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Why don't you want to think about it?
If it counts as "making it" (which is what we want), then shouldn't we be ready for it and at least be ambivalent about it if we have a chance to make it happen?
If it doesn't count as "making it", then that's fine too, then it is probably something to be afraid of.
There are a lot of very wise people who think that the point of life is to prepare to die.
"Making it" for me would be having a job/career I enjoy while being able to support myself.
To dwell in death is to waste life.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stone
I believe that if you spend all your time preparing to die, you've never lived.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stone
That's kind of a hard hypothesis to prove, being that you can never share your findings as to its veracity.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stone
To that end, however, my feeling is that your main goal in life should be to make the world a better place for the living, and if preparing to die means using your success ("making it") to help others towards making it for themselves (maybe through monetary means, maybe from inspiration through your work, or maybe only through even an almost indistinguishable little means of making people's lives an iota happier, easier, or more fulfilling), then I agree that that's a good "point of life" to subscribe to.
One thing we haven't mentioned a whole lot yet is how 'making it' relates to others.
There have been a lot of posts about how you, personally, would feel fulfilled by doing X, Y or Z. But can (real, lasting) happiness be attained w/o serving others? The Royal Tennebaums explores this idea (what kind of morality can we agree on in a post-modern world?) in an interesting way and, chaining off Stone's comments about self-sacrifice, I'd be interested to know if anyone includes in their definition of personal happiness (different from a personal definition of happiness - read it slowly) a giving/sacrificing spirit.
I think making it is being truly happy and comfortable with what you do. Regular job = no happiness for me, so I'm trying out creative avenues, such as film and music (wait until you guys see the fucking movie I'm making now. You'll vomit blood from the awesomeness), which while financially on the whole are quite weak, they're a fucking blast.
"chests in atlantis", right? RIGHT?!Quote:
Originally Posted by arjue
Anyway, I think of "it" as just having a life that doesn't really suck as do most of the other posters in here. I'm on my way, but I'm not there yet.
Well in that case I've already fufilled the point of my life.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stone
For whatever reason or another I see myself as lucky to make it to the age of thirty.
I do think dwelling in death is a waste but being prepared and fully accepting it is part of being completely content with life. Does thinking the fact that I will die young make me nervous and unhappy? Certainly not.
Except the subject is "making it", that being, achieving some desired end goal in your life. Is self-sacrifice ending in your own death really a "goal" to be achieved, sought after or desired? Why "plan" for a goal like that instead of living in the now honorably and decently. Then if being confronted at any point in your life with some horrific situation, you merely carry on as an honorable person and do the right thing as a matter of course and not out of some "This will redeem my pathetic prison of a life and justify my existence!@#" end effort.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stone
Touring the world with Iron Maiden.
Then I've made it.