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I was just sitting here wondering, as I do, why do we do the things we do?
We spend years complaining about having to go to scholl, then years reminiscing about how it was the best time of our lives.
We don't do what we want today so that we can prepare for tomorrow, when tomorrow is a great uncertainty and eventually never comes.
We spend a fortune on looking older when we are young, and younger when we are old.
We work our whole lives to provide for our children until they are old enough to work to provide for theirs.
When we wake up and have a bad day we believe that tomorrow will be better without doing anything to make it better.
Why?
I'm feeling a little disillusioned, as I'm sure you can tell. Just failing to see the point in going to a school I don't want to go to so I can take exams I don't want to sit and go to university, which I don't want to do.
People place too much value in money and not enough in life.
{crawls back under the covers}
We spend years complaining about having to go to scholl, then years reminiscing about how it was the best time of our lives.
We don't do what we want today so that we can prepare for tomorrow, when tomorrow is a great uncertainty and eventually never comes.
We spend a fortune on looking older when we are young, and younger when we are old.
We work our whole lives to provide for our children until they are old enough to work to provide for theirs.
When we wake up and have a bad day we believe that tomorrow will be better without doing anything to make it better.
Why?
I'm feeling a little disillusioned, as I'm sure you can tell. Just failing to see the point in going to a school I don't want to go to so I can take exams I don't want to sit and go to university, which I don't want to do.
People place too much value in money and not enough in life.
{crawls back under the covers}
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Sometimes we have to stop analysing why we do things and take them at face value - we just do them because we can and must. The means justifies the end. As long as you can live each day in a way that makes you and other people happy to some extent, then it is a worthwhile day.
When you're young what you want changes on an almost daily basis. Aspirations and wants aren't set in stone and they can change with the wind, so you shouldn't feel too bad about not knowing what you want out of life.
The reasons we do things are often unclear, but with age comes wisdom, and with time comes clarity.
So long as you spend these years of your life developing decent values, you shouldn't go too far wrong. You're right though, many people place far too great an emphasis on money, and it is admirable that you want to shun that path. However, I think you'll find that money does make thw world go around. It is a necessary evil and so long as it doesn't consume you, you'll be fine.
Yeah I've been thinking as well...... Why do I wipe my bum? It'll just get dirty again.:rolleyes:
I'm a fine one to talk but...get up earlier...it does help.
Why are you not happy? Anything specific?
However, I know what you're saying, I often feel like I am waiting for parts of my life to pass, which is wrong, I should be enjoying the ride, not the destination.
Me too.
It served it's purpose, to educate, but I was very glad to leave.
I should be happy. That I know. I have a gorgeous boyfriend who loves me and a lot of good friends. I just feel trapped. I think my Id is trying to get out. But I'm only 17 and as such there are things I can and can't do, for various reasons. I would retreat to the happy little place in my head, but I feel trapped in there now. I used to cut myself so I'd feel better, but even that seems pointless now (good or bad, you decide).
On that note I'll shut up. Mmmm.....alcohol.
Unless you believe in some kind of god or something life just IS.
'Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.'
'But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.'
Alan Watts
this i believe is why drugs are so popular in this machine age. they touch your very soul like little else can. they put us in touch with self and each other. with the here and now and who i am.
when i drive past or through large housing areas, be it state or private housing i feel a shudder and a gladness that i have escaped that confinement and conformity.
the sales did my head in. i had to walk away. it was like an assylum that i couldn't comprehend. we have reduced the human condition to wanting to own things. owning things does not satisfy the soul of...well this man for one. people who are depressed cannot be bought to a state of happiness by owning lots of shiny things and gadgets. our world has become very dangerous and pretty much all meaning has been lost.
am i rambling again.....
'Freedom is Knowledge of ones necessity'
i'm a very happy and confident man but...this world is realy alien to everything i feel. the world of celbrity and fashion and big brother tv is a fucking big empty meaningless void to me.
the latest mobile phone does not attract me.
people attract me. animals also. the beuty of the land and a nice fat spliff.
[/pretentious rant]
ok theres not a lot of point to that except to point out that human spirit may have lost what drove it in the first place, ie survival of the fittest... living in the forrest as mr roll put it but humans will always find another outlet for their spiritual side and look at hte great art thats all around us every day. even that guy at work who annoys everyone by tapping drum beats on the desk. thats just that guy's inner human spirit expressing itself and trying to create and express something outside of the monotony of daily life.
just my extremely pretentious two cents
heres to the spiritual survival of us all!
as for living in the hills mate...and having a fresh egg for breakfast
that just fell from the back of a chicken...it's poetry. marijuahna blowing on a summers night breeze...thats my reality.
trouble is for a young man like you is you have to be able to make a living. not easy in the countryside unless you have a very good trade or profession. your years in the navy may well have given you just that something. we do have industrial estates and science parks out here.
theres little room out here though for city folk who come in telling people all about hunting and fishing being wrong. your obviously a tourist with attitude! it realy is a different world and perspective out here.
a lot of people are trying to leave the major cities and head for the hills, so the price of propperty is on the rise. saying that, my oldest son aquired a 500yr old cottage last yr for £15,000 cash. moved straight in with his girlfriend and is rebuilding the place around them.
the countryside J does give you time to reflect, inbetween the flood defence work and the winter power cuts.
i wouldn,t trade it for the biggest, poshest house in any city in the world mate.