<p>YouTube</a> - Music and Life - Alan Watts</p>
<p>Makes me remember to enjoy my life and not just live to work or to get to the next successful point in life (great college, or great job, etc.)</p>
<p>Posting on a message board about college admissions is very ambitious of us all. But don't get too caught up in it, because - whether you get into your dream school or not - there is more to life than just this.</p>
<p>This is amazing, thanks for sharing!</p>
<p>yup, no prob</p>
<p>Amazing! Made me smile</p>
<p>Those two minutes may have changed my whole life…</p>
<p>That made me stop and think. Who knew that procastination could lead me to such nice things. lolz</p>
<p>Thanks for posting it up. ^__^</p>
<p>NICE! :)</p>
<p>^^I conquer</p>
<p>Does this video scare the **** out of anyone else. This has always been one of my biggest fears. Being trapped in this type of situation for your entire life. And this video just makes me realize how difficult it really is to escape it.</p>
<p>^Yes. It scares me. I don’t want to live my life like that.</p>
<p>…actually, yeah. Now that you mention it. I think we put too much pressure to do everything right: get into the right college, etc., “If I don’t get into Harvard, I’ll die” “If I don’t get this scholarship, I’ll die” If I don’t get this job or marry this girl, I’ll die" where that is not the right thing at all to do. It makes me think what is important in life. Why am I here. Why do I live. But more importantly, what can I do to make a difference in this world. We should all give a big look at our priorities and how it affects those around us.
Even here on this forum, a lot of us put so much time and energy to get into this one college…but we don’t know what to feel after we get the acceptance and our excitement has passed. We go on to set ourselves up for the next goal in life…which for most of us is graduate school, a job, etc. It makes me think what am I truly working for. For example, College confidential has been around for about a decade now : [One</a> of the Earliest posts I can find](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?70/109]One”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?70/109) and I wonder where are those people now who posted right before September 11th, 2001 and what colleges have they gone to now…and are they satisfied. Many people’s lives change after Sept. 11th. People shifted thier priorities and worked towards a different goal after that day. hundreds of us go through this forum each day, each year, to work towards one goal at this point in our life:college. But what is really important? I don’t know. It seems we have to live our life first to understand what’s important so that we can truly achieve happiness, which is counterintuitive becuase once we find out what to work towards, it is too late. lol sorry for the rant.</p>
<p>But yeah, I don’t want to end up trapped. :eek: It makes me ask am I living like that NOW!!! …or setting myself up for that life?</p>
<p>Exactly. I mean. Nowadays, life consists of school and work. That’s how it goes. The majority of our generation is going to go to college, get an education, and get a 9 to 5 job that they don’t even like just to get those monthly pay checks. It’s ****ing scary to think that that’s it. That there isn’t more to life than work and school and money.</p>
<p>I mean, I look at my parents and think “I pray to god that I never end up like you”. I don’t want to wake up ten years from now in the same place every day doing the same damn job that I probably don’t even want. But when you really think about it, how do you escape from that? How many people do you know that have escaped?</p>
<p>That was beautiful.
Most of my life I’ve spent working towards a goal, that’s basically American culture work to reach that goal and you can smell the roses later. But then there comes a point where the roses are gone.
I have wasted most of my teen year preparing for college not realizing I’ll never have this time to be a child again.
: (</p>
<p>Wow this may sound reallly dumb but that kinda made me rethink myself</p>
<p>Damn… it does feel like a trap.</p>
<p>Gotta do me.
Live it to the fullest.</p>
<p>I feel like the whole premise of the video collapses if you set the right goals. The problem is bad goals, not goal-setting in general.</p>
<p>You gotta take a step back and look at this from an evolutionary perspective. The years with human civilization is extremely short relative to the years when humans just relied on survival instinct to survive.</p>
<p>Now our culture is very different, and we have to make a lot more decisions that impact our future than the primitive short term decisions, “Eat Sleep Sex”, which probably why procrastination is so common, our brains aren’t used to doing a task for long hours.</p>
<p>Now our long term goal in society is success. Which requires elementary, middle, high, college, grad school. So just make your journey as enjoyable as possible (the video). </p>
<p>Buuut anyways who cares. it’s your life nobody will think twice about your life cause they’re too busy thinking about their own. Unless your religious there is no “big brother” watching you (contrary to what we’re being raised to) and judging your moves, so just **** it and do whateva.</p>
<p>^^yep.
How about not only stopping to smell the proverbial roses, and enjoying life, but also reaching for these goals as well? I like the idea that this video suggests, but I think there is a balance between enjoying yourself and setting lofty, long-term goals.</p>
<p>I like this video a lot: [YouTube</a> - Alan Watts - On Nothingness](<a href=“Alan Watts - On Nothingness - YouTube”>Alan Watts - On Nothingness - YouTube)</p>
<p>Wow. Thank you, thank you, thank you for that…it was amazing. Those two minutes literally changed my perspective on many things.</p>
<p>Old thread is old.</p>