Most people aren't impulsive enough.

Most people will choose comfort over adventure.

I've stumbled across a few people, who seem genuinely content with their lot in life. But the majority of people I've met aren't miserable, but they seem to lament what they haven't done in life.


What up with that?

 

What is up with that? I notice a bunch of older cry babbies.

Life noobs who try too hard and expect too much.

 

What's the solution then.

Seppuku?

 

I'm nobody to determine anyone else's solution.

I'm barely capable of my own. I prefer to go out like Lindsay Lohan:

 

Anti-depressants added to municipal water supplies.

 

We are creatures (as most animals are) that prefer comfort because it gives us a sense of control and security. If we constanly sought out adventure we would never establish our footing so to speak and we would not be able to make sense of our world. Comfort and routine give us certainy in life that we can spring from or fall back on when we are about to or do enter periods of uncertaintity and disillusionment.

 

Correction: Most people you know aren't impulsive enough.

I know quite a few impulsive people myself. It is all in who you know, and those people shape your world view to quite an extent. I know lots of people from lots of countries who love an adventure, actually.

 

From my experience anti-depressants not only make you less impulsive, but unable to achieve erections.

Depressions much... much better than life without sex.

 

Enough drugs and it won't mentally register as suffering.... hell... it may not register at all.

 

I also know many people who like adventures also, condescending gentleman; I'm just trying to be as general to the populace as possible.

 

I suppose the subtle difference between the prozac lifestyle and the lindsay lohan lifestyle is that you can reflect on the latter substance abuse with fondness.

 

What is adventurous is rather a personal scale. What I might feel is adventurous will not be to someone else.

I think we all, in general, tend to stay within a comfort zone, even when trying to be more adventurous.

The only time I see people really step outside of that is when it has been to do a dream or life long wish type of thing. Be that sky jumping or a trip to somewhere they have always wanted to go that would not be a normal holiday for them.

 

Yeah- as long as you keep bail money close at hand.... and a quick way to slip into rehab when the heat is on.

 

Me: Hi mom, do you wanna go get something to eat?

Mom: Well, Im watching such and such and I have to make sure the garbage truck comes on time and this show conflicts with this other show on my dvr so i gotta do this and then I need to fast for 6 hours so I am hungry when we go, so just let me do all that and then call me 30 minutes before you get here.

Me. ooooookfine

 

Impulsiveness correlates more with drug abuse, consumer debt, and prison sentences than with awesome adventures. Most things worth doing take some planning.

 

tv sucks the life out of people..
least with the computers can go places wifi,, interface with people about your adventures..

 

This is why I do not have cable. If I want to watch something I will download it. that reminds me I got to watch 30-30 about the raiders

 

i have shitty cable. its only 19.00 month. i dont really want it at all but its a contract so,, I dont care. i dont complain cause its never been really out of service and spongebob is on 4 different zones.. and my fit channel. all care about, watching military channel now on D day, its just on in the background. I actually have to trun all the way around to watch tv ..

 

I pay 40 dollars a month for 2mbps connection. Is that bad? I live in the middle of a city,

 

While this is true, I have also gotten some impression that a lack of adventure, a lack of excitement, arising from too much(?) comfort, seems to be a major element of depression for many. We seek comfort and security, but for many, if it comes too easily, a sort of emptiness can come from it. Particularly amongst younger adults. Boredom, listlessness, a focus on petty complaints... All seem to arise from not often enough stepping out of one's comfort zone.

A wise lady I once knew used to say she liked to maintain a 25-30% mess up rate. She said that any more then that and her life tended to be unstable. But too much less was a sign that she was getting complacent, and not trying new things enough.