You work all day just to come home, write bills, and give your money to strangers. You jump through everybody's hoops in this three-ring circus of life, either working or studying and following everybody else's rules. You go here, go there, do this, and do that, go to school, go to work, get sick, lose your money to doctors or a nursing home. You go through the motions of life like a programmed robot. What do you have left for yourself in life?
2006-08-26 02:36:46 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Yes, but every once in a blue moon you wake up and have a day that doesn't totally suck and then almost a tenth of it seems worth it.
"There are those who are depressed and then there are those on medication and then there are those lacking the brains or imagination or feelings to be depressed. At least there is some small hope for the first two groups."
My ex, Sylvia the shrink
I don't think it's us. I think it's the deplorable times and conditions we live in. Everybody in power wants something of ours and they're all willing to give away something else of ours to somebody who doesn't deserve it and who isn't willing to have to work themselves to get it.
2006-08-26 03:05:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Life is what you make it. If you want to be unhappy and pissy, go for it! If you want to enjoy the fact you have a home, enjoy the fact you have money to pay those bills, food on your table, work and study is how you get a beter life. With my work I afford great vacations, I have money to buy my children things, do family outings with them, give my friends and family tokens of appreciation, rules do suck, but rules keep really stupid people from bothering you most of the time. We all do get sick and die in the end, you know everyone dies, and you can't take the money with you anyway, so if it's all gone at end...oh well; your heirs need to get off their butts and work anyway, my kids better not be sitting around waiting for inheritance money, I'm spending it all on cruises!!!!
You are an important part of the world, of history, the positive contributions you make in this life will create a future world for others to discover and enjoy. Our ancestors created a world for us to enjoy.
Go buy your favorite ice cream and sit next to a lake with the breeze blowing on your face, hug a little kid, enjoy a wonderful movie and be glad that your soul, your entity existed to experience all this!!!!
2006-08-26 09:48:20 · answer #2 · answered by chieko 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This reminds me of something I heard in Duckman... I don't remember it exactly, so I'll paraphrase it for the sake of my sanity.
He talked about how life has become about working, eating, sleeping, parking... Somewhere along the line they all got chewed up together and spit back up, and it doesn't taste like living anymore.
That's just the beginning of a VERY long (and very hilarious/poignant) rant. There is a point where life seems like nothing but day in and day out tedium, with nothing to look forward to. But this is what is called a rut. When you get caught in one, it's like being trapped in an eddie, where your purpose of going to work is to keep on living and you keep on living so you can go to work, so on, until that's all you have. The best way to veer off of this course is through goals. Even little goals, like saving up for something you want, are worth it. You have to keep yourself from stagnating by looking for something to work toward independent of or even within the structure of your job, or home, or personal life. Try to earn a promotion, get higher education, get married, write a poem or story... Anything that will make you happy that you can work toward will kick out that rut.
2006-08-26 09:49:17 · answer #3 · answered by Meredia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life as you described it can be worse if you become ill or disabled or out of work. So please try to find little snippets of joy in your life that bring you happiness. If everyday doldrums are a downer, you will have a very difficult life if something serious happens. We all feel overwhelmed at times, but we do not dwell on it.
Be happy that the sun shines, that your child and spouse love you, be grateful you have a job, take pleasure in reading a good book, etc. If you still feel so unhappy, then you might be suffering from depression. In that case, please seek professional help.
I wish you the best of luck.
2006-08-26 09:47:39 · answer #4 · answered by ne11 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have a point in the things that you have listed, but you have not seen the true things that make life good.
It is the small things in life that make things worth living.
Like the first time you realize that the girl of your dreams loves you more than she can explain in words.
Or that very first time you kissed her.
Maybe it is not even that big of a thing. I might just be seeing something that just amazes you or just flat out touches your soul.
Life is hard, no question about it. Just never forget that there are lots of things that happen that are a million times better even if they only last for a moment.
2006-08-26 09:42:08 · answer #5 · answered by Biker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is what you make of it all. If you decide to stay in a rut, that is your problem. Make an effort to get a life worth living, instead of snivelling and bemoaning your fate. Go well, and God Bless!
2006-08-26 09:40:52 · answer #6 · answered by Scabius Fretful 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats the same question which i try to find an answer for, but i am lost coz as u say i have becomea a robot like everyone else.... a flesh and bone robot is what i wud call myself.... nothing more to it..
2006-08-26 10:11:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
YOu might be suffering from depresssion. I work, clean house, take care of family, pay bills, etc but I love every minute of life.
2006-08-26 09:39:19 · answer #8 · answered by pamela_d_99 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, drudgery for sure. The point to what we do eludes me.
2006-08-26 09:42:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What? You're having a depressed episode? I used to get those before taking my meds. Hmmm... meds.... :)
2006-08-26 10:28:36 · answer #10 · answered by theogoth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋