In search for what I really want in this life - which is mainly mine but also that from other lives I touch - I regularly come across some parental guiding telling me 'what life is not'. They tell me things I already know. I know that life is not about watching a TV-series (like True Blood for example) until 2 A.M.... but that doesn't mean it doesn't help me relax or forget all my restlessness.
Apart from that, I don't really know what life is or is supposed to be. That's just why I want to take it step by step, thinking deeply and living it intensely, living the now. Because I don't really know it yet.
I just do not and will not understand or agree that life is all about what we buy and have. Because it seems so. It seems that a 'normal' conversation with (young)adults is about the new car they just bought, or the house on sale in that neighbourhood, or how outrageously expensive their latest furniture was.
What about talking about the latest nature disaster? Or talking about the doubts in life? Lost dreams? Far ambitions? Touching encounters?
It seems a lot of people think of these subjects as too wooly or profound to be thrown out in the open. Or maybe a lot of people just don't think about these things at all ...
Are the so-called realists maybe right if they say everyone has to fight his/her own battle without looking at the collateral damage? That in the end the mayority of mankind doesn't care what happens to their fellow beings? Believing this makes me incredibly sad because who would I be without all these people caring about me - not only family - but friends, travel companions, host families, mentors etc.?
Let's just give life the benefit of the doubt and not put forward any hard truths about it and enjoy living it to begin with. Hold that thought. Good Night.
a realist does care about 'collateral damage'; a fatalist tends to do less so
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