biggest Lesson (tickets, country, concert, quote, band)

jibber · 01-18-2006, 06:06 PM

So I'm bored and thought I'd make a thread. So what's the biggest lesson you've learned recently? could be anything, or just something major you realized lately. For me it would be that going to art school was a mistake. I never draw or paint just on my own accord anymore, and I feel like studying art in college is sucking all the fun out of it. But I figure the only way you'll learn anything is by trying it out in the first place, so I don't feel as though I've wasted a year (until I look at what tuition cost me this year).

jazzfromhell · 01-18-2006, 11:33 PM

Buy tickets early. I used to have it down, but then started getting lazy. Now I've got to buy $35 tickets to see McCoy Tyner, when I could've gotten them for $5. Still makes my blood boil, such a missed oppurtunity.

jibber · 01-19-2006, 12:19 AM

Another thing I've realized lately is how restless I'm getting living where I'm living. Don't get me wrong, I love calgary, and I've got a great life here, but lately I've been getting this feeling that there's just too much history here. I've lived here for 9 years now, not even that long at all, but I've just been feeling like I need to get out. This is pretty much my main reason for going to New Zealand this summer. Of course the fact that I'll be able to ski is a big plus, but the main attraction for me is that it's halfway around the world. I love the idea of just heading off by myself, no plans, no agenda, no safety net, flipping my life upside down and seeing where I end up. My only plan has been to work there and ski, but I can easily see myself ditching that and just heading off to southeast asia on a whim. My life is so structured right now, everything's planned out because I need it to be. For a while now I've really craved uncertainty, hopefully this summer I'll be able to get a little bit of that out of my system.

blackTshirt · 01-19-2006, 12:24 AM

i don't have much time to post, but i thought i could share this
so the biggest thing i've learned in the past month, actually, is to try to make your life easier, by never being afraid "in advance".. like with school.. so i have an exam today (really, i do) and the thing is, i'd probably do shit if i actually thought about it and be like OMG..
like last week, i was a total wreck, thinking this week was gonna suck cause i had a LOTTTT to do. instead, just as the week started, i began to look on the bright side, thinking SO WHAT IF I'M GONNA FAIL? and everything seemed easier. and i dunno, i'm not afraid anymore. not right now

TheBig3 · 01-19-2006, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by jibber

My only plan has been to work there and ski, but I can easily see myself ditching that and just heading off to southeast asia on a whim.

Just choose your roomates carefully man, my friend Joe did that. Moved from roughly Providence to Colorado and worked on the mountain. Problem was the only people who paid the rent (out of the 4 guys living in his place) were him and the other person who signed the lease.

Im not exactly sure if he left without paying off the bill but its a little easier to skip rent when you can move back across the country than when you've got to go through customs.

SittingBehindYou · 01-19-2006, 05:06 PM

Look before you leap... in other words make sure everything is okay before you ruch into something unsure.

Trauma · 01-19-2006, 07:32 PM

Drunk in public with more than 1,000 people around me.
At a band concert.

Like...school band.

Muzak Geek · 01-19-2006, 08:03 PM

Traveling alone on business drives me to drink heavily.

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 01-20-2006, 02:23 AM

I learned how fun it is getting naked in public.

MURDER JUNKIE · 01-20-2006, 03:32 AM

when you have to poop...................for God's sakes GO POOP!!!
learned that the hard way last week

01-18-2006, 06:06 PM	#1 (permalink)
jibber Freeskier Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Istanbul was Constantinople now it's Istanbul not Constantinople... Posts: 1,536	biggest Lesson So I'm bored and thought I'd make a thread. So what's the biggest lesson you've learned recently? could be anything, or just something major you realized lately. For me it would be that going to art school was a mistake. I never draw or paint just on my own accord anymore, and I feel like studying art in college is sucking all the fun out of it. But I figure the only way you'll learn anything is by trying it out in the first place, so I don't feel as though I've wasted a year (until I look at what tuition cost me this year). __________________ What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass. HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER

01-19-2006, 12:19 AM	#3 (permalink)
jibber Freeskier Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Istanbul was Constantinople now it's Istanbul not Constantinople... Posts: 1,536	Another thing I've realized lately is how restless I'm getting living where I'm living. Don't get me wrong, I love calgary, and I've got a great life here, but lately I've been getting this feeling that there's just too much history here. I've lived here for 9 years now, not even that long at all, but I've just been feeling like I need to get out. This is pretty much my main reason for going to New Zealand this summer. Of course the fact that I'll be able to ski is a big plus, but the main attraction for me is that it's halfway around the world. I love the idea of just heading off by myself, no plans, no agenda, no safety net, flipping my life upside down and seeing where I end up. My only plan has been to work there and ski, but I can easily see myself ditching that and just heading off to southeast asia on a whim. My life is so structured right now, everything's planned out because I need it to be. For a while now I've really craved uncertainty, hopefully this summer I'll be able to get a little bit of that out of my system. __________________ What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass. HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER

01-19-2006, 12:24 AM	#4 (permalink)
blackTshirt The Randomness Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: romania.. shut up Posts: 854	i don't have much time to post, but i thought i could share this so the biggest thing i've learned in the past month, actually, is to try to make your life easier, by never being afraid "in advance".. like with school.. so i have an exam today (really, i do) and the thing is, i'd probably do shit if i actually thought about it and be like OMG.. like last week, i was a total wreck, thinking this week was gonna suck cause i had a LOTTTT to do. instead, just as the week started, i began to look on the bright side, thinking SO WHAT IF I'M GONNA FAIL? and everything seemed easier. and i dunno, i'm not afraid anymore. not right now __________________ My rims never spin, to the contrary You'll find that they're quite stationary.

01-19-2006, 05:06 PM	#6 (permalink)
SittingBehindYou Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: somewhere erotic.... I mean exotic ;) Posts: 44	Look before you leap... in other words make sure everything is okay before you ruch into something unsure. __________________ The world... "it will be mine, oh yes, it will be mine."

01-19-2006, 07:32 PM	#7 (permalink)
Trauma snickers Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: detroit Posts: 2,194	Drunk in public with more than 1,000 people around me. At a band concert. Like...school band. __________________ A mi no me importa nada Para mi la vida es un sueño

01-18-2006, 11:33 PM	#2 (permalink)
jazzfromhell SHAKE! Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: On the A train. Posts: 205	Buy tickets early. I used to have it down, but then started getting lazy. Now I've got to buy $35 tickets to see McCoy Tyner, when I could've gotten them for $5. Still makes my blood boil, such a missed oppurtunity.

01-19-2006, 08:03 PM	#8 (permalink)
Muzak Geek Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Wake Forest, NC Posts: 87	Traveling alone on business drives me to drink heavily. __________________ Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start… Just because we use cheats, doesn't mean we're not smart.

01-20-2006, 02:23 AM	#9 (permalink)
Scarlett O'Hara Make it so Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 6,181	I learned how fun it is getting naked in public. __________________ "Elph is truly an enfant terrible of the forum, bless and curse him" - Marie, Queen of Thots

01-20-2006, 03:32 AM	#10 (permalink)
MURDER JUNKIE The Wetter The Better!! Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: SH1TTY London Ontario Canada Posts: 2,504	when you have to poop...................for God's sakes GO POOP!!! learned that the hard way last week