Step two: Take some time to think about how you have been living your life up to now.
Step three: Now for a brief discussion. Are you happy with where your life has been going? Is it fulfilling or is there something you wish was going differently? If so, what will you do about it?
Now these are very open ended questions, and very broad terms. But the point is, I watched this video and while I knew the rough breakdown of time spent on various activities it is much more impacting seeing it in a visual form. It puts things into perspective; Yes that rejection letter from job A was rough and difficult, but for how long are you going to mull it over? I'm sorry to hear about the loss of (insert loved being here) but should you remain upset because of the loss or are you going to take into account the amount of happy times you had?
There are not enough Jelly Beans to be able to do everything in a single life time, and far less of them to be spent doing things that negatively affect your life. What will you do less of and what will you do more of?
I think that everyone who spends too much time mulling over things should watch this video! We should always be able to step back from whatever we're doing and decide whether it's something we REALLY want to waste time doing.
I should think about this video next time I spend too much time lurking Mene.
There is one quote I try to live by: "never regret anything because at one time, it was exactly what you wanted". Because looking back on my life and thinking about the things I would have done differently if I had known what I know now is useless and depressing - there is no way to actually change the past, so why think about what the present would be like if I could?
But anyway - if I could change the past, I would've finished university in half the time I'm taking now, because it wasn't until I started looking for a job that I realized taking 6 years for a 3-year degree looks bad on a resume. I would've stopped the semi-abusive relationship I was in before I met my current boyfriend much earlier, because I only saw afterward that I was worth more and that better guys had been interested in me all along. I wouldn't have rented an apartment with my current boyfriend, I would've bought a place to live instead of spending a year losing money to a landlord.
But then, there is the butterfly effect. If I had studied less long, I wouldn't have had my current job and met the nice colleagues I work with. If I had ended my previous relationship earlier, maybe I wouldn't have met my current boyfriend. If we had immediately bought a place to live, we wouldn't have been able to buy the apartment in the awesome project they're about to start building in the city centre here.
In the end, the one thing I should do differently would be to spend less time online and more time being productive.
But then, there is the butterfly effect. If I had studied less long, I wouldn't have had my current job and met the nice colleagues I work with. If I had ended my previous relationship earlier, maybe I wouldn't have met my current boyfriend. If we had immediately bought a place to live, we wouldn't have been able to buy the apartment in the awesome project they're about to start building in the city centre here.
I have always considered this myself. As much as I hated my childhood and high school years, I would most definitely not be the person I would be now without all the troubles.
I think the parts of me that I am the most proud of wouldn't have been realized without having to go through all that previous BS.
Same thing with lurking on the internet, a lot of it is a waste of time but we never know what sort of larger impact it could have on us, haha.
TL;DR wasting time sucks but we probably wouldn't have it any other way.
I really enjoyed watching that video, ~Longcat~!. It really hit home on how much of your time is just spent going through the motions of daily activities and just how little time you have to spend on real meaningful activity. I think it really does bring up the question if it's really worth sitting and worrying about the insignificant things that are going on in your life. I have a lot of stuff that I probably spend way too much time worrying over that I could be using to enrich my life.
Just like some of the other guys who posted I feel like my childhood and teenage years was a bit turbulent, and I didn't enjoy a lot of it. I wish I could go back in time and really make the best of it...But you know that time is gone. I still have time left, but the more days tick on by it makes me wonder if it's really any good sitting and thinking of what happened and what might have been.
I do wish I stuck with college the first time around. I think that was one of my biggest mistakes, but all the mistakes I've made have lead me to the life I live now. There are things I would like to change, but all in all things aren't horrible. I have a husband who I love dearly, and I have two awesome step kids. I have a roof over my head, and I have friends.
Mortality is bloody horrid, if I had the chance i would want to live for ever. The thought of dying both facinates me, and scares me. It's one of those untimate universe questions. But I believe that in a way we all to live forever because we're reborn again and again. Their is no true final desination, but a continuence of the jellybeans for a forever. So you can do as many things in as many life times as you want, you may not remember the life before but you're still living on.
