Is chasing your dreams worth it?

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Matt Rain
Chasing your dreams is fine. Unless you're the Bullet Ball guy.


In cases like this, someone needs to hang you upside down and punch you in the nuts until agree to give up your retarded dream.
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Poor guy is barreled in beyond belief. Wow. Poor beneficiaries to his estate :pballs:
 
RogueScholar
I disagree with No. 1. It's been my experience that lazy but smart people make the best workers. I have tremendous respect for people that aren't willing to bust their ass just because that's always how it's been done. The perfect example is Alexander Graham Bell (or Antonio Meucci, depending on who you attribute it to) inventing the telephone because he was fucking sick and tired of writing letters. His laziness helped the entire human race to become more lazy, which has to qualify as one of the greatest motives in history.
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Peter that is really the exception to the rule though. For the most part lazy people are worthless.....some lazy people do make good workers but to say it is the rule and not the exception....man I don't buy it.
 
I often thought about it, I would name my horse Elevenbodwin, in honour of my childhood home where I grew up.
 
RogueScholar
I disagree with No. 1. It's been my experience that lazy but smart people make the best workers. I have tremendous respect for people that aren't willing to bust their ass just because that's always how it's been done. The perfect example is Alexander Graham Bell (or Antonio Meucci, depending on who you attribute it to) inventing the telephone because he was fucking sick and tired of writing letters. His laziness helped the entire human race to become more lazy, which has to qualify as one of the greatest motives in history.
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Holy shit someone has the very same belif as me.

I tell my old lady's dad all the time that lazy people are the ones who come up with all the innovations. Hard workers just work hard.

I am following one of my dreams. Yeah I always wanted to make the world more like the Jetsons, you know robots doing everything for you, and you doing practically nothing.
I had another dream of becoming a porn star, and I think I could have done it earlier in life too, if I would have just followed my dreams, who knows I could be sporting a Loshak right about now.
 
RogueScholar
Are you performing live anymore? I don't know about your area but the live music scene is experiencing a rebirth of staggering proportions here in NorCal/Bay Area. My brother plays in a classic rock three piece, and they're of modest talent and in need a quality vocalist, and yet they stay booked as many nights a week as they want. Even the roller derby has them booked a couple nights a month for $600 + attendance incentives. When you get your project ready for performance, I'd be happy to help you pitch it here if you wanted to do a tour through the area.

For me, the creative process is always sweetest when you get a crowd to their feet. It's the kind of feeling that lets a man die in peace.
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No, I am not performing live. I have never done much live performing (other than volunteering at a retirement home in the early 90's.)

Performing is definitely not my strength. I am not that strong an instrumentalist. I can sing well enough but I do not have a frontman personality. I am not dead set against the idea of performing but at the moment I am approaching my project more from a writing angle.

I am actually fairly vague about how the whole thing might come together but right now I am just writing.
 
Mudcat
No, I am not performing live. I have never done much live performing (other than volunteering at a retirement home in the early 90's.)

Performing is definitely not my strength. I am not that strong an instrumentalist. I can sing well enough but I do not have a frontman personality. I am not dead set against the idea of performing but at the moment I am approaching my project more from a writing angle.

I am actually fairly vague about how the whole thing might come together but right now I am just writing.
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Have you ever thought of pulling a Milli Vanilli Mudcat for your live performance?
 
What if you don't have any "dreams"? I've never had a calling or a passion to do anything productive. I'm lazy as fuck. I just do enough to get by in pretty much every aspect of my life and always have. But I'm probably happier than at least 9 out of every 10 people I know.
 
That's what I was thinking with my original hypothesis jello. Other than the rare exception, are dreams a good thing at all?

My life would have had a lot less angst and embarrassment if I never had these dreams (which I didn't ask for).
 
Well for people with true "callings" that's a different thing altogether. I think there's a legitimate (albeit small) segment of society that fits under this umbrella. But I also think the vast majority are like me. The problem may lie in people pushing EVERYONE to chase dreams. It becomes an ingrained assumption that this is what everyone is supposed to do or you are wasting your life.

Well, maybe I am wasting something but it doesn't seem that way to me. I have a very cynical sort of idea about human existence in the first place. I don't think we all really matter that much in the grand scheme of things. We spend 50-100 years here and then .... who knows. I'm more concerned with just being satisfied with whatever I have to occupy my time at a particular moment. If I get bored, I move onto something else. (come to think of it, gambling was one of these things....cocaine was one of these things too, but I digress). I don't feel any compunction to chase a dream or leave my mark on the world or anything like that. I'm perfectly content to be one of the 99% of humans in the history of our race that will die completely unimportant to all but those who loved and were loved by them.
 
MUDCAT..I've been meaning to address this with you for a couple of years. I too have a problem with my coffee pot spout...how are you handling that situation?
 
Back to Bullet Ball for a moment...

Why did it take 28 years for this guy to develop a round table with flaps on the side? Why are there markings on the table if scoring simply entails getting the ball past the other player?
 
BulletBall guy was one of the funniest videos I've ever seen. You're exactly right. It's just a regular table with some rails added to it.

I'd give that guy a hug right after I slapped him around.
 
Jello;26595[B
]Well for people with true "callings" that's a different thing altogether. I think there's a legitimate (albeit small) segment of society that fits under this umbrella. But I also think the vast majority are like me. The problem may lie in people pushing EVERYONE to chase dreams. It becomes an ingrained assumption that this is what everyone is supposed to do or you are wasting your life.[/B]

Well, maybe I am wasting something but it doesn't seem that way to me. I have a very cynical sort of idea about human existence in the first place. I don't think we all really matter that much in the grand scheme of things. We spend 50-100 years here and then .... who knows. I'm more concerned with just being satisfied with whatever I have to occupy my time at a particular moment. If I get bored, I move onto something else. (come to think of it, gambling was one of these things....cocaine was one of these things too, but I digress). I don't feel any compunction to chase a dream or leave my mark on the world or anything like that. I'm perfectly content to be one of the 99% of humans in the history of our race that will die completely unimportant to all but those who loved and were loved by them.
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very good observation Jello
 
Jello
What if you don't have any "dreams"? I've never had a calling or a passion to do anything productive. I'm lazy as fuck. I just do enough to get by in pretty much every aspect of my life and always have. But I'm probably happier than at least 9 out of every 10 people I know.
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You sure you're not describing me, Jello? When I was younger I always excelled in academia at the highest levels, and figured I'd become a professor of something down the road. But after doing my undergrad work I saw how much of a grind it is and how few of my professors truly enjoyed the totality of their job. Some liked teaching, others like research, still more just couldn't figure out another way to make a living. That's when I realized I needed to do something less arduous, and I've been involved in dark pharmaceuticals ever since. Sometimes I lament that I'm not contributing to the world very much, but I've found it really has no effect on my daily life to be entirely self-serving and self-promoting. I wake up in the morning with a smile and I go to sleep at night drunk and content. I think only when those things changes would I ever consider a different lifestyle. I treasure all the free time I have, to me it's what makes life worth living.
 
Jello
Back to Bullet Ball for a moment...

Why did it take 28 years for this guy to develop a round table with flaps on the side? Why are there markings on the table if scoring simply entails getting the ball past the other player?
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Bread
BulletBall guy was one of the funniest videos I've ever seen. You're exactly right. It's just a regular table with some rails added to it.

I'd give that guy a hug right after I slapped him around.
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It's half-assed ping pong played on the wrong shape of table. I'm sure we've all played ping pong with our hands on our mom's dining table after finding an errant ball in the house, right? Well that guy is just missing the module in his brain that had us immediately thinking "dude, this is retarded, let's go microwave some pizza pockets instead".
 
Right there with you Scholar.

Besides, following your dreams isn't always a good thing. Hitler, David Koresh, Nathan Bedford Forrest....just a few names that come to mind as people who were following their dreams.
 
On the flip side, men like Emerson and Thoreau were following their dreams as well, but not for glory or sanctification. They did it for personal satisfaction.

What if my dream is too lead a simple, uncomplicated life free from the trappings of stress and worry that most of society finds itself overwhelmed by? Is that dream any less worthy than that of those who seek fortune and fame from theirs? Is it in any way less legitimate?
 
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