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What's it like being you?
I'm stealing this from another site, and thought it might be a nice to sway away from the SFSS election and school discussion.
I'll start.
You're not in your 20s yet, but feel like you're too old already. You'd enjoy life, but there are certainly some things that you would desire, and yet can't get. You're really mellow, and lead a slow-paced life. Some may say your really boring, but you still love it the way it is. You can be both introverted, and extroverted. You go to parties, go bowling and hang out but sometimes you much rather play guitar and jam with a buddy than be at a party or clubbing.
You have plans to go backpacking and to travel the world before you graduate. When you graduate, you wish to pursue a Masters and move to Sans Francisco. You enjoy camping, hiking, and the great outdoors. You wish to enjoy what mother nature has to offer while it still last.
You can a bit neurotic and be a bit obsessed with what people think. You would feel like you're wasting your youth by not leading a typical "college life" of getting drunk and getting laid, even though you're completely happy with the life you lead.
Ok, now your turn. Share anything.
I'll start.
You're not in your 20s yet, but feel like you're too old already. You'd enjoy life, but there are certainly some things that you would desire, and yet can't get. You're really mellow, and lead a slow-paced life. Some may say your really boring, but you still love it the way it is. You can be both introverted, and extroverted. You go to parties, go bowling and hang out but sometimes you much rather play guitar and jam with a buddy than be at a party or clubbing.
You have plans to go backpacking and to travel the world before you graduate. When you graduate, you wish to pursue a Masters and move to Sans Francisco. You enjoy camping, hiking, and the great outdoors. You wish to enjoy what mother nature has to offer while it still last.
You can a bit neurotic and be a bit obsessed with what people think. You would feel like you're wasting your youth by not leading a typical "college life" of getting drunk and getting laid, even though you're completely happy with the life you lead.
Ok, now your turn. Share anything.
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You're miserable. The one thing you've discovered that seems to consistently make you happy is accomplishment... but you set the bar too high (of course it never seems that way -- you KNOW you're better than that) so you're never happy.
You're ambitious. To the point that people laugh if you tell them your goals, so you stop telling them.
You're lonely. You tried to fight it, but when it comes down to it, it's true. But now you're a stubborn bastard because of all the failed past relationships so you won't lower your standards either.... except that's probably a load of crap and you'd melt when the first decent-looking girl blows you a kiss.
You're bored out of your mind. You're usually working on one project or another... but when you're just tired and need a break you realize you don't really have anyone to hang out with, and most video games and movies just don't cut it for you anymore. You're so pathetic that you'll go through your favorite websites and click the one you're already browsing out of desperation. That, and you make long posts on TalkSFU that probably no one will ever read.
You're pretty laid back. You don't get worked up over trivial matters. You use logic and reasoning to defeat your problems. You like to go to pubs, and once in awhile, a club if you're feeling up for it. You usually get dragged along anyway, but you agree, because anything's better than being a loner at home.
Otherwise, you're smart, not too bad looking, playful, and polite. You have a lot of good things going for you actually, and your life is pretty damn OK (it just doesn't feel that way).
I'm all about business. I'm a "don't-fuck-with-me" person or else I will seriously seek revenge on you. I do hold grudges do don't get on my bad side. However, I am honestly a really nice person. Easygoing and I say the most random things, sometimes to purposely make it awkward. I like to make people feel special and do little things for them.
I think I would make a supergirlfriend. I bake, I cook, I don't clean, I play videogames, I workout and am sporty, I love to party and can hold my liquor, I love sex, and I love buying things and doing little things for my boyfriend. Too bad I don't have one, their loss.
I know what I want in life and how to achieve them. I always get what I want. Education-wise, I enjoy school but I'd rather be baking cupcakes and doing something that I love. I aspire to go to UBC Law one day but it seems like that goal is fading away every semester. My parents would love that if that happened but I cannot even picture myself at a desk dying in a bunch of paperwork. It's just me. If not, I would like to work with offenders directly as a probation officer. Or get famous by my cupcakes.
I like sex a lot, which is a good thing and a bad thing. I get lonely sometimes but when it comes down to it, I don't have time for a boyfriend. And at the same time, I'm way too picky nowadays over the guys I like after getting my heartbroken pretty bad in the past and twice already this year.
I'm honest and I will tell you to your face if I don't like you or disagree. I'm vocal about my opinions and I do enjoy debates and arguments if it's of substance.
My life is actually pretty complex but most people don't even get to understand or see what's really going on. I've been through a lot of crap in which people find it hard to imagine since I'm always so bubbly and perky all the time. It's not a facade; I'd just rather put my energy into something better and more positive.
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Oh dammit, I wrote it with "I"! Ah, too late.
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You're a pretty calm, reserved kind of guy. You're not very sentimental and usually don't experience strong emotional highs and lows. You're selfish sometimes and you don't feel much empathy for people you don't know or things that don't affect you.
You're self-conscious in social situations and it probably shows. People probably think you're awkward or just idiosyncratic, but it doesn't bother you much.
You can be creative, but it comes and goes.
You're independent and proud of it. You like to do things your way just to be different.
You're thin, thanks to your ridiculously fast metabolism. You don't go to the gym. Working out to "get buff" seems like an exercise in narcissism. You'd rather stay fit doing things you enjoy, like snowboarding and parkour. You're not a huge fan of organized sports - unlike most of your family.
You procrastinate. You meant to write this an hour ago.
You like traveling - in the Kerouac-ian sense (still need to read his books sometime..). Your ideal life would be on a permanent road-trip to nowhere in particular with some clothes, money, and a laptop.
Drinking with friends is fun, but sometimes it seems like the only thing people ever do for entertainment is eat, drink, and dance. You don't go to clubs, partly because your friends don't, and partly because you don't think you'd enjoy it. You go to concerts when your bank account allows it.
You don't meet a lot of girls. Most of the activities you do and classes you take (CS) are male-dominated. When there are girls around, you rarely find yourself in the right social situation. On top of that, you're kind of shy.
You don't have many ambitions or desires. Overall you're pretty easy to please.
You judge people by what kind of music they listen to: hip-hop, rap, punk, rock, indie, trance, techno, etc. You draw conclusions about what kind of a person someone is by their musical preferences. You know it's shallow and wrong, but you do it anyway.
Other than not having full use of one hand, pretty cool.
I'm quite outspoken and proud of it (you guys would know), however, I do take care to not offend people as much as I can (although not on here)
Same thing that Ether posted about CS and not meeting girls applies to me. FML.
You are athletic, thought most of your life you hated sports because you were playing the ones you are not good at. You surprised your entire family by now being able to compete at a national level with the possibilities of the olympics. Though in the present you find your self temporarily injured and you are quite frustrated, the people around you definitely notice it.
You are quite introverted when you first new people but the more you hang around the same people, the more extroverted you become. In general you just like to have fun and make jokes around everything though people eventually take your jokes in the wrong way and get angry with you.
While you are not a player you do not have a problem meeting girls, and at this point in your life you are not sure if you want to be in a relationship having met a few bad girls in the last few months.
In school you have two majors, one is Computing Science and the only reason you are in it is because of the military. You no longer are interested in the subject and you hate the stigma of the stereotype that gets attached with you.
Being in the military there are times when you are super proud to serve your country but at times you are unsure if you made the right choice because you would rather pursue your potential athletic possibilities. Even in the military you are not sure if you made the right trade job as you think you would like to get closer to the combat zone, either as a military police officer or as an infantry officer.
You hate drama, absolutely cannot stand it and you are quite amazed how adults in university still get caught up in high school soap opera dramas.
You traveled after high school and went right into University because you knew what you wanted. You work hard, and you want to get your degree done ASAP. You want to travel again, but you're worried about leaving people at home. You would love to do an International Co-op or school term, but you don't want to miss home.
You're an introvert in most situations, but not because you want to be! You are just naturally quiet and wouldn't want to be any other way. If someone gets to know you, and if you are comfortable with them, you quickly change to an extrovert!
You know how you want your future to be (married young, 2-3 kids, hopefully a fantastic marriage!) but you're not quite 100% sure if the person you're with is the one. You know 99.9% though ;) You know you want to get your Masters after the little kiddies.
You go to Church every Sunday but you feel like you're a hypocrite, which you're totally fine with!
On the surface, basically, you're a good girl, but behind those curtains, not so much!
You find yourself to be very much inside your own head at times, but you also find yourself very capable of keeping an outer layer running a top speed while doing so. Your inner monologue is constantly speaking, like some cheesy narrator to a movie of your life.
You find yourself to feel very deeply for the people around you. You find yourself intuitive and sensitive to their every happiness, every failure. Yet you find yourself to always have a smile on your face and to always be laughing, no matter what your inner self might be thinking--because the world is better with one less pessimist. Most of the time, you set yourself up as a buffoon, because you enjoy life much better that way.
You find pleasure in the simplest things in life, like watching a movie with a good friend, or an afternoon nap under the sun. You combat difficulty and social tension with coarse humor--sometimes even perverse
You have an odd aversion to books, and still get that queer butterfly feeling every time you walk up into the clustered sections of a library to smell the old books. Some might mistake this as a fetish--and you yourself wonder if they are right.
You love to write. You love the feeling it gives you when you can see your ideas and observations in black print on white paper. You love the thrill of getting to know yourself through your daily journals--a habit you started in high school.
You sometimes pause, in transit, and wonder if the path you're on in life is the right one, whether the choices you are making are the right ones. You try to look past the present and into the future, and then are disappointed when you can't.
You feel the pressures of the world around you weighing down, pressures of your family, of your social bearing--but you carry the loads nonetheless because as much as you dislike pressure, you were raised to fend for yourself.
You feel that these things are silly, that this introspection should have been saved for your eyes only. You know that this is not the public you. You realise your private self would now be displayed and judged, and you find that hilarious.
And you feel that there are too many things that you were, are, or might become. You feel that there are much more to all these people than just the few short paragraphs that they can form with their limit of vocabulary. You feel the same for yourself.
You are also, at the current time, lamenting the fact that due to the meat-only diet you've been on lately, you feel over-heated even in the final days of winter.
You very much like rabbits. It's a close tie between rabbits and books. Very close tie. You miss your two bunnies from time to time, and you honestly believe that they are in bunny heaven. You try not to imagine the connotations of "bunny heaven".
You think you are finished with this voluntary invasion of your own privacy, and you still find the style of expression very addicting. At the risk of sounding like a lunatic for an entire Sunday today, you will end this here--however, you cannot promise yourself not to use it in your own journal.
You realize that your dreams are slowly melting away
You're in your early 20's, but still feel like an 8-year-old
You'd love to go to parties, but then don't have any friends to go with
You always seem to self-sabotage yourself.
You just can't seem to figure life out at the moment.