And so this is life...

I have to wonder sometimes if we have this fairytale syndrome embedded into our brains. Life is never supposed to be hard, love is always supposed to be easy, we're all entitled to our perfect little house, with our perfect little yard and our perfect little families, leading perfect little lives lol Don't get me wrong, we are all entitled to happiness, but it doesn't come without pain or without loss or without work.

Hearts will be broken, innocence will be lost, people will be cold, cruel and indifferent. People will love you, guide you, teach, touch you and reach out to you. Some days you will wish for the end of the world and others you will wish could last forever. That is the ying and yang of life.

I agree full heartidly with Tylerr. Life is what it is. There's nothing we can do about it. But to live it day to day. If we try to hard to control it it's bound to downfall, if we try to sit back and do nothing to it, it's bound to crash as well. We do what we can.
Even if it may sometimes entitle the loss of innocence, and happiness. Even if sometimes it entitles good days that should never end but do.

Life is never perfect. We should neve expect it to be.

I love the logic, in that we all dream for a utopian and ideal life... However, you've generalised the whole issue...

I think that life is fragmented in nature, we only assimilate the absolute good and evil that happened to us... which is where I agree with you there... However we must look at the society the individual is living in...

"in that we all dream for a utopian and ideal life..."

isn't that what the westernized world promotes though in soooo many ways?

In a sense, although many want to hark back to an age in the past that seemed almost idealised...

Life is complexed and complecated... and means a whole range of things at a whole range of different times.....and to me life is something you get expierence from...you never really know life until the day you die.....

best not to think of it anyway, do what you do best...and live!

cause we only live once right???

=D hopefully***

"many want to hark back to an age in the past that seemed almost idealised..."

Doesn't that happen in every generation? I just think as we grow, more and more seem to float and think thingsa will just come to them because they are owed something, somewhere along the way. Every generation wants to make their own mistakes and are entitled to, but let's not rule out what we can learn from the past. Parents, not even just parents, those with experience have much wisdom to offer, but it is never engaged often enough.

Actually no, I merely focused on the conservative/republican aspect, which is to hark back to the golden years which seems to be the 40's and 50's...

I believe you're correct in saying that currently we live in a world devoid of wisdom and the learning that comes from it, however we must (as I mentioned in my first post) look at the cultural and from a bigger frame societial notion of what a utopian dream to them collectively is before we analyse the distinctions and similarities thereby making a solid conclusion

Lol Sluv, well said...

Think of the world as a place of business for a moment, when you first start up you are learning the ropes, getting the feel of things, it takes you a few tries, but your employees all know their jobs and things are running smoothly, slowly you introduce new employees, you begin to grow, but at a rate you can manage, so that each person is trained and fully capable. That is the ultimate goal right? Running like a well oiled machine, each person knowing their place and understanding what is expected of them, working to the best of their ability. The world however does not operate this way, look how we have grown, before one problem is solved, another is started, infecting each generation, degrading the knowledge available to us all, if only we wished to hear and see it.

But you're generalising the issue here... if we were to look at your analogy from a literalist view... I would ask, what is our place?

can we really fulfil the tasks given to us? do we really have the necessary skill to comprehend the place we are given etc...

The world does not fully bend to our individual will...You're in your thinking that society will degrade after each generation... however we're trivialising the issue... I believe we are living in an age where evil and the negatives are glorified... Sad!

They are completely glorified. We do not like to fail in our lives but many love to stop and watch others fail. I don't really think I am generalizing. Everything is connected. Families are not what they used to be, if individually we are weak, how can we be strong collectively? We push for technology and money, we lose time and personal connection.

Might I ask how everything is connected? I believe you are generalising... seeing as not every person conforms to the same thinking as you've established...

Lets look at families first... It seems to me that you assume that families once upon a time in pre industrialised society, people actually took one to one time together for love and personal connection... However it may be true for the financial and aristocractic elite however for those who didn't fit that box, work and financial stability was the only thing that mattered... It is only after the industrial age that we have more time to spend with family etc...

I believe that, yes the negatives are glorified to an extent that we wallow in it... However, not everyone fit into the box you and I define them in... which bring to point that life is merely a brew of surprise...lol

I believe everyone on the planet is connected, how we live, how we feel, what we do, all ripples in the pond, reaching out. The bigger and more chaotic we become, the worse it gets.