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Originally Posted by fourty47  While that's the optimistic way of looking at things, unfortunately that's not how "life is."
There's many reasons and excuses for what life should be, but in reality, life is complex. People will go through so many different situations that thinking that life is to be "happy" is naive. There's going to be times where one will not be happy. There's going to be times when one is having the best time of their lives.
To me, life is about exploration and being able to learn from mistakes. Pain to me is a part of life, because pain is another way of learning about things.
Pain reminds you of mistakes as well as pleasure (like being a boxer).
For people who decide to join the military, that's their decision. It's pretty dumb to be someone else and criticize their position about life because EVERYONE would agree that no one wants to be told how to live their life, so why do the same?
It may be worthless to some... some may see it as pointless. But some will see them as a group of people who protects this country... and in reality, people get fucked over.
There has to be balance between being passive and pro-active about things like national security. Lots of people want to just advocate neutrality (and history has shown that it CAN be done), but terrorists out there don't necessarily function on our schedule. |
Great post man, seriously. I'm gonna have to save this to remind myself on those shit days that it's all a learning experience.
+rep.. even though it does nothing for you.. but it's the thought that counts
