How Has Your Life Changed in 18 months?
Guzzo
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had a talk with a friend aout how our lives are totally different than they were just a year and a half ago. Shit kinda boggled my mind.18 months ago I was dreading my daily grind working at a record store making low wages. I was bored with school and seeing a girl that barely left an impression on me. I was also having a major bout of depression over the way my life was playing out. My longtime best friend was still living in Las Vegas and left me feeling like I lacked someone to confide in.Nowadays I am working in my chosen career field, My major bout with depression has come and gone, I've had several higher quality women and friends in my life. I began working out semi-intensley again and I've put on nearly 20 pounds of muscle, and most importantly I opened myself up to travel, which I had somehow psyched myself out of for nearly 3 years.So the question isHOW HAS YOUR LIFE CHANGED IN 18 MONTHS?
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Also, I've got a girlfriend now, going on five months. It's getting better like Sergeant pepper fourth track.
And I was trying to blap just based on that couch pic alone!
Everything was chill for awhile, started my first serious relationship with a girl which was really good for awhile, that ended, oh well, went home for the summer got an incredibly easy job working at blockbuster online, got high 4 times a day at that job, worked with the most upbeat and sincere dude I've ever met, he was 50 years old and from nigeria, talked to him a lot about fela and it turns out he lived only a mile away from fela's club, dude also dropped serious life-knowledge and we spoke constantly about real shit going on in the world every day yet most people didn't take him seriously at all, the young black kids and even grown black women called him "africa" and didn't show him any respect. anyway I'm talking to much about that guy but I'll always remember him and he taught me a lot.
this year, start the second year of college and got more focused on design, taking better classes and shit, everythings going great until november 1st when my older brother and only sibling died. needless to say the holidays sucked, school sucked, life sucked, everything sucked and continued to suck. applied for an internship (RR) during finals week last semester, got that and its been the best part of my life since I've started working there. Then about six weeks ago I got into a vicious weekly cycle of procrastinating, failed all nighters where I just pass out after only getting 25% of what i need done, followed by not going to class, repeat process for awhile and now I have a good chance of failing but 5 more weeks left to redeem myself...
so yeah, went from pretty good to unbelievebly shitty, and the future is cloudy...
I feel you bro i started college same time. Although ive had great achievements in my life. (peru project and school) i am always at the same point where everything depends on my actions and i procrastinate-uber stress cycle.
The only way you can make yourslef happy and change the course of your life is to do shit if not youll be even wose off....DO IT.. fight for your degree and grab that shit. my condoleances and good fucking luck
18 months ago I was starting graduate studies in theroetical physics at the University of Waterloo. Been kinda shakey for a year with the girlfriend at the time, but she decided to move out there with me (across the country).
Now, after leaving my masters to do other school-related stuff (mathematics), having that girl leave me in one of the most painful ways, and having to purge almost all my so-called friends of that time out of my life, I am finally beginning to enjoy what's going on.
The past 4 months have been awesome. The one friend I kept around after the mess during the past 18 months, has been the closest and dopest dude ever. Plus, since moving back from my masters, I've met up with a really cool RR dealer and friend, and some cross prairies trips are in the works.
With SS, waxidermy, piles of shitty alberta xian terds, doing math in school, life stability, and getting my own apartment (finally!) I'd say my life is heaps better now, despite the fact I had to take a few steps back. Word!
from smoker, vegetarian, having a chick, 2 room mates, in a crew, make a grip of beats and worked on music all the time, make shit money, about blind as a bat, ride the bus, never watch TV, never cook
to non-smoker, meat eater, single, live alone, dropped the crew, make about one or two beats a month, make decent money, have glasses, a car, satellite TV, and cooking myself dinner all the time.
all within 2 years work.
maybe a little whiter but definitely still male.
I'd like to go freelance soon, but i think i'm gonna get married and try and buy a house next year
I will say my personal work has been very fullfiilling
Generally feel good about the future , but I dont see much traveling in it ?
18 months ago, I was on record hiatus. Then, one day, the switch got flipped, and I came out of retirement. So, that is different and why I'm here.
I was a freelance employee 18 months ago. Then, I took a job at a big publishing company, got paid more, and now I find that I am bored. Gotta get back to less corporate environs.
18 months ago I didn't know shit about soul strut. and, it is questions like this that makes me glad it is 18 months later.
Since then I moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick, started law school, started my first serious relationship, ended my serious relationship, and learned that I am able to must a little discipline in my academic life.
I miss records, I miss Montreal, I miss attractive women, I miss having time for women, I miss diversity, I miss good food, I miss my friends, but I'm very happy with my changes, on the whole. Law school was a good move, experiencing life in a town world's away from anything I've yet epxerienced and living without roommates for the first time in six years is fun.
Also, I started podcasting Waxing Deep, which has taken the show to a level of popularity I never imagined possible. Random people everywhere are feeling it enough to donate money and that makes me feel like I'm doing something right.
So yeah, big changes for me over the past year.
Oh, and lest I forget: I started moderating Soul Strut. When I whisper that in a lady's ear it's game over.
Jeff**Xs^3***babyman***, you rule. When are you going to do my show again? You've got a following in Fredericton...
We are trying to get another mix ready soon. IS Fredricton READY?!?!?!
Lost a ton of shit.
Had insurance.
Lived in Hotels and Apartments for the next 5 months.
Bought a house and moved out into the country to a town with the most embarrassing name in the nation.
Sent one kid off to college and am getting another one ready.
Found this place and have about ten less hours in my life per week.
flower mound?
White Settlement, Tx?