Hey. So, how's life?

[PurpleRain]

This question is tossed about a bit, but 'how do you like to live your life?'
Do you live it every moment as it comes, ignorent of what the future holds?
Are you cautious of the future or haven't planned it out yet?
How about slow and steady, absorbing the most of your surroundings?
Or go the polar opposite: Race through life! There's not enough years on your counter to get everything done.

While nothing is a bad choice, it really comes down to who's piloting your life and which directions you are taking. Through life altering instances or long pondering days have you ever made a turn around in the direction you are heading?

 

[Galletea]

I may be doing a degree but I have no real plans for the future, I'll see what comes my way and adapt.

 

[Noamuth]

If I think too far ahead into the future, I feel nauseous. But at the same time, I'm scared as to what I want to do with my life now that I am out of school.

A typical dilemma, but I am trying to just calmly look at different ideas and enjoy the holidays without having panic attacks every day.

So, I guess I'm trying to go slow and steady.. But it varies.

 

[Ophiuchus]

A while ago, I had no idea where I was heading. I left school at 17, worked for a few years and had no real direction at all. Then I ended up going to university when I was old enough to be regarded as a mature student. Now here I am, doing a degree in Psychology and Counselling, which you'd think might indicate some kind of direction, but I've still got no idea what I'm planning to do with it.

I think sometimes I might feel better about myself if I had some kind of aims and goals but, conversely, I don't want to tie myself to any particular goal until I really know what it is I want to do.

 

[curlycrouton]

I did this thread, about a month ago, but I think you've done it better.

I'll contribute later...

 

[Hey Joe]

I live my life like a HURRICANE! Not Hurricane Ike, or Katrina....or all the other hurricanes that kill people. That, that would be disrespectful.

Okay...maybe not a hurricane, more like a cup of tea, TO THE EXTREME!

WHOOOOOOOOOO!

I'm actually just a really laid back kind of guy. I can be a little apathetic to most things, I don't drink or smoke so I don't go out much these days (It's funny how the people you used to hang out with turn into dicks once you're sober) but for the most part I'm okay with that.

I guess sobering up would be the biggest decision I've ever made regarding my life, and I'd do it again. I just feel a lot better as a person, and honestly, could you imagine me if I were drunk?

THE CHAOS!

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

I worry about everything, then get over it. I've looked at my future, fairly, and just dealt with it.
It's mainly jumping between boredom and wishing life was simpler, followed by moments when I forget that I have a couple of choices in life and most of those lead to small, soul crushing cubicles.

 

[Khedive Rex]

"So, how's life?"

"Better than the alternative."

That's my typical response but as far as the acutal thread goes, I'm pretty much the most apathetic person I know. I have a couple plans regarding the future but they are mostly "guide lines" as opposed to set goal posts.

I just sort of drift through life. I'm one of those people who is absolutely sure that nothing bad could happen to me and the frightening part is this is ussually true. Although, it's also a tenant of my personal philosophy that every bad thing that happens to you is a chance to grow and learn so when bad stuff does happen I just sort of shrug it off and assume things will clear up when I've learned my lesson.

It's a weird way to go through life as it requires almost nothing of you, but I'm enjoying it so far.

 

[JMeganSnow]

I have long-term plans but I haven't yet settled on a way to accomplish them, so mostly I try to keep my eyes open for opportunities and keep expanding my knowledge and skills so that I'm ready to seize the opportunities that I find.

I find that constant self-improvement is very fun and rewarding.

 

[IronDuke]

20, dropping out of uni to pursue the unknown, starting with working as a snowboard instructor then I guess whatever I feel like doing next. I've thrown away the pursuit of wealth. I felt like I missed out on alot these past 20 years, and I don't want to miss a thing of the next 20. After that, who knows, maybe kids but i'm strongly against marriage so finding a girlfriend who is ok with that might be harder. I really do want kids at some stage.

I know it ends with euthanasia at about 75-80, if not before by natural causes (I'm hoping for that at about 70, as this will give me time to spend my superannuation, write a book, play computer games.. whatever old people will do in 50 years time.)

 

[covertmonkey]

i plan everything i do weeks in advance, it is a little strange though as im viewed as a somwhat random individual

 

[Samurai Goomba]

I live like a vampire. The Vladimir Tepes kind, not the Gothy ones. Do homework at night, sleep late, go to college, go home.

Long-term goals? What are those? So yeah, I have some, but they're long shots. Right now I'm hedging my bets before I rush out to stick my token into the Lotto Machine of careers.

 

[goin-mad]

I'm an easy going guy, I don't really plan out too much of my life. Experience dictates that if I should try that gambit then the universe will conspire to shove those plans up my arse.
So here I am; college student, single, unemployed. The choices that brought me here, some good others retarded, were my own and as strange as this sounds I wouldn't change any of them.
Maybe this one bit involving a particularly nasty chick but everyone has one crazy Ex, right?

 

[latenightapplepie]

Fine, I guess, not too bad.

Full of incertainties, doubts and fears, hopes, dreams and opportunities.

So...normal, I suppose

 

[TommyGun465]

Tired and pissed off. I keep getting hit by a constant barrage of long homework and loudacris assignments, causing stress and all the stuff that comes with that.

Sorry, but its the truth.

 

[Daymo]

I know what I want to do very broadly, in that I want to go to Uni, but what I do there and how I get there is something I'll think of a bit later.

 

[742]

i generally dont expect to survive the year(or sometimes 2-3 year chunks), and im generally not terribly happy with most of it, so my plans for the future are often quite vauge and pomegranite-blueberryish. the way I get through crap? apathy. "yeah, i could go out and do something, get a job... or i could kill myself... both require getting out of bed. fuck it. yeah i could cry about it... but then i would need salt, and the salt is all the way in the kitchen..."

 

[darthsmily]

I'm the tortoise.

 

[Zeldadudes]

Life is hard... 3 assignments, all due in on the same day... Little time left...
WHY AM I ON THE FORUMS!?

 

[mkb07a]

I'd have to say I'm a planner- I'm constantly looking to the future, thinking, if X happens, I can do Y, which will lead me to Z ultimately... Ask to look at my color-coded chart of the classes I need to take in order to not only graduate on time, but receive my minor (no easy feat, I assure you). I tend to live each day as it happens, with no structure or goal ("What do you want to do today?" "I dunno."), but at the same time, I'm always thinking about future plans, future goals, how my interview with Jon Stewart would go once I wrote my first book, where I'm going for grad school, when I'll get married... I just want to know, in general, what's going to happen, and then let the specifics fall as they may.

As for a life-altering moment, well, I used to be a theatre major, and the only reason I came to this particular school was the theatre program here, and I switched very early on and haven't looked back. Political Science has always been a better fit, I just went where the wind took me.

I live life with the motto, everything (absolutely everything) happens for a reason. You just don't know the reason at the time.