The Restless Life
June 15, 2018
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"The reply is there. The reply is there. But in that location is non a fixed position."
-Fugazi, Long Distance Runner
Have you lot always been content? Looked some as well as felt similar this was all you lot demand as well as want? Was it a proficient feeling? Did it last? Could this live called happiness? Are they the same thing?
The recent celebrity suicides got me thinking close these concepts of happiness, contentment as well as restlessness. Many of us mutual struggling folk mightiness give our oculus teeth to live where those 2 were, but such dissatisfaction as well as hopelessness existed inwards them to select extreme, lastly solutions. Yet, the statistics demonstrate suicide rates are on the ascent inwards all demographics. From a pragmatic viewpoint it tin live said that none of us asked to larn on this ride, why should anyone live forced to proceed if they don't want to? Hackneyed cliches (e.g. "Life is worth living.") aside, such a scant minority of life's choices are genuinely our own, choosing the fourth dimension as well as mode of one's demise mightiness simply live amid the few.
Always acquaint is a great, unrelenting force from advertisers to brand certain that no 1 is happy or content alongside what they get got or who they are. If everyone woke upwards tomorrow as well as decided non to purchase anything non-essential in that location would live chaos amid the Madison Avenue types as well as corporate mucky-mucks. Plastic surgeons would leave of absence of business, cosmetic companies bankrupt, therapists as well as psychologists panhandling, indeed much of the glittery mistaken cloth interwoven alongside the cloth nosotros telephone yell upwards America would autumn to dust. Not going to happen, but nonetheless something to ponder...
And the restlessness persists. Perhaps a human genetic predisposition, for for certain without it human being never would get got crossed the oceans or hurled himself into the heavens. For some this discontent is a slap-up motivator, for the troubled it may live a lastly straw nether which our camel collapses.
The happy are non immune either. 'Tis but a brusque displace from content to complacent, as well as often is 1 mistaken for the other. Doubtless it's double-edged. Complacency corrodes, depresses, as well as destroys. It is likewise a really tardily thing, thence all the to a greater extent than treacherous.
I'm certain I don't get got whatever answers. Just maintain the wheels turning. Or else Death mightiness grab you.
Give Him a run for his money...
