# My crappy, boring life... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 6, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-crappy-boring-life/624319 "2012-06-06T22:08:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stegon66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@stegon66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stegon66)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-crappy-boring-life/624319/1 "2012-06-06T22:08:33Z")
Whenever I whine about how crappy and boring my life is, I think about the millions of people out there who have it worse than me. Then I think about that one poor schmuck who absolutely has it worse than anyone else. I mean, there has to be _someone_ whose lot in life is the nadir of suckitude, right? Yeah, I just think about that hardluck bastard, about how freakin’ bad HE has it. Makes me feel all better. Yay! 😛 Then I think about the millions of people who have it BETTER than me. Those with money, looks, shiny fast cars and girlfriends. Then I’m back to square one. Dammit. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-crappy-boring-life/624319/2 "2012-06-06T22:18:21Z")
You can always trying becoming a [bookie](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=652704). It’s an exciting fast paced lifestyle that anyone would find desirable. Highly recommended. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-crappy-boring-life/624319/3 "2012-06-06T22:40:48Z")
I know the feeling. I just got from a fabulous vacation and have to keep telling myself “you have a job–you have an apartment–you have your health–you have friends.” And I \*still \*feel whiny and depressed. When my mother would get that way I’d tell her, “just think of those poor earthquake victims in [wherever],” and she’d say, “well, how the hell does that make \*my \*life any better?” ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-crappy-boring-life/624319/4 "2012-06-06T22:49:26Z")
Just watch this Tim Minchin video, then: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78XrI_2bPVA) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-crappy-boring-life/624319/5 "2012-06-06T23:19:45Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Just watch this Tim Minchin video, then: > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78XrI\_2bPVA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78XrI_2bPVA) That’s true. At least my hair looks miles better than \*his \*does. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-crappy-boring-life/624319/6 "2012-06-07T15:23:57Z")
I know. It looks like some starlings nested there. ---
**Author:** ![diggerwam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@diggerwam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggerwam)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-crappy-boring-life/624319/7 "2012-06-07T15:35:11Z")
I just got back from fabulous vacation and after seeing some of the wonderful things the world has to offer my cubicle and life in general seems so tiny. Don’t know why go on vacay at all if depression is just gonna hit harder than before. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-crappy-boring-life/624319/8 "2012-06-08T09:26:23Z")
What you are describing can be more accurately described as _ennui_ - A feeling of utter weariness and discontent or melancholia resulting from satiety or lack of interest. Green Day’s song Longview describes this feeling pretty accurately. Sure, other people have things a lot worse than you. Tsunami victims. People in war zones. So on and so forth. Doesn’t really matter though because you are the one who feels like they are litterally dying of boredom. The fact that we are living a relatively comfortible Western lifestyle is largely a contributor to that feeling. Especially if you are unemployed, have a super-boring job with little stimulation or otherwise have large amounts of time on your hands. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-crappy-boring-life/624319/9 "2012-06-08T10:00:04Z")
Time to trot out [Desiderata](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiderata) again. > [@](#): > > Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. > > Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit. \*\*If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. > > Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time\*\*. > > Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism. > > Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. > > Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. > > Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. > > And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its shams, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. > > Strive to be happy.[1] ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-crappy-boring-life/624319/10 "2012-06-08T14:32:48Z")
> [@stegon66](#): > > Then I think about that one poor schmuck who absolutely has it worse than anyone else. I mean, there has to be _someone_ whose lot in life is the nadir of suckitude, right? Yeah, I just think about that hardluck bastard, about how freakin’ bad HE has it. Makes me feel all better. Yay! 😛 Pretty sure the current title holder would be [Ronald Poppo](http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/news_archives/miami-zombie-face-eating-attack-victim-ronald-poppo-has-long-road-ahead-of-him-physician-says). ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-crappy-boring-life/624319/11 "2012-06-08T15:09:39Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > Time to trot out [Desiderata](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiderata) again. Oh, Max Ehrmann can bite my ass. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-crappy-boring-life/624319/12 "2012-06-08T15:45:32Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > Time to trot out [Desiderata](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiderata) again. I like [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey6ugTmCYMk) version better. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-crappy-boring-life/624319/13 "2012-06-08T15:49:20Z")
> [@stegon66](#): > > Whenever I whine about how crappy and boring my life is, I think about the millions of people out there who have it worse than me. Then I think about that one poor schmuck who absolutely has it worse than anyone else. I mean, there has to be _someone_ whose lot in life is the nadir of suckitude, right? Yeah, I just think about that hardluck bastard, about how freakin’ bad HE has it. Makes me feel all better. Yay! 😛 > Then I think about the millions of people who have it BETTER than me. Those with money, looks, shiny fast cars and girlfriends. Then I’m back to square one. Dammit. :mad: Son, what you need is a prostitute. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-crappy-boring-life/624319/14 "2012-06-14T20:36:15Z")
Say what you will–all of you. But we can all be thankful that our [lungs](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=654921&highlight=lungs) are not mouldering away on an L.A. sidewalk. (Thanks go to **Eve** , of course; it was on seeing her name here that I remembered her thread.) ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-crappy-boring-life/624319/15 "2012-06-16T06:00:40Z")
Yeah, yeah. Look, what about devoting your life to some cause bigger than yourself? Like when Wavy Gravy would go visiting kids on cancer wards and would wipe away their tears with popcorn and then eat them together? Or try drugs. I hear those can be nice. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-crappy-boring-life/624319/16 "2012-06-16T06:36:35Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Pretty sure the current title holder would be [Ronald Poppo](http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/news_archives/miami-zombie-face-eating-attack-victim-ronald-poppo-has-long-road-ahead-of-him-physician-says). You’d be surprised. The recent reports are that he is doing remarkably well, considering. > [@](#): > > Doctors say the homeless Miami man whose face was mostly chewed off by a naked assailant is awake and alert and doing “well”, but in need of more surgery. > **\** > … the “extremely charming” Poppo remembers the attack, understands that he is in hospital, and is aware of media coverage. > “He’s pleased to report to all of you that he’s feeling well, he’s eating, he’s walking around with physical therapy, he’s talking with us,” said University of Miami trauma surgeon Nicholas Namias, co-director of JMH’s Ryder Trauma Center. > **\** > “It’s amazing,” Namias said of Poppo. “He’s an extremely charming man. You talk to him, he’s very upbeat, he’s very pleasant, he hasn’t said one thing negative to me. Every time I ask him how he’s doing, he says he’s doing fine.” > The AP reports Poppo, who requests Italian food and can’t wait to go swimming, has asked that the television in his room be turned off except to follow Miami Heat games. > “I kid you not, he wanted to talk about the NBA Finals,” Namias said. “He asked me if I’d be watching the game tonight, and told me, ‘Go Heat.’” –VERY GRAPHIC PHOTOS at the very bottom of the story– > **[GRAPHIC PHOTOS: Face-Chewing Victim Doing 'Very Well'](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ronald-poppo-face-chewing_n_1590459)** > > GRAPHIC PHOTOS: Face-Chewing Victim Doing 'Very Well' \*(above link intentionally broken, copy/paste in browser - you can read the story and avoid the photos, just don’t keep scrolling down after the article ends) \* So, yeah, if he can manage being upbeat, I think we all can. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-crappy-boring-life/624319/17 "2012-06-16T08:02:31Z")
I can’t go with anything that advices peace, patience and keeping your mouth shut, even tho I “Like” the Dali Llama on Facebook and get posts about him all the time. Shake your butt and get glad. _Make_ it happen. Every time you throw open the front door and step outside it can be _Showtime!_ People love a good spectacle; we love to be entertained. Entertain yourself by giving yourself bits and pieces of what you want, alla time. You won’t be bored, I assure you. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-crappy-boring-life/624319/18 "2012-06-16T14:05:09Z")
> [@stegon66](#): > > Then I think about the millions of people who have it BETTER than me. Those with money, looks, shiny fast cars and girlfriends. Then I’m back to square one. Dammit. :mad: Well, if it helps, try to think of how when THOSE people whine about their life they’ll get ridiculed on [http://www.whitewhine.com/](http://www.whitewhine.com/) instead of getting sympathy. 🙂