Where were you, When Reality Hit?

[JustJack]

I guess Reality has finally hit me. My future, what I want to do with my life...the actual exsistance of Taxes, & Bills....oye...
Sure, I think I'll be totally fine..I'm going to be one of those artists...probably be fairly poor, but thats o.k. I'll at least be happy.
But, it still hurt when I came to such a realization.

Anyway, when did Reality hit you? How badly? And for our older folks, how did everything end up for ya?

[Karkull]

Well, that's the bad part...it's hitting me and it won't stop!

[Batman 80]

Its a never ending battle but I'm finally starting to get used to it. I just trust in God and try not to stress myself out. I'll be 22 in Feb. I want to enjoy my life.

[Jedigreedo]

When my first girlfriend broke up with me, compared to that I would've prefered an anvil. :yakko: :wakko: :dot:

[Ruffian]

Oh, it has hit me a couple of times the past couple of years, most recently last night. I have no direction, but things have turned out alright for me so far. :)

[NewMaxFranklin]

It hit me when I got to intermediate (7th & 8th grade) school. I realized that the system was not concerned so much weather I learned or not and was perfectly happy wasting my time so long as I didn't make waves.

It hit me again when I got to high school. It had seemed like THEY really wanted me to learn. But, I dicoverd that I must learn only what they wanted me to learn; that their goals should be mine and in any disagreement I was wrong.

It hit me a second time while I was still in high school. I thought I could play their game and excel. But my best only caused them to expect more and when I burnt myself out, they became vultures who snapped at my carcass.

Hit #4 came when I moved to Hollywood CA. Made a lot of calls to animation studios, sent out a lot of art partfolios to those who sounded interested. No responses. Called them back, nope, nope, nope.

Got a regular job and found out the working environment is no better than school. Ouch.

[Sir Gatts]

I was on the... well, when it hit me, Must find another job. Nothing like telling your boss that you have to go to work for your other boss in the morning.

[Stardust]

reality hit me a couple times during my time in college, last year and thisyear. it's only my second year, too. argh. i feel like i have no direction so joining the army made me a little secure. and now we have to confirm majors and i realized i want to double major and looking at the requirements for the other major, I AM SCREWED! :( now i'm getting iffy about whether i should go to airborne school or basic training or summer school....i can always go to airborne and BT later....ooooohhhhh the pain of thinking.....

i don't wanna grow up, i wanna be a toys r us kid...... :p

[Naraht]

Reality? What's that?

*SMACK*

Ow! Oh my goodness....my life..it's all...


I guess a few seconds ago...ow....

[DR. BELCH]

--in college. in fact, just under five years ago next month. Do you celebrate something like this? Is there a card or a special cake involved?
That was the first time--long sad story short, I was fired from a job I was happy with and good at. A second dose hit me on the romantic front, in fact eleven months after I was forced to sign my termination contract. Losing a job and a girl within a year of each other has a way of hammering home reality to you.... :(

[Failure]

It hasnt hit me yet. I still naively believe that everything is going to be peaches and dreams and even more. So should I enjoy these last days of naivite while I can?

[Captain Caps]

April 3rd, 1995. My dad dies of a heart attack, and I become a shell of the boy I used to be. The ensuing 6 years was a nightmarish reality of detentions, suspensions, hospitalizations, school transfers, fights and dropping out of college. I've been a college drop-out since October of last year. Everybody said I made the ultimate mistake by dropping out, but I feel no regrets. I hold out hope that reality will get better for me, but in the back of my mind, I remember that it most likely won't.

Sincerely,

John "Captain Caps" Kilduff

[SuperFunk]

Reality's hitting on me right now. It still is.

I'm noticing so many things.

For one is that people are into sports a lot, especially football.

So many people my age or older are making breakthroughs.

Nobody likes a shy or quiet person.

Those kind of things.

[Maxie Zeus]

At 2 am, on a night late last October. I decided I didn't want to be a professor any more. Since in one way or another I'd been going to school for 25 years, the thought of finally going out and doing something non-academic was like a shot of cold water in the face.

[JustJack]

Originally posted by Maxie Zeus
At 2 am, on a night late last October. I decided I didn't want to be a professor any more. Since in one way or another I'd been going to school for 25 years, the thought of finally going out and doing something non-academic was like a shot of cold water in the face.

That sounds about right. I've sort of been studying all my life to be an archeologist? I always figured I'd just try to sell my Comics as a "Labor of love" Job. Then I realized I didn't want to be an Archeologist at all. Sure, I love dinosaurs & anchient civilizations..but...eh...the heck with it.

Right now, I guess I'm going to stick out with getting two jobs(both I've been wanting for awhile. Work out a system to work at both). Going to stick with the artist thing. Right now, I've decided to major as a Stage Designer(For plays & stage productions? Maybe someday a movie set..hehe). Do what I can to get my comics published. And, I'm the tech-guy & stage director for my friends band, who might be going on tour sometime next year. Hehe. I guess I have everything figured out. My only hope now, is my girlfriend will stick with me through it all...and if she loves me..she will. Just hope she truelly does, hehe...gues its test-time! ;)

[Danielle]

Actually, Reality has hit me before. I try and push it away, but it keeps coming back, like.......like the bubonic plague!


:o


Okkay, anyway......I got hit some time ago. My class had an assignment: What do you want to be when you get older? Dumb assignment, if you ask me, especially for 6th graders. Anyway, I was thinking of what wanted to be when I get older....when I think "Gee, I'm going to have to deal with all the stuff my parents do...."


Then it hit me, straight between the eyes. I have the bruise to prove it. :D

[Calhoun07]

Originally posted by JustJack
I guess Reality has finally hit me. My future, what I want to do with my life...the actual exsistance of Taxes, & Bills....oye...
Sure, I think I'll be totally fine..I'm going to be one of those artists...probably be fairly poor, but thats o.k. I'll at least be happy.
But, it still hurt when I came to such a realization.

Anyway, when did Reality hit you? How badly? And for our older folks, how did everything end up for ya?

Reality, reality? What's that?

Well, ok, actually, I guess I don't really recall when reality first hit me. I grew up in a household that never really had alot, so I guess I knew about reality at a pretty early age and the things that just can come along out of nowhere and knock you off your feet.

[Stardust]

Originally posted by SuperFunk
Nobody likes a shy or quiet person.


man can i relate. people tell me to talk, and when i do talk sometimes i talk too much. and it's like i go from one extreme to the other, there's no middle ground! *sigh* and then these very same people wonder why i don't say anything at all. =P blah

[Zero Yuy]

man can i relate. people tell me to talk, and when i do talk sometimes i talk too much. and it's like i go from one extreme to the other, there's no middle ground!

I know exactly what you mean. :p


Reality has been sorta hitting me recently. I've been noticing more about stuff. I'm uncertain of my future and what I want to do. I'm still in High School, and I'm faced with so many decisions. I'm starting to precieve life in different ways, and hold opinions.

[Batman 80]

I'm glad to see I'm not the only quiet person who has the same problem. Sometimes I feel like I'm talking too much, so that's one reason why I'm quiet sometimes.

[The Mad Hatter]

Last February. I was part of a wonderful section that was creative and well written, and recieved many, many honest kudos from our bosses and critical folk. And then it got cancelled because not enough people were reading it, in fact they preferred the piece of crap competition (that even the bosses admitted was a piece of crap) that got absorbed by our paper.

[Alaskanbullworm]

Wow, most of you are quiet like me. I used to be very quiet, but I finally realized you can't get ahead in life saying nothing. So, reality hit me just a couple years ago and I've made alot more friends since then.

[optimal321]

I guess i got a subtle tap of reality from this one girl who i really liked, but nothing came of it. But it wasn't really reality because it was just a stupid teenage crush.

I guess it hit me full force after i realized that sometimes you can change everything, and try your damn best, and still have something blow up in your face. Of course, this realization first happened with this last girl that i liked (loved? who knows. I just try not to think about it. But this certainly was not a stupid teenage crush). And it's just kinda snowballed since then.

I've learned that sometimes there are no happy endings, and that good does not always win.

Reality bites.

[Nightflower]

When I got the Sheridan Animation course portfolio requirements today.....

[James]

Reality hits frequently. Failed my art career and close to failing my music career. Starting a dead end job in the hope of keeping my music career going a little longer.

Bouts of The Incrediable Hulk (bought a box set of 9 epsiodes of the TV series for £4.99 the other day) is my latest line in defense against reality.

Let's see how reality copes with that!

[Kal-el]

Reality? What is reality? Is it going to work, Monday through Friday (and sometimes Saturday), listening to the problems, complaints, and barriers of people who are either disabled, lazy, or constantly getting pregnant and having kids...and expecting me to do everything for them? Is it filling out the same stinkin' paperwork all day every day only to have the same pattern the next day? Is it being unappreciated by administrators and clients alike, all the while being underpaid? Is it working in the same place for 4 years and feeling like it has only been four months? If so, it's been kicking me in the gut for a long time now. Really, it feels more like a SURREALity. When does reality become something that is wanted and enjoyed (or does it ever become that?)
sorry about the rant. I'm having serious career problems.