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fighting for something...?
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okay, so i watched this cool film, one of the best ive seen for a very long time, and honestly, so realistic much scarier than any horror film! but...it got me wondering, and asking myself some questions... the main character really had something to fight for. some real purpose, something meaningful to everyone and everything. me? i dont have anything to fight for. nothing at all. i live for the pointlessness of living. i live, because i happen to be alive. its not just a question of purpose...more a question of reason. i wish i had some real goal, something to fight for. if only something seriously compromising to my life would happen, then maybe, just maybe, ill feel alive...
so, anyone else feel like this?
i dunno, i feel like diliberatley getting myself in a car crash just to feel something real, some real pain, suffering, to survive something like that, must give someone a real feeling of, I dunno, the sense of a survival instinct. ever see that film SAW? abit like what jigsaw was saying about our lives. we live on, but thats it. i just live. the same boring crap everyday, over and over. seemingly never ending....
so, anyone else feel like this?
i dunno, i feel like diliberatley getting myself in a car crash just to feel something real, some real pain, suffering, to survive something like that, must give someone a real feeling of, I dunno, the sense of a survival instinct. ever see that film SAW? abit like what jigsaw was saying about our lives. we live on, but thats it. i just live. the same boring crap everyday, over and over. seemingly never ending....
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children of men the film was. and, nope. no kids, no relationship, nada along those lines. and im 22...or so they tell me...
i can guess whats coming...
"until ive had a family, or a relationship" ill never really understand why people keep living (and in the words of a 5 year old) - "just cuz for"
i dunno. maybe im missing some kind of unwritten code that everyone else has, saying, "keep living!? who cares why? just do it. - dont question, just get on with it."
who knows? maybe office work does it to me. i walk in the room at work, and suddenly, i feel i just dont care. well i dont. i cant. i simply cant. maybe im just searching for a reason to something that doesnt exist. maybe kids are right. maybe the answer really is "just cuz for"
i can guess whats coming...
"until ive had a family, or a relationship" ill never really understand why people keep living (and in the words of a 5 year old) - "just cuz for"
i dunno. maybe im missing some kind of unwritten code that everyone else has, saying, "keep living!? who cares why? just do it. - dont question, just get on with it."
who knows? maybe office work does it to me. i walk in the room at work, and suddenly, i feel i just dont care. well i dont. i cant. i simply cant. maybe im just searching for a reason to something that doesnt exist. maybe kids are right. maybe the answer really is "just cuz for"
my brother is 23 and he is still like a kid (to me anyway!)
You need to do something you like first, maybe the fighting for something could be in the non physical sense, maybe you could be fighting for attention, making your family proud of you??
maybe you need to fight to do a job you really enjoy???
you have to work out the things you want to achieve that make life for you, if you drift along then down the line you might say damn! I wish I went travelling or bungee jumping ect..
you never see the purpose of anything until you have done it!!
You need to do something you like first, maybe the fighting for something could be in the non physical sense, maybe you could be fighting for attention, making your family proud of you??
maybe you need to fight to do a job you really enjoy???
you have to work out the things you want to achieve that make life for you, if you drift along then down the line you might say damn! I wish I went travelling or bungee jumping ect..
you never see the purpose of anything until you have done it!!
Change something - starting with your job!!
Yes, I would tell anyone with no children that they will become your focus, your life, your reason for being here at all. BUT, while you don't have any, and while you're so young, go and grab life by the noonoos. (The voice of my 6 year old!)
Your work sounds cr@p - at your age I worked in Selfridges in London, and the sight of my uniform hanging up on the bedroom door was enough to make me cry myself to sleep at night. I understand what you mean - I hated the whole world, so in the end I left and moved to the coast for a summer, just because I could. It was scary, and I wasn't sure if I'd done the right thing, but it didn't matter, because I'd changed my compass completely. My life moved onto a whole new course, for better and worse, but I would still give my right arm to go back and do it all again...
If it's not working, change it! You're the one who can. xx
Yes, I would tell anyone with no children that they will become your focus, your life, your reason for being here at all. BUT, while you don't have any, and while you're so young, go and grab life by the noonoos. (The voice of my 6 year old!)
Your work sounds cr@p - at your age I worked in Selfridges in London, and the sight of my uniform hanging up on the bedroom door was enough to make me cry myself to sleep at night. I understand what you mean - I hated the whole world, so in the end I left and moved to the coast for a summer, just because I could. It was scary, and I wasn't sure if I'd done the right thing, but it didn't matter, because I'd changed my compass completely. My life moved onto a whole new course, for better and worse, but I would still give my right arm to go back and do it all again...
If it's not working, change it! You're the one who can. xx
children of men? basically, its about the near future in the Uk, and the world, but focuses on the UK. women for whatever reason, are now all infertile. the youngest person on the planet has died. illegal immigrants poor into the UK. London is a mess. full of refugees in cages, police and military in the streets. the main characters gets in the mix of it all, when he gets given the chance to save the youngest person on the planet, now a girl, who is pregnant. he has to keep her safe, and get her across the borders, out of the UK.
best part of the film indeed are the action sequences. spine chilling they are! as the action is seen as youd would see it yourself. no clever camera angles or anything like that. no cut scenes, the only thing that makes you realise your not there, is the fact the camera doesnt blink! watch it, if you havent.
best part of the film indeed are the action sequences. spine chilling they are! as the action is seen as youd would see it yourself. no clever camera angles or anything like that. no cut scenes, the only thing that makes you realise your not there, is the fact the camera doesnt blink! watch it, if you havent.
Be careful what you wish for danny.
Having to fight for something is not all it's cracked up to be.
It'll cost you your pride, your dignity, tears, pain and make you face fears you didn't know you had. You may not come out a stronger person, you may not like the person you had to become for a while and either way, your personality will be altered forever. Not always for the good.
Having to fight for something is not all it's cracked up to be.
It'll cost you your pride, your dignity, tears, pain and make you face fears you didn't know you had. You may not come out a stronger person, you may not like the person you had to become for a while and either way, your personality will be altered forever. Not always for the good.
well, indeed thats true. i mean, i know what im saying is actually crazy - in the sense of, no one really wants to go through those things, but people do at the end of the day. - i suppose just admire them, for surviving, and pulling through adversity, and been able to stand strong once again. do you know what i mean? right now, personally, it just feels like, if my life was compromised, it wouldnt be that big a deal. i mean, damn, id be dead, but hey so what? i dont want to think that way, i want to be able to stand up and say "hold up, im gonna kick your ass and fight to the death!" does that make more sense?
Yes and no.
You want to fight for a noble cause and have something to live for, a meaning to life etc....
However, people fight on different levels everyday. Usually their fights are to do with just living life on a day to day base. While not exactly noble and a great deed the effects can still be the same.
You sound like you want to stand up and be counted. But you're looking to the wrong thing. Most of the people like the ones you admired in the film didn't choose to fight, they found themselves in circumstances where they had to. I'm not sure anyone would actually choose to go through all that.
Believe me, in the humdrum, everyday life you will find something that tests you eventually. Just don't wish for it. Life has a mother of a sense of humour. And it's sadistic at times.
Enjoy the peace while it lasts!
You want to fight for a noble cause and have something to live for, a meaning to life etc....
However, people fight on different levels everyday. Usually their fights are to do with just living life on a day to day base. While not exactly noble and a great deed the effects can still be the same.
You sound like you want to stand up and be counted. But you're looking to the wrong thing. Most of the people like the ones you admired in the film didn't choose to fight, they found themselves in circumstances where they had to. I'm not sure anyone would actually choose to go through all that.
Believe me, in the humdrum, everyday life you will find something that tests you eventually. Just don't wish for it. Life has a mother of a sense of humour. And it's sadistic at times.
Enjoy the peace while it lasts!
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