Everyone acts like children. Everyone is so whiny and self-centered.
No one grows up anymore. I think we're going to die.
I think part of being an adult is realizing that you are going to die and that it really could happen at any time.
You are not magical. You are not destined for something amazing. You are like everyone else who has just died randomly and for no reason at all.
Life is not exciting and shouldn't be exciting.
Exciting is what destroys us. Exciting is what kills our peace.
There is not a shortcut to happiness.
Happiness is a slow process and anything exciting is a lie because it says you will be happy now.
I can guarantee you won't be.
Grow up. Don't get excited. Don't get upset over the small littleness of day to day troubles. Learn well the things that will keep you together.
Learn well the way to live forever.
Chaos is empty. Anything exciting is hollow.
Grow up.
On a similar note:
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"Playful child
ReplyDeleteI'm quite sure about it. I do not want to be mistaken, be wrong. I might be a bit too gullible, but I will take the risk.
I know that somewhere deep recesses of the soul everybody has it. A playful child. It may slumber somewhere beneath bitterness and evilness, but it can be found. From all of us.
A playful child is oblivious to the rules and restrictions. Even impossible is possible for him. If he wants to fly, he flies. If he wants to walk on the water, he walks.
A playful child can rejoice in the smallest things: The first wagtail of summer jumping across the lawn, the blooming of apple trees, the crispiness of autumn mornings, or the first snow of winter.
For him they are one great miracle.
But who are those whose playful child is hiding, disappeared? They can be called cynic. Studies have shown that cynicism is a severe disease. Cynics will not only be cynics by themselves, they try to infect their attitude to others too. They get tired, exhausted, burned out and fed up. The life of people contaminated by cynicism is not only sad and unhappy, but also unnecessary.
Even though the foolish and the naive enjoy life, the cynic will not do that. They are cool and calculative and know that life is just one big illusion.
Personally, in the crossroads of my life, I have learnt to listen to the playful child inside of me. Its advice on how to live and be. I must admit that sometimes it has costed a lot because it can lead to dangerous paths. You'll return from them with bruised soul and knees.
Still, I do not regret it. As long as there is the ability to experience, to be amazed, no price is too high.
In this world of greed and harshness you have to persuade the playful child with all you got. The task is difficult, but you should not give up. You just have to wait. When you finally find your playful child, it gives you the strength to fight against your windmills.
Faith and hope do not only belong to the Church, but to everyday life. For example, only 40 percent of Swedes have faith in God, but as much as 80 percent of them believe in Ikea.
So you can have faith even in an assembly furniture. The main thing is that you have faith.
If we all believed in the playful child inside of us, the world would definitely change. It would instantly become more tolerant, sympathetic and happier place to live. A place where everyone would have it easier to be, to live, to breathe. Many unnecessary annoyances and suffering would disappear, the problems would be solved.
My greatest wish, of course, would be that all playful children would find each other. The joy and rejoice would be never ending."
by Tommy Tabermann. Wisdoms of a dying man. Ironically shortly after writing this column he passed away because of brain tumor. Sorry for the clumsy translation.
Playful children get people killed.
ReplyDeleteIt's just the way it is.
The guy seems to be trying to paint people in the world as either happy and hopeful or sad hopeless, which isn't the reality of it.
ReplyDeleteChildren are stupid and do stupid things and that isn't good even if it makes them happy.
You can find peace and hope in wisdom and prudence. It's a different kind of happiness that most people don't seem to be aware of, to the detriment of our world.