Having a fucked up week..............

Thread starter LoganSmith
Start date Apr 8, 2008

LoganSmith

Well-Known Member

#1

What the fuck is the point of life????????????

I have no clue what to do in life and I seam to be getting more depress every day, as it goes by.

I have no positive influence and I'm looking for some type of guidence. I feel I'm here for a greater reason but I have NO passion for anything.

I know this sounds stupid but not having positive roll models or any type of influence makes my life very hard.

I never really had a easy life, I have seen most of family kill them selves one by one. One way or another.

I just feel dead inside................ Empty.........

I have just given up, I just don't care............

No job, no family, no friends. well one friend..... my girlfriend.
I'm sure she is tired of all of this shit.

Yeah

Well-Known Member

#2

Get a job.

Wikidbchofthewst

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#3

Yes, I agree, get a job. And I don't mean that in a mean way, I mean that as honest advice. When you're working, first it takes up your time, so you don't have TIME to sit and think depressing thoughts. Second, it gives you a sense of accomplishment to DO something with your time, you know? And you'll be making money, feeling better about stuff. Plus you meet people at work.

We don't all get easy lives, with positive roll models. Sometimes you just have to decide for yourself what you want to do, who you want to be, and do it, roll models be damned. I mean, you can't control what happens to you in life, all you can control is how you react to what happens.

HoLE

Well-Known Member

#4

one bad week and you ask what is the point of life,,shit,,if I thought like you,,I woulda been dead at 10,,You and only You are in charge of your path and outcome in life,,noone can make a life for you,,and don't think this thread will help,,no one here can make you do things to better yourself,,only You can,,so if you want something better than what you got,,,,go fukkin get it

Keep on Growin

HoLE

LemonHerb

Well-Known Member

#5

So pick one. If you need a role model to tell you how to live life correctly then pick one, anyone out of history will do. Good and bad are subjective anyway, billions of people do it and it's called religion.

I'll give some suggestions. If you are a dude go with Norman Borlaug, if you are a chick and not hot go with Julia Child and if you are a chick who is hot I say stick with the low self esteem because while you don't feel like you are good enough, there are plenty of guys on here that will let you be good enough for them.

K

korvette1977

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#6

This too shall pass.

SocataSmoker

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#7

korvette1977 said:
This too shall pass.

Great quote! Here's what I do when I'm having a bad week... although that hasn't been for some months now. Look for beauty in nature... as that is the essence of life.

Go hike and get out into the wild man, and don't get a job... get a career. Go out in the wild for a few days, camp out, think about what you wanna do and how to go about doing it... come back home and get started! Jobs just bring me down as they're all dead-ends. I'm sure once you realize how beautiful life is as a whole, you'll turn those dark clouds away. Also, find yourself a friend to do this with, preferably a good looking female... because happiness is only real when shared.

Seamaiden

Well-Known Member

#8

LoganSmith said:
What the fuck is the point of life????????????

I have no clue what to do in life and I seam to be getting more depress every day, as it goes by.

I have no positive influence and I'm looking for some type of guidence. I feel I'm here for a greater reason but I have NO passion for anything.

I know this sounds stupid but not having positive roll models or any type of influence makes my life very hard.

I never really had a easy life, I have seen most of family kill them selves one by one. One way or another.

I just feel dead inside................ Empty.........

I have just given up, I just don't care............

No job, no family, no friends. well one friend..... my girlfriend.
I'm sure she is tired of all of this shit.

After I was injured on the job I got seriously depressed. I got so depressed that I couldn't eat, couldn't be a mom to my kids, couldn't do anything because just existing fucking HURT. I felt completely robbed. I developed a fucking FUNGUS on my tongue that felt like I was eating hair because I'd gotten so unhealthy, I can't tell you how gross that was.

There IS no point to life except to live it as best you can, in my opinion. Try reading some Joseph Campbell, he had a lot of interesting things to say about the human condition and mythology and was an all around interesting fellow.

Is there anything that interests you? Sure, you can get a job, but that can't be a substitute for being happy, or at least on an even keel. I like what Socata has to say, and I agree. Nature just puts everything into perspective. Your role model for today is Mother Teresa.

Wikidbchofthewst

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#9

SocataSmoker said:
because happiness is only real when shared.

lol, did you get that from that movie Into the Wild? I just watched that, and yeah, poor fool has to die alone out in the wild to realize that...

Chiceh

Global Mod, Stoner Chic

#10

I totally agree with Hole. You can only get yourself out of this funk. You have to figure out what you want to accomplish in this life and in the near future. You can't dwell on the past, only look forward to what you can become and create your own life and identity. Leave your mark on life if you know what I am saying. Good luck, I hope you figure this out soon. :peace:

:peace:

HoLE said:
one bad week and you ask what is the point of life,,shit,,if I thought like you,,I woulda been dead at 10,,You and only You are in charge of your path and outcome in life,,noone can make a life for you,,and don't think this thread will help,,no one here can make you do things to better yourself,,only You can,,so if you want something better than what you got,,,,go fukkin get it

Keep on Growin

HoLE

Wikidbchofthewst

Well-Known Member

#11

Seamaiden said:
There IS no point to life except to live it as best you can, in my opinion. Try reading some Joseph Campbell, he had a lot of interesting things to say about the human condition and mythology and was an all around interesting fellow.

Have you ever read Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead? I like her philosophy (objectivism), because it's pretty much what you said, living life as best you can.

"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute" ~Ayn Rand

SocataSmoker

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#12

Wikidbchofthewst said:
lol, did you get that from that movie Into the Wild? I just watched that, and yeah, poor fool has to die alone out in the wild to realize that...

Yeah... I'm pretty much the same way as him. Alaska is my destiny... That movie was like a premonition to me, except the whole dying part... I will at least know what to eat! Great movie though, really really great.

Wikidbchofthewst

Well-Known Member

#13

SocataSmoker said:
Yeah... I'm pretty much the same way as him. Alaska is my destiny... That movie was like a premonition to me, except the whole dying part... I will at least know what to eat! Great movie though, really really great.

Wait, do you plan on doing everything he did? giving your life savings to charity, cutting up all your cards, burning your money? See, I'm down to get back to Nature, you know, do a little Walden Pond type living, but not to THAT extent.

I think he totally underestimated how hard it is to live in the wild. Which is kinda silly, because if it were so easy, more people would do it. Movie kinda left me feeling confused. Because he goes out into the wild...and he doesn't make it! That's the moral of the story, Nature wins.

Sucks, if he coulda made it a little longer, the people who found his body could have helped him.

Seamaiden

Well-Known Member

#14

Wikidbchofthewst said:
Have you ever read Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead? I like her philosophy (objectivism), because it's pretty much what you said, living life as best you can.

"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute" ~Ayn Rand

No, I sure haven't. But, I've got an unused e-gift card to Barnes & Noble. I figured I'd buy a motorcycle book (Proficient Motorcycling or similar), but this sounds intriguing.

And so in a similar turn, may I suggest to you The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers?

A friend suggested Beyond the Outer Shores to me when he found out I'm a fan of Campbell's. It's a biography of Ed Ricketts, the man who was best friend and to and inspiration for John Steinbeck's Doc character in Cannery Row. Turns out that Ed Ricketts was almost single-handedly responsible for our current methods of taxonomy, and endeavored to systematically catalog marine life from the Sea of Cortez (which he and Steinbeck visited and wrote about) to the outer shores of the northwest. Joseph Campbell had an emotional affair with Steinbeck's wife, though it's not stated declaratively (that I remember at least) whether or not they had a sexual relationship back in the early 30s when the group spent some time together after college.

I'm also gonna throw out Ken Kesey's Sometimes A Great Notion, just because it came to me at just the right time in my life and is an excellent treatise on perspective.

G

greenkong

Active Member

#15

professional help...been through the whole suicide rehab deal.. but i've made it out so far and turnd my life around..

Wikidbchofthewst

Well-Known Member

#16

Seamaiden said:
No, I sure haven't. But, I've got an unused e-gift card to Barnes & Noble. I figured I'd buy a motorcycle book (Proficient Motorcycling or similar), but this sounds intriguing.

And so in a similar turn, may I suggest to you The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers?

A friend suggested Beyond the Outer Shores to me when he found out I'm a fan of Campbell's. It's a biography of Ed Ricketts, the man who was best friend and to and inspiration for John Steinbeck's Doc character in Cannery Row. Turns out that Ed Ricketts was almost single-handedly responsible for our current methods of taxonomy, and endeavored to systematically catalog marine life from the Sea of Cortez (which he and Steinbeck visited and wrote about) to the outer shores of the northwest. Joseph Campbell had an emotional affair with Steinbeck's wife, though it's not stated declaratively (that I remember at least) whether or not they had a sexual relationship back in the early 30s when the group spent some time together after college.

I'm also gonna throw out Ken Kesey's Sometimes A Great Notion, just because it came to me at just the right time in my life and is an excellent treatise on perspective.

I will definately check out The Power of Myth. I generally only check out new books if someone recommends them. I used to work in Barnes & Noble, and I know that book, had to find it plenty of times for customers, but no one ever recommended it.

I already have an idea of what The Power of Myth is about, but what's Sometimes a Great Notion? Never even heard of it. I just finished my book today, so I need something else to read...

SocataSmoker

Well-Known Member

#17

Wikidbchofthewst said:
Wait, do you plan on doing everything he did? giving your life savings to charity, cutting up all your cards, burning your money? See, I'm down to get back to Nature, you know, do a little Walden Pond type living, but not to THAT extent.

Yeah see no... lol! Definitely wouldn't take it that far, but backcountry Alaskan living is my dream... comfortable cabin on a lake with ranges of mountains kind of thing. And I agree, the movie bummed me too because I expected him to make it if he did all that other crazy shit!

Seamaiden

Well-Known Member

#18

Socata, it's a true story. Did you read the book perhaps? It's a good one.

Wikidbchofthewst said:
I will definately check out The Power of Myth. I generally only check out new books if someone recommends them. I used to work in Barnes & Noble, and I know that book, had to find it plenty of times for customers, but no one ever recommended it.

I already have an idea of what The Power of Myth is about, but what's Sometimes a Great Notion? Never even heard of it. I just finished my book today, so I need something else to read...

Sometimes A Great Notion is about an Oregon logging family, in a nutshell. It's a work of Kesey's previous to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, I think he wrote SAGN in '63 or so. I like very much how Kesey goes back and forth through time and how he changes perspective as he tells the story, from one person to another and another and then as the author. My husband HATED the book. :lol:

:lol:

SocataSmoker

Well-Known Member

#19

Seamaiden said:
Socata, it's a true story. Did you read the book perhaps? It's a good one.

Yep sure did a few years ago! Here's the wiki article, really interesting.

Christopher McCandless - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yeah

Well-Known Member

#20

I was in a bit of a hurry with my "get a job" comment. To clarify, you mentioned not having a job and not doing anything. I feel that once you're in a bad mood, the only thing to do is get up and do something. Whether it be taking a bike ride, playing some basketball, or getting a job. Sitting around smoking weed for a whole week makes life seem to have a lot less purpose. Do something that interests you, and take your motivation from within.

Deep shit.

EDIT: And I just recalled you saying somewhere that you were injured on the job. So scratch the get a job. Get some good books, good movies, have some friends over, and find out what really interests you. Get motivated, because only you can truly motivate yourself.

More deep shit.

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