When does one get past a mundane existence and jump into an exciting one ? When does one get past the rigmarole of routine, and start doing the things they really want to do, the things that add meaning, that gives them happiness ?
The experts say, it takes roughly 10 years of repetitive routine for anyone to become really good at their chosen field.
It's irony at its worst. Just when you start getting better at something, another phase in life comes in, parenthood for instance, and you spend another 10 years trying to be good at that. It's futile.
I'm reminded of the starting monologue from Annie Hall. It goes thus:
Two elderly women are at a resort, and one says to the other "The food at this place is so terrible", the other woman responds "yeah, and in such small portions too"
That's essentially how I feel about life, full of loneliness, and suffering and misery and unhappiness, and it is all over much to quickly.
In some less philosophical musings, I'm quoting movies instead of people and books. Welcome to my world & my generation !
The experts say, it takes roughly 10 years of repetitive routine for anyone to become really good at their chosen field.
It's irony at its worst. Just when you start getting better at something, another phase in life comes in, parenthood for instance, and you spend another 10 years trying to be good at that. It's futile.
I'm reminded of the starting monologue from Annie Hall. It goes thus:
Two elderly women are at a resort, and one says to the other "The food at this place is so terrible", the other woman responds "yeah, and in such small portions too"
That's essentially how I feel about life, full of loneliness, and suffering and misery and unhappiness, and it is all over much to quickly.
In some less philosophical musings, I'm quoting movies instead of people and books. Welcome to my world & my generation !
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