Do you like to sit around, avoid pain and leisurely watch life go by?

Or are you a person of action? Is it worth feelings of sheer terror, pain and humiliation in order to live the sort of life you want?

I think they're both legitimate approaches to living, although I am starting to appreciate the latter after years of being a lazy dreamer.

 

I'm at a similar transformative nexus.

 

I'm doing both, it depends on the situation or on my mood.

 

I thrive off good feelings and ignore the bad. I don't sit around and not live the life I want, but I manage to avoid everything I want nothing to do with

 

i sit around and still get feelings of pain terror and humiliation. maybe i should try running from them instead of letting them catch me so easily. im just too lazy at this moment, i will step it up a gear when im 21.

 

Yes. Me too---.

 

some days I just want to go out and do EVERYTHING imaginable
while other days I want to sit at my computer and download music.

it depends, really. however - I find when I'm either too active or too inactive, I get restless and have a hard time sleeping

 

I'm a lazy dreamer that occasionally gets out and does stuff.

 

Yeah, I get great satisfaction of both. I tend to hang around more though, just chilling, but I don't watch tv most of that time.

 

I'm lazy. I like new challenges but I quit most of the things I start and feel good about in the beginning. I really hate that part about myself but I don't know how to change it, it's just who I am.

I would rather sit at home with a beer and watch old musicals than snowboard in the Swiss Alps, yes.

 

I am on a sacred quest in life that requires me to throw myself into situations and places were I may have to feel the terror and go through it.

But the sacred quest is only a part time job. The rest of the time I enjoy life going by.

Lots of pretty things in life.

 

Sit around... Its simpler and easier. Plus I dont feel bad about doing nothing or being a loser because I get all the social interaction from school and my friends then.

 

You don't have to be one extreme or another, you can find middle ground.

 

Indeed

 

I always need to be out doing something (typically outside)...I hate to "plan", because that takes the excitement out of your day. Definitely not one of those annoying people that always "let's go...come on...let's do something!" Right now I am slowly going crazy though, because both my knees are fucked up and all I can do is sit all day with lots of physical pain.

 

I think I'm a middle ground - which is rare with me, I tend to do extremes..

 

I think it would be very annoying indeed to be with anyone who's personality was either Andy Dick or the donkey from Winnie the poo.

I think most people are closer to the middle, thankfully.

 

Moderation!

 

I don't have a middle ground, I tend to be both, but its either one way or the other. I can spend weeks sitting around eating junk food, not caring about my job or anything else, happy in my beat-ness or I might suddenly get the urge to drive to the sea and jump in on a cold day, or get a new job, or enrol in university, or buy a plane ticket, or climb a mountain, or date someone....lately I have been finding more of a moderate, middle ground which is comforting.

 

When you get the urge to do those thing's do you actually do them?

Do you think that this way of thinking has improved or hampered your life?