Primitives simplify their lives...

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Writer  (1000+ posts)        Sat Jan-03-09 04:55 PM
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If you could simplify your life, how would you do so?
If I could simplify my life, I would:

- ignore that part of me that wants a career; instead I'd have children and care for them

- garden (the floral kind)

- enjoy online gaming and weekly D&D meetings

- find some part-time job so I can make a little extra money and get rid of my student loans

- eat at restaurants only twice a week and see a movie only twice a month

- try fiction writing again, but I wouldn't put so much pressure on myself


What would you do?

billyskank  (1000+ posts)        Sat Jan-03-09 04:57 PM
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1. Get rid of my apartment and all the crap in it.
 Get rid of my car, settle all my debts, and then go around the world meeting people who want to meet me. I'd draw portraits of people to earn my crust.

turtlensue  (1000+ posts)       Sat Jan-03-09 04:58 PM
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3. Already done this.
 Eliminated family members from my life that were making me insane.

kayakjohnny (814 posts)      Sat Jan-03-09 07:43 PM
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14. Make friends with some Masai Warriors and be prepared to jog. A lot. 
 And forage. And spear things. And dance.

krispos42   (1000+ posts)        Sun Jan-04-09 02:16 AM
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25. Commit capital murder of a federal employee.
 Once arrested and convicted, life would be extremely simple. 23 hours a day in a tiny cell with nothing to do but stare at a bare wall.

Kind of how I envision Dubya's concience lives inside that rotting melon he calls a brain.

 

[Chris]

Writer  (1000+ posts)        Sat Jan-03-09 04:59 PM
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5. That would mean no doctorate for me - only kids.  Otherwise it would (will!) be a doctorate AND children.

Uh huh.  Yeah, you're special.  We get it.

GoPsUx  (1000+ posts)        Sat Jan-03-09 05:42 PM
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7. I'd step away from the computer

taterguy  (1000+ posts)        Sat Jan-03-09 05:42 PM
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8. Stop posting on DU

Tuesday Afternoon  (1000+ posts)        Sat Jan-03-09 06:04 PM
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11. I would blow up my computer

hmm...

[FlaGator]

I notice how must of these dreams involved no work and not source of income to pay for these "simple' lifestyles. Play video games... I almost spit coffee all over my laptop when I read that.

[franksolich]

The best way the primitives can simplify their lives--and it costs no money at all--is by liberating themselves of their anger, their resentment, their bitterness, their Hate.

It's as simple as that.

[LC EFA]

I can simplify their lives, and find a potentially profitable use for them at the same time.

The simple life for primitives :

0430 : Overseer wakes primitives
0440-0500 : Primitives are fed and watered
0510-1800 : primitives work under direction of overseer
1810-1830 : primitives are washed.
1830-1900 : primitives are fed and watered
1910-2030 : primitives are allowed free time
2040 : lights out.

Repeat.

Simple isn't it.

[Chris]

I notice how must of these dreams involved no work and not source of income to pay for these "simple' lifestyles. Play video games... I almost spit coffee all over my laptop when I read that.

And weekly Dungeons and Dragons meetings!