"Get a life!"

[JoesshittyOs]

I realized that not "having a life" is when I'm the most comfortable.

Office Space said it best. "If I had a million dollars, I would do nothing"

I'm at the most comfortable I've ever been in my life. I'm doing College classes, and that's literally my only responsibility (besides volunteering every week). I do absolutely nothing all day, and I love it. I never became good friends with the "party" kids at my High School, but I'd be fine with parties if only for the free beer.

I'm not unpopular, I'm just comfortable. I'll spend time with friends (hell, I showed two of my buddies how to smoke weed last week), but I'll mostly just sit on my ass all day.

This is how I want to end my life. But as for right now, I'm sort of just on an extended Summer vacation before I have to get my ass into gear.

 

[Brandon237]

I play PC games and get 90% for science and AP maths. I have been told that I need a life a LOT of times. Yet I have one, I have a great girlfriend of a year and a half, a few good friends and I have fun. My liver is going to have a life for a long time too, I don't enjoy dancing and do not intend to get stoned, baked, trippy, drunk or any combination of those. That is just me.

So honestly, when people tell you this, it is time to use the middle finger and a few of the most delightful words you can jam into one sentence.

 

[Robert Ewing]

My usual reply is as follows

"I have a life, a pretty good life. It's just at this particular moment in time, I'm sitting at a computer, doing something I like. In fact, the only reason you accuse me of not having a life, is probably because you don't understand anything about people. I can't spend all my time outside socializing 24/7. That would be ludicrous, and cost a lot of fucking money."

There.

 

[TheLastSamurai14]

I guess a life is like a cake.

You can have your cake and eat it, but then you have no cake.
Or you can slowly nibble on it, maybe not the same instant enjoyment but the cake lasts longer

Life can also be a lie...

Okay, that was a terrible joke. I'm sorry, guys.

I've got a somewhat better one, though: "Get a life? *****, please. I used the Konami code."

OT: I've got a girlfriend who's into gaming, and all of my friends are hardcore gamers. I don't have as much of the "get a life" crowd at my throat as some other people here. The only people who really care are my parents, and I don't really give a fuck what they think about my gaming habits. I mean yeah, I love my parents, but they really should blame themselves if they blame anyone; I inherited my dad's NES, and most of my consoles (and my PC) were gifts from them, so they're just fueling the fire and not even seeing it.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

I've never had anyone tell me I have no life, least not since I expanded my horizons, and stopped spending 90% of my life sitting in front of a computer, I think a lot of people here would be suprised at how fascinating and fun life outside gaming can be! I have a suggestion, if people tell you you have no life, and your only retort is "fuck off" or "I do have a life, it's just different than yours, You go drinking and I play video games, to each his own." get a non gaming hobby, go hiking, take up fishing, or maybe get into some form of art, pick up a musical instrument, that way you can still not go out drinking and waste your liver, you can still do something you enjoy, but you can add to your list so you can have gaming, and something other people can see as a hobby, AND something you can apply to other life situations, for instance artwork you might be able to sell some of it some day, hiking, well excercise is great also there are some really beautiful places out there to explore, and you can bring art supplies and paint/sculpt stuff you see or gain inspiration to go back to create with, music is always fun to get into, you can express yourself, join a band/group of some sort on weekends or something and just jam with them for fun. ANYTHING that gets you out there...

I know it's easier to deny that these insults affect you or make you feel bad in some way, but really... When it comes down to it, true happiness, is not developed by gaining an achievement in a game, or by getting drunk, or by dancing a lot, or by anything, other than personal achievement and introspectively visible success, in other words, becoming more diverse in your skills, and just becoming more ABLE is far far more satisfying than anything else, so even if you don't want to get social, I would reccomend picking up other hobbies, hell even cooking is a fuckin awesome hobby, if you can make awesome food, you can show off in different ways, say having people over, hosting dinner parties, or cooking for women(seriously guys, women love guys who can cook really tasty food).

I'm sorry if I seem to be a party(thread) pooper, but it's a better use of energy to just go try shit, maybe they're right in some strange perverse way, maybe you aren't experiencing what your life is meant to be like...

One of my hobbies is helping people realize their potential, and helping people improve their lives for their benefit, I don't gain anything other than warm fuzzy feelings, but I love to help people, and I always strive to find new things to try and new skills to gain myself...

Cheers!

P.S. my Capcha is "pizza topping", how the hell does it know that I'm craving pizza!?

 

[Johnny Impact]

Usually it means, "anyone who doesn't live the way I do is not as good as I am." It's typically used by smug shitheads to let you know they are smug shitheads.

Perfect example: we had this loudmouth know-it-all guy where I work. He used to put me down because I didn't have a life.

He thought it was bad that I ate sugary foods most days. I needed to "cut that shit off." He went to the bar most nights because he was an alcoholic.

I played tabletop games - gathering friends around a table to roll dice and speculate on stories that never happened. That was "for losers." He was in a fantasy football league, which involved gathering friends and speculating about games that never happened.

My interest in obscure movies was "fuckin' weird," because "nobody should sit on the couch and watch the tube for hours." He watched pro sports religiously.

I could go on for a long time using just this one guy as an example.

I've been told in various ways to get a life by half the people I know. I take it as a good sign. I'm living the way I choose to live. That others can't understand or accept it is a sign of weakness on their part, not a flawed existence on my part. (My existence *is* flawed, but that's a separate discussion.)

 

[Hosker]

Nobody has ever said it to me, I don't think. People seem to just accept who I am.

 

[Jfswift]

I had a 'friend' tell me that once when I was looking at getting a classic trans am. Apparently it wasn't cool enough or something? I think it's a dumb thing to say really though. What makes one hobby better or worse than another?

 

[ChildishLegacy]

I don't really get it often, mainly because I have a good group of close friends and that's about it, I can't be arsed with parties and people that are so extroverted that they seem like they need to be talking to other people all the time or they'll be so bored because they clearly are very boring people as individuals.

If people tell you that you don't have a life, they are either trying to validate their own lifestyle of monotonous partying and drinking and haven't taken the time to even think about anything ever, or you actually are obsessing over something to much, but that should be pretty obvious to you.

 

[Dylan Blackler]

Hehe yea I used to "have a live" (party's etc) during my time at school but after all that I just got sick of it all, sure I have friends and all that are always doing stuff but I would rather just stay at home with my GF and be recluses together and there is nothing wrong with computers, games and everything that is considered anti-social, I think as long as you enjoy and have no regrets on what your doing then all is good

 

[Number-14]

People says to people like us to "get a life" are the people who don't have one.

I'm really tired of that phrase -_- ...