What ties bind you to your current situation? Do you have family that you can't leave? Commitments? Maybe school? Could you get up and leave it all behind in pursuit of something new? Could you forge your own path to fortune?

There are days that my mind drifts to areas I really don't want to remember. Broken promises and crushed dreams. When I start drifting into that train of though I start looking at the map and throw on some blues to sooth my mind, or does it enhance my melancholy?

Regardless, I start looking at the map and the desire to ramble hits hard. It grips my psyche and damn near demands that I give up and move on down the line. But my commitments bind me where I am for the time being, so my melancholy drifts into even more melancholy. I start listening to more sad blues and southern rock and the dreams of a new place and a different life start to grasp even harder.

Does anyone get this way? It's a bit of a curse of mine, and I guess it would be comforting to know I'm not alone.

Also, here is some medicine, or poison. Depends on how you look at it.

Basically my age. I'm young, so naturally I still have to finish school. I'm still in college and making connections and joining clubs and societies so I can find a good job after I graduate. I'm trying to get this internship and see where that goes, but if all else fails I'll do some engineering for the air force. So yeah, nothing really holding me back but credits and time I guess.

I'm at skool right now.  But my German teacher is trying to get me to Berlin.

I don't want to go anywhere else. I like my small town. I know my small town. I know my neighbors, even if I don't socialize often. There are opportunities here, though I lack the ambition to peruse... I think the biggest problem is that I'm complacent. I don't think I can blame it on the anxiety any more. That was where it started, but now... I think that it's just me selfishly not wanting anything to change anymore that's keeping my life stagnant and socially depraved.

But on the bright side, I've got me some songwriting that's, on a good day, maybe just barely comparable with Social Distortion.

Gov't Mule is pretty cool, OP.

I don't want to go anywhere else. I like my small town. I know my small town. I know my neighbors, even if I don't socialize often. There are opportunities here, though I lack the ambition to peruse... I think the biggest problem is that I'm complacent. I don't think I can blame it on the anxiety any more. That was where it started, but now... I think that it's just me selfishly not wanting anything to change anymore that's keeping my life stagnant and socially depraved.

But on the bright side, I've got me some songwriting that's, on a good day, maybe just barely comparable with Social Distortion.

Gov't Mule is pretty cool, OP.

I don't have that small town feel. My city alone is 80,000 people. There are two more cities bigger than mine right next to us. It's Basically the greater LA area, but brown.

I want that small town feel. I want that rural life, that simpler life. But so much is holding me where I am.

I have someone who would be devastated if I left. Plus, college and stuff.

I won't deny, though, the thought of just running away from all my worries has perturbed my mind all too much.

No desire to be in a different situation lad.

I like it here. For now anyway.

college is preventing me from being in a band. I just don't have the time to learn 40 songs while trying to do classes, living in the dorms, and working 15 hours a week..

Don't know what I want to do with myself, really.

I'd like to travel, but beyond suddenly becoming a millionaire, I can't think of a job that I could get that would involve travel on at least a yearly basis.

Quote from: Finger Face on October 21, 2015, 11:06:09 PM

Don't know what I want to do with myself, really.

I'd like to travel, but beyond suddenly becoming a millionaire, I can't think of a job that I could get that would involve travel on at least a yearly basis.

I have an uncle that's spent his life just traveling the world, I have no idea how he affords to do it

Exotic prostitute?

Don't know what I want to do with myself, really.

I'd like to travel, but beyond suddenly becoming a millionaire, I can't think of a job that I could get that would involve travel on at least a yearly basis.

My grandfather was a mechanical engineer and managed to take my brother and I on excursions varying in length.

Family other than here is in Louisiana (EWWWWWWWWW BORING) or Texas. I'm doing college here and it'll be even more expensive out of state. Don't have the money or a job currently to live on my own, so moving out isn't an option.

Just too many things keeping me here, though my luck with music would be much better somewhere else.