I have such bleak thoughts about the future. I have straight A's and I'm about to be a sophomore. I'm 14. Colleges are getting harder and harder to get into and I don't think I'm up for putting out the effort to get in one. I've got good grades all my life just because it comes easy to me.
But....I don't want to work when i grow up. I don't want to HAVE to work. When i think about the future, it seems pointless. Life seems pointless in this world that humans have created. Where people kill each other all the time. And people stab each other in the back to survive. And people will look down on you for not having a nice looking car. And people will make fun of you if you're different.
I remember when I was in school before summer came, there was this girl in my class. And all the other kids in my class would make fun of her, because she wasn't as smart or as pretty as them. And if i was nice to her, people would think I was totally weird. Why do people have to be like that? Why do people have to judge people like that?
I can't cope. I don't wanna live in a world like this. But there's no way to change it. It seems like the only thing you can do is escape to some small pocket in the world where you can be yourself and people don't judge you. And you don't have to worry about some guy telling you to break your back to give him money to build a weapon for a soldier to kill some poor guy in a little shack in the desert. And people won't kill you for believing in something that you cherish and love. And people won't force you to do things you don't wanna do.
It's not fair....it's a nightmare. I can't live in a world like this. Is there any place to go? Anyway to escape? Anyway to cope?
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Well said. I also don't want to live in this nightmarish world. It seems nobody gives a damn about the importance of individuality. It is the popular who always win. The minorities suffer social stigma. All people want today is to NOT be an individual. This is the actual Hell.
I was bullied during my school years for not following the system. I was mad at my family for following the system. The only friends I have are those who have the power of understanding. However they are also bullied by jocks.
Most people, and therefore the system today are more physically oriented. However doesn't anybody realize the Body is the source of endless trouble? Plato justified that in his "Phaedo"
Why do people never wants to realize individuality and follow the system? Are they the real "brain dead ones"?
There is only one way out: Become a metaphysical Idealist.....
Well I chose Idealism because it made me believe we are living in a false reality. It is like a light amidst the huge darkness of the ******** System. People should try to realize that we are living in a false reality, and that the System we are living in is decieving us all along. Have faith and hope.
Youve been heard.
There are many aspects of life that are not nice to look at.
Unfortunatley, the entire planet is afflicted with these undesired conditions -- some places worse than others.
The majority of the populace is trying to get along and be cool. Only a slim minority are the real trouble spots.
The "escape route" is an avenue....but not the best route to take. Withdrawing from life becuase it seems hard to face will put you in less control of your own life and circumstances. (like a person driving who is scared)
It is possible to understand the parts of life. When you understand the different things that youve mentioned that you dislike, they have less power to bite you. Sure, they will still happen, but they wont have such a impact on you.
Nobody is going to provide you with a whole solution for handling your whole life and Im sure you werent really expecting that here... but Ill take off the gloves and point this out:
Your back-pedalling from life a little.
The solution that is a real solution is to understand those things as well as increase your ability to face them without wanting to run from them. (thats easier said than done)
Im 37. I recall experiencing much the same as what youve got on your plate. (and I didnt go to college like all the other lemmings....)
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knowledge, responsibility and control go hand-in-hand.
You can achieve anything by increasing those three in yourself a little at a time.
G- You can rebuild the world in the style you like. The power of focused intention with rationality based tools is far greater than conventions have us imagine.
It is first necessary to evaluate assumptions to see which ones are pragmatically verifiable, and which are put there by various influences with agendas. After all the non-verifiable assumptions are discarded you wind up with these few simple truths.
-Everything is always changing. The time scales vary, but nothing is constant.
-Causes produce effects. Sometimes this is not obvious and there is a choice about choosing to believe in gods who can suspend cause-effect, or sticking with the pragmatically observable.
-Life is both physical and non-physical. The bag of mostly water is just a bag of mostly water without the intangibles like life, hope, identity, consciousness.
-Putting these truths into a simple formula to focus on will enable the mind to be much more effective at dealing with whatever.
-Respecting rationally derived truth is the best way to live.
-English is not a great language in which to easily summarize deep truth.
The above points were summarized in Japan by the monk Nichiren in the 13 th century.
His version is so high octane, that it takes years for people to discard their disbelief, even when they get phenomenal results in their life by reciting the formula in Japanese-Nam Myoho Renge Kyo- and joining with others who also have the same observations that underlie your question. It's one thing to be smart and frustrated, it is another to decide to try an extremely effective method of arranging the world to delete the need for your question. Results are better than frustration.
dude life is what you make it, thats how you escape. seriously life is what you make it. some guy might tell you life is pointless, and another tell you life is the greatest thing on earth. they are both right, because thats how they live there lives. its all about doing things that make you happy. if u want to make money and not work, find a job that is a passion, something you wouldnt mind doing for free. i thought i couldnt make it to college, i almost dropped out of highschool, but i turned it around and now im going to asu in a few days. life is as hard as you make it, remember that.
and if this is how you view the world, then this will become your future. if that is all you know, that is all your going to create for yourself. change is good, go travel the world and learn new ideals if you want to escape this. live in nature where none of this exist, if you want to get away from it so bad. why not? if it makes you life worth living.
there is no such thing as a free lunch. best you can do is try to convince your parents to let you bum it up at their house. or you can finagle it somehow that you never leave college.
there are still people out there that are professional bums. it is not an easy life and very dangerous. but they are still out there living foot loose and fancy free.
and honey sometimes we humans are not nice people. we do mean things without thinking. none of us are perfect and not too many of us even try anymore. some of us are just doing the best we can to live.
1. C' students rule the world! This is because while you'll try to offer to society and others, they will try to gain power.You'll find them in your way and they will be your boss.
2. If that makes you sad then look at the bright side. You have been granted with far more potential than are your needs. So you'll probably be more happy in your life, offer to others etc unless you fall in the trap of trying to prove your success and ability with material gains.
Thats deep man. I used to worry about stuff like that too, the trick is to just take it a day, minute or sometimes even a second at a time. Can't fret what you can't change dude. Just worry about you and yours and it'll work itself out. Just remember that no matter what happens things could always be worse, at least you're on the right side of the grass man.
Start with the total energy and solve for the velocity. The total energy has to be greater or equal to zero if you want to escape a gravitational field.
And it would sure be nice if public school tried to turn boys into men instead of women.
Over & over & over I see kids like you suffering from this Liberal bullshit that humans are some kind of horrible disease infesting the planet. Humans need a dream to thrive, but if you are plague there are none.
We have let these left wing monsters infest our schools and dump this drivel into defenseless young minds. We have let them portray our warriors as psychopaths, our business leaders as exploitative sadists, while their tenured condescending @sses grow fat off tax dollars from parents whose children they destroy.
You must find you spine & reclaim your testicles.
Life is, and has ever been a competition, to be won or lost by your strength, your will & your wit. You must tell these weak sick losers to f*ck off. And while you are at it if your classmates think they can tell you who your friends can be, tell them to pound sand too. To whine at their shallow weakness is to embrace it. You must find the strength to reject it entire.
You are all Yin, when you should be mostly Yang. You have been told the world is a sh*thole when you live in a golden age.
Here are some books & a song to help rid you mind of this disease.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Awaken the Giant Within : How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!
by Anthony Robbins
Become an Energy Addict by Jon Gordon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G3KNDWB2JY
You can simply live a hermit life. Not bounding by society and money, you will be out of range of the system.