Rob
How about you sidelined? Have you ever just taken the time to sit up... and consider that this existence is not here only for your simple amusement?
I have never been of the impression that existence is for my simple amusement. The death of my best friend in grade 1 ended those innocent notions early. And as Mr Shaw once said "I am not a teacher; only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead-ahead of myself as well as of you."
Your a reductionist. You define everything by it's immediate pleasure to you. My 10 month old daughter does that. But it fits her profile... She is an infant!
A reductionist is not one who defines everything by its immediate pleasure. That I may be capable of selfishness at times I freely admit. By that same token, however, I also have been known to be kind and loving, sometimes impatient, stupid once in a long while , in short, merely human.
There is a time for other things sidelined...
Ecclesiastes 3:1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: 2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, 3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, 4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, 5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, 6 a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, 7 a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, 8 a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. 9 What does the worker gain from his toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on men.
Except for the first part of number 3 I have ran the gamut my friend yet, in retrospect I cannot seriously consider it a burden given that life is precious while we have it but having it does not make one special just fortunate. This is especially true when you consider that
you were one of about a thousand sperm that made it {from an initial number of 50 million} to the fallopian tube for a chance to join with the egg. So you won the ultimate lottery of which there is no chance to once again enter. A thousand brothers and sisters who may have been failed to make the grade so how can we ,ultimately, consider this to be a burden hmmm?
When do you take time to think seriously about it all. Your stuck in a time to play.
There's more to life than fun and games and protesting for them.
You meet me online for moments a week and from this you feel you can judge my life and its worth or lack thereof? Of course life is not all games, however, our attitude controls our enjoyment and our sense of duty as well. I have fathered 3 children and been father to five more and I have known of disappointment and sacrifice. I have also known love and bonding and sheer delight at the marvelous world we find ourselves a part of. I have buried friends and witnessed births. I have seen the moon rise full 20 miles into the wilderness over the Bow river in the dead of winter with Orion soaring to the west. I have watched my mother talk to me with the light of recognition long since gone and more than once wished I had been there to wish her farewell.
Life is a huge thrill ride, a dance, a play ,a theater to which we are both actor and audience yet this is somehow a meaningless adventure? Do you have an alternative hidden somewhere in your closet son?
"My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre," he muttered to himself, "and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes."
Ford Prefect
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