Idle Are The Hands Of A Dead Man
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truth .. i'm 21 right now and already learning this, i work a lot between am and school, and i know when i graduate i'm going to have to strike a balance between life and work .. b/c god knows i can stay in front of the computer all day trying to make money, and doing stupid shit, but i have to tell myself not to get too caught up b/c before i know it i could have all the money in the world but nothing to show for it or no one to share it with
now OP i get ur saying, and for you im guessing it makes you motivated, doesn't work for me b/c honestly work != freedom to me .. work = teh suck .. freedom = awesomeness, but we have to work if we want to go anywhere in life, so i look at work as something i need to do now to benefit me later in life, and to never let it take over my life either .. definately dont want that .. happyness is the greatest achievement.
I'm pretty sure you missed my above post as you were typing this, I replied to Fatbat with "I've also had those cars/boats/houses backgrounds for a while, they did nothing for me. Left me thinking I was chasing empty materialistic goals. Works for some, doesn't for others."
Basically, I completely agree on every single point you said, and yes I'm in my twenties. I just have big ideas which will require big money, if you met me in real life I have no interest to flaunt anything to anyone and don't stay around anyone who does. When I am able to fund my ideas, I will fulfill myself, this is where happiness will come from.
Money, the little numbers game everyone plays by in this world is required to accomplish absolutely everything. No money = slave.
I realize how much detail I left out might easily be interpreted some other way but this should help clarify - directly to the right of my monitor I have this, these are my core desires, this is what I'm really chasing. Wrote it a while back but every point is still applicable. Thanks for caring enough to type all that though, good hearted of you.
Save the image and blow it up, easier to read.
That's because you're a New Brunswicker. We hunt, snowmobile, and sell of every provincial asset we possibly can.
Seconded.
Sounds more like the motivation I keep for myself.
Big boats and cars sound cool but just don't drive me.
I personally think they are weak motivators. Things like freedom of time and location are much more of a driving force for me.
Within the next couple months I'll be making enough money that I'll be able to travel Europe for a couple months and really try my best to live life the way it's supposed to be lived.
That to me is golden motivation.
But like you said, to each his own.
my motivation is what I want to do with the money eventually - donate to high school music programs and drum corps, and contribute to them by teaching for free.
you want to see dedication? watch this:
Watch Video -- chicagotribune.com
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-1112-marching-to-glorynov12,0,5181139.column
"Alana Carr, a petite, 15-year-old flutist, had a liver, small bowel and pancreas transplant when she was 4. She has suffered nerve damage that necessitated surgeries on her legs." - yet still going to practices, even though she's on electronics crew this year
"Andrew Quinlan, a 15-year-old bass drum player who developed diabetes before he was 2 years old, wears an insulin pump and has to have his blood sugar checked every 30 to 120 minutes by the band's volunteer medical personnel."
you want to see dedication? watch this:
Watch Video -- chicagotribune.com
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-1112-marching-to-glorynov12,0,5181139.column
"Alana Carr, a petite, 15-year-old flutist, had a liver, small bowel and pancreas transplant when she was 4. She has suffered nerve damage that necessitated surgeries on her legs." - yet still going to practices, even though she's on electronics crew this year
"Andrew Quinlan, a 15-year-old bass drum player who developed diabetes before he was 2 years old, wears an insulin pump and has to have his blood sugar checked every 30 to 120 minutes by the band's volunteer medical personnel."
Here's the contents, it kinds of defeats the purpose if you copy and paste these, write yours from your mind, these words mean a lot to me - they probably hold 1/100th of the meaning for someone else.
That's because you're a New Brunswicker. We hunt, snowmobile, and sell of every provincial asset we possibly can.
I prefer 4 wheelers, but that seems about right! haha
hmm, what was the image?
Zimok, your motivation reminded me of Nietzsche - Be careful, lest in banishing your demons, you banish the best thing within you.
As for a reminder to work i grabbed this desktop image off someone here - "Do your work. Don't be Stupid." Sometimes even works.
Zimok, point taken and thanks but.. what does all this have to do with you thinking dead people wish they could be working again? lol
The image was a picture of the paper on my wall with the quoted text in my post before this one. That's a scary quote lol, Nietzsche was an incredible intellect.
Imagine you're in bed for a good year or two with your whole mind, your body is old, it's failing. During that time, you're inevitably go over the story of your life.
Do you want to regret that story?
This whole thread only refers to the first part of what you need to get through. Delaying gratification, not going out as much, not drinking as much, not slacking off, not wasting time basically.. Everyone who ever accomplished anything worth while in this world was able to do this, and it's quite a mental game for someone who wasn't born and raised this way.
I merely imagined myself a few times from the perspective of being dead, and asked myself what would I be doing differently. It was sort of a wake up call, a foresight of my impermanence which I took time to ponder on.
Productivity is a mental battle and you have to defeat yourself or you'll never change.
A lot of my bad habits have been reflected on with this attitude, I'll just say it's working and I'm becoming a better person overall... I just shared this to make people wonder about what they'd be doing differently if they actually took the time to realize how temporary their existence is and how lucky they are to be having a chance to make a difference in any cause they may choose.
These thoughts may sound drastic, but for someone who hasn't an inkling of religious or spiritual belief - they're just one more piece of the necessary puzzle I'm building for myself to not be just another degenerate.
