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If there were something you could change about your life, what would it be?

Please don't post immature comments.

Something I would change in my life would definatley be to put a extremely large limit on to how much time I spend on electronics. Honestly, I despise electronics, and whenever I use them I feel mad inside, I'm not made to be a couch potato and play games mindlessly 24/7 (something some of my friends can actually pull off). I can't live like this and it's driving me insanely board. I, in fact, got so board today I went outside and watched the snow melt very slowly. Then I got out my snowboard and tried riding it down a tiny hill in my backyard.

Why is it hard to change this?

It's not like an addiction, really. Electronics are more of a fallback entertainment for me. Most of my friends perfer playing games rather than going outside and actually live a life. I have some friends that are into more exciting stuff, but exciting stuff costs money...And the ability to drive (I'm old enough, but my dad wont let me take the driver test until he quizzes me, but he keeps forgetting to quiz me >_<).

I hope I don't offend anyone here by saying this, but spending my teenage life on a computer and 360 is a major waste of childhood, and I know it's going to be a major regret when I grow up if I don't change. It's also getting to the point to where I feel like complete and utter shit when I get on. But I feel like shit when I'm board, too. So I guess you can see the predicament there.

Hopefully it's an easy fix lol...
...Hmmm.... That's it, I'm blocking this site with a random pasword..

i moved out recently can't see my friends anymore...

I have the same problem. I just have lots of connections and so I'll be able to wiggle into the game industry that much easier. My parents want me to get a degree in computer science and game design. Which is what I'll do.

I wish I could change the amount of time I procrastinate to nothing, but nothing comes easily.

I know exactly how you feel. Its the lack of creating something worth while. I've been insanely bored recently, mostly because I have mono, and its taking a hell of a long time for me to get better, so until I get better I can't even go to a friends house. I would change that I have mono, cause mono sucks.

I'd change the whole sorry mess. Blergh.

If there is one thing I would like to do it would be to be a Wide Receiver for my schools football team, but I working on art and computer stuff...

i would change to not procrastinate so badly, and actually make time to excsersise and not be like a twig >_<. also not use my computer as often, but hopefully that will change when i get my job.

TomClancey wrote:i would change to not procrastinate so badly, and actually make time to excsersise and not be like a twig >_<. also not use my computer as often, but hopefully that will change when i get my job.

Ditto.

Yea, I know what you mean, jk-47, I sometimes feel like that too. Probably the best thing you can do is try to join a school sport or club. I play school sports year round and also get a lot of homework, so that keeps my 360 and PC games restricted to the weekends, which even then im still writing papers or studying and stuff. My parents kinda force me to participate in extra curricular stuff so I dont sit around all day and play video games.

As for changing something in my life, it would be my one and only AP course that I'm taking as a Sophmore (in high school). AP European History is kicking my ass and taking a whole chunk out of spare time and social life. You guys might be laughing because its just a class but we get a ton of reading and writing to do and on top of it my teachers is a nut. Im usually an A student and I've been getting some 60's mostly 70's and a few 80's all year. So I put all this time into my work and only to get hardly any good grades back in return. And on top of that I hate history and writing, im a math and science person...


Also, to continue my rant, i sit next to some genius in this class who skipped 8th grade and took Algebra 2 and pre-calc over the summer and now is in AP calc. I think she got in the 99% on the PSAT and said she wasn't satisfied even though thats the best you can do. Anyways I'm here getting like a 68 on this paper that took me all weekend to write and shes on th verge of tears when she got an 88. She usually gets 100 though...so yea, it kinda sucks.

fishface617 wrote:I hate history and writing, im a math and science person...

me to.. and i have my la teacher to, wel sometimes cus she never does anything but notes and tests...

I would try harder in most of my classes, Actually Put effort into the work I'm doing.

Progress : Improving

JunkfoodMan wrote:I would try harder in most of my classes, Actually Put effort into the work I'm doing.

Progress : Improving

i think i need to take an example outta you

I probably need to be more social. It's funny because most people have the opposite problem; not trying hard enough in school. I try too hard in school. I have excellent grades and test scores, and I'm at the top of my class, but I don't have much free time at all. I use to be a lot closer to my twin brother, but lately we haven't been haning out that much (although I blame that partially on the fact that he has joined the whole stoner/skater/rap-listening clique). Luckily I have a few friends who share my interests in school and computers, but even then, I don't get to see them much out of school.
I figure it will all pay of though because I want to go to a really good college. But I've had my doubts about whether it's worth it. It's kind of sad being a 'work-oh-haulic' at such a young age, and I fear that that's probably what I'm going to grow up to be.

The_Hushed_Casket wrote:I probably need to be more social. It's funny because most people have the opposite problem; not trying hard enough in school. I try too hard in school. I have excellent grades and test scores, and I'm at the top of my class, but I don't have much free time at all. I use to be a lot closer to my twin brother, but lately we haven't been haning out that much (although I blame that partially on the fact that he has joined the whole stoner/skater/rap-listening clique). Luckily I have a few friends who share my interests in school and computers, but even then, I don't get to see them much out of school.
I figure it will all pay of though because I want to go to a really good college. But I've had my doubts about whether it's worth it. It's kind of sad being a 'work-oh-haulic' at such a young age, and I fear that that's probably what I'm going to grow up to be.

relax, do nothing loosn up

Yeah, I agree. I would go out and do stuff more, but I don't have the money to do the things I want to, so I end up at my computer. :'(

I'd take my new phone back and wait for the iPhone.

sad to see you go JK.

i wish i had worked harder the last semester of my senior year in highschool, and i wish i had signed up for community college instead of just hoping for an apprenticeship since i never got scheduled for an interview even though i passed the test.

i wish i could fly, y'know, like i control how gravity applies to me, but speaking realistically, i think i would work on being more social, be more efficient in things so i'm not just sitting around on the computer getting sidetracked, and i'd like to stop procrastinating as much too, beacuse it's really putting me behind. also, i'd like to finish things i start. for example, i started setting up a linux server downstairs months ago. where is it now? still sitting there, still with the ssh client running, still not finished. it also goes along with my attempts at modeling weapons. i start, then get frustrated, or disgusted and stop. same with programming/pc security, i used to be totally into it last summer, but now now, not so much.

Funny someone should post this...
My problem - This damned box we all call a computer. It absorbs so much of my life its not even funny. My schedule each day looks pretty much like;
6:00 am : Wake up
7:00 am : Go to school
3:00 pm : Get home from school
3:00 pm - 12 am : On the computer.
I don't do my homework. I have a habit of getting things done before classes. Hey, it works but its a terrible thing to do.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying its all the computer's fault like all those fat people and McDonalds. I know it's my problem.
Now to the point of why it's funny that someone posted this. I've recently decided that the best way to deal with this addiction is to get rid of the source. Which is why I will be removing my computer from my room and not going on one for a while. I feel I will be able to fix 90% of the problems in my life by doing this.
Back last year when I banned myself from here I was able to work some things out (You'll find a change JK-47 ). Yet, that just wasn't a hard enough punch to get my senses straight.
So for the most part it will goodbye for a while unless I decide to pop in and say hi.
(looks at join date) 4 years???? Hah, I'm outa here =P
Peace guys, thanks for the memories.

I would personally change the way the world focuses on pure evil to Love and Prosperity.