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Who's feeling unsure about things ?

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shmeghead

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Greetings Earthlings,,
Ummm this may be a bit confusing to some, but lately I've noticed more and more that life seems to be feeling a bit 'unsure'. I've spoken to a few people about this and it seems that a lot of people are feeling similar, like they've always forgotten something, a bit unsure about their career choice or life path, or perhaps just feeling confused about life in general....
The ppl I've spoken too, so far, cover the age range of 22 up to 35. Half of them are from Aus, but the other half are from all over this beautiful planet of ours...
Being a 'hippy@heart' I do have my beliefs as to why this is, and I'm curious as to how many ppl out there also may be feeling this way. For those other ppl out there who are 'hippies@heart' you may have read about the significance of the year 2012 according to various 'ancient civilisation' texts, I believe it has alot to do with this.
Thoughts anyone ??
8-)
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Peace All
Namaste
 
I'm always confused
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i dont know what im going to do with my life... if anyone has any suggetsions, or real experiences, and valuable lessons they'd like to share with me .... feel free too... just please keep them unbiased :P and away from the 'you need a good job, rah rah rah, you need training in this rah rah rah'
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thank god i'm not the only one!!!
i've been feeling heaps confused since my 23rd birthday last week, the whole "i'm going nowhere fast" problems...
needing to chat about it, as non-drug-taking-friends simply shrug it off with a "no more drugs for you" comment, so if anyone wants to, please email me with your icq no..
yeah, wots with 2012?????
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okay, no more donut, i'll use my old name...
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Well, thats my 2.2c worth (inc. GST). I'll be in the corner if anyone needs me....
 
Well this topic about totally sums me up at the moment... I'm still pretty happy and everything in my life is ok, but I have no real direction and certain parts of my life are so confused that it frustrates me at times. With my stint at uni possibly winding up at the end of this year I have no idea what I'm going to do (therefore I wish to stay at uni for as long as possible).
But the only thing you can do is keep your head up and try to make the most of things.
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Have fun - Play safe
 
I feel like NEO in the matrix. It just doesnt feel right. Sometimes I say, fuck it, enjoy and just go with the flow, but I always think 'but where is it all going?.
Like there's a bigger picture that I just can't see.
I'm right with you people's. Let's see if we can help each other out eh?
 
ICQ - 41552759
if anyone wants to contact me,,,,
I believe I can probably help out..
I may not be able to make total sense of what you are feeling, but I will be able to put your mind at easy and perhaps explain some things...
BUT,, if you are going to contact me, please do so with an open mind,,,, Keep in mind I am a hippy LOLOL my logic is simple, but can clarify a few things..,.,.
I'm game if you are,.,., 8-)
hehehhehe
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Peace All
Namaste
 
i'm only 18 and i'm confused as hell about my life... although maybe that's just normal for my age group... i guess i've got direction, i know what i wanna do... be an author... i just don't know where i want to live, i don't know whether i should move overseas after uni... jeez... i'm a fucking mess...
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peace
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"Try combining a childlike wonder at the beauty of the world with cynicism at the state it's in, and stay sane... it isn't easy" - Me
 
the 2012 thing:
i could be wrong but i saw a TV show on ancient civilisations a few weeks ago. it was all about how various ancient "lost" civilisations were highly advanced engineers and astronomers, and how many of the massive pyramids, monoliths and the like (Stonehenge, Giza, Angkor Wat, giant drawings on the land in scotland and south america, south american temples and ruins etc) are really star maps and calendars. these monuments have functions like predicting solstices, eclipses and other astronomical markers of time. Now, one of the South American civilisations, i can't remember which (Aztec, Mayan, Olmec or Inca) used their calendar to predict the end of the current "age" of existence of the Earth. in other words, the world as we know it will end at this date. When the date they predicted is converted to our calendar system, it comes out as the 23rd of december, 2012.
so basically these south american indians predicted the world will end on 23/12/2001.
there could be another significance to 2012, but this is the only one i'm aware of (but i'm not really an ancient scholar, hey?). my advice, if the world's gonna end in 11 years, there's not a lot we can do about it, so there's no point worrying
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cheers.
DQ.
 
Sounds like you guys are coming to that age where you work out what life's all about.
I'm only 22, but I went thru the whole "lost" thing a few years ago and I can tell you, it don't get any easier.
(Warning - Buddhist & Tao beliefs coming)
"All of life is suffering, what is important is joyful participation"
Like the song, life wasn't meant to be easy. How boring would it be if you had everything planned out?
Everything happens for a reason, that much is true. Whether that reason is defined before the action is irrelevent, but what I do know is that living life day by day is far more fun than stressing out about things you can't change.
If I'm having a really rough time I do a home roll. Take a pill, sit around and talk with people, take a walk, whatever. Seems like people have forgotten the beautiful ability of e to help you "work things out".
 
"the world as we know it will end "
THat is a powerful statement isn't it.. and yes you are very accurate with your understanding. THAT logic, of the ancient civilisations & their dating, is wot I have been brought up with..
Now, without wanting to get too spiritual (please don't boot me over 8-) ), that statement of "the world as we know it will end " (in my understanding) isn't so much in a physical sense as it is in a 'spiritual' sense.
Now b4 you hit your 'back' button gimme 30 seconds of reading time.
It's a perception (sorta) thing. Your parents looked at their lives and purpose's on this planet totally differently than is perceived currently by 'our' generation(s)commonly.
Example... Your parents focus on 'work' ,, have to have work,, career is VERY important and you will be nothing without one.. creating individuals like 'work-aholics'..
Where as 'OUR' generation(s) see family & happiness as more important than being a lawyer or a doctor.. To 'us' (i'm generalising I know but this is going off who i've spoken too and their general overall perceptions) our lives are more important than just eating & breating.
Happiness & personal satisfaction is more important to US than it was to our parents (to sum it up in one sentence)....
Hence the 'New Age' lifestyles that are MUCH MUCH more commonly accepted now than they were 40 or 50 years ago.... Meditation is something a LOT of ppl do.. Yoga, Acupuncture, Physcic readings, tarot cards are all COMMONLY accepted. Where as 40 or 50 years ago they weren't something you spoke about...
We are currently entering the age of aquarius... our perception's on life is changing.
We are confused simply because what we have been brought up with (i.e. work work work) isn't what we 'know' to be true within ourselves...
I hope SOOOOOO much that this makes sense... www.clp.net.au
is my plaything,,,
If you are curious, go to the 'write' section and take a look see.
If it don't make sense I'll give you your money back ROFLMAO
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Peace All
Namaste
 
I think its common to get the whole "im going nowhere fast' thing. How can you not when your pushed and guided through the first 18 years of your life (even later if you go straight into uni) then your expected to just continue on without a hickup.
Totally disagree about the end or world thing and the tarot cards though
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. We know about tarot cards and psychics because of those dodgy late night TV ads
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De Quincey, that show on lost civilisations wasn't followed by some seriously weird but funny skit on some english gentleman..
if not...forgive me...it was one of those wee gems
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..but I digress... It is all incredibly interesting and fascinating the way the ancient civilisations all seemed to point to planets etc. Definitely a higher order of intelligence.
Direction - we are definitely brought up in a society that believes we must set goals, strive for goals and then we will be happy. I'm not sure this is true. Sure, it's good to set goals to try and achieve, but sometimes you get so focussed on the end result you forget about the in between. It's the inbetween (taking time to smell the roses) that is the lovely bit of life. For instance, I have a horse that I compete on, and know many different horse people that compete in different equestrian pursuits - so many of them tend to not enjoy their riding, they can't just go out for a good bush bash, because that's not training.. when, the reason we got into horseriding in the first place was that infinite joy of being with this beautiful animal, and experiencing all of nature's beauty by going for a bush ride, or whatever... ummmm... where am I going with this... ? oh, that's right..they just set themselves goals, and go about achieving them without enjoying the in between.
Life isn't about having that excellent career, with the excellent salary package - these things are good to have, but not really necessary. I work to live, not the other way around. I feel sorry for those that have it arse about face and live to work.
My husband and I went through some soul searching moments a few years ago, when his sister's husband was killed in a truck accident. He was only 32. It is things like this that smack you in the face, and shout at you...what the hell are you doing?
Live life every day, and find something that you enjoy doing every day..because it may be your last.
...hmmmm...deep....!and possibly depressing...but... the cup is half full remember.
 
The world seems to end a lot doesn't it????
You have one life...it's not in texts, philosophies or altered mental states. It's in your heart and your soul.
Do with it what you will.
We all started at the same point at birth.
 
I'm with Blindside on this one...life would be extremely depressing if we knew what our futures were going to be. I think perhaps the realm of choice is so large for our generation that it becomes daunting and the possibility of making the "wrong" choice stuns us into not knowing what to do.
It's all in your attitude really...the date the world is going to "end" makes no difference if you have a brain aneurism tomorrow morning. Just follow your heart - it's usually right
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OK I'm going to ask a question. Being that this ancient philophy thing used mathematical models (I assuming I don't actually know) to determine this 2012 theory could it be conceivable that acient cultures did in fact work out the chaos theory?? However saying that I have seen many doco's on these cultures and I have always been totally amazed at there level of mathematical undersanding.
 
2012 - the Mayan point of transformation for humanity. some also dub this the year of the Singularity - the point beyond which, given our current state of predictive technology - mathematical modeling, theoretical physics, etc, we become unable to predict anything.
but what does this have to do with the anomie y'all seem to be voicing?
i believe the real issue is not only an outdated societal infrastructure propagating archaic accumulative-consumerist (retentive-expulsive?) value systems, but also, a lack of any true rites of passage in western society, nothing that helps to define one's growing personality in relation to the rest of the world, to enable finding the limits of one's character, to find the inner strength and sense of purpose.
far be it from me to attempt to rectify the situation, yet i suggest that if you're feeling lost...you probably dont know where you are going.
identify your priorities - what is really of import in your life - set some goals - make a plan - but most importantly, stop the existential masturbation, get off your ass and do something! first suggestion - go travel.
 
I've felt like this, since god knows when???
One day I think I finally know what I want to do, then the next I'm like no I don't really want to do that at all. I feel like time is running out for me to decide things, even though it probably isn't, but that's just how I feel.
The only thing I know is that I want to travel overseas for a couple of years. At least keeping a goal like that in mind keeps me sane
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