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 Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:26 pm
A good friend of mine tagged me in a picture on facebook with this caption:
"Sometimes life goes by so damn fast. All that work we did. All the detail we killed ourselves trying to perfect. In the end it all just gets lost in one big goddamned blur."
Discuss?
Perfection. Procrastination. Hypocrisy. Futility. Cheese.
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Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:04 am
Personally, I like cheese... LOL!!
Actually, I really like the quote.
We all try to perfect so much in our lives, and it's true that it all disappears.
Thanks for posting... Sorry I have nothing intuitive to add at the moment...
~A~
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Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:39 pm
I don't think it disappears. The things you accomplish in life live on as long as there are people left to remember them, so does that make it worth it?
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Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:40 pm
- N y z z - I don't think it disappears. The things you accomplish in life live on as long as there are people left to remember them, so does that make it worth it? Only if you care about other people's opinions of the things you did. Personally, I live for myself, and have found that I'm much happier if I make decisions based on what I want and need. Now maybe that's selfish, but to be honest, I have more friends now, am more confident, and am doing better in school. So oh well. Yeah, maybe life is all one goddamn blur, but I'm okay with that so long as it's one enjoyable blur. xD
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Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:52 am
I agree with you about the enjoyable part.
:]
Definitely.
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:23 am
honestly I think that the bigget irony in life is undoing the best thing in your life due to second guessing.
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Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 6:12 am
I think a lot of people go through adult life on autopilot, just getting through one task after another with this idea of a happy, perfect life somewhere down the line and eventually realize they made so many compromise they've become miserable.
On the other hand some people don't plan or comprimise at all and realize they've grown up and done nothing. I know I still need two pieces for my college portfolio by the end of October (possible but quite stressful). But like Irony I slowed down and I'm enjoying more.
It's interesting that you mention accomplishments, Nyz. I recently read a book about happiness that asked, "Can you name your grandmothers? Okay, good, now how about your great-grandmothers? How many generations until you've been forgotten as well?"
So I guess very few of us live on in name, known for what we've done. However, our accomplishments live. I don't know my great-great-greatfather, but I know someone built the libraries we visit and the developed the medications my family takes. That's one damn good way of enduring time.
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Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 5:25 pm
That's an interesting idea you bring up about being forgotten, Dray. It's true that I don't know many names when it comes to my ancestry, but regardless of this I still feel somewhat connected with those who have preceded me, and therefore obligated to do my best in life. Maybe it's an Asian thing, I don't know for sure.
I think it's important above all to seek a balance between ambition and self-gratification. Individual definitions of balance will vary, of course.
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:26 am
- N y z z - A good friend of mine tagged me in a picture on facebook with this caption:
"Sometimes life goes by so damn fast. All that work we did. All the detail we killed ourselves trying to perfect. In the end it all just gets lost in one big goddamned blur." Urg I wish people on my facebook would post some more interesting things like that instead of OH MY GO THIS HAPPENED *stabs them* As for the quote personally if you get lost in one big blur you are living life wrong, I live my life like Dorien Gray in a way, I live for pleasure, fun and intellectual conversation... and food, if the details are unimportant ******** them, as for being remembered, in the end no-one will remember me, so who cares I will make a mark for myself an no other, if they come to realise my mark, good for them but it makes no difference to me. .... also by the way blue cheese is the best cheese...indeed.
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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 1:56 am
Ahahahahahaaaa!
*sigh*
Heheheh.
Of course it all disappears. Haha. That's what motivates us! Humanity wouldn't be quite so advanced as it is if we weren't so stupidly worried about carrying on our own legacy! Ahahaha. Everyone's afraid to die, right? Of course. To some degree! People have tried forever to find a way to live as long. Inevitably, we fail. Heh. But watch them! Knowing that they'll die, these people start trying to create the most impressive, noteworthy objects, or put forth the most profound ideas! All in the hope that somehow, their own remembrance will grant them a sort of immortality.
It's stupid, really. Hahahaaa. Think of the man who invented, say, the wheel! Or agriculture, for example! Pretty damn profound ideas, those, but do we know who invented them? Of course not! Who cares who made them, as long as we have them? Hahahaa.
And as for you, Nyz, yes. People will be left to remember you. But eventually, those people die as well, and over time, your memory fades, blurs, and eventually disappears entirely! Even geneology can only go back so far. Hahahaaaa. When this world dies, after all... no one will know who you were. Who any of us were. Or what we did.
Dray, you said that someone built the libraries we visit, and designed the medications we take. Will not that library be destroyed sooner or later? Will not those medications become obsolete as medical science progresses ever further in the pursuit of the impossible? Of course.
Everything's Eventual, as it were. Hehe.
Sooner or later, everything dies. Ahaaaa. Nothing survives, nothing exists forever. Even time itself will become irrelevant when there is nothing left to percieve it. And when Time dies, Death follows suit: nothing lives forever. Not even Death. Hahaaa.
So I suppose the question is..... will you try to defy all reality and be remembered? Or will you simply accept that that will never happen, and live for something else?
Hahahahahaaaa.
Ohhh. I just realized, Nyz, back when you and I actually talked, you never heard me when I'm like this. Heheheeee. You'd enjoy it, I'm sure.
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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:34 pm
Not really, there are people out there wo do thing without any intent on recognition but to better the lives of the world and those they care for. and if you say "well i haven't heard of them." refer to the first part of this post.
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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 3:28 pm
Which is a much wiser approach to life, I feel. Acting to better the lives of the world at large, without any intent or desire for recognition, is an incredibly humanistic course, and one that can actually be fulfilled.
Personally, though, I doubt I know enough about life to be able to really think of myself as holding the answers to anything.
I am somewhat curious, though, as to how procrastination plays into this.
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 8:41 pm
IamJacksVampirism Which is a much wiser approach to life, I feel. Acting to better the lives of the world at large, without any intent or desire for recognition, is an incredibly humanistic course, and one that can actually be fulfilled. Personally, though, I doubt I know enough about life to be able to really think of myself as holding the answers to anything. I am somewhat curious, though, as to how procrastination plays into this. Procrastination is a coping mechenism designed to create a period where you collect imformation on an otherwise urgent task and decide wether or not it is truly worth the effort/risk/outcome.
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Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 10:13 pm
I suppose the thing I'm trying to express is the paragon theory in that every generation has atlest one paragon: a person who is so self sacrificing that in darkest of times it their generosity changes the perseption of those they touch and changes the balance of the world making it a better place.
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 11:40 pm
Makes sense. I personally believe it may work both ways, though. Just as there are those people who are so radiantly good, evil also has its progeny in the lighter times. The world needs balance, after all: without the existence of evil, it is impossible to define oneself as 'good'. The two require each other in order to exist, so when the world pulls itself in one direction or the other, theoretically, something would happen to balance the scales.
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