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Originally Posted by veritas
I appreciate your words about your words.
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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yeah. agreed. i think happiness in its enucleating essence can be spread out thin and doesn't truly/really equate to the recurring or normal thought pattern behind regular happiness. food on the table, health intact, able to not fall into deep thought but still be mindful of people. deep thought is essential. to figure out who you are, etc etc. but i guess looking into the void and becoming this existential headcase where you denote certain things into "that's life". for example, letting something be because it's difficult to confront. whatever that may be. yeah, people are seen are barcodes in society. a number. it's really not that hard though. to "fit in" society is something people blow out of proportion. it happens though; things rarely go exactly as we want it. it's just how it is. we perceive things differently and communication gets lost in context. for one thing, this can be grand, and for you it is such a minuscule thing that you wonder why it bothers people at all. it's all perspective, but i do believe we have to be mindful and exude some sort of empathy, just because not everyone is exactly how you are at this very moment. we're all different. i think trying to understand people is pretty cool, even if you disagree with everything. also i think not trying to understand everybody is pretty cool. once you're better with how you are, then dealing with others becomes easier. dealing with "life's abyss" becomes just another thing you deal with. but yeah.