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On new years resolutions...
12 years ago
They're bullshit.
So 2013 is a good couple of hours old now... I guess it's time for a good dose of cynicism. I just got back from a party where NY resolutions were briefly touched upon - people sharing their goals and ambitions. I had heard plenty of others from friends and family in the days leading up to it, and now I am looking at a journal list plagued by such resolutions.
Look, if something is genuinely important to you... then just do it. Do it because the change will make you happier, not because some arbitrary point in time has been reached. If that's your motivation, then you will fail. Like just about every other new years resolution ever.
A main one I seem to have come across is from people who want to lose weight, or get fit. I don’t know, perhaps it's because I have personally made some great strides in the last few years that is skewing my sample. It seems to be a talking point. But if anyone reading this has such an ambition, then you have to really ask yourself if you want it. Do you want to be 20 kilos lighter, or do you want to lose 20 kilos? Because they are very different things.
Any fool can lose 20 kilos. All you have to do is go on the Atkins diet for a couple of months, or something equally stupid. It's an easy resolution to attain. But if that's it, then you won't actually be 20 kilos lighter. Because that weight will come straight back on if you don't actually change your lifestyle. That's how it got there in the first place, after all. Then you’re back making the same stupid and unhealthy goal in 2014.
Being 20 kilos lighter requires a lifestyle change. A big one, really. If you are willing to go through with it, then good luck with it. If you're anything like me, you won't regret it, and you won't ever want to go back. But if you aren't willing to go through with it, then don’t fool yourself. That’s the lifestyle you chose, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with it. Just learn to be content with it. Just be happy with who you are.
Fuck new years resolutions, and good luck with 2013 :)
So 2013 is a good couple of hours old now... I guess it's time for a good dose of cynicism. I just got back from a party where NY resolutions were briefly touched upon - people sharing their goals and ambitions. I had heard plenty of others from friends and family in the days leading up to it, and now I am looking at a journal list plagued by such resolutions.
Look, if something is genuinely important to you... then just do it. Do it because the change will make you happier, not because some arbitrary point in time has been reached. If that's your motivation, then you will fail. Like just about every other new years resolution ever.
A main one I seem to have come across is from people who want to lose weight, or get fit. I don’t know, perhaps it's because I have personally made some great strides in the last few years that is skewing my sample. It seems to be a talking point. But if anyone reading this has such an ambition, then you have to really ask yourself if you want it. Do you want to be 20 kilos lighter, or do you want to lose 20 kilos? Because they are very different things.
Any fool can lose 20 kilos. All you have to do is go on the Atkins diet for a couple of months, or something equally stupid. It's an easy resolution to attain. But if that's it, then you won't actually be 20 kilos lighter. Because that weight will come straight back on if you don't actually change your lifestyle. That's how it got there in the first place, after all. Then you’re back making the same stupid and unhealthy goal in 2014.
Being 20 kilos lighter requires a lifestyle change. A big one, really. If you are willing to go through with it, then good luck with it. If you're anything like me, you won't regret it, and you won't ever want to go back. But if you aren't willing to go through with it, then don’t fool yourself. That’s the lifestyle you chose, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with it. Just learn to be content with it. Just be happy with who you are.
Fuck new years resolutions, and good luck with 2013 :)
Out of interest, what are you currently fighting for?
What I'm fighting for... currently I live in Poland with my parents.... and also a few other family members (as well as a terrible dog) that drive me to insanity and fill my head with sorrow and despair.
I dream of moving out... leaving this place. The ultimate end goal is to get to live and work in Germany before I become 30 (I'm 25 years old now). This is why I study, I want to understand computer graphics to get a proper job and not have to return to this hellish place (for other reasons than to visit my parents). I want to show that I worked hard and managed to defeat destiny, change things that might have seemed set in stone since my birth.
Still, I'll admit, already now during these studies I get so frustrated with family life that I want to sell a piece of land and buy myself an apartment (one which could later on be rented to other college students to give me some side income). The dream of my own place has been with me for so long. It's even part of a promise that I gave myself: I won't draw any yiff of my own, until I move out and I have my own place, cause if I did it now, it would feel like I'm giving up because I'll never move out anyway.... and I do know for certain that I shall move out!
And here to top this all off:
http://neuropod.net/imagehost/uploa.....416f68a267.jpg
Michiro: He wants to move out, so he can draw pornography. I find that cute.
http://neuropod.net/imagehost/uploa.....dc4e1dbeaa.jpg
Haruka: Watch it, with such a pure heart he could easily become the next victim of the Death Busters.
Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeaaaahhhhh and that's pretty much it
... you're a land Barron?
But anyway, good luck man XD. You certainly seem to be proactive about it all. And yeah, it sounds like you need a place of your own. Some people can happily live at home for well into their 30's, but it's not for me, and by the sounds of it, it's not for you. If it's making your life miserable and you have the option to walk out of it, then it might be worth considering. If you have enough assets to buy, then wouldn't you have enough to rent? That could be a good way to move out, without committing yourself to a long term asset which you'd essentially be buying for non-financial reasons. But I'm sure you'd know more about all that than me. Did you spend time away from home during your other college stints, or have you always lived at home?
And heh, sorry but the anime references were wasted on me :(.
And no, I don't have enough to rent, we need to sell the land to have money at all and it takes time.
Also I also lived in this house other than the times I went on vacation, like visiting my best friend in Germany for a week. That was beautiful.
PS: The anime reference thing is ok. I'm very delusional and crazy. With how my life went, someone telling me that he/she did not watch Sailor Moon as a child kind of makes me go like: "Dear Lord... how sad and hollow must have your childhood been then?!"
Good luck with it all man, I get the impression that's its not all easy, but you're working hard. That's the main piece that needs to be in place, now all you need is some time and luck.
Oh, and I remember sailor moon. I strongly suspect now that it is more than 'maybe' the show you were hinting at in your comic :p. However, it was so incredibly long ago now that I cant remember it at all, just that it existed. And she flew and changed costumes. And there was someone called sailor mercury. Or something. Yeah. I know what I'm talking about.
MMMMMaybe it's the show, maybe it's not but yeah, Sailor Moon influenced me a lot of a kid and is one of 2 animes that I got bullied for liking, the other one being Pokemon. And as much as the latter fills with anger and regrets... about Sailor Moon I can say that "it was worth it". It was a series deserving of suffering for.
And Pokemon wasn't cool? I suppose it wasn't now that I think about it. I must have been lucky as there wasn't really bullying in my school, at least not what I came across. I never really watched the show, but the game boy game was quite the hit within elements of my niche. I had red. Blue was for those who didn't really know what they were doing.
Yup, sounds fitting to me, cause I had blue!
Also I guess Pokemon doesn't hold up to me, cause as an adult I understood the worth of Digimon, although unquestionably Pokemon does actually have the better games, still show-wise it's Digimon that wins
I never saw a single episode of Digimon TBH. Or played any games. I'm a few years older, and Pokemon the show was getting late 'in my time' - I was in high school when that first started making waves, let alone when it peaked in popularity several years later. Digimon was later still so I never had the opportunity. To be honest, I had always assumed it to be a cheap ripoff of the Pokemon marketing formula. I take it that it was a lot more?
Digimon did seem like a rip-off, I mean I was a pokemon fanboy, but as an adult I see it as something much superior (as a show, not the games). There was a real story that went on, interesting characters, character development... Whereas Pokemon feels like a soap opera for children. Nothing really goes anywhere.
Also Digimon changes gears each season/series. One can be really dark, while the next one can really be child-friendly, and so people have their preferences. And also..... ehhhhhhh this will sound stupid, but I think a person doesn't need to feel as much ashamed for finding a digimon got, as for finding a pokemon hot, heh
Anyway, digimon sounds like it might perhaps be worth a watch, if it’s what you say it is XD. I have a long list of shows I have had recommended but haven't found time for, but I will add that to the list :). Who knows, with a global economy like this, I could end up with a lot of free time at some point :s.
High school sucked, but the worst thing is: as much as it sucked, it likely still was the happiest education related time I had. I guess I'm not bullied much in this college, but I could talk with a lot more people in high school. And sorry, so many years, so many assholes... as much as it might make me seem like a deranged maniac... I still wish death upon these people. This is why I work hard, I want to leave this place and start a new life elsewhere, far away from them.
And as to Digimon.... go into it only when you find the time, don't rush it. And I certainly wouldn't wish you to loose your job. Even Digimon isn't worth it!
and meh, I've kind of quit my job already anyway, just FWIW. Gonna do me some travelling while I still have remnants of youth to draw upon. Lets see if I can get back in once I'm back. If not, then Digimon I guess.
I find them particularly pointless.
I agree with you here.
YAAAAAY
...what's that? :c