Comments | anddarkness: Tag is preachy.

anddarkness

Tag is preachy.

Sep 02, 2007 10:08

"However Erikson’s final stage isn’t leading the individual into another stage, but into death; and is, in essence, a preparation for death and acceptance of the inevitable. His maladaptation for this stage: despair, refers to complete failure, the failure to lead a worthwhile life and the realization that we now face death with no chance to make ( Read more... )

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augustuscaesar September 2 2007, 00:33:45 UTC

I kind of spend my entire life feeling that terror/despair *g*

anddarkness September 2 2007, 00:37:58 UTC

Please. I suffer two weeks of guilt if I go a day without productivity.

That line may define my very outlook on life.

MUST NOT SLEEP I MAY REGRET NOT DOING SOMETHING ELSE INSTEAD!

Of course, having my mother come home everyday and say stuff like:
"Oh a boy came in today, he was exactly three days younger than you, he had hiccups but then we found CANCER and he vomited up his heart and DIED."

Does not help.

augustuscaesar September 2 2007, 00:43:59 UTC

My father can never ever meet your mother. He's enough of a hypochondriac as it is, without being given that kind of ammunition.

Last time he had a sore eye he went up to outpatients at night and stayed there for hours before being told that - surprise, surprise - it was a sore eye *g*

anddarkness September 2 2007, 00:49:00 UTC

Yeah, my life is like House. Only everyone dies horribly and it's always cancer.

Oh, but for the lady who came in last week. She'd been taking like, a packet of painkillers a day for two weeks. Now she felt sick.

Her liver and kidneys failed AND SHE DIED.

(And my doctor wonders why I shriek in terror and cower under things when he wants me to take antibiotics)

Also, the guy who scratched a pimple? Infection got into his sinus, then eye and brain and he LOST AN EYE.

Guy who didn't treat a thumbnail sized burn on his arm? DIED of protein build up in his organs.

I get a new one of these everyday.

Guy who tried to have sex with a pig? Well, he didn't die, but lets just say it's a bad idea.

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kagechikara September 2 2007, 05:00:27 UTC

I'm okay with how my life has gone. No major regrets.

anddarkness September 2 2007, 05:36:58 UTC

Well, technically it comes from looking back when you reach old age.

This stage in Erikson's theory applies to people over 60.

anddarkness September 3 2007, 23:59:57 UTC

No. I feel like I have to come back to this.

You have no major regrets, but that sounds like you have no major regrets about the things you HAVE done. What about the things you haven't? Are you okay with never experiancing those things?

And if you get to be an old woman, how do you think you would feel if you looked back and saw you hadn't achieved your goals? If you lived another sixty years and hadn't achieved anything further than what you have now, could you say the same?

If you never graduated, never had a career? Never had a partner, sex, maybe a family? If ALL you had to show for your life at the end was what you have now, could you possibly be content with that?

If I die tomorrow, well, I've done a lot for a 22 year old. The fear comes from being eighty, looking back and seeing that I wasted my time. That I didn't achieve the things I set out to do with my life.

kagechikara September 4 2007, 00:26:41 UTC

Well, no, but if I die right now, I'm happy with how my life has gone.

I don't want to die at 80 without having done those things, of course, but that would be why I'm pursuing those things that will put me on the path to stuff I want to do.

As long as I'm doing something to achieve my goals, I'm pretty satsified that I'm going to get there. I don't have much fear that I'm going to fail life.

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