Aug 11, 2005 10:29
I have noticed that people, the older they get, become a little more lighthearted and become capable of laughing at things that they wouldn’t have laughed at in their earlier years. I question now, whether this is caused because it is harder to faze them in once they have seen more of the world and experienced and survived through more hardship, or if it is because their subjection to the slow teasing torture that we call life has slowly made them lose their grip on reality to the point where everything just becomes a sick comical dance. Does that grandfather who went through a terrible divorce earlier in his life, make these jokes “why is divorce so expensive: it’s worth it” and “it costs you 25 bucks to get in and 250 dollars an hour to get out” because he has been through divorce and survived it so he knows that as bad as divorce gets you survive, or is that he occupied his mind with his thoughts of failing in his relationship and failing at life and the loss of the woman he loved and married until these thoughts slowly ripped apart his sanity and made him feel like it was just a fucked up game in the end why take it seriously? The way I see it there is a fine line between complacency and insanity…
-Ryan