What is your lifestyle?

[own8ge]

See title

 

[nanook]

intpforum

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

It's like waging wars in a coma.

 

[Jennywocky]

Transfixed motionless between desire and indecision, a timeless moment of complexly balanced inaction.

 

[TheManBeyond]

the bottomless pit

 

[Architect]

Pretty boring.

 

[Coolydudey]

awww, archie's having a midlife crisis.

my lifestyle? stylelife http://web.stylelife.com/

 

[TheManBeyond]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J69oCCM1EcI

pureee passsssioooon

 

[nanook]

in symbolic images

Spoiler

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my style makes it obvious that i'm not down with society
i'm not this guy, but i wish i was, i'd get laid and all


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i literally skate. sometimes. for fun, not for ambition.


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i dig navel gazing
i do it on the floor

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i don't have much of a place of my own


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at the end of the day, i stay alone and i know it

 

[Double_V]

Not as expected.

 

[Pizzabeak]

Probably disappointing

 

[Architect]

awww, archie's having a midlife crisis.

Been there done that.

Seriously, sitting in a cubical next to a bunch of ISTJ's all day is entirely unlike getting drunk at Disneyland and making fun of Mickey.

 

[BrainVessel]

Of an average lethargic rebellious nerdworm.

 

[Yellow]

Trichotomous

 

[Absurdity]

Lots of orgies

 

[Brontosaurie]

a scope traversing a straight line, narrowing to align with it

may have been a circle, may become a point

preparation of character for life in despair

doing silent favors by seeing potential in others to know this truth of mine

nightmares that don't scare me - sometimes i'm the antagonist

crippling hyper awareness of motives in myself and others

what has begun is already finished - following through is a matter of filthy pride

 

[own8ge]

awww, archie's having a midlife crisis.

my lifestyle? stylelife http://web.stylelife.com/

that site better be troll

 

[Reluctantly]

^ Oh, it's real.

 

[Reluctantly]

So I wanted to answer the question, but don't understand what it's asking.

What's a lifestyle?

 

[own8ge]

Interpret it as you please. Here is the definition bij Marriam-webster

a particular way of living : the way a person lives or a group of people live

 

[Minuend]

 

[Reluctantly]

I suppose I like to spend much of my free time by myself. Otherwise, I pretend to be what people expect of me when required. Outside of that I don't like to have a style - too limiting.

 

[StevenM]

Couldn't lifestyle be broken down into categories|?

Perhaps, career, social, health, sex.

Yeah, I don't have sex too often (enough)

 

[EditorOne]

Lifestyle: Proscribed by two careers and two incomes that ended about five years too soon, trading time for money, further defined by illness and surgery with medical roots in each profession.
And yet, we just got back from a week in San Juan with plans for another trip within six months.
Our retirement lifestyle lacks goals and objectives, it has mainly processes that, somewhat zen-like, exist because they exist. We are no longer driving the car to go somewhere, we are driving the car wherever in order to enjoy the ride.
Confusing, huh? Wait until you retire.

 

[Cherry Cola]

I spend my being angry at how stupid I think 90% of all people are and despairing over how I will never be as smart as those of the upper percentile which I deem smarter than myself are.

 

[AlisaD]

I dance my way through life

 

[Jennywocky]

Dancing through life, mindless and careless
Make sure you're where less trouble in life
Woes are fleeting, blows are glancing
When you're dancing through life

 

[computerhxr]

I adapt to the situation. I follow logic and reason and alter my trajectory when I create turbulence. I try to be a check-and-balance to those who are off track. I try to communicate at all levels with everything that exists and doesn't exist (yet). I am fascinated by everything, and I do my best to empathize and understand.

I had an interesting conversation with a local homeless gentleman a few days ago. Based on the items that he pilfered from the dumpster, he had elaborate explanations of how things end up in the trash. Elaborate stories that are probably true based on observation, intuition, and logical deduction. I ended up giving him all of the plastic bottles that I had been saving (5 trash-bags) and $20. He was ecstatic about the bottles because they were light-weight and easily recyclable. Honest, modest, happy, and full of positive energy in the face of what we would call a debilitating mental disease.

Everyone has utility, but it's our choice to choose the trajectory. Flat, negative, or positive. A persons utility is a product of nature and their will to survive.

Also, I love nature and animals. When I see something in the wild, I will commune until we reach an understanding. No real fear for death but I am aware of my surroundings and will avoid it as best that I can. I calculate my odds and take risks constantly.

Basically, I want to know and experience everything but I'm limited by the ridged structure of reality that was built by our predecessors.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrDfSZ_6f4U

Keeping to myself and making little waves, occasionally heading out on excursions when I feel compelled to leave or drawn to certain place. Jacking into cyberspace to stimulate my mental circuits, and exploring my feelings and imagination through auditory dimensions of music. Striving for personal success and harmony in a world I don't feel I have much control over but have some simmering desire for.

 

[cheese]

Very relaxed. I'm constantly reminded of how lucky I am and that thought fills me with gratitude and happiness. I have a low-stress, low-interaction job, I don't work many hours, I'm mostly my own boss without having to deal with much admin, I get by financially and feel almost completely comfortable, generally I can spend without worrying, I don't have to share with housemates (partner is fine), I live in a place I love which is very private but also super convenient, I have a lot of free time to myself to just kick back and do whatever I want.

All of this does wonders for my mental/physical stress, which has been fairly constant the last few years - but would have been so, so much worse if I didn't have all the benefits I do. I derive a lot of comfort and happiness from the simple things and conveniences around me. If not for the life problems, accompanying depression and health problems, I would be happy all the time, like I was as a child. I am very lucky. Luckier still to find happiness in simple (almost stupid ) things.

Ooh, I might make a thread about the small things in life we enjoy.

 

[BrainVessel]

Dancing through life, mindless and careless
Make sure you're where less trouble in life
Woes are fleeting, blows are glancing
When you're dancing through life

Nessa...... Doctor Dillamond........... Fiyero....
FiiiiYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOO

 

[8151147]

People see me as a cold blood, aloofness, stone heart, dictator, weird guy.

They never ever know in deep down I'm friendly, nice, and trying to prove how emotional and lovely I can, sadly lol.

 

[eagor]

reading, writing, thinking and the occasional physical diversion ̶p̶o̶t̶/̶m̶a̶s̶t̶u̶r̶b̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶.

 

[crippli]

I think I'm usually defined by my interests at the moment. That could range from a bum to an creator. Now it's artificial insemination, or rather. A product that could be consumed to extend the lifespan of semen up to a week around an egg.

I think this product would change the world as we know it. There is much that can be still discovered, understood and improved regarding creation of life.

 

[TheManBeyond]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5twf9NZ3b0

 

[QuickTwist]

Extreme highs and lows. I exist and that's about it. I have no great ambition; acceptance is all I crave, but it is something that is intangible for me it seems. So i push harder not getting any better results.

P.S. Kid Cudi FTW. That could be the theme song to my life. Its so true its depressing.

 

[MissionPossible]

What is my lifestyle? That's a broad question.

My lifestyle is rather unconventional. I go where I want to go, do what I want to do, when I want to do it. I have always paid my own way and I have never taken anything I have not earned, not even in childhood. I don't care much about money, but I like making enough to live on my own terms. Time and freedom is far more important to me than money, as time is the one thing we never ever get back and only have control over how we choose to use it when we have it. A native of Oregon, USA, I have spent much of my life traveling the world and working on various projects in the social sciences. I have played parts in history and a part of changes human geography and culture. I am a natural introvert who spends a lot of time extroverting. I enjoy dating, but I am the monagamous and sentimental sort. It can be quite hard to find an intelligent, non-religious, atheist man with his head and heart on straight who charges my brain at the right level so I am living single. When at home in the USA, I usually live alone (but entertain quite often) and make myself happy with books, writing, intelligent discussions, sports, animals, forests, mountains, lakes, and rivers.

 

[nexion]

Time does not exist. I seem to bounce quickly from one task to another, even if I have not satisfactorily completed the first task. Exploration and knowledge have always been my primary drive, for the more I learn, the more I am capable of learning. To that end, I always intend to come back to the original task and finish it, when I feel I possess the means to do so. Until then, I will do other things that may or may not give me the means to do so. Realistically, I am always trying to do so many things that I forget most of them. The ultimate goal is to eventually possess both the willpower and the knowledge to be able to complete any given task in a single shot, and then move on to the next one, and to develop a mental framework within which a steady flow may be achieved. This is a point onto which I slowly converge.

 

[JPS]

I wake up at 4 in the morning, consume copious quantities of caffeine, toy with some idea or another, do nothing for a while, go to school and then do nothing some more, go home, take a nap, wake up, do homework, write and possibly read, go to bed, repeat. All the while feeling unremarkably sad except for the occasional moment of euphoria or anxiety.