Depressing Realizations

[Kpt._Rob]

Ahh here's another one. The fact that I've taken art for GCSEs when really, I'm terrible at it. When you're on your own, sketching random stuff then your art seems amazing. But when I went into school and see that about 90% of girls can draw stuff better than I can I felt really depressed, knowing I'm probably going to end up doing some shit. It's only worsened by the fact that my brother was the best artist in A Level and GCSE art in my school, so I have a lot to live up to.

Well first off, regarding your opening post, do take some heart. Yes, most of the things you love right now will end, but chances are that by the time they do you won't be near as in love with them then as you are now. That's just how us humans work, and it's particularly true when you're young (and if you don't believe me, try to remember the things you were really into even just a year or two ago). Seriously, if you're 14 right now, you don't have even the slightest clue who you're going to be yet... though you do seem much more well spoken than most of the 14 year olds I run into, so I'd wager the future will be bright if you'll take advantage of that.

Secondly, as an artist myself (as in, that's both my major and the area of most focus in my life) let me tell you that just because you're not the best sketch artist right now doesn't mean you can't be one of the best artists around if you apply yourself. I was absolutely not the best artist in my high school, but I'm at the top of my classes now. It's not about some mystical "talent" you're born with, it's about perseverance. I spend two to three times more time on my art than most of my colleagues, and I spend much of the rest of my time researching art history and art techniques, or other areas of interest for my art. That is to say that if my art is better it's not because i'm somehow more gifted, but because I give it my best shot every day while the other kids are out partying it up.

Now that's not to say that being an artist is necessarily what you want to do. But you should remember this, if there's something that you want to do with your life, and you're looking around yourself and finding that other people are better at it than you are, that that doesn't mean it's the end of the road. People who bother to apply themselves to life and work with vigor are few and far between, and if you can be bothered to actually devote yourself to something, it will pay off. The only thing that can hold you back is you.

 

[Durgiun]

One day tech will advance to the point that the government will be able to track us and listen in on every conversation we have, and that not even an EMP would stop the tyranny because they would find a way around that shit.

 

[ToastiestZombie]

Ahh here's another one. The fact that I've taken art for GCSEs when really, I'm terrible at it. When you're on your own, sketching random stuff then your art seems amazing. But when I went into school and see that about 90% of girls can draw stuff better than I can I felt really depressed, knowing I'm probably going to end up doing some shit. It's only worsened by the fact that my brother was the best artist in A Level and GCSE art in my school, so I have a lot to live up to.

Well first off, regarding your opening post, do take some heart. Yes, most of the things you love right now will end, but chances are that by the time they do you won't be near as in love with them then as you are now. That's just how us humans work, and it's particularly true when you're young (and if you don't believe me, try to remember the things you were really into even just a year or two ago). Seriously, if you're 14 right now, you don't have even the slightest clue who you're going to be yet... though you do seem much more well spoken than most of the 14 year olds I run into, so I'd wager the future will be bright if you'll take advantage of that.

Secondly, as an artist myself (as in, that's both my major and the area of most focus in my life) let me tell you that just because you're not the best sketch artist right now doesn't mean you can't be one of the best artists around if you apply yourself. I was absolutely not the best artist in my high school, but I'm at the top of my classes now. It's not about some mystical "talent" you're born with, it's about perseverance. I spend two to three times more time on my art than most of my colleagues, and I spend much of the rest of my time researching art history and art techniques, or other areas of interest for my art. That is to say that if my art is better it's not because i'm somehow more gifted, but because I give it my best shot every day while the other kids are out partying it up.

Now that's not to say that being an artist is necessarily what you want to do. But you should remember this, if there's something that you want to do with your life, and you're looking around yourself and finding that other people are better at it than you are, that that doesn't mean it's the end of the road. People who bother to apply themselves to life and work with vigor are few and far between, and if you can be bothered to actually devote yourself to something, it will pay off. The only thing that can hold you back is you.

Well, aren't you inspirational! (Not sarcasm, btw). Well, I'm having 4 weeks with just me and my family in Spain this summer so in that time I'm going to practise and practise and practise. I think part of my lack of confidence comes from my art teacher I've had for the past 3 years. He really only picks the best people and stays with them, if someone needs improvement he doesn't really bother with them. He wasn't really a good teacher I guess. But, my mum's an amazing artist. She's painted murals for some pretty rich people, and has helped my brother get an A star in GCSE art. She's an amazing teacher, so yeah.

 

[Johnny Impact]

That I spent the last 12 years of my life being a washed up loser unable of making contact with other people, and that it isn't going to change soon if ever.

This, except for a longer time. I have been alone and lonely for so long that I literally have no conception of what companionship would be like, or how it might be acquired. And please don't say, "just get out there and meet people," because that's an insipid, knee-jerk response you're using in an attempt to sound smarter than you are. It's not that simple and you know it.

Also, add "I'm fat" to the equation. I have to do something about that before I can move forward. Every time I see a lady I might want to get to know, I remind myself that women are just as superficial as men. Lacking the right personality, I need a good body before any attempt can be made.

 

[The Funslinger]

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I guess so, I think it's because all the attention in my family has been towards my older brother seeing as he's going into uni in september. But yeah, I shouldn't really compare myself to him because well I'm a different kind of person to him, what he's good at is much different to what I'm good at.

I know what you mean. Both my sisters are in full stride. Flawless GCSE and A level grades, one has finished university and gone straight into a well paying job. The other is in pre-med.

By comparison, I have gotten very average GCSE grades, and I'm still awaiting my first set of A level results. Every time my uncle comes over to dinner, conversation deteriorates into him gushing over how incredible my sisters and his daughter are, blah blah blah. I've always just flown under the radar, and the last time I was on the receiving end of any parental pride was when I got a small book published. Quite a while ago.

But then I thought, oh well. Academic grading is by no means an effective gauge of skill or intelligence. And in any case, my oldest sister breaks down crying over any period of stress, while I would call 'coping' one of my talents. The other one does show quite a few gaps in her knowledge I can easily fill. Not that she ever listens to me, but rather goes to someone else to hear what I just told her.

I've got my own shit lined up. I'm joining the Royal Marines in a few years, and I'm going to carry on with my writing.

Fuck my siblings![footnote]Not literally. I'm not a Confederate 'Murrican.[/footnote]

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

When I was younger, I realized that the sun is indeed getting larger and that one day it will be so massive that it will not only swallow both Mercury and Venus, but Earth as well. Before the sun does that, though, it will first dry up the planet, killing all forms of life. Although I also realized that this would take tens of billions of years for it to occur, whenever my mind would wonder into that realization, I get a little down.

Today, I don't tend to think about it and when I do, I don't feel down, because I'm making the most out of every day.

 

[Imthatguy]

That the majority of humans are not even remotely intelligent.

And I personally don't have a good imagination.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

I've recently come to terms with the fact that I'll probably never marry Beyonce.

Things are hard, but I'm staying strong.

 

[halfeclipse]

whatever humankind will ever archieve it will be destroyed once the universe starts to contract again.

plus you are insignificant.
and you will die.

That one day people will find a way to prolong life indefinitely and I will be long dead and buried.

yeah this too.

and i may die one day before the first replicator or holodeck is made.

Worse then that. All we've got waiting for us is the slow, but enetiveable heat death of the universe as it approaches maximum entropy, and the space of time life can reasonably exist in the universe is around 100 Trillion years.

100 billion years from now. the local group will destabilize, merging into one big galaxy, a trillion years after that galaxies will be red shifted far enough we wont be able to see them anymore (even the gamma rays they emit will have a wavelength longer then the observable universe.) 100 trillion years from now, the Stelliferous era will end, and no more stars will form. 10-20 trillion years after that the last stars (low mass red dwarfs.) will exaust the last of their fuel, cooling to white dwarfs, leaving the universe populated black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. In the absence of an energy source, these remnants will cool further, grow faint and except for rare events the last light in the universe will go out.

Over the next quadrillion years, the remaining orbits of the planets will decay, or be flung from the system, and over the next 100 Quintillion years the same will happen to the stellar remnants within the galaxies.

10 Decillion years later baryonic matter (Which includes protons and neutrons.) will begin to decay into photons and leptons, and by 10 Duodecillion years (10^40) this will have finished, leaving the universe to the black holes for the next 10^100 years as they slowly evaporate to nothing, leaving the universe effectively empty as it reaches true heat death.




Personally a Big Bang>Big Crunch>Big Bang cycle is damn cheery in comparison.


Of course the sun is getting hotter and more luminous, and will boil the earths oceans in .5 to 1.5 billion years. (so we don't need to worry about when it becomes a red giant and just incinerates the earth), so we don't need to worry.


Oh and time time may just run out in the next 3-5 billion years, assuming it hasn't already started to do so.

 

[EdwardOrchard]

whatever humankind will ever archieve it will be destroyed once the universe starts to contract again.

This MAY not be true. Current theories of dark energy suggest that the force of gravity will not be strong enough to overcome the expansion of the universe, and that there will be no 'Big Crunch'.

Of course... If that proves true...

Then galaxies outside of our own will redshift more and more as they accelerate further and further away, until eventually everything just goes dark.

No matter what, we're fucked.

 

[Casual Shinji]

That I spent the last 12 years of my life being a washed up loser unable of making contact with other people, and that it isn't going to change soon if ever.

This, except for a longer time. I have been alone and lonely for so long that I literally have no conception of what companionship would be like, or how it might be acquired. And please don't say, "just get out there and meet people," because that's an insipid, knee-jerk response you're using in an attempt to sound smarter than you are. It's not that simple and you know it.

Also, add "I'm fat" to the equation. I have to do something about that before I can move forward. Every time I see a lady I might want to get to know, I remind myself that women are just as superficial as men. Lacking the right personality, I need a good body before any attempt can be made.

High five for sucking!

 

[Vegosiux]

Well, what can I say. My creativity is currently on an all-time low. And that's the most depressing thing I'm willing to share.

 

[Vigilante 989]

The fact that I will most likely die alone, unloved, never being in a relationship, and a virgin.

An even more depressing realization, that there's nothing that can be done about it.

 

[Veldt Falsetto]

Me and boyfriend were up at silly'o'clock the other day watching some `50 Greatest Music Videos` show, and we knew from the start that the No.1 would be `Thriller`. One day it wont be Thriller. And I will be sad.

I prefer 'Beat It', if I'm entirely honest.

I vote this as Thriller's inevitable replacement:

There are hundreds of far greater videos than Thriller, it's just the iconic one that was revolutionary for it's time, just because it changed music videos forever doesn't mean it's still a good video.

 

[Veldt Falsetto]

I've recently come to terms with the fact that I'll probably never marry Beyonce.

Things are hard, but I'm staying strong.

I have come up with a plan, a secret plan that shall not only meet with the demise of a certain rapper but also make almost certain that Beyonce shall marry one of the people in the Beyonce club...well kinda

 

[The Funslinger]

Me and boyfriend were up at silly'o'clock the other day watching some `50 Greatest Music Videos` show, and we knew from the start that the No.1 would be `Thriller`. One day it wont be Thriller. And I will be sad.

I prefer 'Beat It', if I'm entirely honest.

I vote this as Thriller's inevitable replacement:

There are hundreds of far greater videos than Thriller, it's just the iconic one that was revolutionary for it's time, just because it changed music videos forever doesn't mean it's still a good video.

Hey, as I said: I like Beat It better.

I don't tend to watch music video shows, so I'm taking her word that Thriller always gets voted numero uno.

I merely humbly suggested a suitable replacement.

 

[Veldt Falsetto]

Me and boyfriend were up at silly'o'clock the other day watching some `50 Greatest Music Videos` show, and we knew from the start that the No.1 would be `Thriller`. One day it wont be Thriller. And I will be sad.

I prefer 'Beat It', if I'm entirely honest.

I vote this as Thriller's inevitable replacement:

There are hundreds of far greater videos than Thriller, it's just the iconic one that was revolutionary for it's time, just because it changed music videos forever doesn't mean it's still a good video.

Hey, as I said: I like Beat It better.

I don't tend to watch music video shows, so I'm taking her word that Thriller always gets voted numero uno.

I merely humbly suggested a suitable replacement.

It's always like, the 15 minute version too, so they end the show with the WHOLE Thriller video, it's pretty ridiculous

 

[SquidVicious]

My sad realizing is that despite being the one with the least amount of education (just an AA in CRJ and and AAS in Paralegal) I'm doing far better than any of my friends who went to better schools. In fact, I'm pretty much the only one with a job that isn't in the service industry, and that's only two of my friends. A few weeks ago a friend of mine and I got sloshed on some nice rum I got when I was in Mexico last year and he let some things slide, about how despite the fact that he's 26 he doesn't feel like an adult and that he doesn't know how to do anything other than be a student.

 

[McMullen]

My real choice seems like it belongs more in the R&P forum than here.

However, it is depressing to realize that a game with good potential has failed to live up to that potential, and copyright being what it is, no one will ever be permitted to go back and do it better, so through lazy or inept development we permanently lose games that would have been spectacular.

 

[zelda2fanboy]

I'm probably never going to have a girlfriend and if I do, it will probably be a really fucked up and horrible relationship because I'm so desperate for any sort of contact with another person. The other depressing realization is that for this town and my age group, this is true for most people. I was at a local show the other day and I saw multiple pretty girls I would never be able to relate to on any sort of level. I don't know them, I don't know their friends, and if I approached them it would be seem like I was a creep who was just hitting on them for sex.