i see a career as a means to an end, but a family is an end in itself.(Original post by Ethereal World)
Like all of a sudden instead of being career minded and needing this and chasing this life actually deep down maybe I would have been happier without all this pressure and nomadic stuff. It only further serves to intensify the disconnect I feel about where I'm going and what I actually want.
awI literally just meant to reply to this saying yes my quote game is strong. Now I'm typing this out, crying and definitely making myself late for work.
Put a lid on it ethereal.
get yourself together and have a great day![]()
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I have felt nomadic for the past 15 years having lived between 2 homes or more at any one time.
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- 24-02-2016 08:49
(Original post by Ethereal World)
Like all of a sudden instead of being career minded and needing this and chasing this life actually deep down maybe I would have been happier without all this pressure and nomadic stuff. It only further serves to intensify the disconnect I feel about where I'm going and what I actually want.
Did you ever wish you could sometimes freeze frame a moment in your day, look at it and say "this is not my life".
Guess what though, there are still days when I'm sh*t scared I've done the wrong thing. There are even days where I miss my old job, which at the time I had convinced myself I hated. It's all part of being one of those human thingies. It took me a good 11 years since I left school to realise what I actually wanted, but even now I wonder about it. I don't think I'll ever be 100% certain, but that's what gives me the little thrill of frightened excitement. -
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- 24-02-2016 10:29
(Original post by Kvothe the arcane)
I've been adulting for years but a part of me does want a bit of an easier life. -
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- 24-02-2016 10:30
(Original post by JBLondon)
As someone who's had that 'is this what I really want' moment, I feel you breadrin. The last two years I've literally turned my life upside down, going from a very good, stable career to the complete unknown of going back to college and now applying for uni, at the age of 29. A quote from one of my favourite films ever sums up the exact way I felt at the time:
Bonus points for identifying the film.
Guess what though, there are still days when I'm sh*t scared I've done the wrong thing. There are even days where I miss my old job, which at the time I had convinced myself I hated. It's all part of being one of those human thingies. It took me a good 11 years since I left school to realise what I actually wanted, but even now I wonder about it. I don't think I'll ever be 100% certain, but that's what gives me the little thrill of frightened excitement.
I don't know the film, I could google, but tell me
Have you watched Garden State btw? The film the quote in the OP was taken from. -
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- 24-02-2016 10:31
(Original post by Ethereal World)
I think I want the stabilised adult life more than I want the easy child thing. But either way, being caught between two worlds is unsettling a lot of the time.. Now, I just go into work unless I'm dying and just try to keep up the energy for my other stuff.
When people with no problems choose to leave home rather early and strike out on their own, I look at them like they're crazy.
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- 24-02-2016 10:36
(Original post by Kvothe the arcane)
I like having my independence but for example, it's nice being taken cared off when you're unwell. Now, I just go into work unless I'm dying and just try to keep up the energy for my other stuff.
When people with no problems choose to leave home rather early and strike out on their own, I look at them like they're crazy.
'When people with no problems' - Essentially, I know what your point is, but you never know whether people have problems or not. You never know what people are covering up or what might be going on in their life. Also people's problems are relative as well. -
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- 24-02-2016 10:36
Spoiler:ShowMrs Doubtfire!(Original post by Ethereal World)
Have you watched Garden State btw? The film the quote in the OP was taken from.. -
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- 24-02-2016 10:45
At the age of 18 I moved out of my parent's home to attend college. But now 3 and a half years later with my undergraduate degree done, I moved back home because my postgraduate course doesn't start till september and everything really feels weird.
When I was still in university I would do anything to come back home on weekends and see my friends and family. but now that I'm home i've realised how home doesn't exist anymore. I would do anything just to get out of there. I feel as though I've grown out of this place and it doesn't feel the same. -
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- 24-02-2016 10:47
(Original post by JBLondon)
Spoiler:ShowMrs Doubtfire!
I haven't which I'm annoyed about because I loved Zach Braff in Scrubs. I'm going to watch it this weekend in your honour.I don't know why I'm so emotional rn!!!
It also has an amazing soundtrack- Don't Panic by Coldplay and New Slang by The Shins being two of my favourites. I feel goose pimples just thinking about it. Definitely watch it and report back to me.
Can't believe that's from Mrs Doubtfire... this is probably my favourite quote:
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- 24-02-2016 10:50
(Original post by Ethereal World)
So I like this quote. It explains everything I've felt in my early 20s. The transition of leaving home and being some sort of adult but just wanting that innocence and ease of childhood again. :
It's from Garden State aka the best film of absolute all time (Zach Braff's brainchild) and it's so true and exactly how I feel when I'm in this weird transition phase to adulthood, though probably should have got there by now. -
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- 24-02-2016 10:51
(Original post by Ethereal World)
You get everything. I think I just long for the innocence and the time where I was curious about everything and wasn't a slave to the system. No matter what way we look at it, we are all slaves to a arbitrary system. And in a way we do it because it's easier to transfer responsibility to an abstract force rather than having to take it yourself. -
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- 24-02-2016 10:55
(Original post by Ethereal World)
Oh god now I'm getting all the feels about Robin Williams. This is too much.
He used to call into sex shops in San Fran during the filming of MD dressed as MD and ask for big purple dildos and the like
He used to call people like Steven Spielberg using the MD voice on a weekly basis, and pretend to be a confused elderly woman who had called the wrong number. He did this years after MD wrapped.
Robin went so far off of the scipt with his improv for the Genie in Aladdin that the producers were worried that they may not be eligible for oscar nominations.
There are so many more amazing things that man did. He's one of the few celebrities whose death really affected me.
Also, thanks for nullifying my spoiler tags. I also love that quote, in fact I use it as part of my joke routine at work
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- 24-02-2016 10:58
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Why is the system arbitrary? -
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- 24-02-2016 10:59
(Original post by ChaoticButterfly)
Considering I still live at home.... not really. -
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- 24-02-2016 11:00
I wouldnt mind going back to being 18 again, I'd actually take A-Levels a bit more seriously, realise my my gf back then was a complete ***** and get into Manchester Uni (instead of the Met). Having said all this I have no regrets
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- 24-02-2016 11:04
Meh, I've lived in 20 different houses and moved out at the age of 16. Home is wherever I happen to be.
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- 24-02-2016 11:04
(Original post by Ethereal World)
Why is it not?!
If it's so bad, why not move to some 3rd world slum where there is no system? -
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- 24-02-2016 11:05
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Because it is based on a system, provides us with an extremely high standard of living.
If it's so bad, why not move to some 3rd world slum where there is no system? -
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- 24-02-2016 11:09
(Original post by Ethereal World)
That doesn't mean it isn't arbitrary.
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