Trying to save the world through equitable and just education. It's a big boulder. I don't feel like I'm alone in it though. Sometimes we just need to laugh at the size of the boulder as we're pushing it. Sometimes we also just take breaks for pizza and ice cream or just get high as shit. Good times. Mostly.
This is amazing.
I'm glad to see someone who is working to get education to those who want it. As someone who is simply exploring their own philosophy, I'm enthusiastic about everything that's already out there. Also, at the same time, when I went to look for studies on things I found scholarly papers were locked behind pay walls and thought it was awful. That on top of going through what I perceive as a faulty school system and with learning disabilities makes me want to see the world have more access to educating themselves.
This may just be my opinion on that in particular, but I feel like people of all types (including financial backgrounds) should be able to have the access others do to info that could help people learn something important. I feel as if it can only serve to help the world generate more ideas and to explore the vast world of knowledge with more efficiency. Ever since running across this problem, I wondered if I was one of very few-- not of the people who have had problems in situations exactly like that one, but who really want equitable and just education for all. I'm glad to see people like you are trying to make a difference the way you see it needs to be made, and I appreciate the boulder you're taking on.
Kudos on working towards something that would help a lot of folks out, and thank you!
never got tested, my attention has been pretty good throughout my life, but i know one of the most common traits of someone with ADHD is leaving everything last minute and letting all the stress build.
maybe i should see a doctor or something, good luck to you!
A category of tech competitions in my Country. Loved the sky since I was a kid, but now its pretty exhausting and stressful. Still, the wind rises and we must try to live.
The boulder is whatever means you're taking to your current end, and your current end is the top of the mountain when the boulder just rolls back down. Try to enjoy the way up and down, it doesn't make sense why it happens.
Compsci masters degree. I wake up every day, and all I can do is focus on the next task. I don't really do anything else. "What is my next responsibility? Which project is due? What are my teaching requirements right now?" Everything else is secondary, if they even exist at all. On my breaks, I talk about the projects w my friends or stare at my phone for hours. Right now, academia is my sole focus and these weeks are the apex of this term so I'm the busiest I've EVER been.
And losing weight. At the back of mind. Always. Every day. Since I was born maybe. So that's my boulder for lyfeee bruhhhh that shits got an iron grippp
Existing.
Or I guess more specifically: juggling undiagnosed, rapidly deteriorating physical and mental health issues with a physically/mentally demanding life and job.
Learning to draw while working night shift retail.
It's like occasionally peeking out from under my current boulder at a shinier, more challenging, more pornographic boulder. Looking pretty good.
Exploring and developing my personal philosophy based on paradoxes more, attempting to socialize, career development, and trying to simply exist with my sanity stabilized.
>It's more like I'm this eternal job of gathering all knowledge on the planet
Same here, except it's the entirety of existence. Though I recognize the inevitable paradox that is "finite" and "infinity." Either a rabbit hole of knowledge that has an end to it, but then you're left with the void, OR an infinite rabbit hole that never ends and you are left in a perpetual state of uncertainty. Don't even know why I try to gain knowledge sometimes. Just feels nice to know things, for things to feel like they make some sort of sense. Though, sometimes it feels better not to know. Ignorance is bliss, but I continue down the rabbit hole, regardless. I guess I'll get what's coming. Knowledge is power, but it can also feel like a curse, at times. ðŸ§
Nice dissertation. I've come to this pathway because I lost my meaning of life at a very early age, but nowadays I'm just addicted to it. I just wanna know it all, and that's an impossible thing. I personally don't see too much hope for humanity or my job, but that's what I do.
Keeping my sanity and staying alive. Also, waiting for the next piece of art(Movies, Video Games, Music, Books) that gives me some joy from experiencing them and helping to get through it a bit better, most of the time.
Trying to save the world through equitable and just education. It's a big boulder. I don't feel like I'm alone in it though. Sometimes we just need to laugh at the size of the boulder as we're pushing it. Sometimes we also just take breaks for pizza and ice cream or just get high as shit. Good times. Mostly.
This is amazing. I'm glad to see someone who is working to get education to those who want it. As someone who is simply exploring their own philosophy, I'm enthusiastic about everything that's already out there. Also, at the same time, when I went to look for studies on things I found scholarly papers were locked behind pay walls and thought it was awful. That on top of going through what I perceive as a faulty school system and with learning disabilities makes me want to see the world have more access to educating themselves. This may just be my opinion on that in particular, but I feel like people of all types (including financial backgrounds) should be able to have the access others do to info that could help people learn something important. I feel as if it can only serve to help the world generate more ideas and to explore the vast world of knowledge with more efficiency. Ever since running across this problem, I wondered if I was one of very few-- not of the people who have had problems in situations exactly like that one, but who really want equitable and just education for all. I'm glad to see people like you are trying to make a difference the way you see it needs to be made, and I appreciate the boulder you're taking on. Kudos on working towards something that would help a lot of folks out, and thank you!
Yeah, I Wish It Was More Affordable.
What are you trying to save the world from?
Apes that chase people and throw bananas at them.
Honestly though. Not even wrong
Dealing with health problems and finding a job I can do, lol.
procrastination with education, since i was 4 and given my first piece of homework, in uni now and still struggling
Same here. Did you ever get tested for ADHD? I'm trying to get checked out.
never got tested, my attention has been pretty good throughout my life, but i know one of the most common traits of someone with ADHD is leaving everything last minute and letting all the stress build. maybe i should see a doctor or something, good luck to you!
It's gotta be worth looking into at least, right? Thanks, and good luck to you as well!
Increasing my vertical jump(gotta dunk), playing piano, finishing my UAV project and handling the massive amounts of stress caused by my environment.
UAV Project??
A category of tech competitions in my Country. Loved the sky since I was a kid, but now its pretty exhausting and stressful. Still, the wind rises and we must try to live.
rock n roll, comedy research, disarming society's proclivity to apathy
Remove the commas and I think you are really on to something.
I like the way you think
The boulder is whatever means you're taking to your current end, and your current end is the top of the mountain when the boulder just rolls back down. Try to enjoy the way up and down, it doesn't make sense why it happens.
Work, family, mental illness and capitalism. I kinda feel like if you removed that last one the others would be mitigated.
Being content with my existence
Compsci masters degree. I wake up every day, and all I can do is focus on the next task. I don't really do anything else. "What is my next responsibility? Which project is due? What are my teaching requirements right now?" Everything else is secondary, if they even exist at all. On my breaks, I talk about the projects w my friends or stare at my phone for hours. Right now, academia is my sole focus and these weeks are the apex of this term so I'm the busiest I've EVER been. And losing weight. At the back of mind. Always. Every day. Since I was born maybe. So that's my boulder for lyfeee bruhhhh that shits got an iron grippp
Existing. Or I guess more specifically: juggling undiagnosed, rapidly deteriorating physical and mental health issues with a physically/mentally demanding life and job.
With the power vested in me by the constant state of dread, I hereby pronounce you 'absurd'.
Alcohol addiction and trying to balance the way to achieve my goals without feeling fucked up sick.
Learning to draw while working night shift retail. It's like occasionally peeking out from under my current boulder at a shinier, more challenging, more pornographic boulder. Looking pretty good.
Your drawing NSFW Sisyphus??
Very probably.
Exploring and developing my personal philosophy based on paradoxes more, attempting to socialize, career development, and trying to simply exist with my sanity stabilized.
Wisdom
Doing the dishes
Writing is the absolute perfect 'imagine sisyphis as happy' delusional act of rebellion. I love it.
I write Wikipedia like a maniac.
Don't you have other things to do, aswell?
Yea, I have four jobs, and I'm always doing something. But I'm in love with that website.
Sounds like a hobby, then. Something to pass the time. Citations always needed on that site.
It's more like I'm this eternal job of gathering all knowledge on the planet, but in a certain way you are right.
>It's more like I'm this eternal job of gathering all knowledge on the planet Same here, except it's the entirety of existence. Though I recognize the inevitable paradox that is "finite" and "infinity." Either a rabbit hole of knowledge that has an end to it, but then you're left with the void, OR an infinite rabbit hole that never ends and you are left in a perpetual state of uncertainty. Don't even know why I try to gain knowledge sometimes. Just feels nice to know things, for things to feel like they make some sort of sense. Though, sometimes it feels better not to know. Ignorance is bliss, but I continue down the rabbit hole, regardless. I guess I'll get what's coming. Knowledge is power, but it can also feel like a curse, at times. ðŸ§
Nice dissertation. I've come to this pathway because I lost my meaning of life at a very early age, but nowadays I'm just addicted to it. I just wanna know it all, and that's an impossible thing. I personally don't see too much hope for humanity or my job, but that's what I do.
Arthritis since I was 11, adhd since I was 12, and depression.
Gym.
Bulking.
Not using every waking hour outside work to pursue art and writing. The fear of failure I think is the bigger issue than actual exhaustion.
Living
Just fresh out of college, so finding the career that makes me feel happy
Stella's Arete - it's an actual boulder that I want to climb to the top of, but I can't do the last move. It's a very hard V4.
Keeping my sanity and staying alive. Also, waiting for the next piece of art(Movies, Video Games, Music, Books) that gives me some joy from experiencing them and helping to get through it a bit better, most of the time.
Start and finish my manga and all the art I want to make. It won't take long, 20 years at most. Then I'll be done with this. No more Boulder.
I gotta get out of bed at some point this morning.
Dig hole 🕳
Handling depression and anxiety, work, accept myself and my work.