SilverRose

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  9. Who Wants...

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    Perception isn't everything. Perception is predicated by perspective, and perspective is predicated by attitude. Change your attitude, and your perception changes.If it had no meaning for you, you wouldn't have asked her to prove it: You'd have asked her what she was talking about. It has meaning for you. You are simply denying that meaning. As you said, "My boys are the only things that are really holding me here". There are two ways to read that. One, is the way that you wanted it read: "Look how little I care about everything." The other way is "Look at these things I care about so much that they make life worth it."

    Things would be much easier for you if you honestly didn't care- if you honestly didn't think that life was worth it. I can see that. But that simply isn't the case, is it?

    not wishing to complicate matters, but I'd take the comment entirely differently--

    I read it as "these guys are nearly grown and gone... then what? "

    is that anywhere near it?

  11. Who Wants...

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    Again...why?

    Why search for something? If it isn't readily apparent, it seems like a waste of energy.

    you say one thing in this post, something entirely different in one a ways later on... which is it- are u disillusioned and bummed-out, or just lazy?

    no one can force u to "go for" the good things in life... it is 100% in your own hands whether or not to do so... but if you acknowledge that, and decide 'no,' for whatever your reasons, that's a huge difference from there not being anything there at all

  12. Who Wants...

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    I understand about speaking for only yourself: that's a point that often goes by the wayside.

    But I seriously don't think I could hold that point of view. It just isn't my nature. My boys are the only things that are really holding me here (and with one in college, that connection is growing longer and weaker) - other than them, or when they decide they don't need me anymore, there really isn't anything.

    Which is kind of nice, in a way - it's a freedom to move on.

    But where's the worth? (Remember Clara Peller? - "Where's the beef?!?") I don't see any finish line in front of me - no piles of treasure, no assurances of eternal paradise. I have no proof that I'll be reincarnated, or that my energy will survive my organic shell.

    Some of those could be supplied by my belief system, and that's probably at the root of why mankind wants so desparately to believe in something - the fear of nothingness.

    you don't need an "afterlife" or some kind of future "reward"- by 'worth it' I'm referring to THIS life... next year, tomorrow- if you don't see something there, it'd be a good idea to start...

  15. Who Wants...

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    Prove it.

    well, I don't know the person I previously replied to at all, and you not very well, & would not be presumptuous enough to comment on other ppl's lives, so I can only speak from my own: if, given the way my life has been thusfar, and especially the goings-on of the last few years, and with nothing "good" or "positive" ahead to logically look forward to, if I can hold this point of view, anybody can:

    even in the worst of times, in the most **ty godawful hopeless situations where it seems like something like 'hope' would be flat-out foolish, there is SOMETHING there- some little hidden unseen something to uncover, hold on, and build on- and from that, you can move forward.