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 No.2865

Say /late/ would you mind if I ramble for a bit? I’m really tired, though not just literally. What really exhausts me is the daily grind, you know doing this and that here and there every now and again ad nauseam until the day you die. Everything keeps getting worse and worse, society is falling apart, our politicians are a joke and we’re the pun not mention everyone’s so jaded that nothing even shocks them anymore. Seriously, I bet that I could just start jacking off in the middle of the freeway and peoples only reaction would mild satisfaction that for once in their life they’ll have a good excuse for showing up to work late. Life isn’t suffering, joy or anything that you would use a strong adjective to describe. Life is just living for the sake of living. Waking up to go to work to earn the money you need to pay gas for your car so you can get to work to earn the money you need to pay your rent so you have a place to go when you’re not at work. I find myself more and more wishing that I had been born in some bygone era in a time when map makers could still get away with make shit up about whatever the hell was on the other side of the ocean and loyalty and dignity were still seen as something to be proud of. A chance to live a beautiful life. I don’t mean some fairy-tale like existence that’s free from pain failure but life that’s worth remembering, a life that means something. Rather maybe it’s a life of failure, or to more exact what modern society has come to define “failure” as. To fight unwinnable battles fall in love with someone above or below your rank. To take what you desire without remorse or shame that you did so. Even if living in such a fashion is a just like a living in a dream what does it matter? We’re just going to die anyway so what difference does it make? I keep thinking back to the famous line from The Man of La Mancha “The cure, May it be not worse than the disease”.

I don’t know, I know I’m not making any sense but that’s the way I feel even if I can’t really articulate it.

 No.2866

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I felt the same way last year and every once in a while when I'm depressed. I know how you feel man, it's like an itch you can't scratch thing. Honestly, what I think cures it is just save up for a while, go away from your daily rituals. Travel somewhere without any responsibility. Be a tourist. Say yes to a lot, don't worry about money, if it's right or not, just have fun, meet people. Then when it's all over you'll feel like a changed man.

I dunno if that helps at all but it definitely changed me.


 No.2868

I just want to be a 19th-century German philosopher living in a homogeneous, boring village where I can look out of the window and think for a pittance. No office, no uncomfortable suit, no commute into the city, no trouble in town, nothing. Just a peaceful place untainted by world war and modern-day politics.

Realistically, my life now is so much more comfortable (I wouldn't have /late/ in my fantasy world ; _ ;) but the proverb truthfully says that the grass is always greener on the other side. Humans have always dreamed of new places to go, new things to do and escaping from their current environment. It's why we explored every corner of the planet. It's why we emigrate and immigrate so much. It's why myth and legend are so integral to our culture.

It's what we're obsessed with: where we came from and where we could go. Whether your culture believes in the Ancestral Egg, or a snake making rivers in the soil as he slithered, or a God making everything in six days, there is always a story of creation to tell. Whether you enjoy verbal depictions of Heaven or Nirvana, there is always someplace to dream about and strive to arrive at.

The feeling of tiredness with your current environs is universal. If we didn't have it, we'd be slaves to the present, always mired in whatever was going wrong or whatever there was to be pessimistic about. At least in our fantasy worlds, there is only optimism and good.


 No.2873

>>2865

I won't be able to go traveling any time soon but, some friends of mine are plaining a trip to Japan next year so I might try to tag along with them. Would be something to look forward to at least.

>>2866

That makes sense, though honestly feel bit better just knowing that there are other people who get where I'm coming from.




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