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what type of person are you?
i'm the type of person who only thinks about today and i tend to do things to excess and then burn out. right now i feel like i've come to a halt. i haven't been to uni for a week (although i'm goin in today) but all i wana do is go out and party. i wana just get wrecked. last weekend i was fast asleep, then i got a phone call at 4am and next thing i know im at a houseparty gettin wasted.
sometimes i wish i could be more sensible like my friends.
i'm the type of person who only thinks about today and i tend to do things to excess and then burn out. right now i feel like i've come to a halt. i haven't been to uni for a week (although i'm goin in today) but all i wana do is go out and party. i wana just get wrecked. last weekend i was fast asleep, then i got a phone call at 4am and next thing i know im at a houseparty gettin wasted.
sometimes i wish i could be more sensible like my friends.
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i go out even when i know i cant afford to, but nevermind.
I was completely the way you describe while taking my A Levels and I wish someone had given me a kick up the backside
i guess i made this thread because i was slightly concerned about myself and wanted to see if other people can relate.
I was kinda like that when i was working. I mean i know no one likes working but i just wanted to go down town every night and get totally off my face. It was getting to the point where i was taking 2 days off a week cos i was so hungover and tired.
Geez, 6 seems a lot to handle, but then maybe our definition of personality is not the same...
But tbh you're at Uni so it'd be expected of you to go out and get trashed at every possible moment, who wouldnt? i'd say keep enjoying going out and partying. The only reason im doing A-Levels is to party at Uni for 3 years.
I was like that through college... if anything im even worse now that I work full time because I can afford it more!!
Im coming up to 23 and I think I should slow down, but I dont really want to tbh... I always enjoy myself and have a good time!
It does take its toll though... going out getting hammered, getting in bed at 3:30am then my alarm going off at half 7 for a full days work, not fun!!
I also have a problem with morale. The longer I stay quiet, the higher morale I get, as people tend to ask: "Why are you so quiet?" I think they're used to it now.
My social life is, more or less, my death.
But since we're doing flaws, mine main one is that I have the attention span of a 3 year old. I used to never do essays until the night before because there's no way I could concentrate on an essay for any length of time unless I was forced to (i.e. it was due in the next day). I can't read books, because I tire of them after a chapter or two (alright with magazines though). I've got so many unfinished projects on the go. I'm supposed to be saving my money at the moment, but I keep losing track and buy a few CDs or something that I don't really need. I worry about myself being in a long-term relationship too, that I'll end up getting bored after a few months or something. But other than that I'm perfect.
Eveyone has their bad points, but if you look really hard there is always something good...
Always a way to muddle through.
Wrong. There's nothing positive about my social life. End of.
There are other positive things though, which are clouded by all my problems. I really can't put in more effort into my social life. I just think I'll give up. Give up trying to fit in, give up trying to talk to the 'cool stereotypes', give up living in school and just working like I do at the moment - without stress from my social life.
Oh my God, I sound really emo now. What an attention-whore I am at the moment. Please ignore the above then.
Christ tell me about it! I'm in my final year ... I've done nothing but piss about and get wrecked for three years and this year i really needed to buckle down and have something to show for it all. Did I? Did I fuck!
My problem is I just don't care. If I can think a day ahead I'm doing well but i'll always go out given half a chance whether I have a deadline the next day or not. I've got through life so far by being a cheeky fuck, doing sod all and somehow landing on my feet and although I know it can't work that way forever I'm damned if i know a way to get out of the mindset.
If I'm being totally honest I don't mind too much. Sometimes I think it would have been nice to have worked hard and really seen what I was capable of but at the same time I've had a fucking awesome time and I'd pick that every day over some people I know who will get better grades than me but have been stressed/unhappy etc. Tomorrow will take care of itself, I want to be happy now.
Being sensible is overrated, and as long as you don't go too far in the other direction (for instance, jeopardising your future, career-wise or whatever) I see nothing wrong with throwing caution to the wind, being reckless and having fun while you're young.
Speaking of general personality and not just in relation to work, I'd class myself as a weirdo (of the non-psychotic garden-variety) though like Rachael said there are many words for this disposition and "quirky" is one of them... I'd even venture as far as to say that the most interesting people I know are the strangest, most idiosyncratic and often "zany" ones. The kind of people who stay up for 72 hours straight because they're writing a poem, or miss all their lectures for a week because they find a fantastic juke box at a pub they'd never been in before or [consistently] spend their rent on musical instruments. That's hardly typically sensible, but it's a far more appealing character to me. But then again, I would say that.
Such a ditto :yes:
good article
bullet points 1 and 2 are a yes for me, it's hard to get down to a boring bit of work when all you get back is a percentage (no degree is guarenteed ). I try to knuckle down and do more work but those are only really momentary inspirations, when i wake up the next day it's gone
When I enjoy something i have loads of drive and can normally excell at it... though most things i enjoy involve some form of competition. maybe i'm stuck with always being so passive : o
/sulk
You are so similar to me, though I have spells of being completely full of myself....... Its not big and it's not clever!!!
Sensible sounds boring. But I have commitments now, so I can't simply toss caution to the wind and go out every night. I have work in the morning, and need my beauty sleep.
I'm not boring or serious, but because I don't throw caution to the wind I think I come across that way. I know our lass's sister thinks I'm boring, but she's the sort of person who will spend her rent money on knickers.