Re:Anxiety and burnout: why kids are consumed with worry
by ergothus on Monday January 14, 2019 @11:43AM
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> While I'm naturally lazy, a procrastinator, and completely unambitious; the sheer worry during my younger years forced me to try harder.
This, so many times this. I tell people I'm lazy and they say "You have two jobs, GM a weekly RPG and a monthly LARP, how can you be lazy?" They don't look at how little I WANT to do, they don't see how perpetually behind I am because given 3 hours to catch up I'll waste 2.5 of them, they don't see how a lifetime of this has taught me to wing it really well, to hide and cover up how behind I am. They'll talk about taking hikes or wanting to travel, but I want to sit and read or play games. Their dream superpower is flying, while I dream of teleportation and telekinesis - anything that means I'll have to struggle with the act of "doing" less.
Re:Anxiety and burnout: why kids are consumed with worry
by nradov on Friday January 11, 2019 @09:59AM
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“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
I'm someone who lives in perpetual worry and it was something that I inherited from my parents. While I'm naturally lazy, a procrastinator, and completely unambitious; the sheer worry during my younger years forced me to try harder.
As a head of household one thing I've come to accept is that it's a role that comes with perpetual worry. It can't be helped.
The only way to mitigate it somewhat is to live well-beneath one's means.
And the only ones who don't worry about disaster looming around a corner are like Aesop's grasshopper.