Should I Drop This Class?

[Sharla]

Life is difficult.

This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been specially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others. I know about this moaning because I have done my share.

This book helped me a lot when I read it, he gives powerful meaning to life imo.

Great quote Bilbo! yeah online courses or writing would suit you very well I think. A lot of online courses are targeted at people who already work full time who want to get another qualification part time. So they don't demand a big workload. You could start taking one or two units as a hobby and then decide whether or not you want to complete the whole thing?

Lung damage must suck. I wouldn't give up on your physical fitness too easily though. You do exercise and you're relatively young. A lot a people do nothing and are suprised when they find out they're not fit and they blame it on getting old etc. You might be suprised by how much fitter you can be with just a little regular exercise within 5 years.

I know a few older people who took up exercise as pensioners who are much fitter than their peers now. Most of us know reformed smokers and overweight people who gradually turned their habits around and started exercise and became fit.

Even if you start behind others when you consider that most people do nothing regularly doing something 3 times a week might bring you up to their level more easily than you realise.

Real loosers are loosers because they don't care or can't be bothered and they usually don't know they're loosers. If you care and you make a little effort - even if you don't succeed all the time (because no one does) you're not a looser!