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I saw some preview to the olympics last night.
Once again, there were clips of the sister of a friend I knew in primary school.
Aparantly she's our hope for the first gold medal in some sort of olympic gymnastics for a billion years.
Obviously, full credit to her, it's a great achievement.
It's kind of made me feel a bit useless, drifting along achieving nothing, while someone I used to know (well, met several times) is, in the next couple of weeks, possibly going to prove herself to be the best in the world in her chosen field.
I guess it's similar to searching for a career I can love, now looking for something I can be really successful in. (Bah, if I had the dolphins I could do both :^D )
Maybe I'm just setting my standards too high again, we can't all be world-beaters at stuff. But then again, I'm sick of accepting failures.
Once again, I don't know if this is getting stuff of my chest, or looking for advice. Again, I think it's a bit of the two.
I don't know what I'm looking for, some way to do something really significant, meaningful.
But how?
Once again, there were clips of the sister of a friend I knew in primary school.
Aparantly she's our hope for the first gold medal in some sort of olympic gymnastics for a billion years.
Obviously, full credit to her, it's a great achievement.
It's kind of made me feel a bit useless, drifting along achieving nothing, while someone I used to know (well, met several times) is, in the next couple of weeks, possibly going to prove herself to be the best in the world in her chosen field.
I guess it's similar to searching for a career I can love, now looking for something I can be really successful in. (Bah, if I had the dolphins I could do both :^D )
Maybe I'm just setting my standards too high again, we can't all be world-beaters at stuff. But then again, I'm sick of accepting failures.
Once again, I don't know if this is getting stuff of my chest, or looking for advice. Again, I think it's a bit of the two.
I don't know what I'm looking for, some way to do something really significant, meaningful.
But how?
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Black Glove wrote:
> Just look inside, realize what you like, what you are truly
> interested in, and follow it. Pursue it. Nothing else can be
> said, really.
Heh, easier said than done.
I like lying in bed in the morning, and whatever I'm interested in, I usually lose interest again after a little while, when it stops being a challenge or an education.
You're probably right, once I find something I can follow, long term, I'll be on the right track.
But I'm no closer to working out what that might be :^s
> Just look inside, realize what you like, what you are truly
> interested in, and follow it. Pursue it. Nothing else can be
> said, really.
Heh, easier said than done.
I like lying in bed in the morning, and whatever I'm interested in, I usually lose interest again after a little while, when it stops being a challenge or an education.
You're probably right, once I find something I can follow, long term, I'll be on the right track.
But I'm no closer to working out what that might be :^s
"Torp already is involved in an international prayer action aimed at halting the Summer Olympics in Athens because of their foundation in Greek mythology."
Bloodbath eh?
Hmm, you don't have to look hard to see a 'hidden' agenda.
Bloodbath eh?
Hmm, you don't have to look hard to see a 'hidden' agenda.
Besides theres loads of american ones to, so only worry if your american...
I wouldnt worry to much about his "vision". They have loads of armed guards.
I'm very worried about there being a terrorist attack at the Olympics.
You may have heard about this Norwegian pastor who's really hit the headlines, having tried to cancel the Olympics and all:
[URL]http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article840996.ece[/URL]
You may have heard about this Norwegian pastor who's really hit the headlines, having tried to cancel the Olympics and all:
[URL]http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article840996.ece[/URL]
I gave up trying to be happy years ago, and since then I've been happy.
Just look inside, realize what you like, what you are truly interested in, and follow it. Pursue it. Nothing else can be said, really.
Just look inside, realize what you like, what you are truly interested in, and follow it. Pursue it. Nothing else can be said, really.
the sagacious one wrote:
> Do you want to be regarded as successful so that you can feel an inner
> sense of accomplishment; or because you want reassurance that you are
> successful because of what other people think of your achievements?
I'm pretty sure it's for the inner sense of accomplishment. I'm aware of the feutility of comparing myself to him or her. That said, I still see pushing back new frontiers in knowledge/achievement/discovery to be much more worthwhile than re-treading what someone else has already done.
A little while ago I loved pool because I could pull off shots that really impressed me, I shocked myself with what I was able to do, creating such precise movement which stemmed from incredible accuracy with tiny margins for error. It wasn't so important that other people could do it too.
Now those shots have become more normal though, as I've been playing longer.
I used to be great at maths, and in particular a certain type of logical reasoning. Although my ability was always based on having a full grasp of what was going on, as the maths went to higher levels (upper a-level stuff for me) it changed, so you had to accept not having a full grasp or thorough understanding, but accepting that certain basic 'rules' you were fed were 'right', and working things out from them. I went downhill then, to a more average level.
I miss that feeling of impressing myself.
> Do you want to be regarded as successful so that you can feel an inner
> sense of accomplishment; or because you want reassurance that you are
> successful because of what other people think of your achievements?
I'm pretty sure it's for the inner sense of accomplishment. I'm aware of the feutility of comparing myself to him or her. That said, I still see pushing back new frontiers in knowledge/achievement/discovery to be much more worthwhile than re-treading what someone else has already done.
A little while ago I loved pool because I could pull off shots that really impressed me, I shocked myself with what I was able to do, creating such precise movement which stemmed from incredible accuracy with tiny margins for error. It wasn't so important that other people could do it too.
Now those shots have become more normal though, as I've been playing longer.
I used to be great at maths, and in particular a certain type of logical reasoning. Although my ability was always based on having a full grasp of what was going on, as the maths went to higher levels (upper a-level stuff for me) it changed, so you had to accept not having a full grasp or thorough understanding, but accepting that certain basic 'rules' you were fed were 'right', and working things out from them. I went downhill then, to a more average level.
I miss that feeling of impressing myself.
Paradox: wrote:
> "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I
> know."
Yeah, I'd agree with what you say.
I really don't know whether I'd like to be dumb enough not to care though :^s
Actually, one thing I learned from someone who knows what he's talking about:
Happiness is largely a choice. Other factors can affect it, but rich people are often miserable, clinically depressed, alcohol/drug-dependant, while you can be happy living in a box under a bridge.
You choose to be happy, tell yourself that you are happy, keep doing it long term, smile, and you start to genuinely feel happy.
Make yourself smile, do it now. Hold it for a couple of minutes, you'll find you start to feel happier.
The main problem I seem to have with that is that something inside me makes me stop, as if I should feel miserable, like I don't want to lie to myself to change how I feel.
Am I pessemistic? I don't know, maybe, or it could just be that I have the same objective expectations as everyone else, I just have higher, unreachable(?) goals.
I think it's a bit of each.
> "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I
> know."
Yeah, I'd agree with what you say.
I really don't know whether I'd like to be dumb enough not to care though :^s
Actually, one thing I learned from someone who knows what he's talking about:
Happiness is largely a choice. Other factors can affect it, but rich people are often miserable, clinically depressed, alcohol/drug-dependant, while you can be happy living in a box under a bridge.
You choose to be happy, tell yourself that you are happy, keep doing it long term, smile, and you start to genuinely feel happy.
Make yourself smile, do it now. Hold it for a couple of minutes, you'll find you start to feel happier.
The main problem I seem to have with that is that something inside me makes me stop, as if I should feel miserable, like I don't want to lie to myself to change how I feel.
Am I pessemistic? I don't know, maybe, or it could just be that I have the same objective expectations as everyone else, I just have higher, unreachable(?) goals.
I think it's a bit of each.
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
- Ernest Hemmingway
If someone as wise as Hemmingway phillosophises that then who are you to disobey?
I know you're a very intellegent person, Mr Duck, as you posess a competant grasp of politics, writing and many other things I'm sure I don't even realise. I personally do not know you, but I am sure you're the kind of person who likes to phillosophise - and if so you're the type of person who gets depressed about things due to over-thinking them.
Stupid people will glide on (with the true-to-life Happy-go-lucky persona) and not dwell on "what could've been" due to the fact they've never thought about it. Sometimes I think that would be much easier, but I think after all I prefer my phillosophising nature, even if it gets me into all sorts of mind-numbing upset due to the fact I've done absolutely nothing with my life as of yet.
If my rambling offer some sort of consolidation thats all well and good, if not just laugh at the mad rambling fool. I urge you. Laugh and laugh heartily.
- Ernest Hemmingway
If someone as wise as Hemmingway phillosophises that then who are you to disobey?
I know you're a very intellegent person, Mr Duck, as you posess a competant grasp of politics, writing and many other things I'm sure I don't even realise. I personally do not know you, but I am sure you're the kind of person who likes to phillosophise - and if so you're the type of person who gets depressed about things due to over-thinking them.
Stupid people will glide on (with the true-to-life Happy-go-lucky persona) and not dwell on "what could've been" due to the fact they've never thought about it. Sometimes I think that would be much easier, but I think after all I prefer my phillosophising nature, even if it gets me into all sorts of mind-numbing upset due to the fact I've done absolutely nothing with my life as of yet.
If my rambling offer some sort of consolidation thats all well and good, if not just laugh at the mad rambling fool. I urge you. Laugh and laugh heartily.
You seem to be quite a pessimistic person, try looking at the positives in your life, try and be more optimistic.
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