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Question of the moment a
2008-06-11 15:08How does a person go about meeting / befriending other, local persons?
2008-06-11
Question of the moment b
2008-06-11 15:11How does a person know when to break up with, end a relationship with another person?
But it isn't fun anymore
2008-06-11 17:24There is a phrase people throw out sometimes. "Life isn't meant to be fun," they say.
Most often this seems to be prompted by another person expressing distaste for an obligate activity. The purpose of it seems to be to convince the complainant to accept the current situation, to meet the expectations of others and to cease expressing dissatisfaction with things as they are.
It also reads to me as carrying a vague disapproval of pleasure, as if a person who enjoys life is somehow doing it wrong. That life ought not to be a pleasurable experience, that it ought to consist of drudgery and duty and anyone who does have fun with eir life must be doing so at the expense of other persons.
Of course I am leading up to disagreeing. If a person does not enjoy living, why should ey be expected to continue doing so? Perhaps for the sake of others, and they enjoined likewise against enjoyment of it, network existing because it has been told it must.
And I do not believe life is 'meant to be' anything. Life is.
I (again) no longer care for the argument "You only get one life". Irrelevant. Only one life, why not live it and enjoy it? Many lives, why not have fun with this one if there'll be another (after?)?
Although I do wonder if it would affect people's responses for the number of lifetimes posited to be somewhere between singular and infinite.
Most often this seems to be prompted by another person expressing distaste for an obligate activity. The purpose of it seems to be to convince the complainant to accept the current situation, to meet the expectations of others and to cease expressing dissatisfaction with things as they are.
It also reads to me as carrying a vague disapproval of pleasure, as if a person who enjoys life is somehow doing it wrong. That life ought not to be a pleasurable experience, that it ought to consist of drudgery and duty and anyone who does have fun with eir life must be doing so at the expense of other persons.
Of course I am leading up to disagreeing. If a person does not enjoy living, why should ey be expected to continue doing so? Perhaps for the sake of others, and they enjoined likewise against enjoyment of it, network existing because it has been told it must.
And I do not believe life is 'meant to be' anything. Life is.
I (again) no longer care for the argument "You only get one life". Irrelevant. Only one life, why not live it and enjoy it? Many lives, why not have fun with this one if there'll be another (after?)?
Although I do wonder if it would affect people's responses for the number of lifetimes posited to be somewhere between singular and infinite.
"So good, you will want to share it with everyone."
(no subject)
2008-06-11 23:58Ghostly spirit,
moving on strange curves through unknown space.
Sometimes crossing sometimes passing,
sometimes sparking sometimes lighting.
* * *
Things unseen grow in
to branching crystal shapes.
They flower, blossom and bloom.
They flutter and fly.
Sometimes aided by
unexpected cross-time-wound
meetings passing by.
Thank you. =^.^=
moving on strange curves through unknown space.
Sometimes crossing sometimes passing,
sometimes sparking sometimes lighting.
* * *
Things unseen grow in
to branching crystal shapes.
They flower, blossom and bloom.
They flutter and fly.
Sometimes aided by
unexpected cross-time-wound
meetings passing by.
Thank you. =^.^=
