Another post with my thoughts

‘’The more you care, the more you have to lose’’ or ‘’Fuck love’’ or ‘’In this life, what you give is what you get’’ or ‘’(insert other quotes from various people)’’. I come across these posts on social networking websites and every once in a while I think about the meaning behind each phrase, the background it was (accidentally?) placed in and the initial intentions of the creator. I sometimes don’t give much thought unless I have other things to do but when I actually take the time to, my mind races and thoughts get all boggled up.

I thought about the first phrase which I saw a couple of minutes ago. It made me wonder. The more a person cares.. the more the person has to lose. I wondered if I was interpreting it metaphorically with a shade of pessimism. Or was it reality?

‘Caring’ comes in many shapes and forms… in words, thoughts and actions. So does ‘losing’. Caring and losing (reminds me of that ‘Friends’ episode in which Joey was reading his speech to his two best friends who were planning on getting married but that’s not the point now, Marilena) is to be expected. In what type of quantities and frequencies is up to the person. I think that all things take their course in this life. It’s a well known fact. But does the fact that you will someday come across something so breathtakingly precious - whether that may be a person or a form of art or literature and what have you - mean that you shouldn’t accept that you will someday lose it? The thing is, you will. It’s a part of existence. And you know what? That’s beautiful. That’s beautiful because it’s peculiar yet exiting to know that you can simultaneously be one being, with your own needs and desires, but also you can ‘’belong’’ or ‘’have’’ another person or thing that can without a doubt be ‘’yours’’, with all the meaning of autonomy. It’s as if there are many dimensions of meanings;  A multiplicity of significance depending on the source which can permit itself to see the complexity of the intellectual schemes.

‘’In this life, what you give is what you get’’. That doesn’t always work. I’m thinking about many war victims. I’m thinking about karma. I’m thinking if I even believe that karma exists. I’m thinking about the Holocaust, Hitler and the genocides that have occurred throughout history. I’m thinking about the simplest example:  my grandparents. My grandparents, from my mother’s and father’s side lived through inhumane conditions due to war. Some of their relatives died because of war. Where is the justice in that? Regardless, some of my relatives ended up starting their lives from scratch and managed to create a pleasant environment for their children. My mind races and I think about people, especially children, who have been diagnosed with aids. Where is the justice in that?

I think that the problem with lots of people in modern day society is that they give up and get disappointed too easily which is one way or another, quite expected. Automation, with the boost from the industrial revolution, has helped man to deal with his everyday tasks faster, more sufficiently and easier. The problem with our developing, technological societies is our desire to have what we want when we want it without thinking about the work that is essentially needed to get the preferred outcome. I think that has somehow passed on to our psychology and our interpretation of how relationships work. In this life, what you give may not be what you get. Who cares? At least you behaved a certain way because it was what you wanted at that given time and it was based on the notion of something pure such as love, forgiveness, sentiment and life. I may be viewing this from a very idealistic point of view but really, think about what you have (and most likely take for granted) and who has sacrificed his or her time to offer it to you.

I would like to close with this quote, from a movie I am ashamed to say that I still haven’t seen but hopefully will sometime soon.

 Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. 

Goodnight.

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