Here are 2 anecdotes I want each of everyone of yall to read.
Please give your take after reading.
The Adult
You are in your prime. Your career's smooth sailing. Everyone
looks at you in such divine light. Things seem to be going your
way. All along, you had no premonition of D-day: the day when
things crumble and your world falls apart. Your boss always pats
you on the back for a job well done. Triumphant, you strut around,
thinking you are the greatest, the happiest man on Earth. However,
your work performance suddenly plunged. You tried your best, pumped
in your best efforts but somehow everything doesn't seem the way it
was before. Now everyone casts a totally different look at you.
They treat you as though you are nothing, but a piece of
trash.
The Kid
A studious kid you are. Exemplary in conduct and eminent in
status. You snagged remarkable grades, and are always the envy of
your classmates. However, you knew you put in tremedous efforts to
get to where you are today. You knew you deserved that recognition.
So you walked around, head up high, knowing full well that this is
the harvest of hard work. You were almost flawless in your work.
However one day, you flunk one of your tests. Everyone, friends and
teachers alike, look at you, a disgruntled expression on their
faces. Now you are treated like trash. A phobia now
lingers... do you still have the courage to put in even more effort
to study?
Questions I wanna pose: Is this Life? How would you feel if you
were the protagonist in these 2 anecdotes?
Both protagonists in both anecdotes are losers in their real
life. In fact, both protagonists were already losers in their own
lives when they surrendered their own worth to the people in
their society to decide.
In an ideal society where people are perfect, this may sounds
like the right thing to do. However the society isn't perfect and
neither were the people in the society. So to rely on an imperfect
society full of imperfect people to decide your worth is truly
living in a pathetic life indeed. It's almost the same as the
protagonist asking the society "Am I a loser?". Only losers will
ask this kind of question in their lives. But of course the only
natural reply from the society would be "Of course you're not a
loser". And this doesn't means anything when the comment does not
truly generated from within yourself.
Losers like to live in a life of lies and denial and that's is
the main reason why they seeks happiness from the people in their
society. Because deep down within their hearts, they are not able
to accept the truth about their own lives....which tells them that
they are a failure.
And the answer to your question, everyone will eventually pulls
themselves together and try to waste their lives seeking continual
assurances from their society to convince themselves against the
truth in their hearts that they are not a failure in their
lives.
This is not really Life, but it is THE life for many, alot,
plenty of people in this world.
Oh ya...a few fine examples of forumers living such loser lives
would be Fantagf, HyperionDCZ, maurizio13, youyayu. 