Little Men....With Their Toys and Their Games Building Blocks Falling Down (717 hits)
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Submitted by someone (View user info) at 2005-04-04 03:03:38 EDT
Two people in a grocery store. I heard one tell the other that he could be so much more in life, and the other one, a woman, placed her hand on his shoulder and agreed vehemently.
Here's a thought: If you could be so much more in life, but you're not, then really you're just spending some mental time fooling yourself thinking that you're better then you actually are--fictional self-reassurance. A midday confidence builder to make it through another cubicle maze for another cup of company coffee in a stainless steel travel mug.
A timeless beat to a repeating phrase. This is where reality becomes mere perception and daydream-to-working normalcy hits a dangerous medium with the scales slipping slightly in favor of a polarized existence of sun rays, ray-bans, Jimmy Buffet and Margaritaville. It's supposed to be that way in a utopia kingdom that we go to when we die, we just have to play by abstract rules in a too-old book, and the only way we modernize it is with hate and narrow-minded ignorance, what would Jesus do?
Would he sit on company time looking at web sites that don't matter?
Would he flip the table of corporate greed?
Would he support cowboy political tactics?
Would he be a capitalist or a socialist?
Would he piss life away as a helpless nobody?
I think he'd smoke this bowl with me and sit on the couch and tell me that the most accurate of the world's religions is Buddhism, and where did we all go wrong, where did we load up handguns and drive sports car's and pretend like clothes and DVD collections are suddenly going to give us satori? This is madness of the highest order, like a daily dose of three hours of X-Box and a six pack of beer on a projection television in a tacky decorated den are make you going to forget that a betta fish lives a more interesting life then you do.
Another thought is a red toolbox on the lower left hand side of your screen, with a power drill icon entitled 'lobotomy' This is where the insults come in, artificial rage in a never ending circle of hate that is created, bottled up and inevitably exploded as a build up of verbal nonsense, perfect punctuation and proper grammar etiquette win nonexistent wars. Annoy, harass, belittle, all for the sly smirk on your face that's trying desperately to mask the fact that your date tonight is Halo 2 and Miller Lite. But don't worry--I'll be alone as well, watching you madmen and writing it all down in a book you'll never read but wish so badly you had--before your life started.
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I have a friend he's mostly made of paint
And he wakes up drives to work and straight back home again
--Bright Eyes
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Submitted by someone (user info) at 2005-04-04 12:03:31 EDT (#)
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It's like....THE UMM...Buddism man!! We're all like, uhh one, or something. Everything is the same is nothing is everything?
Err yah, or were both just bitter jerks.
Submitted by Pentameter (user info) at 2005-04-04 11:58:10 EDT (#)
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I came back to read this again because I liked it so much, and then I saw this:
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2005-04-04 11:52:53 (#)
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Submitted by Pentameter (user info) at 2005-04-04 11:36:47 (#)
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Sometimes we are more afraid of success than failure.
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Holy shit. I was just writing the exact same thing in my journal, albeit slightly different words.
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We must be kindred spirits...or maybe we're just two bitter people. But seriously, this has always been one of my biggest beliefs. I really feel as though a lot of people fear greatness.
Glad I'm not the only one with thinks this way.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2005-04-04 11:52:53 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Pentameter (user info) at 2005-04-04 11:36:47 (#)
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Sometimes we are more afraid of success than failure.
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Holy shit. I was just writing the exact same thing in my journal, albeit slightly different words.
Submitted by Pentameter (user info) at 2005-04-04 11:36:47 EDT (#)
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Sometimes we are more afraid of success than failure.
Submitted by AnotherStupidUsername (user info) at 2005-04-04 11:22:59 EDT (#)
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I really like the 2nd and 3rd paragraph.
Submitted by Conform (user info) at 2005-04-04 11:14:54 EDT (#)
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Bright Eyes kick ass.
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-04-04 10:53:29 EDT (#)
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Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2005-04-04 07:36:28 EDT (#)
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"Here's a thought: If you could be so much more in life, but you're not, then really you're just spending some mental time fooling yourself thinking that you're better then you actually are--fictional self-reassurance."
The only thing that stops us from being more than we are is usually ourselves. All of us could be better, if only we could just stand up and BE BETTER. Easier said than done, though. Just like most things worth doing.
Submitted by Siren (user info) at 2005-04-04 03:29:32 EDT (#)
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"...the most accurate of the world's religions is Buddhism..."
I've been saying this for years!!!
Are you having a quarter life crisis like me?
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2005-04-04 03:14:28 EDT (#)
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Donovan--I was trying to hint at the stupid verbal fights around here without making a whiny post. Just how people hate their position in life and try to vent through a computer keyboard. Like civil debating is exitinct.
Submitted by DonovanMD (user info) at 2005-04-04 03:11:40 EDT (#)
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It got a little flakey at the end, but it was alright.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2005-04-04 03:10:42 EDT (#)
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Holy Christ I hope I can hold out.
Submitted by shitfuck (user info) at 2005-04-04 03:09:03 EDT (#)
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As a human being, you're doing alright kid. The answers come. Time.