/sci/ - Science & Math

I have a friend, he just turned 19.

He left high school midway through his senior year because he was about to get expelled for marijuana, and started to do online school. Then he moved to upstate New York (bordering closely to Canada) from Florida to live with his biological father for about a year.

While there he was still enrolled in online school, but neglected to do it. All he did was smoke weed and do odd jobs with his dad.

He is now back in Florida living with his mom and stepdad. He still smoked weed all day and just does lawn work for his stepdad's company.

He seems like one of the happiest, content fuckers i've ever met.
He is dumb, but not retarded. He has intelligence, just doesn't use it.
He seems free, and isn't bogged down by shit and I get envious of that ignorant, blissful happiness.

But then I think about where he'll be down the road, and it doesn't seem like it will be anything positive.
It makes me feel bad and unhappy, but at the same time, put in the hard work and pain now and it will pay off down the road.

I am a freshman majoring in biomed. I am either going to med school or graduate school. Either way, I have a long and strenuous road ahead of me full of stress and work. If I apply myself though, something I rarely did throughout school because I could breeze through with minimal studying and effort and maintain B's, the payoff will be great.

Anyone in a similar situation?
Like, I'm smart and have the capacity to do the work, it's just a matter of me doing it and putting myself up to the task, which seems to be a lacking skill in my generation.