[Esima_Emoge]

I live my life in a sea of thoughts that drown me constantly. It's so bad that I can't enjoy anything that I used to-- including anime. Igo to work and my co-workers ask me, what's up? I tell them I don't want to talk about it, but they pester me until I do. Some crazy theory on life and everything comes out. They have no response, except for "Dude, relax." or "Take it easy."
WTF?!?!?
Because of this, I have earned the quirky moniker, 'Mad-Scientist Philosopher.' A man I know with a Ph.D, and several doctrines in fields like Philosophy, Sociology and Psychology, once told me, "You sayin' a whole bunch of complicated stuff, but you don't even know what the hell you talkin' about."
How the hell do people take it easy? To me, that is the equivalent of turning your back on a runaway freight train. It's like, I have to figure these things out that people ignore. Life has no menaing if we just live day to day, without rhyme or reason. But shit. People do it anyway. WTF, mate.

---Please insert meaning of life here...

[Frankincense]

"Life, n. the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body, a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings."

-Merriam-Webster Dictionary

"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."

-Genesis 1:28

[betlor5]

Hi,

I know your problems. I have nearly the sameones. The point to get over it is to take some time. You more or less need some time for thinking, e.g. in the shower or on the bed( I take my time in the shower. This leads to the circumstance, that I am taking showers up to 45-60 minutes. Concerning this fact most people can not understand what i am doing and most of the time explaining is hopeless).

But taking your time for thinking is the best you can do. Look out a constant time when you know nobody will bother you and plan simply to do nothing except think over the situation, eg. 10p.m. to 10.30 p.m. this will healp you to organise your day and to achieve something without having other people say "Take it easy"

If you want to know the reason for life and what the reason of living for a god-like beeing is and how we can find out if there is a god-like beeing or a god just pm me. it may take some time till i answer your pm, because I am on a more or less forced education trip.

By the way I believe most of the things I come up with :þ and i hope the answer was not to long and boring.

betlor5

[/\/\ao]

gah sorry but what u say for me is kinda pointless..........and itz right for ppl to say "take it easy" coz ur trouble is more to ur personal problem
and no1 can help u if u get personal trouble except ur own mind. Other ppl can help u juz if u open ur mind to listen to them
and take it easy means forget the crapz tat u think about

say, many ppl also dunno watz the meaning of their existence, but Y they not simply end their life coz there's no meaning in continuin life??

as long as ppl wanna live, then life got itz meaning
and if u feel ur life not interestin, make it interestin by urself

[LordOmnit]

Here's the most advice I can give you from someone (i.e.- me) with a similar problem from your description.
My mind runs at a million miles per hour unless I have something to occupy it. In the meantime I come up with all kinds of ideas ranging from philosophies to just random fan-fic scenarios. What I do for outlet is RP, mindlessly play games, watch anime, and read manga to preoccupy my mind. I do things that take up my concentration and funnel it away from just running in circles. Granted I don't have a job, so I can't very well say what I would do in that situation to keep my mind occupied, but if I had to compare it to something that would be school. What I do is focus as much as I can on doing what needs to be done at the time (if it's at school, then pay attention/do exercises/etc., when I'm doing homework the same, but I boil everything down to one at a time (naturally that is unless multi-tasking is necessary)).
As for your Ph.D'd friend, I think he's saying that you aren't condensing and analysing your own thoughts, you are just making them.
And for the title question- by, "Take it easy," they mean for you to slow down and calm down. Take everything in slowly rather than burning through it until nothing is left. It's not turning your back on a runaway freight train, it's stopping for that poor guy you're looking at on the tracks (i.e.- you think you're the guy, but your really the train (and I explain this because most people don't get my analogies and metaphors so I end up having to explain them a lot)).

[Neko-chan]

hey, I am like that too, I can;t take it easy until I solve my problem. Then I am relaxed. The thing is that sometimes I work myself out like crazy with these problems, and sometimes they work them selfs out just fine without any of my help, so my worries and everything are pointless. But you can never be certain of something like that would happen, so usually I am stressed about my problems XD

[cappachino66]

write down your worries on a peice of paper, write em and dont look back at them. then they will be free'd from your mind.
only then, when a clear mind has been obtained, go back to that paper, and write out solutions to problems.
how would you like them to work out? how to obtain that result?
as for meaning of life what to do You want to do? cuz doesnt mean anything unless you can do what you want.
like for me its offspring, once got taht outta the way its only biddin my time till i bite the dust.
rinse, reincarnate, repeat.

[Neko-chan]

cappachino66, that is a really good advice. I tryed that once and it worked, only I did it in a different way... I kept reading those problems until I managed to think 'outside the box' and found solutions. Well, everyone has his own system...XD

[cappachino66]

=] ty, thats how i make it through the day~
i hear exercise good 4 stress too >.>

[scottishmanga]

if its stress which i get alot of at work from doing my job i aways come home forget about the problem and read manga or watch my faviote dvd, that is my stress dealer then after i while on the manga i normal get a brain storm on the problem i was stressing ver

[sasori1721]

Just sit there and and be quite thats all there is to it that all that all ther is to take it easy.
If your stressed perfect healing plan hit a person you really dont like and kick the brakes off them without question. Other ways to are get smoke some something strong and good and invite some ladies over and hit all day long. But hay this might not be for every one like the ones who like cry all, oh my girl friend left me oh they said i was ugly, they said im lame well guess what it happens and the sooner you get over it the sooner you move on.

[jasonpolkadot]

Take it easy means "Take life easy"

[NightStunner]

I have the same problem. I guess to me, "life" means putting my life on constant danger because that's when I feel truly alive. But that's just me.

[tori-kun]

In your situation.. "take it easy" does not mean a thing except your coworkers don't want to hear about it and they don't care.. and they have inferior minds. I'm sure you already know this.
Don't listen to the guy with PhD The guy just rejected everything you said just to make it easier to go on with his day. You know yourself better than anyone else.

Treat it as a blessing that you're inquisitive and deep individual, don't give up on this. At the same time, you're so stressed, so you need to find some way to "de-stress". Clearly talking to those currently around you is not the solution. Time to find new friends?... as someone mention earlier post, focus your energy on making something interesting.

[ryomasa]

take it easy i think it mean's to stop a min and think(ex. a 10 year old calls you fag#$% for no reason you can 1.stop a sec calm down walk away 2.go put your foot up his ASS)or something like that lol.