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Simple enough question.
I've often been told to "get a life" by many people.
I thought about it a little, and realised that the usual definition of "a life" constitutes three parts: achievement, socialisation, and entertainment.
I've worked on all three.
Being a college student in Comp. Sci., there are a few avenues of achievement available to me. The first is academic. The second is the stuff you do on your own. The third is physical. Academically, I've always been pretty good, and am steadily improving. As for stuff I do on my own - I've started a Free Software project on Sourceforge. I'm doing it to scratch an itch, but it'll be pretty useful for my fellow students, too. Physically, I do a medium-heavy workout every day.
As I'm studying in Maharashtra, two groups of people tend to form - the ones who speak Marathi and the ones who speak Hindi/English. As I am Marathi but was not raised in a Marathi-speaking province, I'm one of the few people who can get along with both, I'm not "cut off" from either. I have a regular bunch of friends I hang out/go out with. Furthermore, I have a wider circle of friends from outside my college mates, too.
As far as entertainment goes, I'm completely capable of keeping myself entertained. I have my own taste in books, movies, and music. Unlike most people, I can appreciate entertainment from both the mainstream and the far fringes, and everything in between.
Further, I am well-read, knowledgeable, and articulate. I am skilled in the use (and sometimes, abuse) of language and its structure. I can speak fluent and nearly flawless English, Marathi, and Hindi. I have a number of technical interests, both in my field and outside it. I also have wide-ranging interests outside technical field, including philosophy, history, literature, culture, ethics, economics, human nature, sociobiology, and a lot of other stuff.
But I still keep being told to "get a life". This makes me suspect that I may have misidentified what a "life" actually is.
So I'm asking these two questions:
a) What is a life?
b) How do I go about getting one?
I've often been told to "get a life" by many people.
I thought about it a little, and realised that the usual definition of "a life" constitutes three parts: achievement, socialisation, and entertainment.
I've worked on all three.
Being a college student in Comp. Sci., there are a few avenues of achievement available to me. The first is academic. The second is the stuff you do on your own. The third is physical. Academically, I've always been pretty good, and am steadily improving. As for stuff I do on my own - I've started a Free Software project on Sourceforge. I'm doing it to scratch an itch, but it'll be pretty useful for my fellow students, too. Physically, I do a medium-heavy workout every day.
As I'm studying in Maharashtra, two groups of people tend to form - the ones who speak Marathi and the ones who speak Hindi/English. As I am Marathi but was not raised in a Marathi-speaking province, I'm one of the few people who can get along with both, I'm not "cut off" from either. I have a regular bunch of friends I hang out/go out with. Furthermore, I have a wider circle of friends from outside my college mates, too.
As far as entertainment goes, I'm completely capable of keeping myself entertained. I have my own taste in books, movies, and music. Unlike most people, I can appreciate entertainment from both the mainstream and the far fringes, and everything in between.
Further, I am well-read, knowledgeable, and articulate. I am skilled in the use (and sometimes, abuse) of language and its structure. I can speak fluent and nearly flawless English, Marathi, and Hindi. I have a number of technical interests, both in my field and outside it. I also have wide-ranging interests outside technical field, including philosophy, history, literature, culture, ethics, economics, human nature, sociobiology, and a lot of other stuff.
But I still keep being told to "get a life". This makes me suspect that I may have misidentified what a "life" actually is.
So I'm asking these two questions:
a) What is a life?
b) How do I go about getting one?
(Or do get caught. That can be even more exciting. 
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