I spend a great deal of time in the mud. I am not sure if I am the happy pig or the workhorse though. Perhaps I should drop a few blue pills and smile ignorantly instead. I am not saying that what I spend my time doing or thinking about is so incredibly valuable, it just gives me an avenue to feel like I am working toward a goal larger than my own micro world of experience. Selfish?
Perhaps it is better to not worry about all of the troubles I do see and ignore them instead. I could do it, I have done it before. I have spent years of my life buried in computer games, out drinking with friends and wasting away mentally by avoiding thinking about anything deeper than who I would pick up that night to waste away the time until morning. For many, that is a good life. Was I happy though? Yes, it was easy, fun, pleasurable and meant close to nothing.
A long time ago I started looking into the mirror of myself and my place in the world at a deeper level and trying to work out what my purpose may be in this life. I am someone who believes we only have this life and some seem to think that leads to hedonism but, I disagree. For myself at least, it means that my time on this planet is limited but, there are many more to come after me and I have a debt to them now. I have to do something to leave this world better than when I came into it.
I think we all have this same debt whether we take the responsibility for it as ours or shirk it off to others like leaving a baby on a doorstep. Although, the people who might do that are probably unfit to raise a child in a healthy environment anyway.
When it comes to my time here, the path has rarely been easy and even though I have had a fair bit of support at times in the past, I struggle like everyone else. I think the problem is that I have carried the same perspective I have of the real-world into an engineered environment and one I have very little influence over. It is not just stake though, it is also audience.
I spend a lot of time kicking around in the mud and I don't think it is overly appreciated by those who are benefiting from making mud cakes of high value. Just like the real world that everyone has so adamantly rejected here, the behaviours are repeating and perhaps are in the fundamentals of the code itself.
Whether intentional or not, so many are willing to look for any opportunity to get more than they deserve for the work they have put in. Like thieves who break in and steal a large flat screen television. Rather than do the work themselves, they live off the work of others. A different kind of middleman than the banks and governments but, not so different.
Some people look at others doing better than them and think that they must be privileged and in some way, don't deserve the support or position they hold. Do these people of judgement ever look a little more closely, do they actually pay attention? Do they acknowledge the background work? Unlikely. They are too busy thinking that they are victimised by the system and those above who hold their heads down. Are you really sure you are being held down from above? Perhaps you should have a look at the psychological hands holding your ankles instead.
No matter who we are or what circumstances we are born into, we can all do better each day. That better might seem so insignificant to the larger picture but it is that better that over a lifetime will add up to leaving the world in a condition above where we entered it. Is that easy, fuck no.
It is the most difficult thing in the world because to be a little better than yesterday can only come from the self, from the individual. You wanted freedom, there it fucking is right there. No matter what life has provided you, it is you who is completely free to improve for tomorrow. It is you, the individual who demands a release from oppression but is unwilling to do the work to chip away at the chains. It is you who has the power to change your thinking and behaviour how ever slightly to improve your world. You.
And me.
So yeah, I kick around in the mud and get my hands and mind dirty because I am selfish. I selfishly want to have a meaning and purpose in this singular lifetime that regardless whether it is a reality or not, makes me feel that these years lived had value. For me that means creating a better tomorrow and what it takes is finding ways to act better now.
You may not value it, you might not care, you might choose to avoid it all you want. Perhaps you will live a life of luxury and will be able to entertain yourself with the fastest cars and most beautiful partners, never having to think about the state of the world now, its future or, the opportunities you missed to improve it. Perhaps you won't achieve that status and will instead bury yourself into a Playstation or some other drug, the result would be the same though. It is your life, you ARE free.
Each day for me, supported or not, each day is the same. Just a little better...
Taraz
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Owk I think I just learnt a new word today ...hedonism.
Well I think I perfectly understand your drift and it's kind of a good one. We owe anyone who will be coming after us a lot and we all need to try our best to make the world better than we met it. As a matter of fact, this is what a lot of people have done in the past which have left us with the seemingly better life we have today. I knew how things were back then in 1991 and just 27 years down the line , we have gone from analogue to digital and it's been just great and so we need to do just the same...we need to leave our Mark.
This is the point.
Just not a mark od destruction and suffering hopefully.
Here in America everyone is a victim . Even the victim is a victim of the victim . How that works out I don't know but it does .
Exp.
If you shoot a woman in S.F. named Kate and she dies . You become the victim because you get prosecuted for shooting Kate . ( it helps to be in the country illegal) . Go figure .
As a social victim your condition becomes helpless and people need to help and support you . Laws and responsibility no longer apply to you while under the condition of being a victim .
There are no set rules so its not evenly distributed across society . Be careful before you get pulled over for speeding and become a victim of getting a ticket for your actions if you were not a victim before you got pulled over .
Victims blaming, shaming and victimizing the victims victimized by the victims of another victimization.
thats it a nutshell :)
I still don't have it figured out . Depends on the wind direction , What Trump did or didn't do , Who said what on the view or CNN , MSN
Have to laugh or go nuts with this stuff
I just don't consume any of it. The only time I pay any attention is when people I know with some intelligence are talking about it. We are taught we need to be the first with information, it is a lie for the most part.
You know that's the problem . there so quick to get information out that it's rarely correct . And people go off half cocked and wonder why there argument doesn't hold up .
It's nice to be the first with CORRECT information . Then make your opinion out of it . People ask me all the time , what do you think about this or that , and it just hit the news cycle . My reply is always , I don't know yet . And they get mad as hell .
They think they have their opinion but they don't . They are just reinforcing someone else's opinion
Well, I appreciate you. Doubt that counts for much, but I do. :) Just so you know.
But yeah, basically people want to get ahead by doing as little work as possible, and if that involves taking advantage of others, then fine. I think they live on a i'm not stupid for asking, you're stupid for giving sort of mindset. (I hope the translation makes sense, it's a romanian saying) If you're willing to help them, they don't owe you anything, 'cause it's your choice to help. MAybe.
Yes, it makes sense. I don't mind being 'unappreciated' for the most part, that wan' really the point. It is more that regardless of acknowledgement, we can all be free to improve. How far we can travel on that road might vary but if in a lifetime one more step forward was taken than backward, it is enough.
People want an easy path, even to heaven. (I don't believe in heaven btw)
I feel the same way...and I got that it sort of wasn't about feeling unappreciated, but there's always something deep down behind such affirmations, so I was talking about that :)
Our development shouldn't depend on the appreciation of others, but it often does, because no matter how tough one is, everyone needs to feel loved and appreciated.
No worries, I don't believe in it either ;)
I take the day as it comes and thank God when my day is done. I can't speak for tomorrow. I make plans on what I have not on what I am expecting as my expectations have no effect on what tomorrow will bring.
Since the achievement of my goals, of improving myself can be seen today, I will do all that I can today.
At the end of the day, the only one you can trust to show up for you, is yourself. I stick to that always.
Always be able to back yourself. You may not win or even have a chance but, that is life.
These words are correct, what is happening in my country, until it is understood that we are the only ones who can free us from all this. Beautiful and deep words Greetings!
"They are too busy thinking that they are victimised by the system and those above who hold their heads down"
I don't know where you are from mate but this is the biggest disease in my country !
You did put words of some things we all go through one day. And I prefer the answer you found that the one I did so respect. Some will say you are naive, other will say you are innocent. At the end they only talk, whatever, I hope you understood that was pretty confusing !