What's it all about?

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No this isn't the thread about Dioone getting busted, which is as Boondocks alleged, all to do with her holding for B Bibby Bobby Brown.

No, this is the thread where I'm asking what's the point? What makes you keep getting up day after day and doing your thing. What makes you say ok to all the bullshit that goes on, but rise above it and do your daily duties? How do you manage this knowing that all governments lie and steal, big business is watching your ass and trying to market it new skin as we shit, and your parents and teachers lied to you when they said, You can do anything you like as long as you want it bad enough?

― Queen G of the Arctic Nile, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They didn't lie to me, I can do it and I do want it bad enough. Feel free to rub this in my face in ten years.

― Ronan, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry ronan - didn't mean to ruin your hopes. Good luck with what you do - if it works, remember us all, if it doesn't feel free to grump and gripe at us.

― Queen G of the Arctic Nile, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Most of the time I think I get by by NOT asking myself this question. In fact to even elaborate here would requre more self-analysis than I care to go through right now. Of course, I'm terribly self-analytical most of the time.

― Sean, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I echo Sean 100%. You don't want to know my history with depression, so I won't go into that. I think these days it's just routine, interspersed with some good bits, trying to ignore and skip over the times when I'm convinced that there is no point.

Then again, there are new Eminem and DJ Shadow albums imminent...

― Martin Skidmore, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My natural optimism, for lack of a better description, seems to carry me through. There are always things to look forward to in my odd little universe.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

man..I was planning to start all these depressing introspective threads when my impending quarter-life crisis arrived.. you bastards couldn't even let me have *that*!

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it's mostly about making your tragic personal life as interestingly tragic as you possibly can, for other people to watch and be amused... or disgusted.

And while you're doing that, secretly attend to your secret career plans, so that while they're all busy laughing at your tragedy, you are quietly taking over the world.

― rainy, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

basically i get out of bed for music. if i couldn't listen to or make music or study music i honestly don't know what i would do.

― di, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

thanks everyone - I appreciate the insight. I wondered whether it might be thinking too much, being too self-analytical, but being a writer,it's often that which helps give me the insight to look in on outsiders and create characters and all the rest.

Music is good. Lou Reed, Nick Cave, etc have been helping a lot - and yes I heard that snide aside from the back seats, No Wonder he's depressed listening to them.

It's just that after relationships end, after important friendships desytruct, and you ponder how somehitng you put five eyars of effort into can vanish, well you start thinking about these things again.

― Queen G of the Arctic Nile, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess I'm young and have yet to watch anything I've accomplished or taken part in fall apart so it's easy for me to take the position I do.

― Ronan, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I only get out of bed cos staying in bed all day would be very boring. Other than that...hmm...I live in hope of something interesting happening.

― DG, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to get out of bed for more whisky and to fetch another book to read. Nowadays I have a penchant for breakfast. Any time soon my motivation will be scheduled by Scotrail. PLUS. It's spring and the racket of birds fighting over tree-space is more easily tolerated in the vertical position.

― Gordon, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ppppppppppppppppppppooooooooooooooooooooppppppppppp

― phil rustell, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ere woss goin on?

Don't come the innocent wiv me!

What's that supposed ter mean?

I should've thort it was obvious!

― Ward J Littell, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

time to revive this fucker - 3 years on and life is an absurd pile of meaningless meaning. all structures are shite, all saviours are shite (including music and literature) and all assholes who think believing in an afterlife is an appropriate way to confront the meaninglessness of life and the finality of death are shite. how are your theories working for you?

― Queen George Dubya did shit down my throat, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

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