| | To write..And gripe...
Somehow to find a way to release all your thoughts and pen them down on paper (or in this case..typing).
Strange that the lack of motivation lately has really got me evaluating the current options and where things are headed off in general. Lots of bad news has been coming out lately. Loved ones being lost, the world turning even shittier, people doing stupid things to each other while the rest of us live in our lives doing the things that we think are right. To be fair, I guess we all have our role to play in the scheme of things and maybe it's just that I feel as though there's nothing really I can do about the current situations of things. But how true is that anyway? I mean, granted if you don't take any kind of action, it can only be naturally assumed that you won't have a part to play but lets say you make a donation here (assuming in the greater good of man and the money goes where it's supposed to...all of it), would that count?
Was contemplating something someone said the other day about finding your hidden talent. Example being, michael jordan...if he didn't pick up a basketball or go to the right school or have a scout that picked him from obscurity, would he still be the person he is? Probably not. Is that any reason to blame the environment or to make it situation specific?
At any other rate, it's another year pretty soon. Another milestone's coming up pretty soon. Unfortunately, again, same as last year I really don't have too much to show for it. Beginning to question what exactly have I achieved after all these years being here. *sigh*
Not to mention the irony of wanting to avoid death and yet, people tell you to live life to the fullest. But how exactly can you live life to the fullest when you're not entirely in control of your situation? Lets say for example you crave financial stability as well as living life to the fullest. My vision of living life would be to get out there to go travelling, I'd like very much to see the world. I'm not saying I'd learn and absorb cultures and history or whatever it is you do when you go overseas but I'm just saying that I'd like to get away and see other places, see how other people interact and what they do. How in the world do you propose I do that when I'm stuck here trying to make my 2 pennies to rub together? Perhaps a place that pays better? That's still not the solution now is it? It can only pay me so much until I choose to travel again and even then, eventually to justify the increase in cashflow, I'd have to give up some form of freedom. I guess it's about finding a balance as well as knowing when to get out. But being in a society of wants, when do we ever finish wanting?
Which also leads me to my next point, about financial prudence and the...spending of money. There are some things that I find justified when it comes to spending money. Buying clothes, buying a house, buying cars and stuff. Okay, I mean I can understand why you'd want to spend money on those things. Even food, I mean, that's a simple pleasure so I can imagine using good money to buy yourself a scrumptious meal. But other things, or maybe I view it differently but somehow, the intake of alcohol to a point of...regurgitation just completely defeats the purpose. The only reason how I'd be able to justify that was if I would really like to pass out or forget something temporarily but fortuntaely the need for that has never come up.
Many random thoughts, about raising children as well. As in..how to teach them to love their parents, teach them responsibility...teach them the value of money. How does it all happen? My friends generally ....know the value of all three things mentioned there. But how did it happen? I'd imagine that all parents have their different style of parenting yet the values remain...close enough to what you want it to be. But how exactly do you get there? You see cases where children choose to run away from home, spend money like water, sleep around, refusing to get a job, failing out of everything they do. Who's fault is that really? Is there anyone or anythign along the lines that you could lay the blame at?
Sigh..questions questions...feeling blue feelign blue...something's definitely in the air...
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| | Posted 5/7/2008 9:51 AM - 0 comments
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