Nov 24, 2010 14:40
i've made this my mantra before,
it will make me stronger,
i was wrong (tho i suppose i'm still stronger for realizing this)
challenges are good, but so is loving support.
it's about 50/50 between my idles. half of them seemed to have difficult lives which tested them, made them focus inward, allowed them to create something new.
but it seems their ideas are tainted with cynicism. is it really so profound if it's so obviously rooted in their life experiences,
and it's funny cause the more i meet people who are not cynical, the more i realize how much better it is to live life without resentment.
some great minds have come out of negativity,
but great movements, i think they come from positive world views.
i don't know all the names of the hero's i'm respecting. ben franklin comes to mind, the guy in brazil who changed the way the city commuted, or maybe it was city planning. ben franklin was kind of an ass sometimes, but i think, this comes with high intelligence, and a desire to change the world.
the idles like Nietzsche, i still admire him. his writing is amazing, he pondered profound thoughts,
he was too focused on the negative. on how people fail, which they do, and so did he,
critics
it's too easy to be a critic, it's harder to find good when facing the enemy,
than to find flaw when looking at what society tells you is good.
finding good will make me stronger,
and i don't think it will kill me.
p.s. nietzsche straddled positive and negative, he was at base a vitalist, he wanted to love life. sometimes tho, knows if it was health or what, but he just got so damned negative at times, but he empowered man (humans) to take the position of god, i guess he just didn't really believe many people could do it.