Anyone else just bimble along through life?

uncle_rufus said:
You say guitar feels like a chore; when you still used to take it more seriously did you ever try to get involved playing music with anyone else? Learning an instrument just for the sake of it can feel a bit like a chore but applying yourself to be able to jam and express yourself with it is where it really opens up (and it's absolutely not a case of "being good enough" either, just having the right approach/attitude - I dunno when you stopped but with the amount of good content to learn from these days there's never been a better time to get into it)
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No it was just for my own entertainment really, I'm not creative enough to make it interesting and just ended up playing the same stuff all the time which is why it got kind of boring, that and knowing that to get better would mean practicing every day and a lot of days I really didn't want to hence it started to feel like a job.

I've got a weekend of full-bore excitement lined up anyway so lots of you will be really pleased I've made the step.
 
Adam said:
This echos the guy who had 50+ pages of help trying to encourage him to earn £55k per year but ignored it all because he couldn't be bothered either.

Why should WE be bothered helping you?
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Maybe because I didn't ask for help, people just started volunteering it of their own volition!
 
R.P.L said:
Ultimately, any standard for the 'correct' way to live life is probably going to be quite arbitrary. I'm financially stable, in decent shape and have a few hobbies which I pick up when I can be bothered. I used to push myself to get better at stuff but ultimately I just found it frustrating, as for most people there will always be someone better than you at anything (I get that just improving is enough for a lot of people, but I'm not like that). So yeah, you could say I do my share of 'bimbling'. :D
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That is one reason I give a lot of things up, I hate being mediocre at anything and to be truly very good at things takes thousands of hours, I can't just do things for a laugh it seems.
 
randomshenans said:
How do you get good at anything then? You have to start somewhere. Jesus this thread screams whiny millennial. And I hate saying that.
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I get good at my job because I have to spend 60-70 hours a week doing it, it's not a choice. I'm sure if I were forced to play the guitar/anything for the same amount of time I'd be good at that, but I wouldn't choose to.

Way too old to be a millennial, sorry to disappoint.
 
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