If trying ultimately only means failing, then whats the point in trying?
The title of this post suggests much about something i have wondered much throught my teenage years. What is the point of trying in life, when the moment you die, the world will forget about you? No matter what you want to say about loved ones, and all of that, life continues on and all you are is a memory, nothing but two electrons connecting in someones brain and creating an electronic image. Really what is the meaning of this joyous yet pathetic thing we call life? Why is it that if I am not a president, nor some huge star, my life will be forgotten in one day. in one instant all that i stood for, all that i was, would be gone with me. What does it mean to leave an impact? Why do i have this flesh and blood body if all it will do is someday die off and leave the world no different then it was 2 billion years ago?!!
Have you ever even asked yourself if you even make a difference? honestly just think about your average day, and just how much time you waste. When I do it sickens me, I utterly have wasted my childhood. If i could take back a large portion of it I would, if i could turn back time, become what i once was, i would do it in a heartbeat. Why though is it that life seems to slip through our fingers without our ever realizing it? Maybe its just me who doesn't realize what life is, maybe I just haven't opened my eyes, or my heart, or w/e it is that has to open up to realize what life is, but can anyone say they truly know what living means? If you can honest to God say you know exactly what living is and without a doubt know it, feel free to express it here because I can't say I know the meaning.
Depressing thoughts. maybe I should think more positive in my day to day...
Have you ever even asked yourself if you even make a difference? honestly just think about your average day, and just how much time you waste. When I do it sickens me, I utterly have wasted my childhood. If i could take back a large portion of it I would, if i could turn back time, become what i once was, i would do it in a heartbeat. Why though is it that life seems to slip through our fingers without our ever realizing it? Maybe its just me who doesn't realize what life is, maybe I just haven't opened my eyes, or my heart, or w/e it is that has to open up to realize what life is, but can anyone say they truly know what living means? If you can honest to God say you know exactly what living is and without a doubt know it, feel free to express it here because I can't say I know the meaning.
Depressing thoughts. maybe I should think more positive in my day to day...
posted by UncleFluffy at 5/28/2005 10:04:00 PM
3 Comments:
If the world were no different then it were 2 billion years ago, then you wouldn't have the computer you're reading right now, the chair you're sitting it, the roof over your head, or the clothes on your back.
People make diffences a little bit at a time.
If the moment people died, they were forgotton, there wouldn't be funerals or memorials. Somehow, in whatever you choose to do with your life, it makes some sort of a difference. You just can't see it yet.
Stop putting yourself down Jeffrey. If you don't like how you've lived in the past, then learn from it and figure out how to make better with your time in the future. You can't take back what you've already done, only change what's yet to come.
eileen you raise up some really good points there, and really i can't disagree with them, but in the end i have to say that the legacy left by most is forgotten very quickly. Let me ask you a question do you know who invented the chair? who invented the computer? See you use what they create but you don't know their name, the only thing that linked them to this world. Really I am not getting down by these thoughts, im just voicing something I have wondered for a long time, why are some people remembered and others forgotten? Is that even fair to the forgotten ones?
well i can't argue with two and by far you two are right. Far more right then I am on this point. Really it just proves the saying "To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world" :)
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