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I feel trapped at the moment. I just want to drop everything and be totally free to explore everything. I don't want to worry about deadlines and work or exams. I just want to run completely wild. Go wherever my feelings take me. Just grab a few things ( like my guitars and friends) and go wherever possible. I hate routine but I'm stuck in one.

Sop do you feel like this?

I did, very recently.

I am taking two weeks off.

Is there any way you can take a short time off? even if it's lying and saying you are leaving town but just staying home and not answering the phone?

I did, very recently.

I am taking two weeks off.

Is there any way you can take a short time off? even if it's lying and saying you are leaving town but just staying home and not answering the phone?

Not really. I have exams in a few weeks which will basically decide which uniersity I'm going too and even though my job is part time, it feels like its taking over.

Yes! YES! YES! I feel like that right now man. If my car could hold up I'd be on the road right now driving around the country. I want so much to just get away from everything. Methinks I need a vacation :)

Do it man! I may just hit the road in the summer.

I feel trapped at the moment. I just want to drop everything and be totally free to explore everything. I don't want to worry about deadlines and work or exams. I just want to run completely wild. Go wherever my feelings take me. Just grab a few things ( like my guitars and friends) and go wherever possible. I hate routine but I'm stuck in one.

Sop do you feel like this?

Yes! YES! YES! I feel like that right now man. If my car could hold up I'd be on the road right now driving around the country. I want so much to just get away from everything. Methinks I need a vacation :)

Fixed. :D

Win!

I feel trapped at the moment. I just want to drop [my pants] and be totally free to explore everything. I don't want to worry about [public decency laws]. I just want to run completely [naked]. Go wherever my feelings take me. Just grab a few things ( like my guitars and friends) and go wherever possible. I hate [pants] but I'm stuck in [a pair].

Sop do you feel like this?

Fixed. :D

Win!

Huzzah!:fluffle:

can you even take a day off? just one day? sleep late, eat pie for breakfast, sit in the park and read?

just one day of fresh air.......

Oh I've done that numerous times but I just feel like taking a long time off. Just not have to worry about anything. Just to be able to go anywhere without any consequences. Something like a road trip.

Not really. I have exams in a few weeks which will basically decide which uniersity I'm going too and even though my job is part time, it feels like its taking over.

can you even take a day off? just one day? sleep late, eat pie for breakfast, sit in the park and read?

just one day of fresh air.......

Yeah, I know exactly how you feel. I sometimes feel stuck in this city. To a lesser extent I feel stuck in a routine deleterious to my mental health. I can't afford to travel at the moment and won't be able to until I find full time work (and paradoxically then having to worry about being able to get time off, but nevermind). I've never been overseas, and i've fantasised about dropping everything just to experience life in another country.

I've seen a lot of Australia though, but come to think of it, the last time I went away anywhere was a single weekend away to a country town in my state over three years ago. Unless you count my grandmother's funeral in rural South Australia about two years ago.

Since then...nothing.

I get that feeling from time to time. Unfortunately the inablility to escape is what always causes those feelings. When I start feeling like that I try to get away even for a few hours. When time is short, I've found going somewhere completely different (even if it's a few towns over) helps alot. Sometimes leaving my cell phone at home, then wandering the city for a few hours helps too.

can you even take a day off? just one day? sleep late, eat pie for breakfast, sit in the park and read?

just one day of fresh air.......


Mmm, pie :)

Oh I've done that numerous times but I just feel like taking a long time off. Just not have to worry about anything. Just to be able to go anywhere without any consequences. Something like a road trip.

Are you going to have some time a few months down the road? If so, start planning a road trip now. Mark it on your calendar, make sure everyone knows you will be gone and it's non- negotiable. Having the trip to look forward to will help alot.

Mmm, pie :)

Wait self! Even better:

Apple Pi:
http://static.flickr.com/52/112641772_3c0fafcd6a_m.jpg

I feel trapped at the moment. I just want to drop everything and be totally free to explore everything. I don't want to worry about deadlines and work or exams. I just want to run completely wild. Go wherever my feelings take me. Just grab a few things ( like my guitars and friends) and go wherever possible. I hate routine but I'm stuck in one.

Sop do you feel like this?

yes, very much so.

I feel trapped at the moment. I just want to drop everything and be totally free to explore everything. I don't want to worry about deadlines and work or exams. I just want to run completely wild. Go wherever my feelings take me. Just grab a few things ( like my guitars and friends) and go wherever possible. I hate routine but I'm stuck in one.

Sop do you feel like this?

Well, even with a wife and three kids, I pride myself on my spontaneity. Though I must admit that the scope of my spontaneity is considerably narrower than when I was a bachelor. I haven't gone on a road trip in years.

Are you going to have some time a few months down the road? If so, start planning a road trip now. Mark it on your calendar, make sure everyone knows you will be gone and it's non- negotiable. Having the trip to look forward to will help alot.

i think planning it kinda defeats the point of being "carefree"

i think planning it kinda defeats the point of being "carefree"

When you have a busy life, sometimes you even have to plan your freedom.

I feel trapped at the moment. I just want to drop everything and be totally free to explore everything. I don't want to worry about deadlines and work or exams. I just want to run completely wild. Go wherever my feelings take me. Just grab a few things ( like my guitars and friends) and go wherever possible. I hate routine but I'm stuck in one.

Sop do you feel like this?

yeah i feel trapped but if i gave up my studies now my life will probably suck. so by not having as much freedom as i want now i can have way more later. also when i have good grades during the schoolyear i don't have to redo exams during the summer holliday, wich means that i can do whatever i want for 2 months.

The good news is that civilization as we know it will probably end, ushering in a new dark age where you might adapt better.

The good news is that civilization as we know it will probably end, ushering in a new dark age where you might adapt better.


Always the Optimist! :p

Yes... I've always been awful at decision-making and it's always been a joke really, but recently I realised why it gets to me so much. I feel so trapped by making choices, even ones I want to make, because it cuts off the endless other possibilities... and yes, I don't have to stick to my decision... but then if I change decision and follow another path, I'm still just as trapped on that one path.

Ah, I sound crazy.... :p *toodles off*

Ah, I sound crazy.... :p *toodles off*
but you look beautiful *sucks up* (you are going to have a TG soon)

Yes... I've always been awful at decision-making and it's always been a joke really, but recently I realised why it gets to me so much. I feel so trapped by making choices, even ones I want to make, because it cuts off the endless other possibilities... and yes, I don't have to stick to my decision... but then if I change decision and follow another path, I'm still just as trapped on that one path.

Ah, I sound crazy.... :p *toodles off*

you don't really sound crazy, i have that too, making decisions sucks. i think that's why i'm sometimes quite impulsive, because i don't want to make decisions.

Yes.

But I think I just want to start on with college. One more year of high school.. ugh..

Yes... I've always been awful at decision-making and it's always been a joke really, but recently I realised why it gets to me so much. I feel so trapped by making choices, even ones I want to make, because it cuts off the endless other possibilities... and yes, I don't have to stick to my decision... but then if I change decision and follow another path, I'm still just as trapped on that one path.

Ah, I sound crazy.... :p *toodles off*

*huggles*

In essence, of course I feel trapped. I've spent my teenage years following that lovely river that leads to a few decades of wearing a suit, and earning enough money to fit seemlessly into the amorphous mass of the upper middle classes.

School....Sixth form....University+work experiance......career..... retirement.....death

Thats about it really, and I do feel terribly frustrated by it.

Wait self! Even better:

Apple Pi:
http://static.flickr.com/52/112641772_3c0fafcd6a_m.jpg

Does it dertimine it's own circumfrence and area?

And can I have a piece?

I sometimes feel trapped in the Navy. Then I look around and realize...I AM IN THE NAVY!!!! It's suffocating me!

but you look beautiful *sucks up* (you are going to have a TG soon)
that was unexpected! but very sweet :D :fluffle:

you don't really sound crazy, i have that too, making decisions sucks. i think that's why i'm sometimes quite impulsive, because i don't want to make decisions.
mmm, decisions are scary... have a deep-rooted insecurity and dont trust myself to make the right decisions I guess.

I once read something about my personality type which made a whole lot of sense - I can see so many sides to any question, so many options and the positives and negatives of each, that I'm basically unable to make a logical decision...

*huggles*
thank you :) for everything :-)
*huggles back* :)

I feel that way sometimes. Like right now, these past couple of days. Actually, I shouldn't even be sitting here typing this right now, I should be working. :p

I feel trapped at the moment. I just want to drop everything and be totally free to explore everything. I don't want to worry about deadlines and work or exams. I just want to run completely wild. Go wherever my feelings take me. Just grab a few things ( like my guitars and friends) and go wherever possible. I hate routine but I'm stuck in one.

So do you feel like this?
Yes, very much so.

If you want to know how much, follow me... http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/asthanos.gif (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/TrappedInside.gif) <-click [1.7MB]

Yes, very much so.

If you want to know how much, follow me... http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/asthanos.gif (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/TrappedInside.gif) <-click [1.7MB]

Dear me!

Dear me!
Very much :eek:?

Yes... I've always been awful at decision-making and it's always been a joke really, but recently I realised why it gets to me so much. I feel so trapped by making choices, even ones I want to make, because it cuts off the endless other possibilities... and yes, I don't have to stick to my decision... but then if I change decision and follow another path, I'm still just as trapped on that one path.

Ah, I sound crazy.... :p *toodles off*

You know, you may sound crazy, but what you wrote is pretty much how I feel too. Maybe we're both crazy.


I'm now getting bugged by my parents about what I want to do next year (when I leave uni). Every time I get asked I get really annoyed, because I really don't want a) to leave uni, b) to have to actually decide what I'm going to do with my life.

I think I'll repeat the year. Get myself a better degree, which would leave me with more options, and it would give me another year to decide. I'd happily do that.

There is nothing to remedy that feeling like a really good RPG.

In essence, of course I feel trapped. I've spent my teenage years following that lovely river that leads to a few decades of wearing a suit, and earning enough money to fit seemlessly into the amorphous mass of the upper middle classes.

School....Sixth form....University+work experiance......career..... retirement.....death

Thats about it really, and I do feel terribly frustrated by it.

Ah, you made a bit of a mistake. Your actual life progression is more likely to be:
"School....Sixth form....University+work experiance......career.....death"

Unless you get very rich somehow, which you probably won't. So don't look forwards to your retirement too much, and pick a job you like (hehe).

There is nothing to remedy that feeling like a really good RPG.

That's true. If you're busy trying to find the water chip you forget life's every-day tediums :)

Almost always. Good thing is, I get a spring vacation of 10 days from school, including on my birthday, :D

I'll be getting my new SG during that time period, and a new battery, plug wires, fresh oil and gas to fire up my old Dodge.

I felt that way for a long time. Then, I woke up one morning and thought, "what the hell am I doing?" a couple of times, before I broke all my routines, went completely crazy, and became a deathseeker.

Always the Optimist! :p

I can see the good in any situation! For example, being a slave isn't completely bad because at least you get to work with your family.

(I kid, I kid.)

I can see the good in any situation! For example, being a slave isn't completely bad because at least you get to work with your family.

(I kid, I kid.)

Now, if i would have said that...oh can you imagine the names i'd be called? I think i need to add the "I kid, I kid" part after every post. :D

OP: No, not really. Since I already know that I could do whatever I like at any moment I choose, feeling trapped doesn't really make sense. I'm choosing to do what I am at the moment because I want to do it since it furthers my goals. :)

Now, if i would have said that...oh can you imagine the names i'd be called? I think i need to add the "I kid, I kid" part after every post. :D

Yeah, it gets me out of lots of trouble!

It's like how Fox can get away with saying anything, as long as they phrase it as a question. Is Obama a terrorist? Are liberals traitors? Are illegal immigrants committing genocide?

Jews suck! (I kid, I kid!) Or perhaps... Do Jews suck?

(I am one, also, and us Jews are not offended by such inanities and this shouldn't be considered offensive enough for mod action. )

Wait self! Even better:

Apple Pi:
http://static.flickr.com/52/112641772_3c0fafcd6a_m.jpg

Did you even know it was Pi Day yesterday?

mmm, decisions are scary... have a deep-rooted insecurity and dont trust myself to make the right decisions I guess.

I once read something about my personality type which made a whole lot of sense - I can see so many sides to any question, so many options and the positives and negatives of each, that I'm basically unable to make a logical decision...

i think i have that too. but i don't think it's mostly because i'm insecure. often it's because i want to have it all and because it's hard to place one option above the other.
like today i'm trying to decide what topic to do a paper on, something that should be quite easy, but it's not. i keep on postponing it and i don't feel like choosing.
i had the same problem with choosing what to study. i wanted to study history and medicine. the last day possible i subscribed myself for the entrance-exam for med-school. it wasn't that hard and i passed it, so i chose to do medicine.
i wouldn't really mind if most things were decided by chance.

I want to break free (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hMrY8jysdg).