Green Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Lately, well always I've been trying to reach a level in my life where I could live with out regret and joy. I feel that I'm not living up to my full potential and seem unable to controll my own abilities. My life is going in one direction but I want it to go in another one and seem to be possessed by myself. Procrastination if thats what you can even call it is my biggest fall. Heck even making this post feels like procrastination of the things I should be doing. I need to get controll of myself, Ive just felt out of controll lately. Link to post Share on other sites
Art_Critic Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 When you are as young as you are then don't plan your life.. live it.. If you plan your life you will be disappointed later on in life when it doesn't work out according to plan.. ( speaking from experience ). When I was your age I planned my life into my late 30's.. it didn't even come close in reality.. If you feel your life needs another direction then take it.. one thing you don't want is to look back at the things you can't have the older you get.. Link to post Share on other sites
Author Green Posted April 28, 2007 Author Share Posted April 28, 2007 yeah Im trying to take it one thing Ive wanted to do for a while is write a book, and damn I wrote one page and now I havnt been focused enough to write any more, I make up any distraction not to do it. Link to post Share on other sites
boshemia Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 We put things off for many reasons, and usually it's not because of lack of focus or laziness. It goes deeper, sometimes it is fear: not always regognized as such. Fear that we aren't good enough, fear that we wont be able to finish it, fear that we will finish and don't know what to do next. I urge you to check into National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo.org) it takes place every November, and helps overcome a lot of the reasons we procrastinate. And lol, stay away from LS, I find it to be a great way to avoid writing myself : ) Link to post Share on other sites
Author Green Posted April 28, 2007 Author Share Posted April 28, 2007 I realy think I need to stay away from LS and more so the internet, maybe limit myself to a half hour of internet time a day but id probably break that rule. Ill check out that website, Im a very creative person and writing creativly is something I used to do alot more even had a few of my articles published but its been over 2 years now almost 3 since I had anything published. I want write book, I want write a screen play, and I want to write comedic speech's do some stand up, I want to write some articles and try to get them published in the local papers. Link to post Share on other sites
IpAncA Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 If you plan your life you will be disappointed later on in life when it doesn't work out according to plan.. ( speaking from experience ). When I was your age I planned my life into my late 30's.. it didn't even come close in reality.. Yes I agree. Link to post Share on other sites
Author Green Posted April 28, 2007 Author Share Posted April 28, 2007 Yes I agree. yeah well its imposible not to plan your life, if you take job and move to a place, youve invested time and money, sure its not the same a signing up for 4 years of military service but if I make curtain large investments Im planning on making Ill be tied to it 3 to 4 years at a minimum. Link to post Share on other sites
IpAncA Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 yeah well its imposible not to plan your life, if you take job and move to a place, youve invested time and money, sure its not the same a signing up for 4 years of military service but if I make curtain large investments Im planning on making Ill be tied to it 3 to 4 years at a minimum. Okay but a person can take it to far and when things don't go as planned they don't take it well. I've taken it to the extreme. It's not pretty. Link to post Share on other sites
Author Green Posted April 28, 2007 Author Share Posted April 28, 2007 well things seem to be going to the extreme for me and if things dont work out its going to be very ugly, but by not acting things will most likely turn ugly any ways Link to post Share on other sites
IpAncA Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Exactly! When things didn't work out for me, I thought it was the end of the world and I do mean that too. For example I ended up having my school pushed back a couple of months and if I could have had a heart attack I would have. So what are you trying to do? I know you said you wanted to write. Link to post Share on other sites
boshemia Posted April 29, 2007 Share Posted April 29, 2007 I realy think I need to stay away from LS and more so the internet, maybe limit myself to a half hour of internet time a day but id probably break that rule. Ill check out that website, Im a very creative person and writing creativly is something I used to do alot more even had a few of my articles published but its been over 2 years now almost 3 since I had anything published. I want write book, I want write a screen play, and I want to write comedic speech's do some stand up, I want to write some articles and try to get them published in the local papers. Try using your Internet time as a reward for accomplishing a goal. It works for me. If I get this much housework done then I can spend an hour on LS etc. And even if you don't want to write a novel, NaNoWriMo is an excellent way of learning to silence the inner editor. It teaches you the single most important skill any would be writer needs to master. Putting your butt in the chair and actually doing it. PS, they don't care if you write a screenplay, poetry, whatever... the only way to win is to get to 50,000 words... however it doesn't matter what those words are, nobody ever reads them. Two years I ran it through a pig latin language converter before submitting, and once I turned it in in Klingon! Link to post Share on other sites
Author Green Posted April 29, 2007 Author Share Posted April 29, 2007 hmmmm I agree, lost you on the 50,000 word thing, but getting your but in the chair and focus'd is definetly the hardest part Link to post Share on other sites
boshemia Posted April 29, 2007 Share Posted April 29, 2007 well things seem to be going to the extreme for me and if things dont work out its going to be very ugly, but by not acting things will most likely turn ugly any ways You know, I'm 34 now... and the feeling you are talking about is getting better. I'm not sure how old you are, but about 25 - 29 years of age I had what I called a quarter life crisis. Something just wasn't right, I was seeking something, needing something, just restless. I finally came to the conclusion that it was natural, and it meant I really needed to find that "something" that gave me that fulfillment I needed. I started keeping a journal again, then a blog. A lot of people think blogs are lame, and many of them in fact are. However, a journal that talks back is an excellent tool. By keeping a journal I was able to go back through it once or twice a year and start comparing recurrent themes, things I focused on and didn't realize... etc. I really do think the feeling you have is normal, and it is something that you need to pay attention to. Figure out when you have that feeling, when you don't... I suspect that feeling comes on as a way to say, okay... we've been at point A too long, lets go on to point B... Link to post Share on other sites
Author Green Posted April 29, 2007 Author Share Posted April 29, 2007 Im 23 and I have been at point "A" for to long, I had dreams for myself and I still think I have the power and strength to acomplish them, I ve just been stuck in point A' Ive tried to keep a journal before but I usualy quit after about 2 days I wish I could just comit to something and do it. Link to post Share on other sites
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