Distractions becoming detractions

Reign in Acai

Reign in Acai

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Expanding Arse Magnum's porn addiction in to a full fledge thread. What every day distractions keep you from reaching your ultimate state of inner peace? Videogames, Television, RC, HDPorn, <insert opiate of the masses here>.

DaVinci said "a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death." I sincerely doubt that any one here is achieving their "maximum" potential. So what is it that is keeping you from being your very best? If you can pinpoint these barriers, do you have any wish to attempt to do away with them? Or are you perfectly content being lulled one day at a time to your inevitable demise in the arms of leisure?


I started reading a book last night on the foregone collapse of U.S culture. It champions a monastic (not literal) approach to obtaining individual enlightenment, in a realm of Farenheit 451 esque sedation.


:devil:
 
What every day distractions keep you from reaching your ultimate state of inner peace? Videogames, Television, RC, HDPorn, <insert opiate of the masses here>.
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I think its a bit of everything ... instead of reading about stuff for example, i found its best to "do" said things.

I think all of us always crave and want more in our lives, humans are never satisfied. Reaching a goal, merely makes you want to reach another. And the more you achieve, the more you crave. As it now seems easier and less scary to try something else.

Personally I don't know anyone that is truely content or has found inner peace. I would think someone has to be pretty detached from modern living to achieve that these days.
 
To make an honest answer... what is "maximum" potential/very best and inner peace?

Are we talking career? Money? Power? Or are we meaning Happiness? In my case, then it truly would be work/financial worries, they are about the only things that truly make it difficult for me to "be happy". In that most of the things I'm desperate to do or try, I can't afford, and cannot justify spending the money on, from a survival perspective.
 
Humans stress me out way more than they should, but I'm not the only one. The average moron can obliviously send me into a borderline bloodthirsty rage that just simmers. It sucks.
 
the problem is that really the bottom fucking line in this modern world is that it all comes down to money ... it is by all means not the be all and end all to happiness ... but it really does help to keep stress levels down and make life easier.
 
Reign in Acai said:
Expanding Arse Magnum's porn addiction in to a full fledge thread. What every day distractions keep you from reaching your ultimate state of inner peace? Videogames, Television, RC, HDPorn, <insert opiate of the masses here>.
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Actually it is when I indulge in doing nothing I feel at my best. A friday evening with a good dinner, some fine brews and time alone with the lady and some nice heavy fuckin metal and maybe a movie or some video/computer game... That's life!
Conspicuously Absent said:
Money doesn't equal happiness, but the lack of it sure fucks shit up, and having it makes a lot of the other crap easier.
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Amen to that. It's a bitch, but I hate being without.
 
good thread..... I'd say many things prevent one from reaching maximum potential. Like Lurch said, money is the biggest concept that prevents any human beings from reaching their full potential. You think you can be the greatest firefighter on earth? Eh, you won't do it because it won't pay enough, instead you'll end up as CEO for an evil corporation. Thinking about it, I've always been passionate of space travel, the great infinite. Instead, I'm studying the infinite small, because I thought I'd never make a living out of studying space. I've spent the last week researching articles about current projects on space travel; freaking Mass Effect game ressurected my interest in space. I used to spend my nights when I was 10 reading a space atlas over and over again, learning all I could about black holes and stuff. I'll keep studying space as a side job, like my father is an accountant in daily life, but is a passionnate of photography when he's not working.

Speaking in a less dramatical manner, I'd say internet chatting (ironically) interfers in our social potential. Doing drugs and drinking alcholol interfers with everything. To you pot smokers, do you ever want to do something constructive after smoking the biggest joint of your life? I'm not an example, as I drink a lot of alcool, and find myself pretty stupid for doing it at times. Video games can be a detraction or the exact opposite, depending how you see it. A game like WoW, sucking your soul for hours straight, only to get a virtual item supposed to make your virtual avatar stronger, is pretty much fucking you up. When I played Mass Effect, on the other hand, it pushed me to research about space travel and to expand my knowledge about this matter, so I doubt this really is a detraction.

Being a workaholic is a detraction, but it goes with the money concept said earlier. I'm wondering if training a lot can prevent us from reaching our full potential?? How does one know if it's now an obsession instead of a simple desire to improve oneself?
 
Conspicuously Absent said:
work out what you earn monthly, then divide by actual work time and travel time... thats how much you sell your life for.
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Indeed. Which is why posting on RC, writing short stories, listening to my music, and spending a LOT of time on the toilet help justify my day. I've often wondered if I shouldn't have committed my time and energy into a singular direction, as the more outlets equal the more diffusion of that focus... but ultimately, a one-dimensional life seems a bit hollow.

If you knew you'd be dead in three days, how would you spend the next 72 hours? It's not a question of doing things without consequence to my mind, but realizing that every day should have at least a few moments devoted to the sort of things that justify being alive.

Like crapping for 19 dollars an hour!
 
Sitting in front of a computer, especially at work. I often wonder what life was like when you didn't sit at a desk all day. And when you generally think of other people who have accomplished more than you, be it famous actors, authors, or rich folks in general, it's clear they didn't have 10,000 posts or more on an internet bulletin board talking about which direction you wipe your arse after taking a meaty shit. :loco:
 
and oftentimes the happiest people out there, are the ones that work in a manual labour job, but earn enough to get by comfortably... probably because they have asense of pride that is missing in most of us.

If you can point at a building and say that "all the welding on the left have corner of that was done by me" you can have some pride in that.

I can say that I analysed and forwarded the issue of the coupons in the subscription not correctly being used in the shitty built in nokia program, instead causing the customer to have to use single purchase... it's not the same.
 
Hell Mike said:
Actually it is when I indulge in doing nothing I feel at my best. A friday evening with a good dinner, some fine brews and time alone with the lady and some nice heavy fuckin metal and maybe a movie or some video/computer game... That's life!
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and AMEN to that ... we all bust our balls to get to this point and enjoy it as often as we could.

but without the struggle it would not feel so good.
 
The biggest thing affecting my ability to realise my potential, I think, is my habit of choosing the path of least resistance - I shy away from making big changes in my life because of a combination of factors - fear that whatever I'm going after will blow up in my face, lack of confidence that I actually have the ability to affect the changes in the first place, that sort of thing. Combine that with my tendency to set myself unrealistic goals that I can easily push back with petty justifications, and generally, I'm my own worst enemy. I'm working on it, though.
 
I seem to spend all my time taking care of things left to me by dead family members. So far, I've been left with a giant house, a car I can't use, a nephew and a large cabin up in the mountains. And, when I'm not working my ass off to afford these things, I'm working my ass off to maintain them. Who the hell knew how much work it was to have a bloody cabin? Of course, the car I can just sell, and probably will since I hate driving, but the house and cabin is my inheritance and I would like to pass them on to my own children one day, but how the hell am I gonna find the time to find a breeding machine when I am spending all my time on shit like shuffling snow off roofs, driveways and so on or making sure that the boy (who's not really a boy anymore...) has food on his table?

Bah... life sucks....

oh yeah, and I was also left with a dog that needs INSANE amounts of walking... grr
 
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