Being In Love With Life Is Easier Than I Thought

Being in love with life is easier than I thought. Existence has a meaning, and though it may not always be realized, my midnight musings force all the pettiness out of my life and make the “bigger picture” clearer to me. The journey so far has been mixed, and it sometimes scares me that people can be so cold. Someone dies, and I am told not to cry because “life is like that” and “many more tragedies are yet to surface”.

I am advised to be a hypocrite for my own safety, by people who care for me, so that I can survive. Everywhere, people who want to change things, make a difference and paint the world with their achievements are dismissed contemptuously as starry eyes idealists whose naïveté proves to be their supposed destruction. People who are ready to throw their values out of the window at the slightest opportunity, on the other hand, are the so-called street smart and worldly-wise people, the pragmatists who will inevitably survive.

The ideas of justice, freedom and self-dependence are turned around, twisted and convoluted before anyone can spot them for what they really stand for. Money is denounced, mindlessly, by the very people who want more of it. Indeed, nothing has been more demeaned or coveted than those pieces of paper and metal, which stand for the hard work and creativity of a human being, when all other embellishments are cast aside. Why is money denounced?

Why don’t they denounce the person who has the audacity to claim it even though that person has not worked to earn it, and doesn’t even deserve it? Why is justice, of all things, a subjective phenomenon? Why do people have different sets of rules for freedom, and what right do they have to impose these on others? Why do relationships count for so little?

Slowly, I have learned to rise above all that, and see that I am not the only one. There are these people, the kinds that mind their own business, work hard, are brilliant, and productive. They value money, but don’t covet what they don’t earn. They have a strong sense of justice, and their freedom means more to them than anything else. They keep the people they value close to them, and don’t care about the rest of the world. I salute these people, in the hope that one of them might come across this little post, and know that I aspire to be like him/her. Whoever you are, I idolize you.

[tags]In Love with Life, Relationships, Better life[/tags]

This entry was posted on Saturday, November 4th, 2006 at 6:51 pm and is filed under Consciousness & Awareness, Relationships, Teenagers. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.