Life Rant

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CatherineVAMPIRE

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(My first rant so dont flame me..... Please) Okay something that me and my friend thought about. We are all going to die. Everyone we know and love will die. everything we accomplished will mean squat. every good deed has a consequence. If you stop a ciggarette company you throw millions of families out on the street and make the town go under. When your in school there is always drama and thats leads to depression anger or hate. In the workforce we all vie for jobs and backstab our best friends. Nowadays 65% of all marragies end in divorce and that means this country is going to hell lovewise.


If i think of anything else ill post it
 
That's not a rant. That's a whine. A depressingly emo whine, might I add. It's up to YOU to find some bright and shining facet of life that makes it worth living, not the rest of the world. They couldn't care less about you.
I care... A little.. Which I why I bothered writing this.

Of course, I must ask: With "video games" as your only "Interest" in your profile and no listed occupation, how can you expect anyone to take anything you say about real life seriously?
 
The "dramas" I had in school boiled down to hating teachers, not doing homework, getting involved with girls and discovering the wonders of drinking and smoking...not what I'd call life events in hindsight. You deal with them and become stronger as a result.

I realised my teachers were only doing their job and were right to put me in detention because i was, in fact, a little shit. I didn't do homework not because it was too hard, but because I was too lazy and didn't care about what grades I got because it wasn't relevant to what I want to do with my life. The supposed "love" I felt for my first girlfriends was no more than infatuation at the fact that I'd found someone who enjoyed touching my penis.

Drinking and smoking still kick ass though.

Believe it or not, depressive navel-gazing of the kind you indulge in is not new, is not productive, and is barely considered a rant compared to some of the real issues people face on these forums. So deal with your "dramas," learn from them, they will only turn in to anger and hate if you are a weak person who is ruled by your emotions, and cannot think objectively about a situation. Remember the phrase "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."
 
in regards to the everyone will die part and everything you do means squat, i often think about both of these things. i know a solution and it is possible to have it all. actually, the solution explains my fascination with achilles and thetis:

i think that that is something that i would really want, to be remembered until the end of recoreded history, maybe longer if possible. but on the one hand what price do you pay for that? socrates was executed. i can't say for sure, but did people like newton and einstein have a wife and family? maybe you don't have to die young to be glorious, but it seams you have to give up something: a family, friends, good health, etc.

when i think about the first part of what you said i'm also reminded of one of shakespeare's more famous soliloquys:


it really makes you wonder, what if i could become the greatest person to ever live and was remembered forever? then you look at the big picture and realize how long recorded history stretches back, then how long man has existed, then how long organisms have lived on this planet. then how old the universe is. in reality all of mankind's triumphs and tribulations will be less than a blink in the eye of god, a small dot on the timeline of eternity, since i don't see the universe ending anytime in the next forever. It's this high level of nihilism the main characters of shakespeare's tragedies are known for. And the question remains, what does any of it mean if we are (mankind) only going to exist for an infinitely small amount of time in the grand scheme of things.

I guess a positive humble person would say that life is about the ride, not the destination. That you have to enjoy it while you can, I would say they are right, but you can't simply dismiss the fact that after you die will be remembered by next to no one and in a small amount of time compared to how long history has been recorded you will be completely forgotten.
 
My gripe with that opinion is that you're thinking too much about things we have no control over. So why torture yourself with such morbid thoughts? We're here. It's happening. Get over it. Life's too short to sit around navel-gazing, get out there and do what you can. You don't have to be a great hero, nor do you need to find a place in the history books. If you can add a glimmer of happiness to someone else's life, then no one can say you've lived your life in vain. So maybe none of us will ever be the best at what we do. So what? It's not a competition. Just make the most of it so that people remember you fondly, for however short a time.
 
Alot of good advice and thought in this thread.

Wizard, one thing you didn't say anything about is it's harder to be remembered for being good, but lot's of people are remembered for being evil. I don't think Hitler will be forgotten any time soon, he didn't do anything good, but his actions were sutch that people will remember what he did for a long time.

When your in school, your life is harder cause you have a full time job that your not being paid for, then if you want money, you have to go work for penuts at some fast food joint. Not what I would call a fun exsistance.

Your life can be enjoyable, but YOU have to make it so. Getting friends, making good choises, things of that nature, it's all on you. People around you can push you in a direction, but if you don't want to go out, or go see a movie, or want to, but are too lazy too, you will not like your life.

I could say make a list of things to do and make an effort to do it, but you don't seem to need that much help.

If we are going to die someday, why do we put stuff off till tomarow?
 
I don't care if people remember me or not when I'm dead.

I won't be able to see people come to my grave and tell their kids about what I've done. Or what I haven't done. Or what I could have/should have done but didn't.:happysad:
 
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