Is it normal that i don't want to study and have an average life?

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I'm 20 years old and currently go to university, but I despise the idea of studying a particular career, getting a job, and living an average life like most people do. I'm in no way lazy or laid-back; I read a lot of books, have many interests, etc., but I just don't want an average life (to study a career, get a job, work doing almost the same thing all my life, then die). That doesn't sound like living to me; living should be wider, richer. Every day I attend university feels like being wasted, like if I'm dying a little (doing the same thing every day, in the same place, with the same people).

Also, I find it extremely difficult to study topics I have no interest in. I can read a book I bought in a day, but give me 10 pages of a text I have no interest in, and I won't be able to read it. If there's no passion why force myself to do it?

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    I hate the idea of having a single life style, a specific one track life. Repeating the same routine every day of every week just...Kills me. I want to do different things every day. A good example is "The way of the gun" (Underated film). It's about two people that stepped off lifes road and went on a life style that is about getting money any way they can.

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  • suckonthis9
    12 years ago

    Hang on. Everything is about to change. I feel that there wlll be many new things that will interest you.

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  • ThisisJack
    12 years ago

    You say you want a wider, richer life- go out and get it. It's not going to come to you. Choose one of these many interests you say you've got, and go after it for a while. If it doesn't keep your interest, pick another. That's what being young is all about- finding your passion. It's going to be a bit harder than getting into one university and taking the classes set out for your major, but you're not lazy, right?

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    • TheUnrecognizable
      12 years ago

      Absolutely.
      "I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities." (Everett Ruess).

      I prefer the unexplored road, even if it is more difficult, it's far more appealing.

      Thanks!

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  • joybird
    12 years ago

    When I got bored at University my mom always said one thing about education that kept me going...

    "It's easily carried."

    This means as long as you have the qualifications you can choose not to use them and do something else but ... if you do ever need them, you can pull them out :o)

    Keep going and get that bit of paper, then explore the world.

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  • BlueBarracuda
    12 years ago

    I'm in the same boat man. I'm in community, and part of me just wants to say screw it and go to cooking school or film school. I don't want to be an Average Jane, I want to do something unique. But, according to my parents who are paying for my community classes, I can do whatever I want after I get an Associates.

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  • Glass
    12 years ago

    That's pretty much all life is.
    You learn to work.
    You spend a majority of your life working and paying off debt.
    Then you retire, too frail to do many of the things you wanted to do, and later die.
    You could've been a carbon copy of someone else. It wouldn't of mattered either way, since almost all of us are going down a road traveled billions of times before. Are we really all as different as we think we are, and set eachother apart to be?

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    • TheUnrecognizable
      12 years ago

      I think we are, but we're to scared to take the other path. We want to feel secure, so we follow the path others have taken hoping we will achieve fulfilling results, instead of making our own way in life. We're all too scared and insecure to be authentic; it's easier to follow the pack.

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      • TheUnrecognizable
        12 years ago

        too*

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  • ucipher8
    11 years ago

    I was a high school delinquent, trying to improve my gpa in 30 months to try to go out of state after highschool. The SAT's was what got me (US "College" equivalency exam). But honestly, if you are already in a university, take advantage of it. Creativity can only take you so far, being over a century year old myself; my biggest obstacle is finding a job that can take care of me, and my family.

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  • Miauwo
    12 years ago

    Sounds exactly like me .. :(

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  • Wierdmyself
    12 years ago

    It's normal to be bored... there's are always pointless classes no matter where you go. But, who said you have to do the same JOB ALL THE TIME! But, there are people who go back to school to change careers just because they could... just because they weren't feeling what they were doing at the moment. There's some that make a point to change careers every 10 or 20 years or so.

    Passion is in working for your future, find what you are interested in, and pursue it! Think ahead... not just in the book you're not interested, and the higher you are in college the more interesting things get... believe me.

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