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Spikeke
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Canada106 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-08 19:25:47
March 08 2013 19:20 GMT
#21
On March 09 2013 03:56 Kalingingsong wrote:
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On March 07 2013 03:52 iheartEDM wrote:
do what makes you happy. Only you know what makes you happy.


you realize that kind of thinking is being spread by corporations who are hell bent on making $$$ off of you by 'appealing' to your short term emotions.


I study and work in a field that I enjoy, and I continue to do it because it makes me happy. Who the hell is making $$$ off me? Which corporations are spreading this?
Masq
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada1792 Posts
March 08 2013 19:26 GMT
#22
lets all do something that makes us miserable, thatll teach those corporate bastards!

STICKIN IT TO THE MAN
Kalingingsong
Profile Joined September 2009
Canada633 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-08 22:09:59
March 08 2013 22:06 GMT
#23
you can do what you 'enjoy' but if you end up being economically screwed because of it (as might be the case for the OP), you have no one to blame it on but yourself.
Dess.JadeFalcon
Defury
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Germany206 Posts
March 10 2013 00:02 GMT
#24
On March 08 2013 23:35 Japhybaby wrote:
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On March 07 2013 09:23 TriO wrote:
It's all about passion and the love for it. For me it was ice hockey my parents made me gave it up when I was young. I was good too my coaches noticed it. But however my parents didn't see it that way. They didn't think it was a future career for me. They thought it was just an activity to keep kids busy. Still today very dearly I love hockey and still have that burning passion for it. I regret listening to my parents and not continuing it on my own. But it's still something I want to do while I can before I get old. If I have money I would do it in a heart beat. It would be a nice story a grad student also pursuing his childhood dream of becoming a hockey player. Anyways moral of the story follow what you love to do no matter what and enjoy it if you have the passion for it because in the end you'll regret it. Also don't worry about school you're still young you have plenty of time.


if you got anywhere competitively, you probably would have got weeded out at puberty time. That's when all the huge kids with moustaches when they are twelve start to use their size to force you out of the game. Then the kids whose parents have money buy them a spot on the team. I'm just kidding, it's not like that, passion is important. But like the OP has to understand, in reality its the kids who were absolutely beastly natural athletes who also worked hard eating the right things from a young age despite what anyone tells them who make it anywhere. I played competitive up until age thirteen and my dad was a powerskating instructor and sharpened skates and practically had me with a stick in my hand out of the cradle,

Anyways OP, it sounds like you are in the same boat as a lot of people. You lack free thought. You want to do what is right so you can't admit what you really love.


How do you get around that lack of free thought though, how do you get to that point in your life where you are able to admit what you really love. This is my biggest struggle to be completely honest, I am 100% reliant on the opinions of others to make my decision. The only things I know for sure are

1) I don't like partying/drinking anymore so I stopped
2) I enjoy gaming as a past time
3) I enjoy coding/working with computers

The specifics elude me on a daily basis and I constantly hear "do what makes you happy" "other peoples opinions dont matter do what you love" but I think a lot of people don't realize, at least for me, the problem is I don't know any more than you do what I love.

It's a shitty problem that I am struggling to find a solution for.
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