I saw X2 yesterday, which was nice. It made me feel fuzzy inside. I like the way the good guys could get away with indiscriminate carnage. Ian McKellen was really awesome, even in the stupid helmet.
School year is almost over. Parents tell me I no longer have a chance at MIT and company, which is probably true. I can’t really bring myself to care. My parents both worked psychotically in high school so they could get into the best university, and insofar as I can tell the only payoff was monetary. I don’t think I really care how big my house is going to be. I can’t seem to appreciate material things. This is unfortunate, because I think material possessions are the only dependable things in this life. Tragically I base my happiness much more on walks outside at night, conversations, people, which aren’t nearly as reliable and can’t be guaranteed via hard work in high school. I wish I had a work ethic.
You make my site pretty.
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Remember, as long as it shows might and you can proclaim it good for something. Its okay. Remember?
Material Dependable?
/me laughs and laughs and laughs
Then chuckles silently.
You must remember something incredibly important. There is nothing dependable in this life. There are those with full trust in god, and find that a dependable source to turn to. But in this life we are living. Nothing is dependable, there are accidents, there are malicious acts of violence against people and property. There are criminals, there are honest people.
One thing people must never loose is trust. It is the only thing that keeps anything dependable. Trust is like a truss that supports a person. Sometimes it may collapse and completely destroy you. But a life without trust you will find extremely hard to live.
Work ethic only works if you have a goal. Yeah?
Amazing as it is, I know some people who want to be entomologists and aspire to it. So don’t worry about a community of people who don’t want to aspire to do anything.
One last thing though. Is ones own happiness really all one should be after?
-nah
of course one’s own happiness is what one should aspire to! What else is there to aspire to?
speaking of happiness… as soon as i read ‘xmen2′ I couldn’t help a ridiculous grin spreading across my face. I’m palpitating as we speak. there is only one word needed to explain it all. *gasps through mixed laughter, embarrasment and lust* Logan!!!
*fans red face*
but seriously. He’s married to an average looking australian actress who is older than him- accourding to my theory that automatically negates their marrage of longevity. he’s more famous than she, he’s surrounded by gorgeous women, they only have an adopted son and ‘love’ that most fragile, transient of things to bind them. (oops, i’m forgetting the prenup…) but still. even if he continues to love her, she could die! MY TIME SHALL COME! MUAAHHAHAHAHHA….!!!
*cough* erm, in defense of that… i read somewhere that the pursuit of unattainable goals is key to happiness in life. i’m assuming that healthy pepperings of delusion are tied into it.
Sure that is all people will ever be after.
But I think that one should work to have his happiness be based not on purely selfish means.
Dude, Logan is hairyer then me even…..
: \
But I’m catching up!
Aie aie
alas, i’m stuck at the same fork: happiness or success (material). i have always thought of myself as an engineer; however, i have chosen a career path in medicine. i’m not particularly fond of the field (not to be confused with disrespect), and even my friends say that I’m not a “medicine-y guy”. so why do it? my parents, the ones who have applied the pressure to enter medicine, have stated it simply: “it pays off”. there is always a need for doctors in society; consequently, there is no need to worry about layoffs. furthermore, it’s easy to find a high-paying job. the downside of engineering: instability and a not-so-great salary. my parents have even go so far as to coercing some disillusioned engineers to persuade me to join medicine. it’s depressing…some of them are switching to medical school at the age of 40 just because they can’t find a good job in engineering. with much reluctance, I’m choosing medicine because it seems like a viable path to survival.
i think want everyone aspires to is survival. rather…every one aspires to find an easier method to survival. unfortunately, it becomes easier to survive if we attain that which is material and high value in this environment. that’s what we get for living in a competitive and materialistic society (even worse in america). the easiest way to survive is to play the game instead of refusing to look at it. sometimes, we have to sacrifice the ideal in order to live in the materialistic world (capitalism is an enemy). that’s life.
with that said, please don’t take me as a hopeless victim of capitalism/materialism. i get enough of that from our local Frenchman. it’s a bit more complicated than that.
In regards to the parents…know what you’re talking about. i told you about the education history of my dad. it’s a shame for us. right now, i’m under house arrest for exempting a final for a class that i got a 94 semester average in. apparently, that’s not good enough to merit an exemption.
fists in the air in the land of hypocrisy,
deepu