of the late John F. Kennedy; ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. Change that phrase around a bit, and you have the essence of Claude's question, and the way to succeed: ask not what life can do for you, ask what you can do for yourself.
@MikkaQ There's nothing bad about starting school at 20. You're still a kid dude. Geez there's nothing wrong with starting school at 30 either.
Yeah that's true. But I would be graduating in 2013 if I went in straight outta high school, which would have been alright. Still, I managed to gain a lot of invaluable experience as an intern during that time, so it was definitely not a waste.
No, life doesn't owe me anything. I've proven that even though through hardships, I can still do something with my life worthwhile and be somebody. You just have to start, and never stop.
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