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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  I did the sink-into-debt-pursuing-your-passion-and-go-bankrupt thing |
How did it feel when you went through that period?
When I graduated from college seven years ago with my bachelor, instead of choosing one of the several job offers I had, I moved to a different state and went for what I truly wanted to do in life. However, I failed at it - and I started into a decline where I ended up homeless for a little while, working jobs I hated in retail for years under big financial debt just to stay alive, feeling miserable and depressed for several years and even sucidal for a while. For years, I was left a shadow of my former self in all manners of measuring it. I highly doubt anyone would find me interesting in this circumstance, in fact, I lost my friends and didn't gain any for years.
So, when you say that people would find someone in #2 more interesting, I guess that comes with the caveat that the mental attitude of that person is hugely important. If someone with little emotional understanding and emotional fortitude takes the route of #2, and then ends up in dispair over it for years like I did, then it's worst for everyone, especially that person.