Alright me and the voices are bored so we're dming four random moots with a fact to break their worldview slightly. Here is yours: The average human only get 41 million minutes (seventy-nine years) of existence on this earth.
Idk, 79 years seems like a pretty sweet deal considering our demographics.
-Idan/Agony
Ourselves aside, that’s actually a little high if we’re talking about global life expectancy, which the World Health Organization currently puts at closer to 73.4 as of 2019 (it has probably changed somewhat in following years for uh ... reasons).
When all people start having an opinion on internet, start fights and campaigns that have no actual impact in real life, and they end up thinking they are some higher beings with sensitivities while they are assholes in real life. I hate this era.
It’s kinda eye opening when I think back on one of my earliest memories being thinking about death and non existence. Like was that coded into my brain all along? The desire to become nothingness with the stars and dust? Just to stop being perceived on all levels, completely gone???
This might be really immature of me to say so disclaimer I might change my mind later, but:
Around this time of year its important to remember that completely happy families during the holidays is a myth. Theres always some tension, always a skeleton in a closet, always some sort of past hurt that no one will ever say sorry for. And thats life.
The people on TV are made specifically to sell you things or an idea of things. Maybe if my decor looked this way, or if I had this product, I could have the perfect holiday and so on. The Jones' down the street may look like they have it all together but its mostly for appearance sake.
Dont be too upset if your family holidays are dramatic or stressful or even if you are alone on the holidays with no family at the moment. You are still valuable and you can still find happiness without comforming to picture perfect reality that doesn't exist.
I just bought a bunch of silly stuff I didn't need and I had an epiphany.
How many things do you think we do for the want of love? I don't mean love in the romantic sense but love in the essence of admiration, acceptance, inclusion, affection, and care.
As children we learn to behave in certain ways to make sure our parents don't dissaprove of us and give us care and affection. We can learn positive things, like empathy and manners, but we can also learn negative things, like how to lie, or hide our feelings, just for approval.
As teenagers we may change our bodies, our appearance, our behaviors, our beliefs, just to fit in. Even when it comes at great cost to our own identities. Because nature drives us to be apart of a group.
We grow up and join society. We get prestigeous jobs we don't like to get more money, to look good to others. We buy the latest fasions, we speak the corporate lingo. We join groups and teams, we show off lawns and cars. We learn the subtle behaviors of people-the facial expressions, the tones of voice-and change what we are doing accordingly. Inside begging them to like us, to please like us. We may even join into relationships like this, and become married like this.
Finally we buy stuff. We buy pretty home decor because we think it will make us more relaxed, so we may love ourselves. We buy better clothes, so we may think ourselves presentable, so we may love ourselves. We buy the latest stuff, the new exercise gear, that gym membership, the newest fad, everything. Because deep inside we think that if we have the lifestyle of people we admire, we will finally love who we are.
And the thing is, if there is approval from others, it's minimal. Temporary. Transitory, based on whim and fasion and society. If it weren't for the fact that you need people to like you just enough to work with you and help you if you need it, the whole charade might not even be worth it.
But you have control over your own love towards others and your own love towards yourself. Don't wait for a mansion on a hill to start.
can you imagine. hundreds of thousands of years into the future. some alien species is studying the sky for radio waves, or whatever they call the same discoveries. and they scan the universe with the same diligence as humans have. and they find one small blue planet orbiting a puny little yellow dwarf star, and wonder why in their world this little distant marble is so damn loud.
