[legit]

To a certain extent being prepared is smart. However i think you should focus most of your time doing what you can while you can. Finding love, enjoying life and experiencing life. If we haven't got long before some kind of collapse, why not enjoy yourself while you can

[jackal42]

Yeah.
Stop being selfless, start being selfish!!
F**k em......

[rogerhb]

How about live your life so that:

1. your grandchildren will be proud of you

2. you make the most of your skills

3. you don't waste time on this planet

4. people will want to come to your funeral.

5. this place is no worse off, and possibly a little better for you having been around

[Choon]

1) Finding love -> not happening.

2) Enjoying life -> not happening.

3) Experiencing life -> results in 1) and 2) not happening.

There's nothing else for me to do but look forward (back?) to Peak Oil.

[Neuromancer]

Choon.

Sad life you have then. I'm sorry for you.

I have found love, I'm enjoying my life, I do all I can to prepare in the given situation.

We are what we think we are.
Life is just energy. Tonal and Nagual.

[aswerfawf]

i agree with the sentiment of this post. if you arent enjoying life, what else is the point? after the collapse a cheerful outlook will be most precious.

to choon: im sorry to tell you this but peak oil and the collapse of civilization will not make finding love or enjoying life easier or more likely. what it might do is force you into a situation where you have no choice but to do something with your life and for yourself. im afraid you have become prisoner to the comforts and conveinces around you. obviously something about life troubles you, i feel the same exact way and ill even tell you there is something very rotten about the world, and it is conspiring to make you and everyone else miserable but dont let it conquerer you. no one can give you initiative, you have to come up with it yourself. but i do urge you, you dont have to wait to start enjoying life. life isnt building up to something, life is now.

[bruss01]

Of course life is for living.

Quantity of life is great, but not at the expense of quality of life.

Enjoyment of life cannot be put on layaway.

Example, my dad worked himself to death for years in anticipation of enjoying himself when he retired. By the time he retired, he was broke (divorce), tired, in poor health, and alone. Didn't quite work out the way he planned. He was reduced to sitting home staring at the four walls.

I believe in working hard, but you've got to stop and smell the roses too. It's a process of finding balance that allows us to enjoy what we have now, while living in a way that we can continue to enjoy as much as possible for as long as possible.

I believe that a life well lived will find hard work and heartache, but also love and joy and pleasure. Living is the process of blending these raw ingredients into something in which we can take satisfaction.

[Blizzard]

You guys forgot the middle part.

then you marry one

Blizzard

[Choon]

Neuromancer: Thanks for rubbing it in.


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('aswerfawf', ' ')peak oil and the collapse of civilization will not make finding love or enjoying life easier or more likely. what it might do is force you into a situation where you have no choice but to do something with your life and for yourself.

[EdF]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t's not like I have an on/off switch to provide me with eternal spiritual fulfillment...

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EdF', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t's not like I have an on/off switch to provide me with eternal spiritual fulfillment...

[EdF]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')lcohol, caffeine, nicotine, drugs....

[bobbyald]

Choon: $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')inding love -> not happening

[Ludi]

Preparing for the worst certainly doesn't exclude the possibility of enjoying the present.

[Choon]

bobbyald: It'll probably sound more convincing if it didn't sound like you were shouting it in a bullhorn.

[Guest]

Choon. Sorry for saddening you.
You have to raise your energy. Get out in the nature, make some sport, breath and swim. Don't lay down in the darkness.

Do something. I know how it is to be alone and on the way down, but there is a point where you stop and only can go up.

Life is what you think you are, not what others tell you.
And Peak Oil is not now and here. It's around the corner. But it's not affecting you now. So this is a bad excuse to turn to it.

[Doly]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Anonymous', 'I')t's around the corner. But it's not affecting you now.

[FairMaiden]

I totally agree! Enjoy it while you can...I've been travelling and eating all that expensive fancy food from all over the world bc who knows if I will be able to in the future.