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Vanguard:
I'm starting to understand how saint fell through his ceiling.

RayB:
Stress is all relative to what stresses you.

AHAHAhaahAHahahaahah!!

orion:

--- Quote from: shmokes on March 01, 2010, 09:54:52 am ---I disagree to a large extent.  I think many many people are chronically focused on the future.  They are stressed out and utterly devoted in high school because for now they need to think about college.  And in college they miss out on all the immense opportunities to have the greatest time of their lives because they must stay totally focused because they need to be in the best position possible to get a job after school.  And once they get the job they've got their foot in the door, but the ladder is right there and there's only one way to climb it and that is through devotion and discipline.

Of course everyone is living in real life for them, but it is too easy to focus all your energy on the future (when you will finally have time to be happy) and discount the importance of the now.  But future prospects will ALWAYS be better.  There will ALWAYS be something to look forward to.  Degrees, promotions, kids getting scholarships, etc.  If you can't carpe diem and all that rot right now, it's unlikely you'll be able to in the future.  And if you ever do learn how, you will look back and kick yourself for not doing it earlier.

People in college are living in real life, but most of them will look back on it years down the road and think, "God I had it easy back then, and for the most part I wasted it.  What I wouldn't give to go back and make the most of it."

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"What makes people take death so lightly? People taking life so seriously"
Tao te ching

No offence to anyone, but all you guys seem to be describing to me are the situations that you have chosen for yourselves being a pain in the ass! Finding youself in a situation, where you litterally don't know if your going to live to see another sunrise? That's stress. When your child stops breathing on you one day, that's stress (he's ok btw). I have found that the truely stressful situations I have faced in life have been the very things that have taught me to put the proper prospective on all things in life. ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- sounds to me that all you guys need to do is learn how to say no to a few things, learn better time management skills and above all else make getting a good nights rest your number one priority.
 

ark_ader:

--- Quote from: shateredsoul on February 24, 2010, 01:34:17 am ---Man.. I'm stressed. I have my graduate school work which includes doing my research, taking classes, attending about 5 to 6 hours of meetings a week, I work a job where I am managing another prof's research project which entails reading a bunch of articles, managing 7 undergraduates, checking over their work, preparing biweekly meetings for those meetings...

I swear I've been staying up late every night and waking up early.  I used to love jogging and now I don't even have time for that. And worst of all, lately me and the misses have been fighting. I love her, but I do need some me time every now and then and I don't know how to believe that this does not in any way mean I don't want to spend time with her.  I know she must feel we don't spend much time together, but when I'm really tense I need both spending time with her and on my own doing my own thing whether it be jogging, a game,  etc..

This is not me wife bashing, because I know how she feels.  I felt the same way when she was finishing her masters degree. We were living about 6 hours apart then and I hardly ever spoke with her. But still... man this sucks  :badmood: :hissy: :soapbox: :timebomb: :banghead:



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 :soapbox:

Just deal with it.  I have to do the very same thing, plus take care of an elderly parent.

You have it much better than I.  

Switch on the news.  There is 1000s of people out there, who would swap with you in an instant.  ::)

Dartful Dodger:
Get her pregnant, this way she'll be busy with the baby and you'll get more free time than you'll know what to do with.

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