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- From: ssalter@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (-=[SLS]=-)
- Subject: The nature of life?
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:20:10 GMT
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- jecoleb@eos.ncsu.edu poses:
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- >I guess what I'm driving at is that I'd include that feeling of helplessness
- >when you think you've figured life out, you're content with your current
- >existence/life pattern/failure rate/car/job/attempts to change/whatever,
- >and you appear to be acting under your own volition when *WHAM!* something
- >from COMPLETELY out of the blue wriggles in, yells "Boo!" and screws up
- >all of your ideas about why things happen the way they do.
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- THAT is exactly the problem. NO one can figure life out. Accept it as
- it is, an uncertainty, and you don't get WHAMmed nearly as much and it
- doesn't hurt as bad when you do.
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- >the feeling of "What the HELL is going on in my life, and how the HELL am
- >I supposed to deal with it?" will blow your mind, whether good OR bad OR both.
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- That is also a problem. Even if you accept that the Universe is full
- of trap doors and whoopie cushions it still is hard to deal with it.
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- >Destiny, lives her life as she wants to live it and doesn't sweat it when
- >things cock up, as it's merely a sign that she needs to readjust her current
- >goals to one more relevant or realistic.
-
- Oooh much better worded than I could have at this moment.
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- >
- >nice style, if you can hack it. requires a LOT of self-confidence, though.
- >that's not my particular stock in trade, so I end up waffling a lot.
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- It is the only way to live though. Doesn't matter if you waffle now
- and then..just keep trying.
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