Are you content with your life?

[Demonic]

Simple question. Give it thought. Atleast try to stay serious (or I will hurt you).

[I'll answer after a few replies myself]

[~Niko~]

I'd be if I wouldn't be that shy, I hate it, it's the worse thing I could ever be. Shy.

[PANZERCATWAGON]

im fairly content with how my life is and where its going

then again i could wake up tommorow with my mom dead and shit would be different

but its not right now, so im happy

[Rai-Dei]

I'm alright with it, at a current boring stage (out of school and no job till Summer). This Summer I'll get my life rolling and start college this year hopefully.

[N. Escalona]

I'm content with the way its going, but I definitely have goals to attain, and bad habits to get rid of. I've been remarkably blessed in many ways: I'm very intelligent and therefore have lots of opportunities available, and I have a good family, I've been raised Catholic, and I've got some great friends I can rely on. On the other hand, we're in financial trouble, and my grades have dropped quite a bit (freshman yr. gpa 3.6, now junior, 3.3). But most of my troubles are only short-term things, hopefully.

[LtKillroy]

Very, I don't have to do much and have a loving family. What more do you really want?

[a fool]

Content is too strong for me in my context.
My life suck in many parts, but not to the point of killing myself.
I'm still kinda young and I've been isolated from most part in my life, so I haven't seen anything and I cannot really say.
Anyways...
I am content with my life in certain times, like parts of today I was

[Kazuki]

Yes, very much so. I've got a girl that loves me dearly, a very supportive family, and a rather average college career.

Of course, there are some things I would like to change. For example, my family pays $6,500 for my tuition every semester, despite a $7,500 scholarship that the school gives me every semester (totals to about $54,000 over 4 years). I'm a mild smoker and I'd like to stop before it gets serious. And I'd like to work out a bit just to keep my body in shape. The time and motivation really aren't there at the moment.

[echo_trail]

I'm pretty content with most things in my life, currently. I have a lot of skeletons in the closet, but moving out and establishing a reality independant from others have really helped me put a lot of those things behind me so far. I know it's all still there, and I'll have to deal with it eventually, but for now I have a fresh start and a little fresh air to breathe.

[Sir Jeremy]

I'd be if I wouldn't be that shy, I hate it, it's the worse thing I could ever be. Shy.

Same here. :-/ 

But other than that I am fairly content.  I have a nice family.

[Farah]

my life is p. good, getting the best grades without doing much work, though i haven't got a gf yet. bored as fuck really, waiting for school to end and college to start really!

[jrgp]

No, not yet. My grades are not desirable, I don't get out much, I eat horribly, I've been diagnosed with depression but don't give much of a damn, I'm a complete and total tool, I'm single with the only relationship I've ever had being torture, I'm in a really shitty money situation, I've come to believe that I can replace real life friends with online ones (this really pisses off my family), and my only hobbies won't get me anywhere in life until I'm of age.

Fuck.

Sometimes I wish I could, like a computer, reformat and start over.

[iDante]

my life is p. good, getting the best grades without doing much work, though i haven't got a gf yet. bored as fuck really, waiting for school to end and college to start really!

Couldn't have said it better myself. 'Cept this year (junior) my grades are pretty bad. 3 AP classes...

Edit: In response to jrgp, you're one of the smarter people I know (at least in terms of computers). I'd suggest you go into a running start type program and see what happens. As long as you do well at whatever smaller college you go to, it's much easier to get into the better colleges when the time comes. Plus college classes > high school.

[echo_trail]

Thinking twice about the things I said above, I actually realized how much I've changed over the years, what I've beent through and what I've conquered. I might make a "have you ever hit rock bottom" thread in a little while. For what it's worth, thanks for making me remember.

[a-4-year-old]

I was content with my life right before I found out I caused jrgp's depression.

Actually at this point I'm just waiting until the state says I'm old enough to drive on my own, until then there's not much I can do.

[VijchtiDoodah]

I am happy, but not content. I love my life -- the bitter woes and small joys -- all of it. But somewhere in the depths of my unconsciousness is an insatiable wanderlust, a part of my being so powerful that I am never comfortable with where I am. I am a constant stranger in my own house and I only feel at home when I am lost.

Contentment is for people who have completed a long and successful life. I figure I'll see it some day, but right now I'm enjoying the hardships a wandering spirit brings.

Why do you ask, Demonic?

[Blue-ninja]

Even if it's just a small change of rooms, moving my bedroom upstairs from downstairs would feel like a fresh start for me, giving me a new outlook on life in some ways and not in others.

So, yes, I am quite content with my life right now. New semester and all that. We've only moved most of the stuff in the entire second story of the house except for my room. This computer is in a new place, heh.

[SadistAtHeart]

I am happy, but not content. I love my life -- the bitter woes and small joys -- all of it. But somewhere in the depths of my unconsciousness is an insatiable wanderlust, a part of my being so powerful that I am never comfortable with where I am. I am a constant stranger in my own house and I only feel at home when I am lost.

Contentment is for people who have completed a long and successful life. I figure I'll see it some day, but right now I'm enjoying the hardships a wandering spirit brings.

This is my situation, but made slightly more complicated by the fact that I'm underage. If I were over 18, I'd be backpacking and enjoying the world right now, but there's a battalion of people who are ready to call the police whenever I leave the house by my lonesome.

I can wait a year or so, though. No bloody problem.

[Demonic]

Why do you ask, Demonic?

I could've bet a safe amount of money that you're going to ask that. (:

This is just something to easen my curiosity: how people define the feeling of content? As expected, people kind of described their current predicament, and then said yes or no.

I wondered this because of my answer: even though I basically dropped out of school, am striving to find a job, am utterly bored with the senseless parties and the smiles with names that are harder and harder to keep track of, the sub-par dramas around me and whatnot, I feel content. With zero achievements and an undermined and unsure future, some distant voice keeps telling me that this is wrong: but I am... well, since you put it that way Vij, happy. Or sort of in a gray-zone.

So, to twist this further: what would be line after which you'd say that no, you're really not content? (the question obviously directed to those who answered yes)

[LtKillroy]

The stuff I said, but the opposite.