SharinganUser
Master Don Juan
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Some of those choices I wish I'd made are serious, I made a few key mistakes, like not finishing school or not working hard enough to get my black belt, but those are somethings that I do on intend on finishing.
I have a competitive spirit that is in stark contrast to my short attention span. If the right level of competitiveness is there, I'll keep going, but if the competition is crushing me I'll quit either for good or just practice on my own until I can crush them. Or if I am the skilled one I will eventually get bored and find something else to do.
Most of the time I will be watching a video and just be like "damn, I should've became a photographer/actor/guitarist." Even though I am only an hobbyist photographer, have no interest in acting, and only a mild interest learning in guitar.
Today I saw some break dancers and instead of simply enjoying the show, I also imagined what it would be like if I studied dancing and could show them up.
Because of some bad crap that happened to me last year, for a long time I felt like a hollow shell of a human being. Only recently has my appetite for competion been sparked again. I have been playing pool for only four months now and I can beat 70% of the people I play against. Actually, in the last 3 weeks I can't play more than 3 games in a row because we play winner breaks, and I've been breaking/winning so much lately that my neck muscles are sore.
But other than that I didn't really notice the improvement at first because I've had so much fun learning the game and playing it, every thing else didn't really matter so long as didn't lose horribily.
This brought something to mind about becoming a DJ. Most people in life are not pro's at dating and are in fact have little game. That is to say you don't need to have perfect game to win the dating game most of the time, you just have to be better than average and play to your strengths. Example, you go to a bar and I bet that 95% of the women there have a low self esteem, and 80% of the guys there either don't know how to approach, are scared, drunk or gay/"afc ****blocker." To many noobs make it sound like you need to be James Bond to pick up women. (tho that would help)
You just gotta play to your strengths and be open minded. Back to my sports experience, though. I didn't learn to play pool just from a pool player, it was a snooker player that was teaching me. At first, I thought pool was just about putting the balls in the hole, but you can win by playing defensively too.
Right now I am just building my motivation with easy (low energy) sports and games like cards, pingpong, pool, and walking, until I get into better shape and will get back into martial arts and basketball. I am even going to try learning to surf and am seriously considering learning Thai massage.
Right now just ranting like this is getting me hyped up to get competing again. I can't afford to waste another day, because today I asked myself that if I died today, would I have gone as far as I could've in life, did I try my hardest. And the answer was a huge NO. I have to change that answer.
I have a competitive spirit that is in stark contrast to my short attention span. If the right level of competitiveness is there, I'll keep going, but if the competition is crushing me I'll quit either for good or just practice on my own until I can crush them. Or if I am the skilled one I will eventually get bored and find something else to do.
Most of the time I will be watching a video and just be like "damn, I should've became a photographer/actor/guitarist." Even though I am only an hobbyist photographer, have no interest in acting, and only a mild interest learning in guitar.
Today I saw some break dancers and instead of simply enjoying the show, I also imagined what it would be like if I studied dancing and could show them up.
Because of some bad crap that happened to me last year, for a long time I felt like a hollow shell of a human being. Only recently has my appetite for competion been sparked again. I have been playing pool for only four months now and I can beat 70% of the people I play against. Actually, in the last 3 weeks I can't play more than 3 games in a row because we play winner breaks, and I've been breaking/winning so much lately that my neck muscles are sore.
But other than that I didn't really notice the improvement at first because I've had so much fun learning the game and playing it, every thing else didn't really matter so long as didn't lose horribily.
This brought something to mind about becoming a DJ. Most people in life are not pro's at dating and are in fact have little game. That is to say you don't need to have perfect game to win the dating game most of the time, you just have to be better than average and play to your strengths. Example, you go to a bar and I bet that 95% of the women there have a low self esteem, and 80% of the guys there either don't know how to approach, are scared, drunk or gay/"afc ****blocker." To many noobs make it sound like you need to be James Bond to pick up women. (tho that would help)
You just gotta play to your strengths and be open minded. Back to my sports experience, though. I didn't learn to play pool just from a pool player, it was a snooker player that was teaching me. At first, I thought pool was just about putting the balls in the hole, but you can win by playing defensively too.
Right now I am just building my motivation with easy (low energy) sports and games like cards, pingpong, pool, and walking, until I get into better shape and will get back into martial arts and basketball. I am even going to try learning to surf and am seriously considering learning Thai massage.
Right now just ranting like this is getting me hyped up to get competing again. I can't afford to waste another day, because today I asked myself that if I died today, would I have gone as far as I could've in life, did I try my hardest. And the answer was a huge NO. I have to change that answer.
