What should I do with my life?

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working on organic farms you get food and a place to stay for work

 

I happen to like the sound of this Buddhist-like idea...but do good deeds have to be material things? Does he have to have a 40 hour a week job to be doing good and working hard? I think the hardest work happens outside of these kinds of things, with other people, with yourself, with whats real and will outlast this incarnation

As for travelling, sure it can be done, not much money needed. Just faith and a dream. Use your talents. Get off the medication. See clearly and draw a future for yourself

 

No the "BIG IDEA" here is not "materialism", it is responsibility .

You work because you want to be responsible. you are responsible for some one else, you are responsible for your parents who have given birth to you, raised you and want you to succeed in life.


You are responsible for your community to become a valuable member of society. If he is a businessman, he will give others jobs. If he is a policeman, he will protect them. If he is a doctor, he will heal them, if he is a toilet cleaner, he will clean their toilets.

The point here is make yourself useful to make the world a better place. The buddhist philosophy does not say "Be a monk! you don't have to do anything"

Even a monk has to go through alot of things , a monk is also responsible for alot of things. Buddhism talks about responsiblity, awareness and love for one's community.
So its not "I will do whatever I want!", its "I will help others anyway I can".

 

I suggest you do what your father asks you to do, and stick with the course that you took.
Have some willpower , don't drop out just because you don't like it, turn yourself so that you do like it.

Sometimes there is alot of fulfillment and happiness in coming home after a day of hardwork. You are 20 , you can do so much for yourself. There will be time for you to travel after you retire/ or after you develop your career... then you can go around the world to keep yourself from being bored.

See , life's philosophy is quite simple. You work now, build yourself a career and later on in life, you can live a happy life.

Or , you can waste time now on simple pleasures and realize later on that it is too late to do anything else.
The choice is yours.

 

When I was Irishdude's age, I adopted a philosophy of studying hard in college, but rewarding myself by travelling widely when I could. I saved up money to go to Europe for the summer when I was 19, first attending a summer school in Norway, and then travelling to what was then the Soviet Union and being followed everywhere by the KGB, who thought I was a CIA spy (although I was 19, I looked 16 - could they seriously believe i was a spy?). I hitched across Europe after this, had a week of great sex with a Swedish woman, and really grew up that summer --- but I went back to school in the Fall and graduated.

There is a difference between bumming around and being a bum.

 

i see everyones point here, i must say

 

Yeah man, I'm in the same boat. Desperately lookin for a job, my problem is I don't know what to do and have no interest in work really.

I must admit, various psychedelics have helped me though. They've helped me to gain more of an understanding of the kind of person I am, they've helped me accept other lifestyles and people themselves, they've undoubtedly helped me understand a FUCKLOAD about the psychology of humans, and more. Plus I find they add a kick, a spring in to life.

Job-wise, I think I'll probably learn a trade. Maybe plumbing or something. I'm a musician but thats more of a hobby (although I could use it to work probably, it's something I wouldn't wanna ruin). Being able to play keyboard, drums, guitar and bass has it's advantages in hard times too. But my plan is that learning a trade will keep me in business with regular flowing money (hell, if I really got into it I could plan sorting my own business out) and spend the money on having a good times (whatever that consists of).

There's life, and then there is the way you interpret it. This could suggest two realities - actual reality (life and nature) outside of the mind, and the stress and pressures of an individual's life that leads to perceptions on the World and a depressed, twisted World outlook inside the mind.

Different people are in different kinds of realities, all in their own, working in unison. Time and location can be our binding.