krazykidd said:
Well the truth hurts ,i guess. And nothing there is perticularly false . I don't see the problem really . If you haven't accepted most of what was written yet , i think you still got a bit of growin up to do.
I'd say that its needlessly pessimistic. While many of these are true to an extent, they don't highlight the counterpoints. I do believe in unconditional love, for one, and while it is true that everyone will disappoint you eventually, its how they put things back together that makes people beautiful. To be blunt, I think that if your so cynical that you take these as absolute truth and blandly accept it, you are the one who needs to grow up.
Its a personal theory of mine that there are three stages of world view development
The first stage is simple child-like wonder of the world. Everything is rainbows and butterflies and its flaws are too distant to matter.
The second stage is what i like to call 'teenage angst syndrome' the point where you realize those flaws are very, very real. Eventually you end up going through a cynical haze where the world is miserable because of the sufferings, both big and small, deserved and not that happen in the world.
The third stage, at least in my experience, is the development of perspective. Not everyone gets there, preferring to wallow in 'fuck the world' for all of time instead. This stage is the merging of the first two. You understand that the world has plenty of problems, the good guys don't always win, and might end up being the bad guys tomorrow... but for all the evil in the world there is just so much more good. The news shows the worst for ratings, but for every stolen wallet, dozens are returned. For every child without a good home, there are millions who do, and millions of adults trying to help in every way they can. For every publicized atrocity; there are untold numbers of charities, doors being held for the person behind you, dollars lent to friends in need, societies trying to make things better... and most of all, a world that wants nothing more than to make things better than what they had.
Of course there is no such thing as a right answer! Some are guided by faith; others by knowledge, some by ignorance, but every misguided soul is striving towards a better future. Those who would deny such always lose out in the end. Evil empires die, monopolies break, regimes rise and fall. History tells us this! Even if things stay bad for a few years, or even a few dozen, even if its beyond our lifetime, or those of our children, and their children as well, things will get better...
and really, isn't that enough to be happy about?
