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Interesting question.
As far as I can tell, judging by what I interpret as American standards—I eminently qualify as a ‘loser’. I don’t make much money and I have no wife or children. I don’t own a house. I have no college degrees (I took a few community college classes for fun, like writing and music).
The thing is, I deliberately don’t do the whole ‘rat-race’ or ‘keeping up with the Jonses’ kind of lifestyle. Don’t much care for any of it; not going to be pressured in to it. And, my terrible social and networking skills more or less preclude me anyway. So even if 99% of everyone else compares me to themselves and concludes I’m a ‘loser’, I don’t really mind much.
While I’m not ecstatic every single day, I’m also not usually stressed out much. However, I don’t recommend this lifestyle—it’s certainly not for everyone. I imagine it would be too boring or uneventful for most, but I find a great many things to occupy my time. For one thing, I have no problem carving out some daily writing time.
It’s not too hard to imagine a more ‘happy’ life, but I’m OK with mine. I suppose it depends on your goals. If you want to be the President of the United States, then you should probably go to college. If you don’t care what others may think, then spend your time as you will. I guess the most important thing is to live YOUR life, and not anyone else’s, however tempting or pressuring.
I would say you are a Winner not a loser!
What I really hate about college is the people. They're all so hopeful. They believe in something. They have futures and aspirations and dreams.
I don't really know how to explain it. But I'm always exited to go back but then the semester starts and all I want to do is get out and get away from all of them and all their hopes and big plans.
Why would this bother you?
Its that all of them buy into the lie of college. Its not preparing us for the real world.
I could love college if it was a place of learning. But in our culture it has become a means to an end, a baseline measurement of a person's intelligence and worth.
That's kind of sweeping language. I can honestly say that I learned an immense amount in college, from both my classes and my peers, many of whom were simply amazing. But every college I think has its own culture. What college are you attending?