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"Why bother?"

With life, I mean? Very little about it is worth hanging around for. And don't give me crap about an afterlife, because if the meaning of life is to live and die so that you can live again, then it only makes it even more pointless than it is already.


Help me out here. My human curiosity is getting the better of me and I need an answer I can swallow.

Dunno then.
Learn an instrument?

Hmmm.

I've played this scenario out in my head many times.

I quit my job, it is nothing short of impossible to find another job that will pay me as much for what I do, and hence I will no longer be able to afford to live in the south. My only option would then be to move North, back to N.Wales with my parents, where there are no opportunities and I am even less likely to achieve anything. Within three years I've accidentally slept with some filthy slapper, who lied about being on the pill and is expecting her third child with a third father.

Lifus ruinus.

Oh I'm not going to kill myself or anything, and I'm sure my current situation is likely a result of the IT industry being in a terrifyingly poor slump at the moment, but I currently work and when I don't work I sit at my computer wondering what I can do that will keep me happy for the rest of my life.

The work I do is well paid, but far from exciting, or even tolerable, but it's the only thing that I can do that allows me to afford to live.

Life is balls, though I'll freely admit to having being fully responsible for getting myself to where I am, which is to say at an effective dead end. I can just see my life fading into obscurity and becoming day after listless day of semi-coherent nothingness.

Same old same old.

Pah.

Insane Bartender wrote:
>That combined with modern life completely
> restricting any possibility of me ever doing "what I want
> to".
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Balls.
That's such a cop-out and I expect more from you than that.
"Oh life is mean". Of course life sucks, wear a helmet.

There is nothing stopping you from quitting your job right now and following whatever it is you want to do.
I repeat: Nothing is stopping you at all.

It's a lot easier to sit and stagnate, and blame "life" or "the world" for how rubbish it is than it is to sit and say "Well actually I'm not making the most of each choice I have" or creating your own choices.
You're bored of following life's path?
Hack your own and take that.

Don't whinge about how crap it all is, you either change it and make it matter or fall by the wayside and end up bitter and resentful of people that think "Balls to it, I'm going to do this and I dont care who wants to stop me".

Insane Bartender wrote:
> I'm just bored of living. That combined with modern life completely
> restricting any possibility of me ever doing "what I want
> to".

There are millions of people out there who have less opportunity and more trouble and strife than us. We just have to grin and bear it OR turn into bitter hateful lunatics. I feel myself verging towards the latter as of late.

you blatently want to take over the world. just admit it.

I'm just bored of living. That combined with modern life completely restricting any possibility of me ever doing "what I want to".

And what Goatboy just said

I just do my own thing, no idea what the point is.

It's how to your spend your time. That's the point.
Some choose enlightenment, others choose a family.
I choose music, sex, video games and mates.

What works for me won't work for everyone, and vice versa.
I dont think there is any great "point" to it except to do what you want to do and to not waste your time.
Or waste it if that makes you happy.

I dont know.

I did get smote though.