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[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON Aug-31-01 AT 01:04AM (GMT)[p]Maybe it's a case of hackneyed teenage depression, but when I look at the way my life has turned out thus far and the way it seems that my immediate future is going to turn out, I don't see any way that I'll ever be able to feel satisfied with my life. When I take stock of everything that makes me [em]me[/em] and I think about how this is what I have to live with, I just develop a sinking feeling in my gut. When I found out how many older, and please understand that I mean "older" from a 17 year old's perspective, people post on this board, I felt that I had to ask: How many of you are satisfied with the way your life turned out?

I'm not talking about financial stability, or pleasures of the flesh but of a greater satisfaction. Honestly, I don't know how to describe it. It's like your calling in life but more than that. Do you feel that you're headed toward, or have reached, the culmination of what you as a person are best prepared for? Not a spiritual sense, but in the sense that your life has made use of the abilities granted to you by the sperm that happened to penetrate your mother's egg. Maybe more importantly than that, do you feel as though you were granted abilities to make the most of life, one way or another?
 
Have you seen Terminator 2?

No fate but what we make!
Or the Matrix : there is no spoon ??? (ok that one does not make sence)

Doyle my friend, life evolves what i wanted and made me happy when i was 17 is totally different then what i want now and makes me happy now.
When i was 18 i tought that i'd never get married yet i was at 21. Backthen sex was the greatest thing on earth .... still is (joke ... nnnnnott totally).
My first born (Davyd-Kristopher) started school yesterday (kindergarden) even tought i,m not that old (28.5) that gave me a feeling like i'm aging, because i will still talk with other parents and fell younger. i'm younger than most parents with 5 yo kid because i started my familly at 23, so i'm sometimes beeing seen as a kid.
My second born (Jacob) just started saying Mama this morning, and what makes this trully impressive is the timing, ok more the time , it was 5 AM so when my wife told me to get up and go check the baby i told her he's calling you. :)

As for life satisfaction it's a long road, yes i'm satisfied with my life, i have attained the "american dream in Canada" but that's not what makes me satisfied. I'm satisfied because of the roads i took, if i had'nt taken thoise roads i would probably be somewhere else. I'm happy because i have a loving wife and two beautiffull boys with good maners (ok the youger one eats with his hands and suck on his feet butu he's 7 months old)

So like i said first "No fate but what we make" if you don't want to succeed you will fail, if you ant to fail; you will fail misserably and if you want to succeed you will stuggle and finally succed most of the time.


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Yup

::sigh::

Damned Teenage depression, seems like it's attacking everyone nowadays. Heh, sometimes I wonder if none of us got depressed as teenagers if we would be teenagers at all.

During this time in my life I found myself doing all the same things you are doing. Then comes the graduation from high school and the realization that the culmination of life comes from the happiness you experiance in it. Experiances drive our lives further in one way or another. Therefore when we are living it up in College we get happier. Kinda like we are all making up for the four years of hell in High School. Life gets better after teenage years. Trust me, it is very difficult to explain how but I can assure you that it will so long as you want it to and take the steps necessary to do so. Now get out and enjoy yourself, young man! ;-D

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RE: Well

<How many of you are satisfied with the way your life turned out?>

I`m not. But that`s exacly what drives me forward. I had a buch of dreams at 17, i found out i wanted other things at 19,23,25,27, until one day i found out that it didn`t matter fullfiling them or not, i would always find diferent challenges and would never be satisfied. That gave me some sort of peace, if you know what i mean. The different notion of time that you learn when you study Taoism is the closest thing to what i learned as a balanced way of living, but the easyest way to explain this is not to give too much importance to what you think is a seminal moment in your life, but instead go with the flow, understand to respect the motion, the waves in your personal history as a movement, and learning to wait for the next wave.
I try not to seach for the lost time (i know Proust created the sentence ;-) ) but i like to see myself as a passenger in a time train, always with a grin in each stop.

You`ll have to find your own way to travel, good luck to it, but believe me when i say that it is normal not to be satisfied with your age, and the best it`s still to come...
 
RE: Well

I too have been happy and depressed, even though i was a "child of the 90's" who was not supposed to feel neither highs or lows, crippling depression is just a part of life, you learn to deal with it, lifes a rollercoaster, have fun ridin

(damn, that was lame) =]
 
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[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON Sep-01-01 AT 08:11AM (GMT)[p]you guys probably know more about this subject than me but the way i see it is, if you don't like the way your life is going, then you have to change it. its easier said then done but im sure its possible for everyone to change the way they live their life. say you have some shitty ass job that you hate. you want to quit but youve worked there for 10 years and your used to the pretty good pay you get, just quit. Having 10 years work experience someone is going to hire you. you might get paid less but who gives a shit, money isnt everything.

and if your suffering from teenage depression directly related to other kids in high school (kind of like those columbine kids were) then dont let those kids get to you. first of all, most of those guys and/or girls that 'have it all' in high school are the ones most likely to go no where. second of all, its bullshit to blame all your troubles on someone else. the kids who shot up columbine were a couple of fuckin pussies. They were thinking 'oh man, the whole world hates us' so they took out their anger on others. i bet most of those kids who got shot didnt even know those 2 assholes. People are always looking to blame somoene else. People controll their own lives, and remember, life isnt short. Life is LONG. so you dont have to prepare for the future, but you must know that its coming sooner or later.
 
I'm nineteen and while I don't have all the room in the world to talk I'll say this, it seems to me like you have your head in the clouds... alot. I'm the same way, what I do to cope is to make the most of every day and while I'm doing what ever it is I'm doing I try to focus, then at the end of the day I can think about and meditate on the future all I want, the many prospects in it and how this day has fit into that. Work toward your goals on a day to day basis, it may not be easy for airheads like you and me but if done correctly it can give a deep seated feeling of satisfaction.
 
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