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  1. 11-05-09, 02:15 PM #1
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    Quarter-Life Crisis

    What do I do?

    How do you live your dream and your passion when there is a recession going on? How do I not sell out? I'm worried I'll have a mid-life crisis and go berzerk, but I'm only 23 and already am worrying about the daunting future.

    What can you do so that you don't let life slip by you? How do you live it to the fullest?
    Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world

    -Lily Tomlin
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    You live life to the fullest by making sure you go through the least amount of pain in your old age.
    Don't cry, don't regret and don't blame
    Weak find the whip, willing find freedom
    Towards the sun, carry your name
    In warm hands you are given
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    Uncertainty's gone, your path will unravel
    Accept all as it is and do not blame
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    my my my... this is what happens when people let their thoughts run wild...

    a freaking crisis is never as big as everyone makes it out to be.

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    What's your dream? And what do you define as selling out?
    “Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist”--George Carlin
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    Quote Originally Posted by starbuck View Post
    What's your dream? And what do you define as selling out?
    I'm a writer/musician and I'm starting to interview at insurance offices. It just scares the shit out of me, but I'm having trouble getting work in the field I studied for. Even then it's hard to make money. So I feel like I will have financial security (which is good) but I am scared of waking up one day and being like wtf did I do with my life?
    Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world

    -Lily Tomlin
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rollerderby View Post
    I'm a writer/musician
    What do you play and what kind of music do you write?
    Don't cry, don't regret and don't blame
    Weak find the whip, willing find freedom
    Towards the sun, carry your name
    In warm hands you are given
    Ask the wind for the way
    Uncertainty's gone, your path will unravel
    Accept all as it is and do not blame
    God or the Devil
    ~Born to Live - Mavrik~
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mishanya View Post
    What do you play and what kind of music do you write?
    I play piano, and write lyrics, as well as stories. Just trying to keep working on my shit, because that's what I know will bring me to where I want to be. But I'm just scared, and maybe it's healthy because it will keep me on track of my dream. I just want to live and die as an artist!! gah!!!
    Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world

    -Lily Tomlin
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rollerderby View Post
    I play piano, and write lyrics, as well as stories.
    Do you play in a band? Have you made any recordings? Which venues do you play?
    Don't cry, don't regret and don't blame
    Weak find the whip, willing find freedom
    Towards the sun, carry your name
    In warm hands you are given
    Ask the wind for the way
    Uncertainty's gone, your path will unravel
    Accept all as it is and do not blame
    God or the Devil
    ~Born to Live - Mavrik~
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mishanya View Post
    Do you play in a band? Have you made any recordings? Which venues do you play?
    Nah, I'm not that far along yet. I'm still taking lessons. Pretty good though, I can play Bach, the Beatles and some Beethoven.
    Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world

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    Don't artists need to experience hardship to help inspire their work?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rollerderby View Post
    Nah, I'm not that far along yet. I'm still taking lessons. Pretty good though, I can play Bach, the Beatles and some Beethoven.
    Can you play Bella's Lullaby from Twilight??
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    How many artist's became famous and their work more valuable AFTER they die?
    "The weakest soul, knowing its own weakness, and believing this truth that strength can only be developed by effort and practice, will, thus believing, at once begin to exert itself, and, adding effort to effort, patience to patience, and strength to strength, will never cease to develop, and will at last grow divinely strong."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Frasbee View Post
    Don't artists need to experience hardship to help inspire their work?
    How do you define hardship? Life's pretty hard, I wear helmets almost daily.
    Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world

    -Lily Tomlin
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    Quote Originally Posted by FoxyLaydee View Post
    Can you play Bella's Lullaby from Twilight??
    Haha, I cannot. I haven't seen the movie so I don't know what it sounds like.
    Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world

    -Lily Tomlin
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aeradalia View Post
    How many artist's became famous and their work more valuable AFTER they die?
    Yeah, but i'd rather experience some of the return while I'm alive. If it gets better after I'm dead, maybe I'll fake my death and live in the mountains as a hermit. Or is that even crazier than where I already am? Hey, Tupac and Elvis did it.
    Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world

    -Lily Tomlin
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