Friday Five 15-July

[elusivek]

1.How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
I keep thinking that I'm in my early twenties, I guess I'm a bit fixated in that era. I see young people earning doing part time jobs and earning, say, $60 an hour (local money) whereas when I was in my early twenties I earned $15 an hour at my part time job. I'm kind of fixated in setting the socially acceptable levels according to my times and I just can't change that, and I keep thinking myself during those times.

2.Which is worse, failing or never trying?
The standard answer is "never trying", but I'm actually in the "failure is... erm FAILURE!" camp. I see it this way, people would go "yeah, so I tried it once, and I failed. So all is good because I've tried," and then they never do it again. For me I'd rather have never tried because once I fail, I'll do it again and again and again and again until I succeed. It all sounds very idealistic and romantic in a way, but there has been many a time when I've fixated too much in succeeding in something just for it to end up as a "okay, I did it! Yippie!...... so... now what? How does that help me now?"

3.If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?
That's a very deep question. I have no answer to that. But I guess... it's like eating. You love candy. You can't just live on candy. You hate veggies, but you have to eat your veggies. Life is short, but if you attempt to exists solely on candy, your life will be shorter.

4.When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
I'm kind of thinking this question wants to ask "will you have done more than you've said".... but well... I've said many a thing and haven't done it. I'm a procrastinator. It kind of clashes to that "have to succeed" thing up there in point 2, but yeah, I label myself as a procrastinatic-workaholic. I procrastinate but once I get started, I get things done.

5.What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?
I don't have any deep or insightful answer. My current answer is due to reading some Facebook posts a couple minutes ago. I'd like to change this modern journalism back into the good old type. There was an article, and the intro on the Facebook wall said "She heard a noise, when she saw that....!!!!" and then the actual article had nothing to do with "a noise", and nothing to do with "she seeing that." It was about a  woman who trained her dogs to line up to get their paws cleaned before going into the house. I feel so emotionally cheated. I had thought it was some jaw-dropping thing like a UFO or something.

Comments

[evilcoc0nut.livejournal.com]

I keep thinking that I'm in my early twenties

Me af. I don't know why exactly, but I feel like mentally I somehow got stuck in my 20s lol.

These are all good answers though lol. It's like 3, another answer could be money. Maybe I'd like to sit around all day and watch dramas, but if I do that and blow off work then I won't be able to pay for the sources to watch dramas lol

[found-world.livejournal.com]

Every time you see something like that, it is clickbait to generate revenue, and I'd never pay attention to them. I keep seeing stuff like that at the bottom of various websites practically urging me to click on something.

[kurikuribebi]

It depends. I will try something, even if I know I am going to fail the first time, if the possibility of my actually being able to achieve something is high. So, for instance, if you tell me "Try to eat this spicy burrito, it's really good!" I will not try because I have never been able to eat such spicy food since I was born, and I am now 27, so chances are that won't change. But if you say "Try this dance move," I know I will fail maybe three or four times, but I know that I can do it.

Trying is an important part of growing as an adult, I think. Most people who don't try, never change, and then get annoyed with the world.

[gneu.livejournal.com]

My earnings now: $13/hour. In my early 20s: $8/hour.

[oakfarm2.livejournal.com]

I can only speak for myself, but yeat it's better to not try than to fail. For me it's not an option anyway, I have to try, even when I know I'll fail.

Irritating thing on new media. Youtube will recomend the same things over and over. At least the youtube app will also always recomend sports and gaming videos, no matter how many times one tells it you're not intressded.

[eyesonstars.livejournal.com]

1. I tend to think the same thing about feeling twenty-ish of age. I hear even when we're in our old age we'll all still feel that young even when our bodies say otherwise.

2. I fall into the never trying is worse camp more than failing because at least with failure I've learned something in the process. However, I would't give up that fast as your friends would(only once?). Can't keep trying something and expect different results every time. 2+2=? is always going to be 4. Just depends on the situation.

3. I always say moderation, moderation, moderation.

4. I'm the same, lol.

5. Yeah, online news journalism can suck.