Imagining watching your life through a looking glass

[user 188685]

Do you imagine watching your life go by through a looking glass?

 

[Cherubino]

I think it would be too painful or embarrassing

 

[Bones 2.0]

Oh hell no - no you didn't - am not watching this **** again - no way - painful enough the first time through - lol.

 

[Finished]

I'd keep shouting, "Get up! Get your **** together and get the hell out of there. Your life is ticking away. Stop wasting it!!!"

 

[NoxApex(N/A)]

I don't really live my life. I mean, I do, but also kind of not.
My body and my mind are almost never in the same place at the same time.
I call it the curse of being a creative. lol.
I actually developed the slight ability to teach them to operate separately, because when you're a musician, or anything of the liberal arts really, freedom of mind is very important. And that's sort of how it started, was back when I used to play guitar.
Most of the time when I'm at work, I'm not really thinking about work. I mean I am, I kind of have to because I'm in operations and logistics management, but I'm also not. I built a lot of the kinesthetic stuff into my muscle memory, specifically so that I could be free of mind to think of keys and scales, measures and time signatures, rhythm and melody, and then gradually later as I got into more and more things creatively it became me thinking about X/Y/Zed things in history or science, or just whatever video game, movie or series I'm into at the time.

I do in fact think that there's something to the Buddhist principle that life is mostly suffering, I do find that to be true.
There's not much we can really do about the mundane to spice it up, even with the excess of materialism that we have.
I try not to think too much about my life in detail because it's mostly sad, and I make it a point to try to stay out of my feelings because they can be a very limiting perspective. So instead, like most creatives, I kind of physically live one life, and in my head live another life entirely.

Random adenium:
At some point, I'd actually like to get into the practice of pottery, and teach myself how to do things like cook better, have a vegetable and fruit garden, thinking about investing into a sewing machine, and so on and so forth. Just clever, simple money-saving tricks of better, healthier self-sufficient practices.

 

[9006]

No need, I can watch it go by in my living room. Doesn't matter where I watch it it's always the same result: not much goin' on. lol.

 

[user 164061]

Do you imagine watching your life go by through a looking glass?

Watching my own life would be ultra boring

 

[Finished]

I'd be like, "WTF are you doing now? That's not going to work and you're going to hurt yourself. Don't do it!" Bam! "Dumb ***! I knew that would happen. You are so damn predictable!"

 

[ricardo240]

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[user 188522]

No, watching my life would be too sad.

 

[dan27]

Do you mean like "Danny in Wonderland?" ...Nope.

Just be myself & to hell with their opinions....it's my reality alone.

 

[dan27]

 

[dan27]

https://www.khanacademy.org/test-pr...-identity/v/charles-cooley-looking-glass-self

 

[user 135671]

I spent most of my 20's watching my life through the bottom of a beer glass

 

[dan27]

 

[dan27]

I spent most of my 20's watching my life through the bottom of a beer glass

ditto

 

[dan27]

 

[dan27]

 

[user 188685]

Great song

 

[constant stranger]

Yes SFG1306, I do imagine looking at my life going by as if through a looking glass. It's a compulsive habit for me, ruminating on the past as well as my recent experiences and considering what I'll do in my coming years.
I'd like to do a lot less dwelling on some of those past scenarios.
What about you?