RE: what is your own definition of a personal hell?

This is easy. I've always said that Hell is an infinite line of toddlers and you have to put gloves on their hands. Anyone who has ever done that knows what I'm talking about.

Stuck listening to a symphony of banjos.

about to leave this earth wrote:

...cut off from all jobs that require the use of my body.

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I make $1000 a month delivering newspapers, so no,

Wait, you can't have a job which requires the use of your body, but you deliver newspapers?

So someone else loads the papers in your car, and you just drop them in the street?

You don't respect your parents, but they are willing to support you - at 30 years old?

Mick Lovin wrote:

Trapped in a doctors office waiting room, and there is a T.V. blaring "The View"

_______________________________

POD!!!

LMFAO

Being raped every day.

Having no escape from self-absorbed, uninteresting, whiny, and/or boastful people who never stop talking. (A real-life version of Facebook?)

GermanPotatoSoup wrote:

hell is here wrote:

Marriage

3 kids

Steady 9-5 job

House in suburbs

Have to agree, a life of complete and total lameness. A neutered existence.

A big night eating out is dinner at Chillies.

You save up so you can take a "fantasy vacation" at... Disney.

Shoot. Me. In. The. Face.

Alright let's here it then!! I'm sick and tired of hearing people like you bash someone who decides to settle down and have a family. What do you propose to do with your life? Let me guess: "Oh I'll travel the world, livin' on a dime, having sex multiple times a week with different women, etc, etc" You're probably what like 22 right now? Trust me, you like the idea of that life, you can't actually do that nor would you enjoy it for more than a couple years MAX. I don't understand why it seems so implausible that the greatest joy you can get out of life is having kids....cause it really is. And if you don't ever experience that, well, then I really do feel bad for you.

Use Ears & Mouth In Proportion wrote:

Having no escape from self-absorbed, uninteresting, whiny, and/or boastful people who never stop talking. (A real-life version of Facebook?)

No one makes you come here.

troll_detector wrote:

Wait, you can't have a job which requires the use of your body, but you deliver newspapers?

So someone else loads the papers in your car, and you just drop them in the street?

You don't respect your parents, but they are willing to support you - at 30 years old?

Delivering newspapers isn't a very physical job, neither requires any substantial amount of time spent on my feet nor any heavy lifting. We're talking about newspapers not bushels of hay.

hell is here wrote:

Marriage

3 kids

Steady 9-5 job

House in suburbs

another big4 type wrote:

I would kill to have the kind of job where I could be reliably finished by 5.

Is it that unusual? Here its the norm, but more like 8-4. Cant get people to have meetings after 3 on a friday...people want their XC skiing!

heyheynow wrote:

Alright let's here it then!! I'm sick and tired of hearing people like you bash someone who decides to settle down and have a family. What do you propose to do with your life? Let me guess: "Oh I'll travel the world, livin' on a dime, having sex multiple times a week with different women, etc, etc" You're probably what like 22 right now? Trust me, you like the idea of that life, you can't actually do that nor would you enjoy it for more than a couple years MAX. I don't understand why it seems so implausible that the greatest joy you can get out of life is having kids....cause it really is. And if you don't ever experience that, well, then I really do feel bad for you.

Relax dude, you have it all wrong. Its OK to settle down and have kids, most people do eventually. But claiming that you only can enjoy 'living life' for a couple of years, maximum, is just pure bs. Theres no rush. Settle down when you are in your late 20's early 30's.

Before that: Get an education if thats what youre interested in, then follow your dreams, travel, get a job, have fun, work a lot if you want to, be young and enjoy the lack of responsibility of anyone else but yourself.

how old are you wrote:

hell is here wrote:

Marriage

3 kids

Steady 9-5 job

House in suburbs

How old are you? You sound very young. If this is your personal hell, what exactly is your "personal heaven"? Single, no kids, no job, and living in the streets?

How about being single, having a good job, and living in a nice place without worrying about being held down by commitments? No I'm not 20, I'm 34 and I love my life. I've seen too many friends become miserable after being forced to sink into the sandpit that is the "average life". I can travel, spend my money on whatever I want, have sex with whoever I want, and do whatever I want. Rather than marry some girl whos gonna pop out two kids, get fat and ugly, and turn into a mean hag.

Enjoy your Friday night "dinners" at Applebees and "once-in-a-lifetime vacations to Disney World !

when I grow up I want to be a nuclear family male provider and work at a 55k a year job and marry my college sweetheart and have 2 idiot kids and eat "fancy dinners" at Red Lobster take "vacations" to middle-class beach hotels and go to PTO meetings and buy my wonderful children $200 of presents every Christmas because I cant afford any more and drive a $8,000 car and work my butt off all week to pay the bills and save a meager amount in the hopes that I can retire at age 70 to do nothing with the rest of my life and watch TV all weekend and go to church every Sunday to praise a mythical deity in the hopes that when my miserable and boring existence ends I will finally be able to do something truly cool and fun rather than listen to my wife whine about the groceries

My definition:

THE LAST 200 of an 800M Race...Enough said.

Being completely ready to have the best track 5000m race of your life, but it never starts because of infinite sections of the 200m dash...hurts just to think about it.

What do you do that is so much better than this?

Jean-Claude Pez-Pierre wrote:

Being completely ready to have the best track 5000m race of your life, but it never starts because of infinite sections of the 200m dash...hurts just to think about it.

+1

not a suburban idiot wrote:

how old are you wrote:

How old are you? You sound very young. If this is your personal hell, what exactly is your "personal heaven"? Single, no kids, no job, and living in the streets?

How about being single, having a good job, and living in a nice place without worrying about being held down by commitments? No I'm not 20, I'm 34 and I love my life. I've seen too many friends become miserable after being forced to sink into the sandpit that is the "average life". I can travel, spend my money on whatever I want, have sex with whoever I want, and do whatever I want. Rather than marry some girl whos gonna pop out two kids, get fat and ugly, and turn into a mean hag.

Enjoy your Friday night "dinners" at Applebees and "once-in-a-lifetime vacations to Disney World !

You say you don't want an "average life", but nothing you describe sounds "extraordinary". Selfish, but certainly not extraordinary.

There are two ways to consider this question, the first allowing responses that involve health problems and the second considering all other types of hell. If we're allowing health problems, my definition would be having a neurodegenerative disease with preserved insight so as to preserve awareness of the steady deterioration in cognitive and motor functions.