Rate Your Vigor

[EyeKhan]

Rate your life's vigor (10 is highest, 1 is lowest), then discuss it if you can.

Discussion Topics

- Is vigor a choice? How much so? 100%? Less?

- Is vigor at all age related? Experience related? Health related?

- Annecdotally, the more you learn about the real world and life in general affects your vigor in what way?

- Are the most vigorous the most successful? Does vigor correllate with aggression? How about compassion? Faith?

- Can drugs give you vigor, like caffeine? Cocaine? Methamphetamine?

[Illusions]

I am a corpse and I find the lack of a 0 option to be highly racist.

[littlelolligagged]

I refuse to speak to anyone who ever uses the word vigor to self-describe. It's unseemly.

[Timbuk2]

I refuse to speak to anyone who ever spells vigour without a u.

[LittleFuzzy]

Rate your life's vigor (10 is highest, 1 is lowest), then discuss it if you can.

Discussion Topics

- Is vigor a choice? How much so? 100%? Less?

- Is vigor at all age related? Experience related? Health related?

- Annecdotally, the more you learn about the real world and life in general affects your vigor in what way?

- Are the most vigorous the most successful? Does vigor correllate with aggression? How about compassion? Faith?

- Can drugs give you vigor, like caffeine? Cocaine? Methamphetamine?

Define your terms.

[Veldan Rath]

I need a nap...

[Dreadnaught]

While I struggle to not think of erections here, I'll try and take this seriously and posit that a person's cynicism and mood can be misunderstood to be vigor.

EG if I'm being cynical at work about ideas that are being proposed, I could be misunderstood to be lazy and unwilling to do anything. And I may be unwilling to do things because I'm cynical.

[EyeKhan]

I am a corpse and I find the lack of a 0 option to be highly racist.

If you were dead, then you would not be able to vote, or reply.

I refuse to speak to anyone who ever uses the word vigor to self-describe. It's unseemly.

If you read the OP, it describes you, not me. My vigour has calcified into resolve, determination and perseverance. The point is moot.

I refuse to speak to anyone who ever spells vigour without a u.

See above.

Define your terms.

Let me know if there are additional ambiguous terms not covered below.

Vigour:
–noun
1. active strength or force.
2. healthy physical or mental energy or power; vitality.
3. energetic activity; energy; intensity: The economic recovery has given the country a new vigour.

Rate:
–verb (used with object)
15. to estimate the value or worth of; appraise: to rate a student's class performance.

Life:
–noun
3.the animate existence or period of animate existence of an individual: to risk one's life; a short life and a merry one.

Discuss:
–verb (used with object)
1. to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.

Topic:
–noun
1. a subject of conversation or discussion: to provide a topic for discussion.
2. the subject or theme of a discourse or of one of its parts.
3. Rhetoric, Logic . a general field of considerations from which arguments can be drawn.

Choice:
–noun
1. an act or instance of choosing; selection: Her choice of a computer was made after months of research. His parents were not happy with his choice of friends.

Age:
–noun 2. a period of human life, measured by years from birth, usually marked by a certain stage or degree of mental or physical development and involving legal responsibility and capacity: the age of discretion; the age of consent; The state raised the drinking age from 18 to 21 years.

Experience:
–noun 1. a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
2. the process or fact of personally observing, encountering, or undergoing something: business experience.
3. the observing, encountering, or undergoing of things generally as they occur in the course of time: to learn from experience; the range of human experience.

Health:
–noun 1. the general condition of the body or mind with reference to soundness and vigour: good health; poor health.
2. soundness of body or mind; freedom from disease or ailment: to have one's health; to lose one's health.

Anecdote:
–noun 1. a short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature.

World:
–noun 4. humankind; the human race; humanity: The world must eliminate war and poverty. 8. any sphere, realm, or domain, with all pertaining to it: a child's world; the world of dreams; the insect world.
9. everything that exists; the universe; the macrocosm.
12. any period, state, or sphere of existence: this world; the world to come.

Successful:
–adjective 2. having attained wealth, position, honors, or the like.

Aggression:
–noun
2. any offensive action, attack, or procedure; an inroad or encroachment: an aggression upon one's rights.
4. overt or suppressed hostility, either innate or resulting from continued frustration and directed outward or against oneself.

Compassion:
–noun 1. a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.

Faith:
–noun 1. confidence or trust in a person or thing: faith in another's ability.
2. belief that is not based on proof: He had faith that thehypothesis would be substantiated by fact.
3. belief in god or in the doctrines or teachings of religion: the firm faith of the Pilgrims.

Drug:
–noun 1. a chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise enhance physical or mental well-being.

I need a nap...

Perfect.

While I struggle to not think of erections here, I'll try and take this seriously and posit that a person's cynicism and mood can be misunderstood to be vigor.

EG if I'm being cynical at work about ideas that are being proposed, I could be misunderstood to be lazy and unwilling to do anything. And I may be unwilling to do things because I'm cynical.

I think cynicism leaches vigour. Low moods seem to correspond to low vigour. Is vigour a mood then? No, I don't think so. It influences mood or mood influences vigour, I guess.

[Wraith]

If you were dead, then you would not be able to vote, or reply.

Is this poll also closed to the undead?

[EyeKhan]

Is this poll also closed to the undead?

Of course not. A reanimated corpse is animated nonetheless and thus capable of using a keyboard.

[Illusions]

If you were dead, then you would not be able to vote, or reply.

Gah, even more racism! I'm speaking to someone through a Ouija board, who is replying for me.

[EyeKhan]

Gah, even more racism! I'm speaking to someone through a Ouija board, who is replying for me.

Child of Satan.

[LittleFuzzy]

You just gave a list of possible meanings, Choobs, you did not specify which meanings you were using. So you did not effectively define your terms.

[EyeKhan]

You just gave a list of possible meanings, Choobs, you did not specify which meanings you were using. So you did not effectively define your terms.

Check the list again. Many of the words omit definitions that were out of context for the poll and discussion. Those definitions that are included are within scope of my intended word usage.

[GGT]

Maybe he wants us to define our own terms.

Mine = energy = low level. I blame aging and hormonal changes. Plus depression. Gimme some 'o that childhood HGH!

[EyeKhan]

Maybe he wants us to define our own terms.

Mine = energy = low level. I blame aging and hormonal changes. Plus depression. Gimme some 'o that childhood HGH!

HAY! Don't talk about me like I'm not even here.

Anyway, you and I both know youth is wasted on the young.... Life sometimes seems like a Great Big Existential FUCK YOU.

[GGT]

I was talking to Fuzzy....didn't know you were here.

I didn't start to drink coffee until I had kids and needed energy to keep up with them.

[EyeKhan]

I was talking to Fuzzy....didn't know you were here.

I didn't start to drink coffee until I had kids and needed energy to keep up with them.

I love coffee. I wish I'd drank it in college.

[Catgrrl]

I did drink it in college, then stopped. Now with an almost toddler, it's a necessity. The day we had a power outage, I cried. And drove to the closest McDonald's for one of their iced mocha drinks.

Hmmm...how to describe it in words. I think one's vigor can be a biological factor, but as we age, I think environmental (social/mental) issues can change it. Right now I am at an all time low. Having a kid, not working, being depressed, the heat....I don't have any energy.

On days she is at my mom's, I am ready to do so much, even have tasks planned, and.....only get one or two things done.

I'm normally a very task-oriented, busy busy busy type person, so it is an odd thing to come to grips with. I hope it is a temporary thing on my part.

[GGT]

I did drink it in college, then stopped. Now with an almost toddler, it's a necessity. The day we had a power outage, I cried. And drove to the closest McDonald's for one of their iced mocha drinks.

Hmmm...how to describe it in words. I think one's vigor can be a biological factor, but as we age, I think environmental (social/mental) issues can change it. Right now I am at an all time low. Having a kid, not working, being depressed, the heat....I don't have any energy.

On days she is at my mom's, I am ready to do so much, even have tasks planned, and.....only get one or two things done.

I'm normally a very task-oriented, busy busy busy type person, so it is an odd thing to come to grips with. I hope it is a temporary thing on my part.

Honey, you have THE hardest job in the world. Your "low" will only be temporary when you begin to include toddler K in your tasks. They'll take ten times longer but you'll get your task-master fix and she'll learn a bunch of stuff. (Otherwise, those social/mental issues might need some chemical support....)

[EyeKhan]

Post-partum depression???

There was a recent study showing that coffee, even decaff, reduces risk of the deadliest kind of prostate cancer - 6 cups/day or something reduced it by 60%. There was a corresponding female cancer that it reduced too but I can't recall which.

[GGT]

The second heat wave on the Atlantic coast (before official summer) can make anyone droopy and tired. But especially moms with young kids. Cat, my suggestion would be a kiddy pool on the patio or back yard, filled with just an inch or two of cold cold hose water. Let the kid play with the hose, splash in the water, naked and without a diaper. Cups and floaty ducks or shit. You lay in there with her!

[Catgrrl]

Ya, I bought one. That lasts about 10min before she's trying to climb out to eat more dirt in the garden.

I did put her in without a diaper last weekend, and she pooped in there. Then had the nerve to be mad when Mommy made her get out so I could hose her down and refill the pool!

[GGT]

Aw, maybe she's not a water baby but a dirt lover. Giver her a spoon and a trowel, let her "eat dirt" that doesn't have poison or fertilizer. Giver her water to make mud pies. Be sneaky and have cold chocolate pudding nearby....she'll figure it out. Also nothing wrong with pooping in the baby pool or bathtub. Just scoop it out quick and add some more clean water.

Dear Cat, you used to work in an aquarium, right? Sounds like great stuff for baby pool fun....seashells, buckets, measuring cups, making a waterfall, putting sand on the bottom, dragging in Barbie dolls for a swim.....rubber fish and duckies, the bathtub Sesame Street boat with Bert and Ernie....floating balls and squirt guns. Y'know, you're allowed to have fun, too!

[Catgrrl]

She actually does love the water, anytime we are near a park fountain she goes berserk, wanting to touch.

I think as soon as she can walk it will be much easier for both of us (well, in some respects).

Anyway, didn't mean to drag this thread offtopic with my issues....