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Everything in my life is going right, except for myself.

I’m 21 and I am attending the local University, I’m fairly smart. My parents bought me a house. I have a nice car. I’m great at whatever I do. But…I’m lazy, I am selfish, I don’t do anything productive. All I want to do is play hockey and have fun. My parents pay for everything, so they have me on a short leash. I want my independence, but I don’t think i can play hockey, work, and pay for school, and I guess restart my life. I want to be successful in life, but nothing motivates me really. With school, I go the first week or so, then I get myself into trouble by skipping, then missing tests, and my parents pay for me to disrespect them. I don’t really have a lot of friends because i distance myself from them because i don’t like to go get drunk, or even drink, for that matter. I don’t know what to do. I’m about to flunk out of college and the cutoff date is this coming friday to drop all my classes…I’m confused and don’t know what to do. The only thing that is going right for me is hockey, I love it. It’s the only thing right now that I ever look forward to. Advice…please…

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Ankit offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (3 minutes after post)

perhaps you are looking for ur purpose in life..But cannot find it..

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Miss Mystical offline Verified User (1 year, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 6 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (8 minutes after post)

tell me about it

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bandk111 offline Verified User (1 year, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (8 minutes after post)

Miss Mystical wrote:
tell me about it

Are you agreeing? or want me to tell you about it? haha

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (9 minutes after post)

well… im only 17 (nearly 18)dont really know what you are going through… maybe its because you dont have a girlfriend to share the nice care and house with.. dont give up on your education.. focus on hockey more… if you love it that much maybe you can make it happen in your future.. not even playin it.. teaching it… you can be a hockey coach.. and teach children or adult the game you love..

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Miss Mystical offline Verified User (1 year, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 6 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (9 minutes after post)

yes

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lopitu offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (21 minutes after post)

If your are good at hockey, you can be good at other things, too. You are definetly missing a lot in life - friends don’t care about how much money you have, your car or your belongings - they will care for you and tell you in your face what they think you are doing wrong or right. Are your friends
From your words, you have no motivation for anything else than playing hockey. Okay. Maybe one good thing would be helping others - sometimes it is a nice growing process - if there’s any local association nearby that provides some kind of support to needy families, check what you can do, have contact with some other reality outside your shell, dude. It doesn’t have to be a religious motivation, I am not religious myself, but I believe that helping others is always a good thing.

I am older than you - when I was 21, I was in the army, made a lot of money and had no real purpose in life rather than wasting my money on whatever I felt like - I was independent, I was an adult. I was a moron. Well, I still am a moron sometimes, but I can pinpoint when it happens, LOL.

The realisation of your own flaws is a GOOD THING. You say you are selfish and nothing really interests you. I say you need to open your eyes and see what is happening in our world, to our people. All revolves around money! An money is not the solution.

If you have 2 hours (or 4) take a look at this:

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

I hope you find your path, man ;)

Lopitus

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lucif offline Verified User (1 year, 4 months) Long Term User Shouts: 7 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (34 minutes after post)

get a kid

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bandk111 offline Verified User (1 year, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (34 minutes after post)

lucif wrote:
get a kid

That’ll help…

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lucif offline Verified User (1 year, 4 months) Long Term User Shouts: 7 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (37 minutes after post)

I know, it is a ***** example. But the best way to suddenly get purpose in your life.
If you want a real difficult goal;
Try and attain enlightenment, it will make you happy too!
And it will also stop you from doing things that will make you unhappy.

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1 year, 1 month ago (44 minutes after post)

i think you have had it to easy and are rather spoilt.sorry to sound harsh but im just telling you how it sounds..your parents have done everything for you and made your life so easy for you that you dont really need to motivate yourself.you need to try harder at school get your grades carry on with your hockey but try and focus on what you want to do when you leave school.get a partime job that would give you more independence,and dont rely on your parents to keep bailing you out basacilly grow up .

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bandk111 offline Verified User (1 year, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (48 minutes after post)

ahh enlightenment, so easy to talk about, so hard to attain.

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lucif offline Verified User (1 year, 4 months) Long Term User Shouts: 7 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (1 hour, 3 minutes after post)

yep! But that’s the idea. You, have the backround to have a choice. You can see the difference. It might seem strange, but it is a good goal. And nobody, except those happy few, somewhere, can help you… it will be hard.

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bandk111 offline Verified User (1 year, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (1 hour, 4 minutes after post)

lucif wrote:
… it will be hard.

thats what she said.

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Anonymous #
1 year, 1 month ago (1 hour, 7 minutes after post)

just stop acting like a spoilt brat you have more then most 21 year olds think your self lucky.

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bandk111 offline Verified User (1 year, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (1 hour, 9 minutes after post)

Anonymous wrote:
just stop acting like a spoilt brat you have more then most 21 year olds think your self lucky.

I know i do, and i know I’m lucky, thats why I’m so disappointed in myself. That’s why I am trying to figure out what to do.

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lucif offline Verified User (1 year, 4 months) Long Term User Shouts: 7 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (1 hour, 12 minutes after post)

haha, www.xkcd.com ?

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bandk111 offline Verified User (1 year, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (1 hour, 17 minutes after post)

nice

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wha7eva offline Verified User (1 year, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 4 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (1 hour, 30 minutes after post)

i can identify a bit with this. my mother (shes great) tries to stuff money in my pocket every chance she gets. and has worked her azz off trying to bail me out of my various f***** ups.

its definitely hard to become accountable for yourself if it really just doesn’t matter too much whether you are or arent.

i think you’ll probably never cooperate with anything unless its something that you chose. something that inspired you first, not someone else who pulls strings.

and, for what its worth, why should you?

but before you devote your life to hockey, maybe you should go on a little adventure to figure out what else you might care about. some sort of journey (roadtrip or backpacking thru europe or whatever seems good) where you start out with some money, cut all ties to parents temporarily, and see where you get on your starting capital. you’ll probably find some other things to add to the list of stuff you feel strongly about.

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seas light offline Verified User (1 year, 4 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (2 hours, 20 minutes after post)

You have been given too much through your parents who apparently love you very much. This however has prevented you to grow, work hard, a get the self satisfaction of knowing you did and achieved things on your own. You would appreciate all that you have so much more when you’ve earned them for yourself. Start by having a more positive attitude, and stop skipping , missing tests, and getting you act together. You’ll be glad if you do. It’s never too late to change. Best of luck to you in your future :)

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Anonymous #
1 year, 1 month ago (2 hours, 44 minutes after post)

my life is the same

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seas light offline Verified User (1 year, 4 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (2 hours, 50 minutes after post)

So your also depressed, and have been given alot in your life?

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nenelindodecor offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (2 hours, 51 minutes after post)

yeah

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seas light offline Verified User (1 year, 4 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (2 hours, 53 minutes after post)

Have you tried seeking any help for it?

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downman1 offline Verified User (1 year, 5 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (4 hours, 59 minutes after post)

Sholin monks believe that the right state of mind is just as important as the quality of life. Sounds like you need to go to classes and work extra hard. You can’t skip classes or skip tests. Find a motivation that you have’t found before. Like your parents aren’t going to be around for ever to support you , and what about your kids, Don’t you want to teach them to get an education.
here are my reasons for going to my classes
-Mad expensive
-every class is 110$ on its own
-tests are verry important
Here’s what motivates me
- partying (these are pretty crazy) after a hard week
- biking
-My friennds at school
- finding a good job after school

Look it seems like hockey is you passion. What happens to that if you drop out GONE.
Go to classes
find a motive.
Mabey you need to go out to partys (don’t drink if you don’t want )

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1 year, 1 month ago (8 hours, 49 minutes after post)

hey sorry to be so harsh i hope you can figure out wat to do for the best..im sure you will best of luck to you..

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