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MrSpecialEnough · 22-25, M
Someday? Someday my dream will come? One night you will wake up and discover it never happened. It's all turned around on you. It never will. Suddenly you are old. Didn't happen, and it never will, because you were never going to do it anyway. You'll push it into memory and then zone out in your barco lounger, being hypnotized by daytime TV for the rest of your life. Don't you talk to me about murder. All it ever took was a down payment on a Lincoln town car. That girl, you can't even call that girl. What the fuck are you still doing driving a cab? Take comfort in knowing you never had a choice.
Winterwanderer · 26-30, M
In general, but such is not true for all. Those who live be constraints are subject to be broken by them, but you can live outside the 9-5, you can find a different life, maybe it'll take a compromise here & there, but there's another life, another choice.
It's those who perceive the world as out of their hands that truly lose the world and everything it could be. Open your eyes to a different sight, nihilism is but another fad, even if there's a lot of reason to be so, there are plenty of reasons not to be. You not only destroy yourself in saying such things, but others too are destroyed, whether you destroy them or they follow in your path.
There's still wonder and beauty in the world, still joy to be had, but it's hard, much harder to pursue than nihilism, much harder to see and much harder to believe than anything else.
Sure there's plenty to despise about the way of the world, but if that's all you look for that's all you'll see, and it'll overtake you.
It's those who perceive the world as out of their hands that truly lose the world and everything it could be. Open your eyes to a different sight, nihilism is but another fad, even if there's a lot of reason to be so, there are plenty of reasons not to be. You not only destroy yourself in saying such things, but others too are destroyed, whether you destroy them or they follow in your path.
There's still wonder and beauty in the world, still joy to be had, but it's hard, much harder to pursue than nihilism, much harder to see and much harder to believe than anything else.
Sure there's plenty to despise about the way of the world, but if that's all you look for that's all you'll see, and it'll overtake you.
MrSpecialEnough · 22-25, M
Winterwanderer · 26-30, M
That's a useless way of thinking, it's as if you're going out of ways to make yourself insignificant.
If you want to take the exact opposite perspective (which almost no one does sadly), we're infinitely large, in an infinitely grand amount of time. We're composed of incredibly small components as the universe is composed of incredibly small components. Extremely minuscule amounts of time have had and continue to have extreme significance in the universe, some of the most important events in our universe happened within like 10^-48s of each other, portions of time nearly indistinguishable from each other formed the most important aspects of our universe. We are at a perspective where we can experience both the grandness of light years and nanometers.
We have such an opportunistic perspective, we're ginormous & we're small, there are worlds larger than us and worlds smaller than us.
Imagine we were the largest entity, the multiverse or whatever, what then? Would that make us greater? We'd have nowhere to explore beyond us, because we are everything, now say we were the smallest entity, some 'string' or wormhole, then we'd be truly be dwarfed and it'd be harder to understand scale because everything else that exists is larger than us. At our perspective we can admire everything as great in its own regards, if you compare an atom to Jupiter, of course there's going to be a significant difference in size, but there are a lot of different ways to look at things, a lot of different comparisons.
I notice you, I noticed what you said, I didn't see how big or small you were, I just saw what you said, and if I would, I would see who you are (in time). What real importance is there in physical size? What is allowed to be called important?
If you want to take the exact opposite perspective (which almost no one does sadly), we're infinitely large, in an infinitely grand amount of time. We're composed of incredibly small components as the universe is composed of incredibly small components. Extremely minuscule amounts of time have had and continue to have extreme significance in the universe, some of the most important events in our universe happened within like 10^-48s of each other, portions of time nearly indistinguishable from each other formed the most important aspects of our universe. We are at a perspective where we can experience both the grandness of light years and nanometers.
We have such an opportunistic perspective, we're ginormous & we're small, there are worlds larger than us and worlds smaller than us.
Imagine we were the largest entity, the multiverse or whatever, what then? Would that make us greater? We'd have nowhere to explore beyond us, because we are everything, now say we were the smallest entity, some 'string' or wormhole, then we'd be truly be dwarfed and it'd be harder to understand scale because everything else that exists is larger than us. At our perspective we can admire everything as great in its own regards, if you compare an atom to Jupiter, of course there's going to be a significant difference in size, but there are a lot of different ways to look at things, a lot of different comparisons.
I notice you, I noticed what you said, I didn't see how big or small you were, I just saw what you said, and if I would, I would see who you are (in time). What real importance is there in physical size? What is allowed to be called important?
MrSpecialEnough · 22-25, M
@Winterwanderer: Dang, that's deep. I know, that's what she said.
Winterwanderer · 26-30, M
Woah, so good.