I don't want to do anything with my life

some call you a visionary...LMAO, you're a lazy person with no future.

-rolls eyes-

He is a momma's boy.

Damn if that ain't pathetic.

I'm with you too OP, but the thing is that it's so frowned upon in our society. I mean my own family is telling me to go out and get a job or go to college. They call me lazy and whatnot and I even came to the point of considering I might have a mental illness since I have no motivation to do anything with my life.
What to do? Advice anyone?

I'm not necessarily "happy" with it. I mean, I like it but with all the stress from everyone criticizing me it really hurts. And plus: what am I going to do when no one is around to support me? Live in the streets?

Yep OP...livin' the dream....

It's more like, that one day you'll regret, wasting your entire life, being a slave to the society - maximizing the available free time, is the key for every evolvement.

I have also had your feelings of "shame" or uncertainty as to whether I have a mental condition. You know what? It's mainly because we're conditioned to follow the herd. Most people aren't as enlightened as the OP, or maybe even you.

Don't worry, be happy. This fucked up world will crash around the busy beaver and the "slacker" just the same. Nobody gets out alive. Enjoy yourself. Find your inner peace. I guarantee that a lot of those who give YOU a hard time haven't found theirs.

I get IT!

OK... I'll bite.

How old are you, OP? What about income? Housing arrangement?


I'm not trying to annoying. I'm making serious inquiry here.

God bless you. I wish I had more people like you to talk to. Nothing but mindless sheep in my life really. I have nobody who understands me and my life philosophy (yours and the OPs philosophy as well).

I don't need all the crap that the "average American" works live a dog everyday in their life to get. For what? What's the point? We're all going to die anyway and are we really going to be happy knowing we wasted our lives working instead of doing the things we enjoy deep inside?

Free time is invaluable, IMO.

I just can't see her talking like that..sorry.

OP I admire where you're going with this, I really do. In a way I'm similar, I try to not get caught up in the materialistic rat-race bullshit. I do however work enough to support myself and I have an apartment. I work 40 hrs a week avoiding OT as much as possible, at a low stress and easy job. I say stick with the mindset that makes you happy, but realize that the reality of this system is that you have three options: 1. Work to support yourself and/or family, 2. Be able to live off the grid, self sustained without the need for money, 3. Be homeless and live off handouts. You can't live off the support of your parent forever, so at some point you will have to sustain yourself and when you do, try at least to do something you enjoy. If you work a job you hate, something that really doesn't make you happy, then move on. Life isn't worth living being a miserable slave.

LOL, this reminds me of a joke,

This poor guy was at the beach everyday relaxing, chilling out and fishing, somebody comes along and says to him, why don't you get a job?

poor guy: why?

other guy: so you can make money

poor guy: and than?

other guy:than you can buy a boat

poor guy: and than

other guy: than you can go fishing and catch more fish and sell it and make money

poor guy: and than?

other guy: than you can buy 2 boats and catch even more fish and make even more money

poor guy: and than?

other guy: than you can buy a fleet of boats hire people to catch fish for you

poor guy: and than?

other guy: than you can sit around and relax and chill out and fish

poor guy: and what am I doing know?

All that b.s. you don't want to do is what it means to be a real man. A real man may never pick up a knife or a gun, or drive a tractor, or operate a chain saw, or do anything that requires being tough and burly. But he is still a real man if he does his duty with grace and fortitude, not crumbling under the load, always getting up when life and circumstances knock him down. That is a real man. A real man may not have tough hands, but he will have a tough spirit that rises to the high calling of duty. It is not about being macho; it is about taking responsibility.

Sometimes a man has to do what is unpleasant. That is the demarcation line. Boys stop and look for sympathy and understanding, while the men keep going into territory where it gets hard, painful, and more than that, boring—sickeningly and painfully boring. But they go resolutely on and do it because it has to be done. Men don’t put it off until tomorrow, that nebulous time where it is certain to never get done; they knuckle down and do their duty today. That is a real man.

Look at it another way OP, you really have no choice in the matter. There are no good paying jobs as there were 30 years ago. Afterall you could be making serious cash and being productive even if working for yourself. Not really an option any longer.

And as far as the wife and kids go, that is for someone with options.

I'm thinking about heading to the woods somewhere, eat from what I grow, sleep under what I make...

+100 for you m8, dive into it, enjoy it to the max and inspire many!
I agree, most people work just because they think they should, they live in an energy and spiritual growth consuming loop.
I do not know how you manage to live without work, but i could at least advice most people to work only 3 days in the week and live humble to connect with them selves and nature again.
And also not to get tangled up in a strangling relation taking even more of your personal spiritual time, it's a great natural relaxing way to meet with the peace again most of the western society totally forgot about.
And remember this is not he end, your freedom will become larger and larger if you allow it, then go off the human grid and then totally live on the love grid.

thanks for sharing.

Viva la Freedom!

OP are you on JSA

Don't feel ashamed man, it starts with loving who you are without the idea you have to do, be or help anyone.
You are good as you are, what can one do or mean for society if you can't even love the very fundamentals of who or what you are in the first place???
Start from the ground up, only love can make your day, not the amount of money, friends or kind of job you have.
If you don't like the way you live, try to feel and connect with peace, don't just internet all day, take some time of, visit nature, meditate and most important feel good about your self no matter what you do.
Put some passion and will behind that love, only then new inspiration and the appropriate change can come.


peace

We already had this. It was called nature, we ruined it though.

Back in the day in the Americas people weren't struggling to survive. The native indians had access to all the food they could ever eat, there were millions of buffalos, beavers, salmon etc. and only thousands of humans. Very little energy and effort would go into procuring food. This system was self-sustaining and super efficient, as long as people only took from nature what they needed and gave back what they could.

Because of high biodiversity, fatal bacteria and viruses weren't prevalent. Because all food was organic and there weren't any chemicals and other crap in the food, chronic health problems were minimal. The only health risks were infant mortality and accidents like breaking your leg or something.

Then civilization came, and the rest is history. The future technology solution hypothesis is a pipe dream and will never amount to anything. We're pretty much fucked. So yeah, enjoy what you have NOW.

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Same boat as the OP - Spend 90% of the time in my room since getting a job on the PC a couple of years ago. I have decked my room out in goodies - triple 24" PC gaming setup, 130" projector hooked up to the comp, 4 guitars, keyboard, grow cabinet bla bla bla, I have the best of everything right here & everytime I leave the house I'd rather just be at home getting blazed on the pc or playing guitar.

I'm quite the loon (ADHD?) & no girls ever taken interest in me, so er, best if I stay away from girls unless I want a retard which id rather pass.

<3 my sis tho !

The goal of working should be towards accomplishing automation so you can dedicate less and less time to work each week.

Check out the book "4 hour workweek" - OP probably read it

Ive been like this for years on end...

The truth sets you free, leave the world of work and all that to those other bums.

So I guess OP's answer is the same as this student's, to the immortal question...

there are no rules, no goal, just life.
some invent, some work, some love, some enjoy, some dance, some create, some travel, some help, some dream, some revolt.

Here's the problem with your chosen lifestyle. At some point, whoever is funding it will be gone. Then you'll have to fend for yourself. It is at this point that you'll realize you have nothing to sustain yourself with, and will be on the streets. You can't be a professional leech forever.