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To what extent are emotions bad things?
It's good to tell someone you love them, isn't it? If you feel it, you should say it, right? Well, not if it's socially inappropriate.
It is natural to be sad and upset sometimes. But not for too long, no matter how bad it hurts you, you're supposed to move on eventually.
Happiness is good, but you're irritating to everyone if you are always happy.
Hate and anger are wrong, but over certain things.
It must be an animal thing, emotions. Insects, plants and smaller beings don't have them and get along fine. But their lives are meaningless. Then, you could contend that our lives, for all the rich tapestry of emotion, are meaningless.
On the other hand, you could says that every life is very meaningful.
I don't know.
Do I matter? If I disappeared today, of course people would be sad, but I don't think their lives would stop. There are people like that, who die, and it really means something to a lot of people, even in the age of isolation of the individual. But I'm not one of them.
Is that a bad thing?
If I was to go away, I don't know that I'd want to make people that upset. I imagine a lot of people who commit suicide only do so because they have assured themselves that no one will miss them. It's unnatural to want to hurt people, at least the ones you know.
Self-worth is the biggest problem in my generation. In teenage men in particular (who are, incidentallu the most likely to commit suicide, amongst an array of other horrible things). Guys put on this whole 'I'm so great' or 'I suck so much' thing. People who pretend to be great are no less lonely than those who have no visible self-esteem. I don't think a guy that I know really values himself that much, and I imagine it's the same for women. I thin, even when someone is arrogant, they don't really see themselves as 'better' than most, if anything, it's probably the opposite. People who admit to feeling worthless don't really fare much better.
But people can live without much self-worth. I do not imagine that it grows substantially as you get older, adults rush into marriage and having kids in an attempt to validate their lives. It takes a great man, or great faith to consider yourself worth-wile.
It is times like this I wish I had faith.
Shahmat · Thu Oct 26, 2006 @ 08:58pm · 0 Comments |
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