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Thought Catalog - 20 Signs You're The Average American 20-Something
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Thought Catalog - 20 Signs You're The Average American 20-Something

Came across this article a minute ago. I feel like the irony speaks for itself.

Been studying business and marketing heavily recently and working on my own business, so I'm accustomed to look for the angle/intended customer of any article/site/business, and this one is so blatant that it's ridiculous. Just seemed to be a description of the typical person that would click on an article like that.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/brianna-wiest/...k-you-are/

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20 Signs You’re Doing Better Than You Think You Are

1. You paid the bills this month, and maybe even had extra to spend on non-necessities. It doesn’t matter how much you belabored the checks as they went out, the point is that they did, and you figured it out regardless.

2. You question yourself. You doubt your life. You feel miserable some days. This means you’re still open to growth. This means you can be objective and self-aware. The best people go home at the end of the day and think: “or… maybe there’s another way.”

3. You have a job. For however many hours, at whatever rate, you are earning money that helps you eat something, sleep on something, wear something every day. It’s not failure if it doesn’t look the way you thought it would – you’re valuing your independence and taking responsibility for yourself.

4. You have time to do something you enjoy. Even if “what you enjoy” is sitting on the couch and ordering dinner and watching Netflix.

5. You are not worried about where your next meal is coming from. There’s food in the fridge or pantry, and you have enough to actually pick and choose what you want to eat.

6. You can eat because you enjoy it. It’s not a matter of sheer survival.

7. You have one or two truly close friends. People worry about the quantity but eventually tend to realize the number of people you can claim to be in your tribe has no bearing on how much you feel intimacy, acceptance, community, or joy. At the end of the day, all we really want are a few close people who know us (and love us) no matter what.

8. You could afford a subway ride, cup of coffee, or the gas in your car this morning. The smallest conveniences (and oftentimes, necessities) are not variables for you.

9. You’re not the same person you were a year ago. You’re learning, and evolving, and can identify the ways in which you’ve changed for better and worse.

10. You have the time and means to do things beyond the bare minimum. You’ve maybe been to a concert in the last few years, you buy books for yourself, you could take a day trip to a neighboring city if you wanted – you don’t have to work all hours of the day to survive.

11. You have a selection of clothing at your disposal. You aren’t worried about having a hat or gloves in a blizzard, you have cool clothes for the summer and something to wear to a wedding. You not only can shield and decorate your body, but can do so appropriately for a variety of circumstances.

12. You can sense what isn’t right in your life. The first and most crucial step is simply being aware. Being able to communicate to yourself: “something is not right, even though I am not yet sure what would feel better.”

13. If you could talk to your younger self, you would be able so say: “We did it, we made it out, we survived that terrible thing.” So often people carry their past traumas into their present lives, and if you want any proof that we carry who we were in who we are, all you need to do is see how you respond to your inner child hearing, you’re going to be okay, from the person they became.

14.You have a space of your own. It doesn’t even have to be a home or apartment (but that’s great if it is). All you need is a room, a corner, a desk, where you can create or rest at your discretion; where you govern who gets to be part of your weird little world, and to what capacity. It’s one of the few controls we can actually exert.

15. You’ve lost relationships. More important than the fact that you’ve simply had them in the first place is that you or your former partner chose not to settle. You opened yourself to the possibility of something else being out there.

16. You’re interested in something. Whether it’s now how to live a happier life, maintain better relationships, reading or movies or sex or society or the axis on which the world spins, something intrigues you to explore it.

17. You know how to take care of yourself. You know how many hours of sleep you need to feel okay the next day, who to turn to when you’re heartbroken, what you have fun doing, what to do when you don’t feel well, etc.

18. You’re working toward a goal. Even if you’re exhausted and it feels miles away, you have a dream for yourself, however vague and malleable.

19. But you’re not uncompromisingly set on anything for your future. Some of the happiest and best adjusted people are the ones who can make any situation an ideal, who are too immersed in the moment to intricately plan and decidedly commit to any one specific outcome.

20. You’ve been through some crap. You can look at challenges you currently face and compare them to ones you thought you’d never get over. You can reassure yourself through your own experience. Life did not get easier, you got smarter.
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Thought Catalog - 20 Signs You're The Average American 20-Something

so basically it is utterly generic and many can mean anything
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Thought Catalog - 20 Signs You're The Average American 20-Something

This seems significantly more obvious "cold reading" than any "You are strong and confident on the outside, but shy and reserved on the inside" cliche.
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Thought Catalog - 20 Signs You're The Average American 20-Something

This is a lame list.
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Thought Catalog - 20 Signs You're The Average American 20-Something

Quote: (02-04-2015 11:36 PM)rkIE Wrote:  

16. You’re interested in something. Whether it’s now how to live a happier life, maintain better relationships, reading or movies or sex or society or the axis on which the world spins, something intrigues you to explore it.

Oh, good. So the average 20-something is validated by being interested in sex with 10 year olds.

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Quote: (02-04-2015 11:53 PM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:  

This is a lame list.

That's exactly what I thought.

It can basically be boiled down to: have a job/making money, having free time to do the things you enjoy, having life experience that brought you to where you are.

This is click bait for basic bitches.

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Thought Catalog - 20 Signs You're The Average American 20-Something

Really setting the bar low eh? I'm surprised that "You have two functioning lungs and all of your fingers" wasn't on there.

"4. You have time to do something you enjoy. Even if “what you enjoy” is sitting on the couch and ordering dinner and watching Netflix."

What is with this obsession with Netflix that women seem to have lately? It's just the same jokes about Netflix over and over again repeated from BuzzFeed and other cesspools of clickbait bullshit.

I have a Netflix account, I'll watch a movie or a TV show every once in a while. It doesn't consume my life, and it's definitely not something I would wear like a badge of honor like these broads do. Anytime a girl brings up her "Netflix addiction", she immediately goes in the pump and dump pile.
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Thought Catalog - 20 Signs You're The Average American 20-Something

if this is the definition of "better," then this generation of 20 something year olds is really sad.

I actually hit almost all 20 things on this list, and it depresses me. Time to get better.
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Thought Catalog - 20 Signs You're The Average American 20-Something

Quote: (02-04-2015 11:53 PM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:  

This is a lame list.

It's thought catalog. Come on now
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Thought Catalog - 20 Signs You're The Average American 20-Something

That list says "you live in a society that has progressed beyond back breaking, agrarian work labouring from sun up to sun down, where human needs are in abundance and there is plenty of leisure time".

A society that the effort and ingenuity that civilized men built?

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Thought Catalog - 20 Signs You're The Average American 20-Something

Thought catalogue is almost as bad as elite daily clit-lit stank. It's all self-gratification bullshit.
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Thought Catalog - 20 Signs You're The Average American 20-Something

This reminds me of that clip from Rick and Morty where Morty's dad is in a simulation, but it's on the lowest setting and he's too retarded to figure out that he's in a simulation.





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Thought Catalog - 20 Signs You're The Average American 20-Something

Quote: (02-04-2015 11:36 PM)rkIE Wrote:  

Came across this article a minute ago. I feel like the irony speaks for itself.

Been studying business and marketing heavily recently and working on my own business, so I'm accustomed to look for the angle/intended customer of any article/site/business, and this one is so blatant that it's ridiculous. Just seemed to be a description of the typical person that would click on an article like that.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/brianna-wiest/...k-you-are/

Article Text:

20 Signs You’re Doing Better Than You Think You Are

1. You paid the bills this month, and maybe even had extra to spend on non-necessities. It doesn’t matter how much you belabored the checks as they went out, the point is that they did, and you figured it out regardless.

Nope, I had enough for a vacation to south-east China on top of paying my rent three months ahead before I left.

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2. You question yourself. You doubt your life. You feel miserable some days. This means you’re still open to growth. This means you can be objective and self-aware. The best people go home at the end of the day and think: “or… maybe there’s another way.”

Nope. I know exactly what I'm doing and have been planning what I'm doing for years, as I carefully gained the qualifications necessary to succeed at what I am now succeeding at. I chose this path, because it was the most logical path and I'm very happy now and have no doubts about what I am doing.

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3. You have a job. For however many hours, at whatever rate, you are earning money that helps you eat something, sleep on something, wear something every day. It’s not failure if it doesn’t look the way you thought it would – you’re valuing your independence and taking responsibility for yourself.

I like what I do. And I'm my own de facto boss, so screw you, Though Catalogue.

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4. You have time to do something you enjoy. Even if “what you enjoy” is sitting on the couch and ordering dinner and watching Netflix.

I currently earn enough to pay my bills with plenty left over doing 17 hours of wrok a week. So, yes, I have time to do what I enjoy. And no, sitting on the couch and ordering dinner and watching a movie is what I do to recharge before I go out to do what I actually enjoy.

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5. You are not worried about where your next meal is coming from. There’s food in the fridge or pantry, and you have enough to actually pick and choose what you want to eat.

How is this an accomplishment? I only put food in my fridge when I want to cook. With all the delicious and cheap Chinese restaurants just around the corner from the house, I don't cook unless I want to.

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6. You can eat because you enjoy it. It’s not a matter of sheer survival.

Ummm.

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7. You have one or two truly close friends. People worry about the quantity but eventually tend to realize the number of people you can claim to be in your tribe has no bearing on how much you feel intimacy, acceptance, community, or joy. At the end of the day, all we really want are a few close people who know us (and love us) no matter what.

Dead wrong.

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8. You could afford a subway ride, cup of coffee, or the gas in your car this morning. The smallest conveniences (and oftentimes, necessities) are not variables for you.

I can afford a hell of a lot more than that.

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9. You’re not the same person you were a year ago. You’re learning, and evolving, and can identify the ways in which you’ve changed for better and worse.

Cold-reading 'r us. Can imagine a more open-ended statement about people.

That being said, I don't think I've changed in ten years, so much as discovered who I was always meant to be.

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10. You have the time and means to do things beyond the bare minimum. You’ve maybe been to a concert in the last few years, you buy books for yourself, you could take a day trip to a neighboring city if you wanted – you don’t have to work all hours of the day to survive.

I work 17 hours a week and I do a lot more than survive. I'm currently on the second week of a vacation to a far-off city, so yes, I can afford a day trip too, I guess.

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11. You have a selection of clothing at your disposal. You aren’t worried about having a hat or gloves in a blizzard, you have cool clothes for the summer and something to wear to a wedding. You not only can shield and decorate your body, but can do so appropriately for a variety of circumstances.

I own twenty tailored suits.

Does that mean that I'm doing well as a twenty-something year old?

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12. You can sense what isn’t right in your life. The first and most crucial step is simply being aware. Being able to communicate to yourself: “something is not right, even though I am not yet sure what would feel better.”

When something is wrong, I know exactly what it is because my hamster doesn't get much exercise. I fix my problems.

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13. If you could talk to your younger self, you would be able so say: “We did it, we made it out, we survived that terrible thing.” So often people carry their past traumas into their present lives, and if you want any proof that we carry who we were in who we are, all you need to do is see how you respond to your inner child hearing, you’re going to be okay, from the person they became.

No, my life wasn't terrible. I survived.....normal life. What a hero I am.

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14.You have a space of your own. It doesn’t even have to be a home or apartment (but that’s great if it is). All you need is a room, a corner, a desk, where you can create or rest at your discretion; where you govern who gets to be part of your weird little world, and to what capacity. It’s one of the few controls we can actually exert.

I have plenty of space, thank you.

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15. You’ve lost relationships. More important than the fact that you’ve simply had them in the first place is that you or your former partner chose not to settle. You opened yourself to the possibility of something else being out there.

Yes, because I travel constantly. I wouldn't say lost. More like I had better things to do than preserve relationships in the wrong place when there are plenty of people to meet in the right place.

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16. You’re interested in something. Whether it’s now how to live a happier life, maintain better relationships, reading or movies or sex or society or the axis on which the world spins, something intrigues you to explore it.

When will this exercise in cold-reading stop?

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17. You know how to take care of yourself. You know how many hours of sleep you need to feel okay the next day, who to turn to when you’re heartbroken, what you have fun doing, what to do when you don’t feel well, etc.

18. You’re working toward a goal. Even if you’re exhausted and it feels miles away, you have a dream for yourself, however vague and malleable.
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My goals and dreams are highly specific, thank you.

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19. But you’re not uncompromisingly set on anything for your future. Some of the happiest and best adjusted people are the ones who can make any situation an ideal, who are too immersed in the moment to intricately plan and decidedly commit to any one specific outcome.

No, I have uncompromising goals for the future. My situation is already ideal and it will be more ideal next year, because I have established goals that I will not change.

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20. You’ve been through some crap. You can look at challenges you currently face and compare them to ones you thought you’d never get over. You can reassure yourself through your own experience. Life did not get easier, you got smarter.

This is stupid.

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Quote: (02-04-2015 11:53 PM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:  

This is a lame list.

It was probably written by an average 20-something.
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If this is all an average American twenty-something has going for them I am glad I am not an American twenty-something. What a pathetic piece of writing for the Thought Catalog (and I insist, it should be spelt catalogue [Image: tongue.gif]); it is as dry and unimaginative as possible.

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@Suits, you need to chill out.
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Quote: (02-04-2015 11:36 PM)rkIE Wrote:  

19. But you’re not uncompromisingly set on anything for your future. Some of the happiest and best adjusted people are the ones who can make any situation an ideal, who are too immersed in the moment to intricately plan and decidedly commit to any one specific outcome.

This list is horrible. The navel-gazing ramblings of someone completely obsessed with themself, YET also somehow lack any sense of actual purpose. I know people "who are too immersed in the moment to intricately plan ...", they are the ones who wake up at 40 and realize their life sucks because they've just been going with the flow.

If you're going to be complete obsessed with yourself (not a bad thing), you should at least focusing on accomplishing what you truly desire in the long run. Instead of vegging out with delivered food and Netflix every night (I'm sure she has several glasses of box wine with that).
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Almost no 20-somethings I know can claim #1, millennials are up to their asses in debt and digging deeper.

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