Getting a Life

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 5:33 pm

Wykith wrote:What does it mean when someone says to you to get a life? Does it mean they believe you are wasting your life? Or that the person in front of you just sees it that way? If you don't do exactly what sociaty defines as acceptable behavior for someone of your age, sex, and race, does this mean your life is of less importance than others? If you don't get married, have a kid, a dog, a nice fence surrounding an immaculately trimmed lawn, and bury yourself in a mountain of debt, have you achieved less in life than your neighbor who has managed all these things?

If you realize that your most trusted friends live hundreds of miles away from you and you've never even seen their faces, does that make that friendship any less valid?

So what is it to have a life? Social interaction? But what does that imply? That your life is measured by how many other people know you? Like or dislike you? Love or hate you? Are you considered to have a life as long as you surround yourself with people, even if you don't really know them or neccesarily like them? Does this mean that whether you live your life well or waste it is defined by the people that surround you? So what does this entail?

If you refuse to come out of your room and give other people's life validity by aknowledging their existence, then they will not aknowledge yours. You are only as useful in life as you are useful to others. So what does this drivel boil down to?

It's your life. Do with it what you will. It shouldn't matter to you what other people think about you or the way you live your life. And if it does, you're no longer living for yourself, you're living for them. Be yourself, not what they want you to be. Do what feels right and enjoy it to the fullest. A lot of these people that tell you to get a life don't even know what they're saying. They'll scorn you for being so happy and content with such childish joys such as video games, anime, and AMVs. And once they're done making you doubt your own choices and giving themselves a little ego boost because they actually could. They'll go back to their own meaningless existence, hanging on to dear life to the knowledge that even though they can't seem to summon the joy and abandon they saw in your eyes in front of your computer, at least society has stated that they're right and you're wrong......so there.

Well it's been a while since I've posted a nice long winded, opinionated post. Good thread. Oh, FYI, you will receive such titles as childish, immature, ill based, rebel without a clue, and even, believe it or not, anarchist for following such beliefs as these. But then again, if you truly believe that your life is your own, who gives two flying fucks what they say eh?

*agrees*

Jace Tsunami · Post by **Jace Tsunami** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 5:36 pm

tacooe wrote:I know, notice the past tense, were agruing . Hey you're 8 hours behind me, isn't this good surfing time you're wasting?

yeah, I went out this morning... It's flat and cold... I'm going tot ry for a night session, waves tend to be like 3 times higher then. Hard to watch for sharks then tho.

tacooe · Post by **tacooe** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 5:53 pm

the most dangerous thing in the water here is the water, the scottish nuclear plant stores all of the nuclear waste from Japan and whatnot so the sea is pretty radioactive but I'm told that there's good surfing on the atlantic coast or on the north sea coast but it's cold beyond belief, you're taking your life into your hands.

Koopiskeva · Post by **Koopiskeva** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 6:00 pm

omg, get a life you 2 |:

or a room.. |:

FATTY_VM · Post by **FATTY_VM** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 6:01 pm

I "have" a life when i feel like it. but for the majority of time .. i dont mind just chilen at home by myself .. on the pc .. watchin a dvd or whatever... you are who you are .. why should you change on the whim of another? .. i hope you can see where this is going before i start (a long) rant. Life is what out want out of it .

The choices you make ... Define the person you are.

tacooe · Post by **tacooe** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 6:09 pm

Koopiskeva wrote:omg, get a life you 2 |:

or a room.. |:

be silent Koop and go back to your fondling at the kitchen, be content you have that much

Summanaro · Post by **Summanaro** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 7:13 pm

You mean for me to get out of my house for once? Probably a boyfriend, or a lot of friends where I don't just talk to at school. Nobody really has any respect for my talent, so it's hard to make friends when you go to a school when all the people that like anime are older and hate you, and when there's no art program.
So my computer is practically all the life I have. =/...

Lyrs · Post by **Lyrs** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 7:45 pm

I have a life...more is okay though.

/end

Jace Tsunami · Post by **Jace Tsunami** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 9:13 pm

FATTY_VM wrote:I "have" a life when i feel like it. but for the majority of time .. i dont mind just chilen at home by myself .. on the pc .. watchin a dvd or whatever... you are who you are .. why should you change on the whim of another? .. i hope you can see where this is going before i start (a long) rant. Life is what out want out of it .

The choices you make ... Define the person you are.

read my responce to wyklith's post, everyone knows what not having a life is to THEM. This isn't a social judging, it's your own. What do YOU think of your life.

BLAH!

just read my responce, you'll get it.

fyrtenheimer · Post by **fyrtenheimer** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 9:21 pm

I didn't read neone's responses =\.

Could you define what 'having a life' is? If it means going out and doing stuff, then yes, I have a life.

I have more of a life than I want.