Has anything you've done made your life better?

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Ed Norton asked the other day and I couldn't think of anything, offhand.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 9 September 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, lots of stuff.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 9 September 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

isn't that what most people spend most of their time doing?

― rainy (rainy), Thursday, 9 September 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Better than what?

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Thursday, 9 September 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I think maybe I should be a Buddhist.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 9 September 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Better than when you were smashing a phone into your best friend's door at 3am screaming 'you fucking bitch, stop stealing my friends?'

― a great friend (maryann), Thursday, 9 September 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

(Stay away from phones).

― m-ry-nn (m-ry-nn), Thursday, 9 September 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Definitely.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 9 September 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

basically trying to form/cultivate/keep solid ties to good people and lose the losers. that's what's important to me; money pays the bills and work can be fulfilling but neither is all that high on my "self-actualization" totem pole.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 9 September 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

also insert pompous answers about learning, experiencing, traveling...

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 9 September 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

There's been a lot of this kind of thing on ILX over the last few days. I like stupid lists myself.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 9 September 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Honestly, not that I can tell.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 9 September 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i think averaged out with the stuff i've done to make it worse it pretty much amounts to nothing.

― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 9 September 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you know Ed Norton personally?

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

And can you introduce me?

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

it won't make life any better ally

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Ed Norton on University Place a week or so back. I said nothing.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you keep your eye out for his woman? I think that might've made your life a little better, for a few minutes.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

He was with a woman. I didn't catch her face, though. Is she someone of note?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, a fair amount of my hair has quit working which makes physical exertion a damn bunch cooler.

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 9 September 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Salma Hayek, Alex!

My answer to the question is going to a party I didn't want to go to.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 9 September 2004 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I murdered a hobo, and that certainly made me feel better.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 9 September 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this a navel-gazing question about free will and causality?

Oh, and the obvious answer is that it is unknowable, because one never knows what would have happened.

― mouse (mouse), Thursday, 9 September 2004 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i think averaged out with the stuff i've done to make it worse it pretty much amounts to nothing.

this describes me pretty well too heheh

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 9 September 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

My answer to the question is going to a party I didn't want to go to.

That relationship is long over, though, isn't it?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

ally, i'm pretty sure they broke up a while ago.
i only vaguely know that cuz i work at E. as opposed to on E. which i suspect might make my life better.

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Thursday, 9 September 2004 04:19 (twenty-one years ago)

All my big moves have been great decisions. Leaving Beaumont, Texas (which wasn't actually my decision -- I was 10), then leaving Houston, then leaving Austin. All upward steps.

― Tonight at ten (kenan), Thursday, 9 September 2004 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

salma hyak dumped his ass and her only public comment was something along the lines of "I want a man with balls", or so I read somewhere. Or I made that up. I honestly can't remember.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 9 September 2004 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you know Ed Norton personally?

My guess, he saw American History X on BBC2 the other night.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 9 September 2004 06:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Leaving my bastard abusive boyfriend of eight years and realising I wasn't a worthless useless child after all.

Yay!

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 9 September 2004 06:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, congratulations seem to be needed on that effect.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 9 September 2004 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanxor!

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 9 September 2004 07:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey Rumpy!! Well I would have to say agreeing to be set up on a blind date by some friends has pretty much changed my life for the better.

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 9 September 2004 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

See, good things come out of brave decisions!

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 9 September 2004 07:27 (twenty-one years ago)

loosing 40 pounds in 6 weeks turned my life around

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 9 September 2004 07:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Doing the Resonance programme two weeks ago. Felt a bigger sense of accomplishment than I'd ever done from three years' blogging.

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Thursday, 9 September 2004 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Holidays - but now I'm addicted.

I need one major and one mini holiday a year at least - and I need to make up for that period from 1995 - 2000 when I didn't go on holiday at all.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Thursday, 9 September 2004 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Retract my answer of last night, I got up early today and am less depressed now.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 9 September 2004 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Spawned.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 9 September 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Going away to uni made my life better.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 9 September 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

meeting my wife

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 9 September 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm fairly sure it outweighs the list of things I've done that have made my life worse.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 9 September 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

This is a stupid question. Tons of stuff I've done has made my life better. Sitting in the sun at lunchtime for an hour made my life better.

― Glass half full person (Madchen), Thursday, 9 September 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

it is a stupid question as it stands. "Has anything you've done had a lasting positive effect on your life?" is a very sensible question and that is how I chose to interpret Alba. Sitting in the sun at lunctime enjoying a pint with a mate made my life better whilst it was happening, but the effect was v. ephemeral.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 9 September 2004 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Quit drinking, quit smoking, got married, hadda kid. Loads better.

― Formerly Lee G (Formerly Lee G), Thursday, 9 September 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe he means more long term madchen.
x-post

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 9 September 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Its still a stupid question, unless either your life has been a constant downward spiral, or everything good that has ever happened to has somehow been magically totally independent of your own actions.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 9 September 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

when i stopped drinking in the fall of 2000 it kept me from dying, i think. so yeah.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 9 September 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I started taking the el instead of driving as much. I get time to read, don't get stressed out by the drive, and I get a good hour's walk in before I start work. So, I've lost weight, I'm more relaxed, and I've been reading more.

(Except today I drove anyway because I was late leaving the house, but, um, it changed my life before today)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 9 September 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

if i hadn't find a job my life would have been pretty difficult.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 9 September 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Buying a bicycle.

― Jay G (jaybob79), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

a woman to thread (buying a fish)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I think maybe I should be a Buddhist.

Buddhists don't necessarily reject trying to make your life better. Its clinging to the things that you think MIGHT make your life better that they're not so keen on. You have to be willing to let it go.

One of these things you let go, eventually, might be Buddhism itself.

I don't know if, once you've let it go, that means its okay to start clinging again.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

clinging to the habit of not clinging is clinging in itself. omg there is no hope for eternal bliss!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I meant maybe I should be a Buddhist because I am so sceptical of most things that might assumed to be making one's life better.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Ken, that's why you have to be prepared to let it go...
When you follow that argument to its extreme it sort of means 'everything's okay'..

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

oh i know everything's okay already.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I meant maybe I should be a Buddhist because I am so sceptical of most things that might assumed to be making one's life better.

Actually, I sort of knew what you meant. The nitpick was unneccassary, really. Perhaps I am clinging to my pedantic nature.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

What Scott said re: a variety of things. I wouldn't call it a stupid question but I think it's good to see that the answers do not solely revolve around expected ones.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

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