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Old 09-19-2018, 01:10 PM   #15
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u have to understand that certain lines are written in certain emotional context. meaning my mind behind any given line may be different to what i feel/think now, that being said, you have to look at whatever written given the tone of the entire writing. like you don't read a comedy script thinking melancholic when you read it and vice versa. but yeah, sometimes when you're sad life sucks and happiness seems far away or impossible
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I’m back again. I identified the problem. Happiness can’t be figured out. That’s the point. you’re either a vastly void barcode, or a single celled, organism. that was an awful way to put what I’ve been trying to mean. and honestly

I think your initial premise is something that all thinking people think about. That happiness is a myth. I have personally come to appreciate the intrinsic dynamo of joy much preferable to the temporal happenstance as a means for basing my preferable "feelings while doing life". The idea of the barcode resonated with me. I thought about how commercialism is so vital to our advancement (I.E. we no longer have to spend all day doing laborious work just to find food. we can scan the barcode at Wal-Mart on a TV dinner and boom! instant gratification.) in that the barcode commercial fast food amazon everything on demand gives us more free time....but does it? there is an existential dread behind it. this society, this "world" is wrong. There is something missing. Perhaps we treat each other as barcodes. Fast food friends. Self -checkout acquaintances. The other thing that struck me, and maybe you meant it maybe you didn't was the single-celled play. We are either simple creatures, or individuals trapped in cells. It can go either way. It is an awful way to describe it, but it is accurate, and it needs to be said. I respect that. Like I said, all thinking and original people should contend with these issues for the benefit of their own, and then subsequently those in their circles of influence's betterment. WE must look into the void, and instead of letting it look back, we must seal it's power with finding meaning in this story.
I, personally, have chosen to no longer be the main character of my story, settling instead for the freedom of being a meaningful secondary character in other people's stories. Thank you for the thoughts. I hope we can do this again sometimes.
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