Just Want To Cruise The Rest of Life

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14 years ago 08/22/2009 8:14pm EDT

Need some life advice from random strangers:

So, a few years ago I had it all. I had a great job with plenty of money, the most beautiful girlfriend, plenty of friends, a great place to live in a great city.

Well, shit happened...yada, yada, yada...lost the girl, no more job. I am now to the point to where the only thing I am motivated to do is go to the bars every night and coast through the rest of my life. I have a job now that covers the basics with a little leftover. I have no stress, but no life satisfaction. The hopes of the wife and family are out the door.

Can anyone relate? Any advice?

I kind of feel like I got tripped up in the race, but I don't want to drop out. Simply, I want to coast in and keep a slimmer of dignity.

14 years ago 08/22/2009 8:21pm EDT

re: justcoastingonin

If you are: single; have no kids; no one depending on you for support and are bascically are on your own....then you can 'cruise' the rest of your life. It is your life, your business and your choice. I have a friend (we are now in our 40s) who never got married, had kids, etc. and loved to play music and work as a barely making it musician. He is happy and hurting no one else. He doesn't mind renting a 1 bedroom apartment, still; not having much (if any) money in the bank and living from one low paying lounge gig to the next. Sometimes he doesn't work for months. He doesn't seem to have any regrets and I don't think he wants to trade places with me or his other college teammates who now have wives, kids, mortgages, jobs we'd like to quit, etc...pros and cons to everything in life.

14 years ago 08/22/2009 8:32pm EDT

re: justcoastingonin

Just dont turn into an alcoholic. And old people at the bars arent cool.

14 years ago 08/22/2009 8:35pm EDT

re: negro please

No kids, wife, or any other obligations.

probably an alcoholic based on the clinical definition.

14 years ago 08/22/2009 8:38pm EDT

re: justcoastingonin

14 years ago 08/22/2009 9:04pm EDT

re: justcoastingonin

I was really hoping this was a thread about living out the rest of your life on a cruise ship. Dang.

14 years ago 08/22/2009 9:11pm EDT

re: justcoastingonin

Some peoples lives are defined by a series of distractions that only as such makes life bearable until its sudden end.

14 years ago 08/22/2009 9:18pm EDT

re: wak999

wak999 wrote:
Some peoples lives are defined by a series of distractions that only as such makes life bearable until its sudden end.

yeah thats pretty much it.

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