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Doing it all again. 1
#13978691 - 02/17/11 12:36 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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If you could and you could choose what would you do and be?
I'd be a surfing bum for sure. I honestly can't think of a better way to spend my life.
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: Icelander]
#13978707 - 02/17/11 12:40 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Surf bum sounds cool. Unfortunately I don't even know for sure what I wanna be now..and I'm in college Maybe being reincarnated as the next John Holmes would be cool for a while.
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: Eminence] 1
#13978785 - 02/17/11 01:00 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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lol. the second i hit puberty i'd start hitting on girls. i mean no one tells you at 13 that they are horny too
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This question is like a double-edge sword.
You think of the answer and if it is different from your life now, you may end up regretting your past.
So I'd do it all the same.
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: giza] 2
#13979061 - 02/17/11 02:15 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I'd work harder on subjugating the entire world to my desire
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: andrewss]
#13979435 - 02/17/11 03:35 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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If you could and you could choose what would you do and be?
Traveling musician, moving from festival to festival across the globe. Though I haven't quite given up on that dream, yet.
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: Icelander]
#13979992 - 02/17/11 05:06 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I think I would be nerdier.
Just kidding.
Maybe.
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: Icelander]
#13980452 - 02/17/11 06:30 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I was a weekend surfing bum until an acquaintance got et by a great white shark.
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Isn't there a lot of surfing going on where you are? Just think about chillin on those blue green waves all day and hanging on the beach in the fresh air. Just going into town for food. I think there was a surfing heyday in the US in the sixties and early 70s. You could basically live on some of the beaches and not everyone was trying it.
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: Icelander]
#13980481 - 02/17/11 06:34 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Think of getting stung by a deadly box jellyfish.
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: Icelander]
#13980496 - 02/17/11 06:37 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Icelander said: Isn't there a lot of surfing going on where you are? Just think about chillin on those blue green waves all day and hanging on the beach in the fresh air. Just going into town for food. I think there was a surfing heyday in the US in the sixties and early 70s. You could basically live on some of the beaches and not everyone was trying it.
But...But...What about my brain?????
Yeah, lots of people surf around here, I am not one of those people. I did try once. I sucked.
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Your brain? You post at the Shroomery dear.
You don't have to be good, you can just float around on your board and dig on the big ocean.
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: Icelander]
#13980917 - 02/17/11 07:50 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Icelander said: Your brain? You post at the Shroomery dear.
*wipes tear* Never thought I would read you type that.
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You don't have to be good, you can just float around on your board and dig on the big ocean.
What about my critical thinking skills? 
BTW: When I said I "sucked", that might have been an understatement.
I would have to practice paddling for a year before I can get to the suck-ful level, then I might even have a minute chance of even catching a wave. (weak arms.)
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You can always boogey board I know you can't suck too much to do that at least.
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Critical thinking skills? I hadn't noticed, but you might find yourself relieved to not need them.
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: Icelander]
#13981043 - 02/17/11 08:15 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I don't understand.
What do you mean by "not need?"
I am pretty sure I will still need some form of critical thinking, when in a large body of water. I don't want to drown...yet.
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Let's just say you'll need a minimum amount.
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: Icelander]
#13981215 - 02/17/11 08:45 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Icelander said: If you could and you could choose what would you do and be?
I'd be a surfing bum for sure. I honestly can't think of a better way to spend my life.
Since i have only spent 21 years alive and 9 of those months i was curled up in my moms vagina... i don't have as many options to play "what if" with my life...
However if i could go back and change it, i would go back and peruse a college athletic career in soccer instead of partying and subsequently becoming a junkie...
I would have to take a bong rip, sit back and ponder this for a while to take it any further.
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: Icelander]
#13981244 - 02/17/11 08:51 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I'm happy with where I am now, perhaps I would not waste my middle school and high school years playing video games and not being social after being shut down hardcore in 5th grade by a girl and curling up into a little ball... But whatever that makes me who I am today 
There is still plenty of time to become whatever I truly desire. Well besides the next Justin Beiber.
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: twighead]
#13981251 - 02/17/11 08:53 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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twighead said: I'm happy with where I am now, perhaps I would not waste my middle school and high school years playing video games and not being social after being shut down hardcore in 5th grade by a girl and curling up into a little ball... But whatever that makes me who I am today 
There is still plenty of time to become whatever I truly desire. Well besides the next Justin Beiber.
Sounds like you are still pretty young. You gotta have some "what if's" man no one is that stisfied about life they would change one thing about their past.
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Cognitive_Shift said:
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twighead said: I'm happy with where I am now, perhaps I would not waste my middle school and high school years playing video games and not being social after being shut down hardcore in 5th grade by a girl and curling up into a little ball... But whatever that makes me who I am today 
There is still plenty of time to become whatever I truly desire. Well besides the next Justin Beiber.
Sounds like you are still pretty young. You gotta have some "what if's" man no one is that stisfied about life they would change one thing about their past.
Why do you say that? I'm about a year younger than you in my second year of college 
edit: Well replying to your edit, I ponder the subject all of the time, but honestly I'm happy with where I am right now... If I were to change anything I wouldn't have bullied kids the way I did in 4th/5th grade but when I all the sudden ended up on the receiving end in 5th it completely changed my outlook.... and maybe I wouldn't have done DXM as often in high school... (or smoked weed before that one anthropology test...)
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: twighead]
#13981282 - 02/17/11 08:57 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Why are you so salty about calling you young?
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I didn't realize I came across as salty, I simply asked you what led to you believing I was in high school... which around here is you know.. kinda an insult
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: twighead]
#13981374 - 02/17/11 09:13 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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It ain't an insult man, you just interpreted it that way. It just seems to me that the only thing someone would change are events that happened in middle school would be a person in high school
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Middle school + high school represent nearly 50% of my life, I don't remember most of the first 30%, and much of the remaining 20% has been spent enjoying myself and studying my arse off for my classes, what else is there really to change 
Perhaps we have simply misinterpreted each other - I'm hardly offended
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: twighead]
#13981412 - 02/17/11 09:22 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Indeed. Sometimes the internet makes social interaction difficult to interpret as displayed.
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: andrewss]
#13984234 - 02/18/11 11:52 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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andrewss said: I'd work harder on subjugating the entire world to my desire
I'd work harder on taking it all with me down the drain.
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: Icelander]
#13984269 - 02/18/11 11:59 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Icelander said: If you could and you could choose what would you do and be?
I'd be a surfing bum for sure. I honestly can't think of a better way to spend my life.
I feel like I have been doing the same all over again my whole life, and that includes many different things all over again, but united by the fact that I dragged an image of myself along the way. If I were to really do it all over again, I'd probably choose to just do it as a completely different person, with values I am not even able to contemplate in my present incarnation.
If you had said you wanted to be CEO of a billion dollar company, a scientist at NASA, or a hot woman with enormous tits, then it might be necessary to start over, really start over. But what's preventing you from becoming a surfing bum right now? Entry barriers to most trades which include "bum" in the title are certainly a lot lower than they are in many other lines of business.
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: amuzakat]
#13985347 - 02/18/11 03:30 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I'm too old and worn out (two knee surgeries) for surfing and I'm a terrible swimmer. I also can't afford to live in southern California.
I need a twenty/thirty year old body for the kind of surfing I'd like to be involved in. And as I mentioned the surfing heyday is long passed imo. Gidget is an old lady now.
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: Icelander]
#13985356 - 02/18/11 03:33 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I have only been surfing once (Huntington Beach, CA) and it was very tiring. I was not under the impression it was going to be such a work out, i was a natural tho! I stood up on my first wave i caught. I would surf much more often if i lived in an area where it was possible.
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: Icelander]
#13985683 - 02/18/11 04:50 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Icelander said: I'm too old and worn out (two knee surgeries) for surfing and I'm a terrible swimmer. I also can't afford to live in southern California.
I need a twenty/thirty year old body for the kind of surfing I'd like to be involved in. And as I mentioned the surfing heyday is long passed imo. Gidget is an old lady now.
Sorry about that. But I'd say... just being a bum, even without the surfing part, is not too bad either. ;-)
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: amuzakat]
#13985872 - 02/18/11 05:40 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I would have asked out a lot more girls back in high school and in general would be a lot more confident. Also incorporating more moderation in my drug use would have been helpful at times, not to mention taking a better selection of college courses now that I know what I'm more interested in. Also:
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I surfed once too. It was a blast. I've been in one of the best surfing places in the world and only snorkeled.
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: Icelander]
#13985935 - 02/18/11 05:54 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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There's no way to fabricate 'a life'. Imagination fails greatly in comparison with 'the real stuff'. I think it is pretty stupid to even suggest doing such a thing. What a waste of time trying to figure out a reality that would suit me more... unless i really hated my life ofcourse... but that's not the question, or is it?
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: Icelander]
#13985996 - 02/18/11 06:06 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Icelander said: I've been in one of the best surfing places in the world and only snorkeled. 

Doing dangerous and exciting things is part of what makes me feel human... an ocean is a great venue for such activities too
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Yeah, I was a really crummy swimmer. Snorkeling in deep water was enough. I'd never been in the sea before and in the tropics you can see very far down. The beauty overcame some of my fears. The reefs were so big there that if you wanted to surf you had to hire a boat to take you out about a mile or so.
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: Icelander]
#13986285 - 02/18/11 07:01 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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That sounds beautiful. It's a good thing you know your strength and weaknesses so you don't die a preventable unintended death like a typical dumb human.
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If you ever get some extra cash and time I fully recommend the Fiji islands. It's really dirt cheap once you get there. I stayed for about 4 months and had a an amazing experience.
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: Icelander]
#13986404 - 02/18/11 07:35 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I guess I am still too hopeful of getting what I want this go round to really have an idea for the a redo.
Really I think the next 6 months or so will be the make it or break time...maybe I find everything that has lead here was worth it...maybe not.
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: Cups]
#13986445 - 02/18/11 07:44 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Good luck with that.
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: Icelander]
#13986465 - 02/18/11 07:51 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yeah.
I find approaching it as a man already dead to be helpful.
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Re: Doing it all again. [Re: deCypher]
#13990329 - 02/19/11 02:42 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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deCypher said: I would have asked out a lot more girls back in high school
Me too.
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