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I was here preparing for my upcoming exams when it hit me that 1 year has gone by once again without me noticing that it had happened. Stuff that happened last year feel like it happened just a couple of months ago and overall its becomes more depressing if you start to think about the last 3-4 years and how quickly time is passing by. However, I have decided that from now on I'll do weirder stuff that I havent been doing so that at least I can feel the time passing me by. I blame technology for this lifestyle that most of us have now a days.
 
That's true. Time is passing quicker these days. One method I use to feel happier is to appreciate everything I have.
 
Very, weekdays feel like the same cycle, wake up, go to school, come back, eat, shower, work, sleep. But that's just how it is for the average person, you're not gonna have a different day, every day.
 
This is supposed to be the best phase of your life. If you feel this way, just imagine how boring and depressing it will be from 10 to 15 years from now ?
 
Thivagar said:
This is supposed to be the best phase of your life. If you feel this way, just imagine how boring and depressing it will be from 10 to 15 years from now ?
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The constant entertainment available to younger ages makes them vulnerable to acquire boredom while doing things not as entertaining.
 
Rayyman said:
The constant entertainment available to younger ages makes them vulnerable to acquire boredom while doing things not as entertaining.
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I agree, for example when my dad was young the only time he got to watch something on screen is when he actually went to theatre. When I was like 5 to 10, even though I had constant entertainment on TV, I had to wait for my favourite cartoon, if I miss it, I'd be upset and I had to wait till the next week. Now, I see my little cousin go on youtube and watch his favourite cartoon and he even skips the darn opening credit. Our dopamine has been desensitized.
 
Unfortunately, not much. My work has me traveling ~60% every month while I multitask many different projects. I average 60 hours a week annually. I wouldn't mind monotony at all.
 
HussainRx8 said:
Unfortunately, not much. My work has me traveling ~60% every month while I multitask many different projects. I average 60 hours a week annually. I wouldn't mind monotony at all.
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My dad has lived a very monotonous life and according to him the last 30 years of his life feel like 30 days to him. No surprises as to what his biggest regret in life is :kohli
 
University life was lovely. There was a new thing happening everyday. Chilling with buddies till 3-4am in the morning was literally an "every other day" event. Even during finals season most of us would study in the same vicinity in the library and often take a break together to go to Tim Hortons. University is truly the best time of your life.

After graduation most of the friends have moved to different places and slowly and surely we got busier in our own lives and lost contact. We meet often as possible, but some of us are married or engaged now and it is no longer just a "boys" thing anymore.

Now life is monotonous, I wake up at the same time everyday, go to the washroom at the same time, shower at the same time, get in my car at the same time, get to work at the same time, have lunch at the same time, head home at the same time so on and so forth.

If on the weekend I hang out with friends I have to head home by 12am MAX otherwise my entire sleeping cycle would be messed up and I would have a string of crappy days for the next couple of days.


To all the people in highschool and uni, I recommend you cherish this time to the max because it is not going to come back.
 
Syed1 said:
University life was lovely. There was a new thing happening everyday. Chilling with buddies till 3-4am in the morning was literally an "every other day" event. Even during finals season most of us would study in the same vicinity in the library and often take a break together to go to Tim Hortons. University is truly the best time of your life.

After graduation most of the friends have moved to different places and slowly and surely we got busier in our own lives and lost contact. We meet often as possible, but some of us are married or engaged now and it is no longer just a "boys" thing anymore.

Now life is monotonous, I wake up at the same time everyday, go to the washroom at the same time, shower at the same time, get in my car at the same time, get to work at the same time, have lunch at the same time, head home at the same time so on and so forth.

If on the weekend I hang out with friends I have to head home by 12am MAX otherwise my entire sleeping cycle would be messed up and I would have a string of crappy days for the next couple of days.


To all the people in highschool and uni, I recommend you cherish this time to the max because it is not going to come back.
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Did you join McGill's cricket club?
 
Syed1 said:
It was completely useless. I did join it but they never arranged any matches or anything.
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My Uni team's president and his side piece stole our practice fees , uniform fees and went on a vacation to California.
 
It funny and eerie because I have been thinking the exact same thing for the past few days

And now this thread....
 
HussainRx8 said:
Unfortunately, not much. My work has me traveling ~60% every month while I multitask many different projects. I average 60 hours a week annually. I wouldn't mind monotony at all.
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Same here. Strategy consultant who travels a lot. Won't mind a bit of monotony every now and then.
 
Lived in 5 cities across 3 countries in 2016. Gets tiring after some time.
 
Some days are monotonous but it's upto you to add some change.. I usually try going out on trips every other weekends and try and go for vacation once every few months... But I understand where you are coming from sometimes when I look back I feel it was so cooler when I was in college/school..
 
Anybody else kinda like knowing exactly what you have to and will be doing the day before?

Don't mind monotony
 
I was a very bored child, then I discovered animes and especially books. There's always some new aspect to learn, that keeps you genuinely alive.

The mechanization of life is in fact a primal aim for capitalism/liberalism, which try to de-connect your spiritually so you can invest all your existence and money into a web of tangential elements (movies, cars, ...) which would itself nurture the capitalist/liberal system through consumerism - and the more you feel off, the more you'll consume, thus helping the very matrix behind your despair.

The best way to exorcize time is to exercise what really makes you human (spirituality, knowledge, etc).
 
My life was monotonous, but I've recently incorporated a minor third and a fifth into the mix. Now my life is monochordal.
 
I don't feel like my life is monotonous, when you go to college you experience something new every week, if not everyday.
 
"An important concept that successful people understand is that you are never stuck. You just keep re-creating the same experience over and over thinking the same thoughts, maintaining the same beliefs, speaking the same words, and doing the same things. Too often, we get stuck in an endless loop of reinforcing behavior, which keeps is stuck in a constant downward spiral." - Jack Canfield

If you want your life to feel fresh and exciting you need new thoughts, new beliefs, new words and new activities to do. Novelty is the antidote to monotony.
 
Statsman said:
Same here. Strategy consultant who travels a lot. Won't mind a bit of monotony every now and then.
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Then you get my drift. They have me working in Japan with a client. I have been traveling all over Japan and living out in a hotel since 6 months.

I'm in the process of changing careers. I thought this would change as I rise up but it has progressively got worse.
 
enkidu_ said:
I was a very bored child, then I discovered animes and especially books. There's always some new aspect to learn, that keeps you genuinely alive.

The mechanization of life is in fact a primal aim for capitalism/liberalism, which try to de-connect your spiritually so you can invest all your existence and money into a web of tangential elements (movies, cars, ...) which would itself nurture the capitalist/liberal system through consumerism - and the more you feel off, the more you'll consume, thus helping the very matrix behind your despair.

The best way to exorcize time is to exercise what really makes you human (spirituality, knowledge, etc).
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Yes, yes, and yes. Most people end up realizing this much later in their lives.
 
Uni life is the best and it goes off so fast ,its the only time most of us feel dynamic and confident enough before life humbles us down.

Its been monotonous for 6 years now since started working and just seems like yesterday.
 
HussainRx8 said:
Then you get my drift. They have me working in Japan with a client. I have been traveling all over Japan and living out in a hotel since 6 months.

I'm in the process of changing careers. I thought this would change as I rise up but it has progressively got worse.
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Best of luck to you.
 
You chose to attend a college/university and applied for a 9-5 job, what did you expect ? now suck it up and live your boring life. You chose this pathway and don't whine about it being boring and monotonous. You can quit your boring job right now, but you won't, but you will continue to moan and whine.
 
Mine is relatively monotonous, but I do get sufficient breaks for it to not be hellish. However, it will all change for worse once I get married.
 
Thivagar said:
You chose to attend a college/university and applied for a 9-5 job, what did you expect ? now suck it up and live your boring life. You chose this pathway and don't whine about it being boring and monotonous. You can quit your boring job right now, but you won't, but you will continue to moan and whine.
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Well I kinda have 9-5 job not always it goes 9-5 but ye the concept is 9-5 and my day is never monotonous mostly due to nature of my work and responsibilities I have and how much I like what I do. I guess it is more about how you take your job or if your job is a routine if you have something else in your life to keep you interested and things moving.

Most of the times we as human get motivation with things to look forward too and that is possible even with 9-5 jobs.
 
enkidu_ said:
I was a very bored child, then I discovered animes and especially books. There's always some new aspect to learn, that keeps you genuinely alive.

The mechanization of life is in fact a primal aim for capitalism/liberalism, which try to de-connect your spiritually so you can invest all your existence and money into a web of tangential elements (movies, cars, ...) which would itself nurture the capitalist/liberal system through consumerism - and the more you feel off, the more you'll consume, thus helping the very matrix behind your despair.

The best way to exorcize time is to exercise what really makes you human (spirituality, knowledge, etc).
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I would add travel too to the etc, not the modern type of vacationing of catching a plane and whisking away to a beach and drowning in pina coladas or sangria, but the travelling that constitutes to your point of acquiring knowledge
 
HussainRx8 said:
Then you get my drift. They have me working in Japan with a client. I have been traveling all over Japan and living out in a hotel since 6 months.

I'm in the process of changing careers. I thought this would change as I rise up but it has progressively got worse.
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good god best of luck firstly. Sounds like you work in Due Diligence and crunching the numbers or in project management rolling out long extensive projects
 
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My life is really boring. Completed mbbs three years back and i have been working in an govt hospital in India since then .I dont have any of college friends nearby and i really lost interest in studies and i dont think i will ever have motivation to go for higher studies.some times i think i should migrate to othher countries like UK or UAE.Even all my ' relatives' are asking me "why cant you go for post graduation and if not it will be tough in india".I even really lost interest in religious matters and these days i dont even go to mosque atleast for fridays. Really wasting my time ...
 
kamz said:
good god best of luck firstly. Sounds like you work in Due Diligence and crunching the numbers or in project management rolling out long extensive projects
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Thank you. I am a management consultant but not for long. Will move to a regular 9-5 job soon.
 
Syed1 said:
Now life is monotonous, I wake up at the same time everyday, go to the washroom at the same time, shower at the same time, get in my car at the same time, get to work at the same time, have lunch at the same time, head home at the same time so on and so forth.

If on the weekend I hang out with friends I have to head home by 12am MAX otherwise my entire sleeping cycle would be messed up and I would have a string of crappy days for the next couple of days.
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I would never say that I felt happy reading this bit but I was a bit assured that it just isn't me who have their existence tied to a GOD DAMN CLOCK :(
 
Call me crazy but I work for 18 months~ and burnout then I take 2-3 months vacation and live frugally on saved money.

Recently I went to Goa and Mumbai, got a new job after arriving back in hometown.

Consulted my firm regarding tour package to Dubai, Malaysia and Singapore yesterday.

First few days are very tough in any new job and after a year or so you start to lose motivation.
 
kukkad kamaal said:
My life is really boring. Completed mbbs three years back and i have been working in an govt hospital in India since then .I dont have any of college friends nearby and i really lost interest in studies and i dont think i will ever have motivation to go for higher studies.some times i think i should migrate to othher countries like UK or UAE.Even all my ' relatives' are asking me "why cant you go for post graduation and if not it will be tough in india".I even really lost interest in religious matters and these days i dont even go to mosque atleast for fridays. Really wasting my time ...
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sad-ish first post

welcome to Pakpassion

are you in a village or sth?
 
Tera Gawaandi said:
Call me crazy but I work for 18 months~ and burnout then I take 2-3 months vacation and live frugally on saved money.

Recently I went to Goa and Mumbai, got a new job after arriving back in hometown.

Consulted my firm regarding tour package to Dubai, Malaysia and Singapore yesterday.

First few days are very tough in any new job and after a year or so you start to lose motivation.
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what kind of jobs are these if you dont mind asking?
 
kamz said:
I would add travel too to the etc, not the modern type of vacationing of catching a plane and whisking away to a beach and drowning in pina coladas or sangria, but the travelling that constitutes to your point of acquiring knowledge
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Indeed. Travelling should primordially be to travel outside the narrow circle of your egotic habits and constructions. There's no "travelling" if you go from a MacDonald in New York to a MacDonald in Tokyo.

More generally, everything has been "fast-fooded", we prefer action over contemplation, thus there's a qualitative sacrifice.

In the Islamic civilization when you used to travel for the hajj, it took so long time that you tried to observe all different races, climates, ... on the road, and students used to learn from the scholars of the different cities, that's why if someone emitted a scientific theory in modern day Iran it would have reached modern day Spain in a matter of weeks, because the Spanish hajjis would have heard of the ideas of Ibn Sina from an Iranian hajji he met in the Holy Cities - the Islamic civilization was the first to have a "peer reviewed international scientific community" because of such early "globalization".
 
dhump said:
Well I kinda have 9-5 job not always it goes 9-5 but ye the concept is 9-5 and my day is never monotonous mostly due to nature of my work and responsibilities I have and how much I like what I do. I guess it is more about how you take your job or if your job is a routine if you have something else in your life to keep you interested and things moving.

Most of the times we as human get motivation with things to look forward too and that is possible even with 9-5 jobs.
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Glad you are few that enjoy your job, my comment was for people that moan about how much they hate their job.
 
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