peter wrote: much of what you say sounds great intellectually, but old age is
about the emotional argument ones hear inside your head...
I would have dropped everything 20 years ago and traveled the world,
perhaps even 10 years ago, today, not so much...…
that is what being old means, you hold back because of the
prisons within your own mind that hold us old people back.
I have noticed, in my case as well as others, that we are
keen on "solving" the problems of other people and yet, when
it comes to solving our own issues, we are reluctant, at best, to
to engage in our own solutions.....
I am just as guilty as anyone else in escaping my own problems
to attempt to solve other people problems...
Tab wrote:I have noticed, in my case as well as others, that we are
keen on "solving" the problems of other people and yet, when
it comes to solving our own issues, we are reluctant, at best, to
to engage in our own solutions.....
I am just as guilty as anyone else in escaping my own problems
to attempt to solve other people problems...
Lol, you say that like it's a bad thing. This way, at least someone somewhere is always trying to solve someone's problems.
You could have just said "eh thanks for giving a shit tab but fuck off okay". I'm a big boy, I can take it.
aim for the sun and if I burn up, so be it...….
I would rather crash and burn seeking greatness and beauty
then find satisfaction in some small wins, small victories....
to seek that one moment of perfection is worth a lifetime of
searching...….
to find 5 minutes of love is worth a lifetime of seeking.....
what do you want?
promethean75 wrote:aim for the sun and if I burn up, so be it...….
I would rather crash and burn seeking greatness and beauty
then find satisfaction in some small wins, small victories....
to seek that one moment of perfection is worth a lifetime of
searching...….
to find 5 minutes of love is worth a lifetime of seeking.....
what do you want?
that's a damn good kroquestion and i too am always engaged in an internal battle with myself over this problem. so my situation is this. there is quite a bit of material and circumstance in my life with which i could most certainly make myself a hero if i were to draw what N called that straight line; ... a goal, a yes, a no, etc. but here's the human, all too human problem. when the hero decides to commit to his deed, he forfeits the possibility of some other opportunity that might arise in the future, and therefore makes a gamble. then, he decides to wait... but that opportunity never comes... and he regrets having decided to wait. he repeats as necessary... he 'puts it off' again, and again. the hero then finds himself slowly losing his ambition through this eternal 'putting off' of the heroic deed, and ends up becoming a remorseful cynic wallowing in his own regret.
one time the old man told me after i got my ass kicked in the fifth grade: better to be a live chicken then a dead hero. what do you make of this, pete? it's like damned if you do, damned if you don't. i want to live, but i don't want to be a chicken. likewise, i wanna be the hero, but i don't wanna die, dude!
how cruel is my fate... that i'd ever have to make this decision. why couldn't i just be a normal person with a mundane life and in no incredibly complicated shakespearean situation that calls upon my very soul to face with vigilant courage a truth that might destroy me if i were to demand it?!
tell you what i'm gonna do. i'm gonna make a deal with the devil, bro. i'm gonna forget about doing 'the right thing', forget about being a hero... and what i'm gonna do is take compensation for having to do the wrong thing by not doing the right thing. that is, the world is going to pay for my having to sacrifice my honor just so that i might live longer as a chicken. how about that?
promethean75 wrote:There is much wisdom in your words, Peter Kropotkin, and I don't know what I'd do without you.
You're my sun... my moon... my guiding star. My kind of wonderful. That's what you are.
MagsJ wrote:Lol.. Prom befuddling KP, with happy ‘wonderful’ feels.
nihilism is the negation of human beings and their values.....
I belong to a union where we must, must unite together to
be able to combat the ongoing and ever present
nihilism of capitalism and corporations that slavishly
follow the nihilism of the modern world...…..
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