Life turned out to be a bit odd

[Lancer]

When you're a kid you haven't a clue. Maybe your earliest years are full of maternal love, most people's are I suppose. Later though, when you start to experience school and learn how to interpret whats around you, man, it's mighty strange. The way the world works, the way people interrelate, the focus of people. It's kind of a disappointment. Or, it would be if I didn't have Dolores. She gives reason where it is much needed.

Know what I'm talking about? When you were 2 or 3, even 4, 5, or 6, who knew what a screwball mess the world was, and how people can be.

[Tattila the Hun]

Well, atleast your spelling is better than Sava's...

[joncha]

Re: Life turned out to be a bit odd

Originally posted by Lancer
When you're a kid you haven't a clue.

Ozzy will hear of this!

[Lancer]

My spelling is the pits. Sorry, it must be difficult...

"Ozzy will hear of this!"

Kids, dumb as stumps, emerge upon the world blind in their total ignorance. Pathetic, stupid creatures.

[Lancer]

Nothing personal...no offense intended.

[chequita guevara]

Re: Life turned out to be a bit odd

Originally posted by Lancer
Know what I'm talking about?

Yep. The only part of my life that's turned out like how I thought it would was me living back in Florida near Miami, though I wanted to be living on an island.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Lancer
My spelling is the pits. Sorry, it must be difficult...

"Ozzy will hear of this!"

Kids, dumb as stumps, emerge upon the world blind in their total ignorance. Pathetic, stupid creatures.

Well how the heck else is it supposed to be? Do you have any idea how many genes it would take to make a brain that was fully programmed at birth? As the French say: "un s**t pile."

Kids need to be unrealistically optomistic at the beginning. It's the fuel that helps them grow. If they weren't so naive and nacissistic they wouldn't make it to the end.

[aaglo]

Hmmm... my first memory is from graduating from college... So I really cannot confirm your claims, Lancer

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
...unrealistically optomistic...

You make a good point. I was never this, and my life sucks now.

[Provost Harrison]

Re: Re: Life turned out to be a bit odd

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


Yep. The only part of my life that's turned out like how I thought it would was me living back in Florida near Miami, though I wanted to be living on an island.

Things never turned out as I expected them, nor anywhere near according to plan. Still, I mustn't grumble...but I will anyway

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Re: Life turned out to be a bit odd

Originally posted by Lancer
Know what I'm talking about? When you were 2 or 3, even 4, 5, or 6, who knew what a screwball mess the world was, and how people can be.

Actually, any observant 5- or 6-year-old should have had a clue. By that age, you should have:

- been subject to arbitrary power in institutions in which you have no voice (family and school);
- seen that kids with more toys and better lunches are more popular than kids with fewer toys and crappier lunches;
- seen that the bossiest and most self-absorbed kids are the most popular of all;
- seen that kids who are unhappy with themselves take that unhappiness out on their peers, often violently;
- seen the power of groupthink in action, especially at recess;
- played dodgeball.

I've often thought that, if life has turned out to be odd, it's because it turns out that nothing in life is really very different from childhood (though my particular belief is that life is an exercise in repeating 7th grade forever).

[FrostyBoy]

Quite true, all a part of growing up.

[Pekka]

I don't think the problem is the world etc.. it's more that people are dicks. BUt then again this is likely what you meant.

I don't think this alone makes the world messed up. I still see the beautiful things, sun rises, glimmering lakes, the cool breeze on a warm day, the smell of smog (yes, that's exciting to me because I rarely smell it, stupid clean air!), animals running in the nature, dogs, cats, birds etc etc. Endless examples of the good old perfect world.

Then there are even good things in humans sometimes too. Sometimes, humans bond together in times of stress. You see people helping complete strangers, you see them risking their lives just to save someone else and things like that. Rarely, but it still happens.

Majority, however, are still jerks. I have stopped liking people a long time ago. That's why I've said for the longest time I like dogs more than I like people. I could shoot people all day long.

So.. what is there to do. Arm yourself. Arm yourself to the teeth. Be ready, be ready to face the end and take as many as you can with you! Oh, and enjoy the nature.

[OzzyKP]

Re: Re: Life turned out to be a bit odd

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly


Actually, any observant 5- or 6-year-old should have had a clue. By that age, you should have:

- been subject to arbitrary power in institutions in which you have no voice (family and school);
- seen that kids with more toys and better lunches are more popular than kids with fewer toys and crappier lunches;
- seen that the bossiest and most self-absorbed kids are the most popular of all;
- seen that kids who are unhappy with themselves take that unhappiness out on their peers, often violently;
- seen the power of groupthink in action, especially at recess;
- played dodgeball.

I've often thought that, if life has turned out to be odd, it's because it turns out that nothing in life is really very different from childhood (though my particular belief is that life is an exercise in repeating 7th grade forever).

Exactly Rufus.

People generally have two views of childhood. That its pure, innocent and void of all conflict, anxiety and disruption. And anything from the adult world necessarily corrupts and destroys that perfect childhood paradise.

Or that its a nasty time filled with nasty, brutish children who are all cruel, reckless, immature, and so unlike the mature, responsible, benevolent adults.

The truth is adults are just bigger and have more power.

[Lorizael]

Yes, they are bigger. They have bigger brains, bigger responsibilities, bigger memories of bigger life experiences. Youths are not worse than adults by any means, but they are not the same. A one year old cannot do the things that a (fully functional) thirty year old can, and there is a reason why.