Man - life seems pointless sometimes

[shiftedShapes]

feeling depressed.  I could do anything with my life but im paralyzed by the choices available, and none of them really seem appealing.

mood is everything.

[rs3000]

feeling depressed.  I could do anything with my life but im paralyzed by the choices available, and none of them really seem appealing.

mood is everything.

If you live your life based on your emotions at any given point, then your life will have no focus.

[Delusional Liberal]

keep yourself busy and you wont be as depressed,make goals & accomplish.

[240 is Back]

Is going back to school an option?  being exposed to many new views and opportunities... along with being forced to stop working/tv/etc and just think about your options... helps many people

[G o a t b o y]

I could do anything with my life but im paralyzed by the choices available, and none of them really seem appealing.

Don't worry too much about it...  your choices aren't really all that important.  In 80 years (or less) you'll be dead, and probably no more than 60 or so years after that everyone you have ever met will also be dead.

Hope this helps.

[shiftedShapes]

so your reponses suggest that I should just stay the course and my feelings will pass.  Well you're probably both right.  That is what I'm doing.  I haven't made plans to join a monastery etc.  BUT it doesn't feel that way now.  I feel like that talking heads song: how did I get here, and I find myself with a beautiful wife, and a beautiful house, as these days go by.  You know the one I'm talking about.  I just ended up where I am by not making decisions, by just taking the path laid out for me.  I have a chance to change course, but I have no idea what to do, or even how to go about changing.  I don't know if I'm willing to make the sacrifices necessary to change.

I would really just like a little bit of magic.  Somehow for things to work themselves out for me.  I know that's not how the world works.  That's just what I would like.

oh and berzerk fury, that does seem kind of appealing.  I wont do it though not in my character.

240  Going back to school could be an option, I think the wife wants me to keep earning though.  She likes to watch the savings accounts grow.  So I would have to fight against that.  Basically just deal with disappointing her.

goatboy I hope to live long enough to live forever...to achieve actuarial escape velocity so to speak.

[Sir William Idol]

"keep movin' forward, that's how winning is done!"

Rocky Balboa

[shiftedShapes]

"keep movin' forward, that's how winning is done!"

Rocky Balboa

lol I always loved rocky (well 5 was pretty bad).  It's funny but that really does make me feel better.  thanks

[Tonkin]

rofl beserk, its time to end your life my friend shapes...Nobody hear will comfort here only encourage you to self terminate.

[avesher]

are u married with kids and all that.  If not, just take off and do what you want, regardless of money.  Live your life by your rules.  I do that now.  I live in a place for like 3 months, if I dont like it I move along.   Ido the jobs I want and if I dont like them I quit and find something else.  I'm shit ass poor, but I am the happiest I have ever been.  And I've had a sick high paying job, sports cars, warehouse condo, the works.  I wouldnt take that back for anything, it sucked.  I love life the way it is now.But also, I am considered a pretty weird dude for this.  Hope this helps.

[BuffGoddess]

Find something that gets you excited and go for it...I'm sure the guys are gonna take what I said all kinds of places it was never meant to go but anyway, get excited about SOMETHING!

[Delusional Liberal]

What if shiftedShapes is a liberal? 

if that is the case, then it's most likely the reason why he's depressed, liberals are generally very angry, pessimistic&unhappy individuals.

[D-bol]

I just ended up where I am by not making decisions, by just taking the path laid out for me. 

Sorry bro, but if you not making decisions yourself, decisions will be made for you, and since they are not yours you'll always be left dissapointed.

But check this out: in universal scope life is actually pointless: Nature's way is for organisms to be born, feed, grow, regress, and die. Thats it!

However, in each specific case its up to the individual (you!) to figure out what your purpose is and explore it! Some people figure it out early, some late, some never do. But then again, some people don't even look for that purpose, they just eat, sleep, shit, and watch TV.

The fact that you are wondering about purpose already makes you different from them. Maybe your purpose is to search for purpose?

[shiftedShapes]

are u married with kids and all that.  If not, just take off and do what you want, regardless of money.  Live your life by your rules.  I do that now.  I live in a place for like 3 months, if I dont like it I move along.   Ido the jobs I want and if I dont like them I quit and find something else.  I'm shit ass poor, but I am the happiest I have ever been.  And I've had a sick high paying job, sports cars, warehouse condo, the works.  I wouldnt take that back for anything, it sucked.  I love life the way it is now.But also, I am considered a pretty weird dude for this.  Hope this helps.

Avesher and Buff.  I wish I could follow your advice.  I am married but not with kids.  My wife and I are on the career fast track and I think I might want off.  I don't think she's ready to step off though.  She would like us to move towards financial stability and have kids in 5 years or so.  I think I want it to some extent too, but it really is not making me happy.  At the very least I'd like to take a few months and contemplate my situation, but I'm afraid to step off the track because maybe I won't be able to get back on. 

Matt C I'm more of a libertarian than a liberal, oh and 240 I thought 9-11 was an inside job from the very beginning. 

d-bol, you're definitely right, most people don't stop to think.  Maybe my purpose is to be the first person to get super huge off myostatin inhibitors.

[amoney86]

search your feelings and join the darkside.

[shiftedShapes]

search your feelings and join the darkside.

yes it is tempting to wall myself off inside a thick layer of muscles.  To feel the power course through me like gay wild horses through a field of daffodils.

[shiftedShapes]

seriously though.  I look in the mirror and don't even see a myself.  I see a person that I've been watching my whole life.  What will he do next.  Should I, the viewer, even care.

[Fury]

Stop fucking whining and change yourself then, clown. You're the only one who has any control over your life, so stop being a pussy and do something about it. Live with no regrets.

[the shadow]

seriously though.  I look in the mirror and don't even see a myself.  I see a person that I've been watching my whole life.  What will he do next.  Should I, the viewer, even care.

have you tried shifting shapes??like moving your couch from one room to the other.that would fill your day up and trust me you won't get bored..lol

[brianX]

Go put on a Nirvana album and cry yourself to sleep you pantywaste.

[the shadow]

Go put on a Nirvana album and cry yourself to sleep you pantywaste.

hahahahahaahhahaha...i think he should listen to kevin federlines album

[shiftedShapes]

Stop fucking whining and change yourself then, clown. You're the only one who has any control over your life, so stop being a pussy and do something about it. Live with no regrets.

I would like to.  Really.  There is something that I love to do, but I would make next to no money doing it, at least at first, and maybe forever.  As it is I do it as a hobby.  maybe If I do it as a career it won't be as enjoyable.  To get what I'm saying think about the difference between working out for fun and health, and doing it as a career.  To do the later you need to basically pimp yourself.  Well i'm not interested in being a pro BBer, I'm just pointing ou that making a career out of a hobby can sour it.

Also, I'm noticing an advantage to this depressed mood.  I already have nasty voices in my head so belligerent responses don't agitate me as they normally would.  They just seem like external projections of the constant brow beating that I'm inflicting upon myself.

Brain X which one should I play?  I liked the song lithium, maybe I should take some of that.

shadow I think kev's album has probably been pulled from stores, that is one dude who is more depressed than me.  Went from thinking he would be the next j timberlake, to just being a laughing stock

[D-bol]

Stop fucking whining and change yourself then, clown. You're the only one who has any control over your life, so stop being a pussy and do something about it. Live with no regrets.

harsh, but true...no one can change anything for you but yourself....

[shiftedShapes]

harsh, but true...no one can change anything for you but yourself....

yeah  it's tough being an adult.  It just kind of creeps up on you.  That's the weirdest part.  I can do whatever I want really.  I just have to decide what.  I guess just thinking about it is part of the solution, but in this mood I don't see the eureka moment coming.

[BuffGoddess]

Okay all your whining is pointless. Get a "pocket pussy" and masturbate...