gobf2f

I am constantly barraged by obscure thoughts and ideas. I do not know what to make of it half the time and frequently wonder how and why I was placed on this earth. I realize everybody is born with a natural talent and I find myself wondering what mine is. I have a fascination with the unknown and the mysteries of the mind. I consider myself to be a deep thinker and rather socially unsound. I am a survivor, any situation I have been faced with I believe to have conjured up the best possible outcome for myself. My flaws are apparent, I have many bad habits and problems ranging from an addictive personallity to mild depression. I live my life one day at a time and rarely look toward the future. I am constantly pondering why things happen the way they do and what forces drive the decision laden path known as life. Nostalgia is something I feel on a regular basis, I find myself in a quasi-daydream thinking about past events of my life and why they happened the way the did. I don’t consider myself mentally unstable although at some points in time I do doubt this notion. I am patiently waiting for that point in my life where everything clicks and I realize what I need to do and how to do it. I fear this time will never come. Whenever I find myself in a silent dark room, very similar to right now, my mind floods with a dichotomy of thoughts that I need to get down. Whenever I step back and look at my life as a whole I realize how lucky I really am. I take this for granted most of the time and I wish I didn’t. While my life is great in retrospect, I find myself depressed and hung up about things that really are not a big deal. These problems are suppressed by my consumption of alcohol and marijuana. While I would like to curtail my drinking, I find marijuana to have a rather beneficial place in my life. It allows me to relax and view the world in a different/altered aspect. I have no idea what I am good at, and I feel my “partying” has hindered my ability to find my natural gift. I think of myself as rather intelligent, not in a mechanical sense but in a way that I can always find a way out or around things. This is why I am writing this, I am trying to find my way out of this problem that is plaguing me. I would love to know what my interests are and how to pursue them. The problem is I frequently look to other people for help ie my parents or friends. But this is a problem that I must figure out on my own and I have no idea where to begin. Maybe this is a start, maybe not, but I have a feeling in the back of my mind that everything will be alright in the end, and that’s what keeps me going.

NeoArcadian

Wow, if you hadn't of posted that just now I would have in a few hours.

I am the exact same way. I used to be all brainy and would spout out facts about random, intersting, but useless facts. Now that I have marijuana I have found a release. I used to have constant ideas and they would plague me.

I would stay up hours on end, sometimes even days on end, trying to get one of the many ideas in my head jumbled out. Then I met mary jane. I now smoke whenever I get the chance, about once to two times a week, and my thoughts have become so much clearer.

Whenever one of my crazy thoughts pops in my head I just think about it and it comes out so clear, instead of going half crazy trying to sort things out it is just there in a pile waiting to be put on a self.

I guess the best way to put it would be what the guy that smokes weed off of Roadtrip said, "I used to have so many problems until I found pot."

What was funny was he wasn't only the smart one of the group he was one of the smartest of all. It really goes to show that just because a person smokes weed doesn't mean he is stupid much less ignorant.

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Swazi

I felt quite alone until reading the above posts. I once heard someone say "You are unique, just like everybody else." I cracked myself laughing while still being able to realise the truth in it. Gobf2f, release the past and look to the future. I felt exactly like you did a while back. The mild depression. Alchohol is one of the worst things for it as well. Whenever you find yourself dwelling to much in the past, step out and look around at the present. Then before doing anything else, consider the future.

You are intelligent, you question. Something that few people do in todays world. The world is full of sheep. People who don't question, people who just accept the indoctrinations that have been forced down their throat since childhood. You wonder what your talent is? Allow me to take a guess please... My guess would be that your talent is your passion. I might be wrong but please consider it even just for a second. It doesn't matter what you are passionate about, it just matters that you are passionate.

My past holds more questions than answers which can lead to confusion. Then I realised that even if I did have answers for these questions it wouldn't help. So I accepted the fact as best I could. I myself do still dwell in the past too long sometimes but another thing to remember is that we aren't perfect, especially not to ourselves. We should never try to be though. Weed helped me focus my mind. When I'm the world is beautiful and wonderful even though I know it isn't. I can be said to live in a bit of a fantasy world. But if I'm living in this fantasy world, then the fantasy is my reality.

We just have too accept that there are more things we cannot control than things we can. It makes life easier. Good luck with sorting out that spaghetti brain of yours. At least now you can find comfort that you aren't the only one.

So keep thinking. The more peace you can make with the past, the more peace you'll have in your future. Ciao.

Up In Smoke

"everything means more than what you see; its the way you see it that makes it impossible to see."

NeoArcadian

Or as I once said,

"Nothing is impossible, but everytthing is improbable."

Or something like that.

Bluee

The talent that someone has might be no talent at all. Just remember to enjoy life

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Puffer

Talent unrecognized is talent unrealized. You don't have to be good at everything. Just be good at something.

Oh, yeah! I, too, am voting no on Measure 36 in Oregon. Two women, one man.

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krtbear

I can honestly say I feel the exact same way

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SmokeTheVote.org

mmm Froot Loops

Well put Gobf2f.

I too feel like that sometimes, then I smoke a bowl and it's all good.

I find though, that while smoking the reefer, there is always one paticular question that always plagues me, like a line from a song that gets stuck in your head and you just sing it over and over and over until you feel that you are going insane
(oh, i've got a love-el-ly bunch of coconuts, there they are all standing in a row.......) Man, do I ever hate that song. ggggrrrrrr, get out of my head!
but it doesn't bother me at all when I am straight. I think that I have too much on my mind during the day while I am at work. I don't think I could do my job when stoned, it would be fun, but it would be my last day, that's for sure. My other problem is that whenever I am stoned, I can act like I am not stoned, and fool most people, but my eyes give me away. They look like 2 piss-holes in a snowbank. And you can only fool people for so long by saying "i didn't sleep too well last night" or "i have some dust in my eye"
well, I am rambling, 'night all.

BTW, if anyone is wondering, the problem that bugs me ALL the time is about my Jeep, so if anybody here is a mechanic that fixes older cars (well, it's a '90, so it's not that old) lemme know.

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iLike2Smoke

hey Gobf2f, you are not alone.
I am constanly barraged by strange thoughts, dwellings on past events, current happenings, and things i cannot control in general. depression as well. I just graduated from college. yeha, whoopie do, not really. i still wonder what i'm going to do, everyday, everyminute, what am i good at what do i want to do. i don't know. I haven't even smoked weed for over a month, and i sure am jonesing!! Its been hard for me to focus on anything latley, and it sucks. Smoking weed a couple times a week would definatley help, and i will be getting some soon, i just can't fall back into using Marijuana as a crutch, as a way to get away from my problems; They will be there whether i am stoned or not. Drinking definatley does not help my situation, and i would say watch out for that ****! its bad for you, especially in excess. Well, now that i have rambled on and forgot what i was saying....o yeah, i have found it is important to realize what you can and cannot controll. you can't do anything about past events. There are many things that i think about that i can do nothing about. Its ok to have these thought, just realize that they are just thoughts, transparent thoughts, everyone has crazy thoughts, just don't dwell on them, they are thoughts, great, acknowledge them and move on.
I do better when i pursure things/participate in things that require my complete attention. things that don't allow me to get caught up in other thoughts. Whatever it is, as long as i can focus on it for an extended period of time, it helps. afterwards my mind feels clearer. sometimes i get realizations while i'm doing such an activity that are "clear," more from me, what i can trust, my inner voice, instinc, whatever you want to call it, unclouded and unaltered by any crazy thoughts that might influence my perceptions. O yeah, and these activities don't have to be you life calling or anything, they can be a good book, skateboarding, hiking, reading about how to grow your own Marijuana, whatever. any activity that can take your mind off things I think is good. Get your mind off your mind, yeah thats it.

sorry for the rambling on and on, i kinda just needed to write this for my own benifit. hopefully it makes some sence to some other people out there, let me know. peace