I have never experienced an illegal high and probably never will.
I don’t have a £10,000+ music system (like my dad)
[insert incredible gorgeous hot famous hollywood 18-25 down-to-earth talented beautiful funny female name here] is not my girlfriend/wife.
I am timid, shy, cowardly, afraid to take chances.
I am not a secret agent for MI6 capable of breathtaking martial arts and mind-blowing stealth and cunning, willing to lose my life for my country, and bedding lots of amazing women.
I cannot sing in the presence of other human beings.
I have the fashion sense of a blind mental patient.
Lobsang, if you are between the ages of 18-25, relax. You’ve got a lot of living yet to do…and morals tend to relax as you get older. I think it has something to do with seeing the world from the other guys’ perspectives…
Anyway, you’ll probably get the chance to do all kinds of fun things. Take those chances once in a while.
You know if I didn’t have all my relatives asking about my life (and the lack of living it that I am doing) I would probably feel free to live it/do something with it. I can’t explain how - but having people make me feel bad about my life-laziness is stopping me from doing anything with it. If I didn’t have all these bridges/connections/relatives worrying about me I would probably feel liberated and want to ‘go crazy’ with my life.
[semi-drunk philosophical head off]
I do live in the Isle of Man - I predict that at least I will buy a motorbike by the time I am 30 and zoom around the island (especially during TT/mad sunday)
Dunno if you’re looking for advice or just complaining for the heck of it, but – how far do you live from your parents, and have you thought of moving farther? From what you’ve said, it sounds like you’ll be happier if you cut the apron strings a bit.
See if Ferris Bueller will take you along on his next Day Off.
Maybe instead of “moral self,” it would be better to call it your “cautious self” or your “inhibited self.” And if it had been your thrill-seeking self that had been dominant, you might have just as many, if not more, regrets. If you have no permenant injuries, incurable diseases, criminal record, child support obligations, or exes from hell, then your future holds plenty of opportunities even if your past and present aren’t much to talk about.
I’d say they don’t relax so much as they become your own: you live how you believe is right without worrying as much about what other people think. And you pick the people whose opinions of yourself you care about based on your morals, instead of the other way around.
And at the risk of spouting cliches and platitudes: focus on what you do have, not on what you don’t; don’t compare yourself to other people and waste time envying them; make of your life what you want it to be.
Or, if your relatives keep asking about your life, just lie to them. That’s what I tell…my wife…Morgan Fairchild. Whom I’ve slept with. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
says who? Who convinced you of this? Is there any exception to this rule? Have you ever taken a chance? Been brave? How did you do it? Who saw you do this? Which of your friends/family could testify to it? What did they see in you that makes them see you as brave? If you’re not brave, pretend you are. No one can tell the difference. Bravery is the reward you get after you do the thing you were afraid to do.
they make movies about that guy because no one is in reality.
do you want to?
get your slut supermodel actress girlfiriend to help you with this.
Go study martial Arts, particularly one like kajukembo or another that will require you to spar alot (if a school offers kickboxing, that’s a good one). Take a few shots to the head and gut, you’ll see that pain is just a feeling like any other, and that you don’t have to be as afraid as you think you are.
Either way, step into the ring, hit and be hit, put yourself out there, participate.
count your blessings, there are starving children all over the world
And realize that after you have all the things you listed, life will still be unfair.
Advice is much apreciated, thankyou.
I meant the thread as a place for people to chime in about what’s not fair in their own lives/opinion.
But still, thanks for all the kind words.
OOOOHHH, a puling thread. got it.
It’s not fair, my husband gets to homeschool our daughter, then go play poker every weekend while I bust my hump at work.
It’s not fair, my 20th anniversary cruise fund is going to pay for my kids’ braces.
It’s not fair, my mom has to retire 250 miles away from her grand kids just to make it on her retirement.
I could go on, but, as I think other posters have said: Life Ain’t Fair. TANSTAAFL.
The CFO of a company that no longer exists told me once, as we were going to lunch, “…You know, you really have to stop using the word “fair” once you are older than 14.”
When I worked for GCHQ (like MI6, which is actually SIS (Special Intelligence Service, MI6 is out of date term) the most interesting thing we did was play magic the gathering at lunch time, and there wasn’t much call for martial arts or sexy girls (we did get warned about possibility of being seduced by Russian sexy girls, but that never happened, darn the ending of the cold war ).
As someone else said, get yourself to Amsterdam if you want to try getting high on Canabis, but don’t want to break the law. I’ve done this, and it didn’t even have a negative effect on my later security clearance interviews when I told the interviewer that I had done it.
Are you a native Manx? If so you have one of the best passports and tax rules in the world.
Cheers, Bippy
It’s not fair…I’ll probably never have the chance to just chill on the Isle of Man.
And I’d like to! But I seriously doubt you’d like it here any better than there. I can get you some weed, I’ve got a bitchin’ stereo (and bitchin’ neighbors) , no hot girlfriend (sorry) , but I’m quite gregarious!. No secret job, just a job. There is Karaoke at the corner bar every Wednesday and Friday…hell, those people are so wasted you could sing in front of them! And this Is Texas…nobody has a “fashion sense”. We wear clothes.
