The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who
think.
think.
-- Horace Walpole
Isn't it strange that human beings are never properly appreciative and always, overly angsty? Or is it just me? I mean when yours truly was young (ahem...not that I'm terribly old now, mind you but just older than I was before), I couldn't wait for school to end, or rather I couldn't wait for my future to arrive. My hopes, my dreams, my ambitions. But once out of varsity, there are moments of strange sentimentality. Not that I wish myself back in varsity (trust me, the Spore varsity is not an exciting happening place) but there is a certain forlornness at having left varsity that surprises yours truly. After all, being the cold person I am, whoever would have thought I had some tiny itsy bitsy of sentimental left in me. *grin*
Anyway, this brings me to my point that human beings while always being forward looking aka existentialism, tend to be overly angsty. We (or rather me) look forward to the future but always, end up missing today or more to the point, yesterday. Not so long ago, I was looking forward to leaving school and now here I am, barely 4 months out of varsity and missing school. Although not having lotsa time to slack and go shopping at odd hours of the weekday accounts for part of the forlornness but the fact remains, if even yours truly feels sentimental about leaving a boring varsity, how much more would more emotional individuals feel. At this point, I feel compelled to apologize to *witchy for not being understanding enough about her sentimentality and mushiness at leaving varsity, although how could anyone expect a bitch like yours truly to empathize with the softer emotions, I have no idea.
Perhaps Horace is right and people who feel are more likely to see the world as a tragedy? People who feel miss yesterdays more and perhaps in the midst of missing yesterday, they lose out on todays? I mean I occasionally miss yesterday but generally, I'm more of the look forward to tomorrow type, and have the bad or good habit, depending on how you wanna look at it, of thinking and reflecting too much. Perhaps that's why life appear to be a comedy of coincidences & funny happenings to me? But if you ask me, I would rather and do indeed, see the world as a comedy. We may very well all be actors on a stage with the Gods watching us, like a chess piece being manoeuvered but I believe or would like to believe that choice are in our hands. We can live our lives worrying and fretting or we can laugh and act in face of uncertainty. I needless to say, subscribe to the latter. I want to believe that cry or laugh, we must live on bravely, then why shouldn't we all laugh?
In other words, dear readers, I'm telling you that one should always look forward and even if there are moments of angst (how can there not be when the future is a great UNKNOWN?), we must always move forward. I think it takes courage to move forward knowing that the future is unknown than people who merely feel but not reflect since they only move forward blindly. Pardon my biases but really, I do so more admire people who reflect, more so if they can move forward with good grace and humor. Perhaps, if I can find more people like that, I would have more friends?
I think, probably not.
Isn't it strange that human beings are never properly appreciative and always, overly angsty? Or is it just me? I mean when yours truly was young (ahem...not that I'm terribly old now, mind you but just older than I was before), I couldn't wait for school to end, or rather I couldn't wait for my future to arrive. My hopes, my dreams, my ambitions. But once out of varsity, there are moments of strange sentimentality. Not that I wish myself back in varsity (trust me, the Spore varsity is not an exciting happening place) but there is a certain forlornness at having left varsity that surprises yours truly. After all, being the cold person I am, whoever would have thought I had some tiny itsy bitsy of sentimental left in me. *grin*
Anyway, this brings me to my point that human beings while always being forward looking aka existentialism, tend to be overly angsty. We (or rather me) look forward to the future but always, end up missing today or more to the point, yesterday. Not so long ago, I was looking forward to leaving school and now here I am, barely 4 months out of varsity and missing school. Although not having lotsa time to slack and go shopping at odd hours of the weekday accounts for part of the forlornness but the fact remains, if even yours truly feels sentimental about leaving a boring varsity, how much more would more emotional individuals feel. At this point, I feel compelled to apologize to *witchy for not being understanding enough about her sentimentality and mushiness at leaving varsity, although how could anyone expect a bitch like yours truly to empathize with the softer emotions, I have no idea.
Perhaps Horace is right and people who feel are more likely to see the world as a tragedy? People who feel miss yesterdays more and perhaps in the midst of missing yesterday, they lose out on todays? I mean I occasionally miss yesterday but generally, I'm more of the look forward to tomorrow type, and have the bad or good habit, depending on how you wanna look at it, of thinking and reflecting too much. Perhaps that's why life appear to be a comedy of coincidences & funny happenings to me? But if you ask me, I would rather and do indeed, see the world as a comedy. We may very well all be actors on a stage with the Gods watching us, like a chess piece being manoeuvered but I believe or would like to believe that choice are in our hands. We can live our lives worrying and fretting or we can laugh and act in face of uncertainty. I needless to say, subscribe to the latter. I want to believe that cry or laugh, we must live on bravely, then why shouldn't we all laugh?
In other words, dear readers, I'm telling you that one should always look forward and even if there are moments of angst (how can there not be when the future is a great UNKNOWN?), we must always move forward. I think it takes courage to move forward knowing that the future is unknown than people who merely feel but not reflect since they only move forward blindly. Pardon my biases but really, I do so more admire people who reflect, more so if they can move forward with good grace and humor. Perhaps, if I can find more people like that, I would have more friends?
I think, probably not.
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