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Losing Enthusiasm

 
  

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Scrambled Password Bogus Email
13:57 / 14.12.05
I can't even be arsed to write this post. Just get on with it, for fucks sake!
 
 
Sax
13:58 / 14.12.05
And you think your life is going to improve next year?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
14:05 / 14.12.05
Not if I have anything to do with it. Which, fortuitously, I do.
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
15:05 / 14.12.05
Of course it will! Fresh faced and ready for a whole new year.
Unlike now, fatigued and ready for bed. I'd like to wrap myself in a duvet and just vegetate for the next two weeks, sipping sherry and eating chocolate and brazil nuts, maybe in the same mouthful.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
15:10 / 14.12.05
Guys, come on - Next year's going to be a total disaster as well, surely?!
 
 
Spaniel
15:12 / 14.12.05
Money, aren't you supposed to be all energised at the moment?

Am I being mean?
 
 
Mistoffelees
15:48 / 14.12.05
I know what you´re talking about. The week between 24 and 31 is especially lame. On two occasions, this and last week, people told me that the appointments, we would have had in that week, are cancelled.

My theory: everybody will still be weak from alcohol and fat food, and they need 27-30 to recuperate, so they can eat and drink on 31 again. And then on 01.01.06 they´ll have a day off for getting well again.

And in anticipation of these nine days, everybody is slowing down already.

And on 06.01.06 they´ll feel bad, because they already started smoking again or haven´t "yet" gone to that fitness class.
 
 
grant
17:41 / 14.12.05
Hey! 2005 can still be the best year ever!
 
 
Loomis
17:54 / 14.12.05
I like to get a head start on my lies about how great the past year was and all the things I achieved. Why wait till new year?
 
 
Cowboy Scientist
17:59 / 14.12.05
Hey! 2005 can still be the best year ever!
Yes! Two weeks to go! Quick! Win the lottery!
 
 
astrojax69
19:22 / 14.12.05
calendars are a figment of our creation. they are an illusion. there are no years. there are no months. there is no next year. there is only tomorrow. and that is more of an illusion than lunchtime...


this year sucked. so will next year. and the one after. what is the point.

or i might win the lottery. then next year would be like totally like awesome, like.
 
 
Mistoffelees
19:37 / 14.12.05
Especially if your winning numbers are 4 8 15 16 23 and 42.
 
 
Shrug
19:40 / 14.12.05
The old year was vile and the prospect of a new one is terrifying.*

*quotation from some dead guy.
 
 
Sekhmet
20:34 / 14.12.05
You know, I was nodding my head in agreement about this year's suckitude, and then remembered that this year I got all my debts paid off, and bought twelve acres of land outside of town, and raised a tiny ickle puppy up into a strapping young dog, and got my cat on insulin so now he is happier and healthier. And none of my relatives died.

Maybe it wasn't so bad...
 
 
Mistoffelees
21:02 / 14.12.05
then remembered that this year I got all my debts paid off

Yes, that´s wonderful! I achieved that 2003, and it was such a wonderful feeling after years of working and paying and not seeing the end of it (I would have had to keep on paying for almost 20 years more!).

Now I have all the money I need and after years of it just evaporating I´ve still not adjusted 100% to it.
 
 
w1rebaby
21:58 / 14.12.05
I acquired some top new gadgets this year. That has to be worth something.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
23:31 / 14.12.05
This year sucked. Last year sucked a lot more. Of course, next year may suck as well, but at least it'll be NEW suckage. This stuff's just getting old now.

And it may indeed rock. (Although I'm in no hurry for 2005 to finish anymore, cos I'd like Christmas to go on a bit longer, cheers).
 
 
Seth
01:14 / 15.12.05
2006 will be the year that Autobot City Earth gets built. Therefore it must rule.

Dude, don't blame the year if you didn't enjoy it. Do something different next year.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
01:59 / 15.12.05
Ah, if only it was as simple as doing different stuff. I may help with the building work for the Autobots, though.
 
 
Shrug
02:18 / 15.12.05
Ah, if only it was as simple as doing different stuff.

It is as simple as doing different stuff, just that doing different stuff is not simple(or easy).
Of course there's always the possibility that doing this "different stuff" will be equally detrimental as is the case with doing old stuff in a different way and new stuff in a familiar way....

But in anycase doing different things does lead to change it's just dependent on how radical these changes are and you have to be prepared to deal with results which are good and bad.
 
 
Shrug
02:25 / 15.12.05
(Well that's my theory and I'm sticking to it, if it isn't right next year for me may be fucked already)
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
02:42 / 15.12.05
Ah no, I meant that all the reasons for which I thought the last two years sucked were actually very little to do with how I was living my life... more to do with how other people were stopping living theirs.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
02:44 / 15.12.05
(Truth be told, I'm actually fairly happy with how my own life's been going for the last couple of years).
 
 
Lilly Nowhere Late
05:40 / 15.12.05
It's the "she's already gone but she just hasn't left" sort of syndrome. Thing is, if you aren't paying attention, you might miss something fantastic in these last two weeks.
I find it utterly believable that I am one of the most bone tired, world weary people on the planet. (Of course I mean that in terms of people who are not suffering major disease or poverty or misfortune, just plain regular hard working mom types.)I find it increasingly difficult to be inspired to enjoy the end of the year as it is my most hectic and demanding time business-wise ever. Still, something clicked in my foggy head when I read this thread like a rebelious cricket which tells me no! do not fold to the negation of the whole year. It's not over...etc...blah, blah. I wonder, don't the best things usually come last? And while I know I sound a bit like a Carrie Brandshawite cheerleader here, I urge you all to hang in there and revel in the now. Maybe even Make something happen to justify this loop on the calender which is nearly complete. Even if it is just curling up in the duvet with sherry. (no offence to sherry, whoever she is) And, well, and now I'm going to drink my coffee actually. Hope everyone fairs well.
 
 
Seth
07:30 / 15.12.05
I choose to read that last post as an exhortation to get naked in public.
 
 
Sax
08:20 / 15.12.05
There's still plenty of time for a devastating natural disaster, terrorist attack, plague or war. So don't write the year off yet.
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
08:28 / 15.12.05
Money, aren't you supposed to be all energised at the moment?

I was, Boboss, I was. I'm just bloody crackered from work at the moment. And now I'm sort of here out of bloody-minded ritual, 'cos there's really fuck all left to do. What I want is for some aging benefactor to hand me a thick envelope of cash, say 'Here's ya Xmas treat - take the rest of the year off!!' and maybe give me a mince pie. But no, instead, I just have to schlep the year out.

Am I being mean?

Yes, you're a cunt.
 
 
Loomis
08:30 / 15.12.05
There's still plenty of time for a devastating natural disaster

If there's another tsunami this year then I'll be sending the cops in your direction Sax.
 
 
Spaniel
09:12 / 15.12.05
My partner's pregnancy has been great, and I've been liking the warm emotions of impending fatherhood - even the trepidation has a novel, interesting feel to it. However, for obvious reasons, this year has been rather future directed. Rightly or wrongly I can't escape the feeling that *the now* doesn't count for much (I know, I know, I should be enjoying freedom while it lasts). Everything is absorbed into the reality of the new-life-to-come.

Roll on February.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
10:20 / 15.12.05
(And you should hopefully have something cool in the post before Christmas too, Boboss... actually, my being crap at getting around to doing things is one thing I CAN change...)
 
 
Evil Scientist
10:30 / 15.12.05
It's been one of those quick years for me. Settled into my new postion as supervisor of the lab. Started writing my novel. Been much more disciplined at the gym. Shot by.

It's been quite a good year actually.

Although I am feeling a bit impatient for it to all be over, I must admit. Probably because I've got a couple of weeks off that start next Wednesday rather than any kind of merry Christmas feelings.

Plus, it was a year of good films.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
11:12 / 15.12.05
Shot by.

I thought that said "shot AT", and was wondering in what way that was good!
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
11:14 / 15.12.05
I'm not exactly chuffed with this sudden burst of can't-be-bothered. I'd been feeling bloody grrrreeat up until Tuesday this week. Sudden attack of lethargy, not concentrating, just feeling like VEGETABLISING and doing absolutley nothing.

Must be diet. Have to go back to strict vegan and wheat free, see if things improve.
 
 
Spaniel
12:39 / 15.12.05
Nice one, Stoatie.

Scientist, you sound as if you've had a very together year. I like those kind of years - I have all too few of 'em.
 
 
Lilly Nowhere Late
07:45 / 16.12.05
Naked in public is, of course, exactly what I meant. So astute!
 
  

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