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Sometimes I feel these feelings of hopelessness and futility. Its not for me really its just for the world in general. Like no matter what people try to do people will fulfill their own shortsighted desires. I don't exclude myself from this either I am very shortsighted as well and I am wasteful too, but what bothers me is when people refuse to believe that they are being short sighted. Its like the person that litters in a park or leaves their trash in a fast food restaurant and then rationalizes it by saying they are creating jobs or some nonsense. That is completely unrelated it is your responsibility and duty to pick up your trash or whatever. This is a trite example but it hopefully makes the point to some degree. I wish their was some magical moment when I realized this but to be honest the sum total of what I've seen of people leads me to this. I don't claim to be some sort of mystical expert on life either, I'm had my share of fuck ups but I guess it just bothers me how self-involved people can be, so much so that they lose sight of the bigger picture in everything. I mean seriously you've got one shot at this whole life thing unless your Buddhist or something (then you can have a second chance as a cow or some shit.) so why not be the type of person that looks at how you live up to your maximum potential in any number of things?
I mean if you're the type of person that eats a lot, drinks a lot, or indulges in whatever things that impede you from being the best person what kind of person will you become. Will you become egotistical because your satisfaction is all that matters? Will you become shallow because you refuse to see things of depth? All these thing seem to be the end result of a blindness to a large picture or making things better for their own sake. I know this sounds preachy and probably irritatingly so but honestly people are really ridiculous in general and maybe if people cared more about things around them this world wouldn't be so fucked up.
I mean if you're the type of person that eats a lot, drinks a lot, or indulges in whatever things that impede you from being the best person what kind of person will you become. Will you become egotistical because your satisfaction is all that matters? Will you become shallow because you refuse to see things of depth? All these thing seem to be the end result of a blindness to a large picture or making things better for their own sake. I know this sounds preachy and probably irritatingly so but honestly people are really ridiculous in general and maybe if people cared more about things around them this world wouldn't be so fucked up.