Thursday, September 22, 2011
He reasons
Through many recent and not so recent situations, I have learned that you can not reason someone out of a situation that they did not reason themselves into.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
He realizes his years
I realized something of significance tonight in the car...I am 17 years of age. Turning 18 in January, it's the first time it's really ever hit me, that I am sort of old now.
The years of fun, leisure and non caring, easy going living are far behind me now, and they will never return. From here on out, I will struggle every single day to try and fit in, to try and find my own place in this crazy world of ours. From now on, life get's serious, and so must I.
The years of fun, leisure and non caring, easy going living are far behind me now, and they will never return. From here on out, I will struggle every single day to try and fit in, to try and find my own place in this crazy world of ours. From now on, life get's serious, and so must I.
He Plays the game of life
The following is a very badly written post, I haven't written in some time so please forgive me. It's also a post that I know many will love to argue against, please do :p I think these posts would be a thousand times better if I actually bothered to read it over/edit ._.
Many smart philosophers and writers are often want to say things like "Life is a game, and we are all but a pawn" even William Shakespeare said that "All the worlds a stage" In our modern day, a lot of idealistic people I know seem to argue against this point. Many claim that life is not a game and that we choose our destiny and we choose what we become and every person has an intense burning significant.
Still though, one can not argue with the similarities that life has to just a game.
Think about each of us as an individual, now think of a piece in a game, say chess. Like the piece in the game, none of us has the power to choose what we are born into, additionally, what we are born into predetermines the path we will travel for the rest of our lives. It predetermines the hardships we will face, the friends we will make and the victories we will win.
Someone born into poverty will sadly struggle his entire life against it, let us compare him to a pawn...A piece that is not too significant in most games and a piece that is used by those that are higher than it self.
Now, the pawn has a hard life in front of him, he can move only one square at a time...A limitation comparable to those born in poverty...He has not much to offer and is easy to wipe out, he is plentiful and competition is intense. BUT, every now and then a pawn that is hard working, a pawn that is determined, disciplined and dedicated will make it to the end of board. He will make it to that point where he can become great, where he may be substituted for any piece in the game.
Isn't that a lot like life? Where those born in poverty must fight and struggle just to exist, fight against the higher born like us. But every now and then, someone will make it, over come poverty and be able to give a better life to his children than he did himself.
Every piece in a game has set limitations made with it, these limitations determine what sort of affect that piece will have on the entire game. Pawns may move one square up (unless starting) and kill only one square diagonally...Where-eas a Queen may move any where she pleases excepting the knights movement of course. Now, which of these will play a more significant role in MOST games of Chess?
The same can be said of life, all human beings are born with limitations that limit how far and what we will do in life...Some may be born with horrible diseases that they have no control over, others mental handicaps, and others handicaps that they place on themselves.
But the point is, it would be nice to believe that every body is significant, it would be nice to believe that every body has a a destiny and something to do that will make humanity better...But is it really true? Just like the Queen will make more of a difference in the game than a pawn, the president will make more of a difference in the world than a telemarketer. If that telemarketer, or if that other person just died randomly...How much of a difference will it really make? What would never be that could have been? I don't mean to downplay people as individuals, I think everyone is amazing in their own way and I think everyone is significant in their own and their friends lives...But how many of us are really significant in the larger picture, in the game of life? What blow will humanity suffer if a drunken, broken man dies? Only the potential that must have been, that always was...and was buried deep down
When most people say that life is not just a game or just not a play, they say that we all have the freedom of choice and choose what life we live. But is that really true? Do we not make choices specifically to the deck that life has dealt us? Do we not choose specifically because life has given us a specific situation...What if, maybe some how our choices too are predetermined, like we are meant to choose to go to university and study, which would have been our choice any way...Now I don't really know how to believe that, because that would require some sort of religious belief there too so I don't think it goes that far.
It just means that the choices we make, we make because life gave us that situation in which to make that choice...The result, is that we can not reallly choose, we can struggle and fight and try to make our lives better, but why do we do that? We do it because life gave us some thing to fight, life gave us a situation to struggle against, and life gave us something to fight for.
Yes, you are right...We create situations ourselves by choosing, but life gave us that situation when it gave us that initial choice. It just makes me wonder how much power we really have. I may often picture life as a complex algorithm with different paths and different choices that lead you down those paths...But what is the basis of the algorithm? What is it that gives us these specific choices to make, these specific decisions, to live this specific life?
In the end, one must ask...Do we have any real say in the matter? Or do we just go with the flow? Is life all nothing but a game? A game with no meaning other than to just survive?
Many smart philosophers and writers are often want to say things like "Life is a game, and we are all but a pawn" even William Shakespeare said that "All the worlds a stage" In our modern day, a lot of idealistic people I know seem to argue against this point. Many claim that life is not a game and that we choose our destiny and we choose what we become and every person has an intense burning significant.
Still though, one can not argue with the similarities that life has to just a game.
Think about each of us as an individual, now think of a piece in a game, say chess. Like the piece in the game, none of us has the power to choose what we are born into, additionally, what we are born into predetermines the path we will travel for the rest of our lives. It predetermines the hardships we will face, the friends we will make and the victories we will win.
Someone born into poverty will sadly struggle his entire life against it, let us compare him to a pawn...A piece that is not too significant in most games and a piece that is used by those that are higher than it self.
Now, the pawn has a hard life in front of him, he can move only one square at a time...A limitation comparable to those born in poverty...He has not much to offer and is easy to wipe out, he is plentiful and competition is intense. BUT, every now and then a pawn that is hard working, a pawn that is determined, disciplined and dedicated will make it to the end of board. He will make it to that point where he can become great, where he may be substituted for any piece in the game.
Isn't that a lot like life? Where those born in poverty must fight and struggle just to exist, fight against the higher born like us. But every now and then, someone will make it, over come poverty and be able to give a better life to his children than he did himself.
Every piece in a game has set limitations made with it, these limitations determine what sort of affect that piece will have on the entire game. Pawns may move one square up (unless starting) and kill only one square diagonally...Where-eas a Queen may move any where she pleases excepting the knights movement of course. Now, which of these will play a more significant role in MOST games of Chess?
The same can be said of life, all human beings are born with limitations that limit how far and what we will do in life...Some may be born with horrible diseases that they have no control over, others mental handicaps, and others handicaps that they place on themselves.
But the point is, it would be nice to believe that every body is significant, it would be nice to believe that every body has a a destiny and something to do that will make humanity better...But is it really true? Just like the Queen will make more of a difference in the game than a pawn, the president will make more of a difference in the world than a telemarketer. If that telemarketer, or if that other person just died randomly...How much of a difference will it really make? What would never be that could have been? I don't mean to downplay people as individuals, I think everyone is amazing in their own way and I think everyone is significant in their own and their friends lives...But how many of us are really significant in the larger picture, in the game of life? What blow will humanity suffer if a drunken, broken man dies? Only the potential that must have been, that always was...and was buried deep down
When most people say that life is not just a game or just not a play, they say that we all have the freedom of choice and choose what life we live. But is that really true? Do we not make choices specifically to the deck that life has dealt us? Do we not choose specifically because life has given us a specific situation...What if, maybe some how our choices too are predetermined, like we are meant to choose to go to university and study, which would have been our choice any way...Now I don't really know how to believe that, because that would require some sort of religious belief there too so I don't think it goes that far.
It just means that the choices we make, we make because life gave us that situation in which to make that choice...The result, is that we can not reallly choose, we can struggle and fight and try to make our lives better, but why do we do that? We do it because life gave us some thing to fight, life gave us a situation to struggle against, and life gave us something to fight for.
Yes, you are right...We create situations ourselves by choosing, but life gave us that situation when it gave us that initial choice. It just makes me wonder how much power we really have. I may often picture life as a complex algorithm with different paths and different choices that lead you down those paths...But what is the basis of the algorithm? What is it that gives us these specific choices to make, these specific decisions, to live this specific life?
In the end, one must ask...Do we have any real say in the matter? Or do we just go with the flow? Is life all nothing but a game? A game with no meaning other than to just survive?
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