Recent events led me to realize how easily we take for granted the things and people in our lives. It started a couple of days ago where one morning while in a friends car we were rear ended in the middle of traffic. Yeah i know fucking crazy shit, but thats not the worst part. My friend was gonna sell the car that same day! Sad sad Shit. So anyway we ended up in the cop shed wasting away our time giving info on the situation. While waiting i noticed an elderly couple walk in, and i thought they were in the wrong section. A little while past and only when they tried to converse with the resident officers did we all realise that both of them were mute. I watched while this old couple pointed and mimed what they needed done, and i realised how sad and utterly fucked up this world had become.
We take our lives a day at a time not stopping to think of the future that is inevitable. We assume we will live long enough to earn that salary or work that dream job. But all that is circumstantial. Tomorrow may never come. Today could definitely be the last day of our lives. How do you want to live it, to be known after death?
Is the minute amount of happiness we seek worth the decisions we are forced to make?
Is there such a thing as real, free, pure happiness? Or are we disillusioned by socially constructed ideals meant to keep us striving endlessly until our oblivion?
I have no clue what i want in life. I have no idea where I'm going. As confusing as it is i think i know i want to find that happiness. Someday...
5 human(s) commented:
heya doc!
This is quite a thought provoking post... I too tend to be confused and don't really know what I want and what to seek for..
But sometimes what we want is too much and we fail to realise that it is what we 'need' that matters more than what we 'want'..dont you think?
then again, living one day at a time alright.. but where do we end up?
Sigh. now i'm feeling a little sad...:(
but, like I said, a thought provoking post...
hmmm..nice post..well that ll b something we will be searching thru out our lives.."the meaning of life"...but i guess these words of Albert Camus are true to this day...
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
LD: Yeah i know. So much to ponder on in this life we've been given. Almost a cycle of emotion and despair no?
Sorry if i made u feel sad. Cheer up :)
realskullzero: Yeah i'm sure we'll be stuck in this thought for a long time to come. I just hope we all find someway to get by the best we can and in that, find the happiness we seek.
Aren't we all seekers?
The problem I see is not the eternal search for fulfillment and happiness. It is the denial we force ourselves into, when we KNOW we're not happy, but choose to stay that way because it's all we know, or all we love. And there we remain, fearing the risk of losing what we have and are familiar with, instead of allowing ourselves to let go.
DQ: If u are in denial of ur happiness being enough i would advise u to let ur fear go before u have no more life to live, and regret how much u've given up of yourself for the sake of not believing that fear real.
I on the other am not that strong i'm afraid. How ironic is that?
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