Things that Make you Think Until you Go Crazy
- Why is it in our nature to crave happiness but then at the same time think it's unattainable?
- Why the hell are we so susceptible to momentaneous sensations, when really they're exactly that: sensations of the moment. By susceptible I mean we attach a longer time frame to these sensations than we should or realize. Why can't we just be happy (and I don't mean content) living from one moment to the next, letting ourselves experience these sensations but afterwards realize them for what they are, fleeting and temporary. If we could just be happy, then we'd realize that we have the opportunity to experience everything. Even as I say this, as I realize this, I feel like it's a happiness that has to be learned. To me, happiness that has to be learned is just all wrong. Happiness should be simple, and so natural. Anyway, nothing lasts forever, it's such a simple truth, but for some reason we have to train ourselves to get used to that idea. I blame the media, and society in general, for feeding me all kinds of anti-truths. As soon as I grow up, I am so out of this world.
- And speaking of growing up, when are we gonna grow up, I mean REALLY grow up. Not just look like grown ups, talk intelligently, and do whatever we want. Do people EVER grow up? Or are we just a bunch of incomplete human beings masquerading as a race that can actually back up all the shit that we do. I believe in karma, and I believe it's a bitch.
- Why the hell are we so susceptible to momentaneous sensations, when really they're exactly that: sensations of the moment. By susceptible I mean we attach a longer time frame to these sensations than we should or realize. Why can't we just be happy (and I don't mean content) living from one moment to the next, letting ourselves experience these sensations but afterwards realize them for what they are, fleeting and temporary. If we could just be happy, then we'd realize that we have the opportunity to experience everything. Even as I say this, as I realize this, I feel like it's a happiness that has to be learned. To me, happiness that has to be learned is just all wrong. Happiness should be simple, and so natural. Anyway, nothing lasts forever, it's such a simple truth, but for some reason we have to train ourselves to get used to that idea. I blame the media, and society in general, for feeding me all kinds of anti-truths. As soon as I grow up, I am so out of this world.
- And speaking of growing up, when are we gonna grow up, I mean REALLY grow up. Not just look like grown ups, talk intelligently, and do whatever we want. Do people EVER grow up? Or are we just a bunch of incomplete human beings masquerading as a race that can actually back up all the shit that we do. I believe in karma, and I believe it's a bitch.
posted by Mix at 3:20 PM
2 Comments:
I think we set up unnecessary limitations for ourselves, or rather we have incorrect views about who we are and our relation to the world.
There's a book I've been reading recently, it's called "The Nature of Personal Reality". I recommend it for those who are trying to understand themselves better.
We think things just happen to us, when in reality we are in control of it. Our deeply embedded beliefs about our own nature dictates the reality that unfolds before us. However we seldom take time to really look at what our fundamental beliefs are, it's too easy to just blame outer circumstances.
Growing up ... something that I think about all the time ...
Can't really say much on the matter since I still haven't grown up yet.
But I am in pursuit of it, I want to grow up. So I read books that will hopefully give me some answers and I also constantly regulate my own thoughts, opinions and beliefs trying to find some truth in them.
When I think of people that are "grown up" I'm actually thinking of samurai, like Kanbei in "Samurai 7". It's incredible how much discipline, creativity, interpersonal and intrapersonal skill he has. True, he's not a real person but there's nothing to prevent him from becoming reality.
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