We spend the best years of our lives studying hard and working hard. Then we retire at 65 and by then we're way past our best youth years to really enjoy it all because at that point of our lives we might be starting to deal with beign old and sick.
2006-07-19 18:05:31 · 6 answers · asked by claudia91701 3 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
Life should be reversed, we should start out sick, then work all our lives, than play like chidren and have fun, than end it with an orgasm which is what created you.
2006-07-19 18:11:34 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
not really. i mean i think of that at times, that's why i don't work too hard or study too hard. well, the studying i have no problem with cause i don't have to really study much to get good grades. and I only work per diem, which is one 12 hour shift a week. then i have another job but that's only if i feel like it. so i always try not to work too hard for that reason you described in your question. I try to live and seize the moment. of course, i have to work and pay bills, and i always try to put some money away in case of emergency or for pleasure later on, but think about it, if we work too hard, and then we die young, we don't even get to enjoy our money. better take it easy, and smell the roses on the way. i want to arrive to my death bed in style and relaxed and say "whhoooaaa, what a journey I had"
2006-07-20 01:11:02 · answer #2 · answered by chapped lips 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I totally think that way! Ever since I was little I thought that exact thing. I thought we should be free when we are young to enjoy our youth and then we can be put to work in our later years until we are tapped! I would love to meet you. It's such a comfort to know someone thinks that too-everyone thinks I am so crazy for that but it truly makes more sense. I would love to hear your other ideas!
2006-07-20 01:16:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to think that, then I realized that life is all about "the moment" so to speak. Our parents tell us that we have to look forward to the future, and make plans for that, and they tell us those annoying parables about grasshoppers and ants, and though there is some grain of truth in that parable, ultimately, we are NOT grasshoppers and we are NOT ants, and so the parable falls down after a while.
The thing is, to live NOW. Yes, we have to work hard, YES we have to study (if we're students) and YES we have to do all of those really boring things, but there is no law that says that we have to wait until AFTER we retire and start falling apart before we have fun.
We have lovers when we're reasonably young. We kiss those lovers while we're still young (and cute, with all of our teeth), we do all sorts of really fun things, but it's funny that we never really focus on that. We never plan to play like we plan to work, and when we do, we turn play INTO work, which is the biggest problem facing retirees. So I guess, in response to your question, we DO tend to live our lives backwards, but not because that's a right thing to do. We do so because we think that we have to. We don't focus enough on now...especially since it will never come again, so the thing I try to do is to look at now (regardless of when that "now" takes place) and I try to live as fully in it as possible...ESPECIALLY when my boyfriend is giving me "that look" as I massage his still reasonably young feet.
2006-07-20 01:22:54 · answer #4 · answered by chipchinka 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some say that youth is wasted on the young. I believe that youth is available to all who continue to learn. If you rely on the outer shell of a human to determine their age, you will lose your perspective on the wonders of life. Love life, love learning and you will never grow old.
2006-07-20 01:50:29 · answer #5 · answered by dracomullet 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes. But only because we sometimes forget to enjoy what we have now
2006-07-20 01:07:45 · answer #6 · answered by dinocruz53 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋