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I don’t know what to do with my life

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Re: I don’t know what to do with my life

#22

If you're an avid newsreader you could be forgiven in thinking that the world is diving headfirst into becoming a burnt-out hellscape, but that's really not the case -- its just that our personal access to information is a lot better now. I mean don't get me wrong, there's still a lot of horrible shit in the world (hold on to this for a second). In the last hundred years infant mortality and absolute poverty cratered…

Definitely. Avoid "news" that caters to your morbid curiousity. Don't get drawn in. Find sites that cater instead to your intellectual curiousity.

Re: I don’t know what to do with my life

#24
You can sit there and wait for someone to tell you what to do, or you can start crawling and observe how others walk. You can look outside the window and see all the wrong things in the world, or you can look outside and see all the good things in the world. You can look backwards in your life and see all the stupid things you have done, or you can think about the good things you will be doing tomorrow. You can think about all the things you have no control, or you can think about the things you can leverage. You can think about that 100 people who hates you or you can about that 1 person who loves you. You can think about yourself as a sum of all your mistakes, or you can think about yourself as a sum of all your actions. Take a chill pill, drink some chill beer, relax, its not the end.

Re: I don’t know what to do with my life

#28

You should try volunteering.

That will inevitably raise a question, why people do not want to help themselves?

For many (include myself) it's to do with self esteem. It's much easier for me to do something if I'm doing it for someone I care about than for myself.
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