GEEEET 2 ZI CLINEEEEK MOYTE YOUR FHOOKED.

Kids these days!
My whole life has been awesome. I'm great. Everything rules about me.

It's nice.

lukrek!
I haven't seen you around a long time.. What happened? I miss you :>

I went afk due to lack of [+] of course! Going below 80% was just too harsh for me to handle :(
But now I'm back and soon I'll be spamming esr like never before! don't worry! ;D

that's awesome! :D

Yeah I know. es ist sehr gut keke!
...just 5 more hours until I get off work. Yarrrrr!

*guut* meow :P

As soon as you have to ask the question, it probably is the time to try and act different. :)
More generally, when you repeat a particular behaviour this way, again and again, without seeming to be able to help it, there is something that needs to be fixed, probably.

If it has something to do with the way you grew up ? My opinion is "well, of course it does !".
But your education just doesn't stop to your parents or family. You learn from a lot of things, and a lot of events and feelings about them are processed by your brain, whether you think you care about them or not. It can't be helped. :)

Then again some deep thinking about that might come handy to understand what's wrong and stop that endless cycle of overhype/quick loss of interest, with some help if needed.

i get hyped over things, but generally just from friends influence.
for example some friends would start listening to a new band loads and keep going on about it. i get caught up in it and start to love it too.

also recently a couple of my friends introduced me to "powerballs". see powerballs.com
i easily got addicted to this thing i first saw as pointless, and yesterday ordered my own.

another stupid hype was over doom3 and quake4. i wanted them so much to be great games, that i started playing them both loads at the release, then taking a while to realise how boring the gameplay was.

anyway i don't exacly worry about these things, but i guess i'm not spending $500 on them so it's not exaclty the same thing.

I'll buy your xbox for 100S64;, but only because you're bored of it, it's quite a favor I'm doing you.

what symbol was that supposed to be?

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ye i thought it might have been the €

it was, I set his post to HTML to fix it

Every one of those mistakes you look back on is something you will never ever do again because of that mistake, that's a good part of them. It's better to have a big mistake in the past than in the future :D.

Failure is the best way to learn imo.

I'm sure you'll be more careful about buying expensive video game consoles on impulse in the future. It may take a few times for stuff to stick, like me losing my bus pass three times in three months, but after a while you learn and now I haven't lost my bus pass for 6 years(I did buy a nintendo DS that got boring within 2 weeks though :(, but hopefully I won't repeat the mistake ) :D

well fwiw, a buddhist would call this "attachment"

"desire is the cause"

intresting, i'll read th at someday when i have more time :)

laugh at your mistakes fool. or, post them here so i can laugh.

moderation is the best thing for a person.

As tao mentioned, a Buddhist would call this attachment, and as i gather they would generally try to move away from it - see it as a negative thing.

It's the good old battle for and against the passions.. As the meaning of passion, suffering or submission, would seem to suggest, the Buddhist may say that all passions are bad, all strong feelings for something in the world should be avoided and that you should effectively detach from the world. But that's not really feasible if you want to be an active part of society, as some people seem to need to be. So it's not equally applicable to all I would think; people are very different, some seem to have a strong need to be a part of the world - of society. And while some may want to strive for prestige, some may be in need of knowledge and yet others may crave to be famous or popular.

So instead of blaming your innate strong capacity for passion, I would rather blame your willpower and foresight for not being able to control it properly to your own advantage. E.g. If you know you get easily addicted, you avoid games like WoW or addictive substances like tobacco by foresight and willpower, and by the same token perhaps subscribe to things that are good for you, such as working out or eating by a healthy regime - which can also be addictive.

You have recoqnized that you have an ability to really wrap your mind around something and explore it with great enthusiasm, you should use it as an advantage by working on avoiding the downsides or negative effects of that ability and concentrate on the good aspects of it. All great things come from striving and suffering - passion. You just have to figure out if you want to set high goals and strive, if you want to detach or if you just want to go with the flow.

I really don't think trying to inhibit or demean the way you already handle the big chapters of your life will show as fruitful as if you really focus on converting it to an advantage. It's more results for less effort ;)

BTW; I've the opposite problem; I hardly get excited over anything, hence why I so readily point out the potential value in what you have. There's probably a lot more to the detachment argument, but that's a whole different way of looking at life and i don't think you'll bother with that anyway..

i'm having trouble understanding some words and sentances in that post but i'll try to read it later when im more awake :) thx for the input

gl x)

currently i'm on a viva la bam spree and i've been watching 2 and a half season non stop. i'm not like this when it comes to people though, i think... this connects with my very high desire to be good at things, i'm probably the worst loser on this planet but i always end up thinking it did good because it's pushing me to perform better.

Your non-stop viva la bam spree connects with your high desire to be good at things? wtf? If you want to be good at something, stop wasting your time watching stupid tv shows. Unless that's what you're aspiring to be good at :/

i couldn't let go, i wanted a marathon to and be hardcore about it.. it's hard to explain but that's how i am.. very energic and focused about things when i hype em

i think it's not such a bad thing man, you only need to use that desire for good things such as creating a business or smth. i got it to you know, but i realise i only have to put this desire to good use. My girlfriend and family have somethimes troubles with it because they feel like coming in 3rde place or smth. But it's who you are, you should not try to change who you are, just give it a litle twist so it works for the better.