July 24, 2006
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Oh, humanity...
I've been thinking...what is it all really for? We struggle and toil through 16+ years of schooling to be able to get a real, family sustaining job. During this time we look for a mate to create said family to sustain with. We get a house, a nice car, have a few kids, grow old, get grandkids and then shuffle off into an eternity of who knows what. Why? Isn't that the question people have been asking for like a bazillion years? Yes, it is, and here's what I think:
IT'S TO BE HAPPY AND MAKE BABIES! FREAKIN' DUH!
Now, I know, not that deep, right? Well, I was also thinking, how do people who do something completely worthless to society as a whole feel? I mean, what if your job was hairdressing. People can survive without having nice hair. No one's life was ever saved because of having a fancy haircut. However, hairdressers do not kill themselves all the time because they feel worthless. Why? Because they make people happy, possibly because they have children who love them, and maybe just because they enjoy cutting hair so much that it makes them happy just because, not even if the customer is happy. That's all this damn place is about, being happy and having kids to further your own thoughts and ideals into the next generation.
Now, my point with all this is that one should strive for these things above all else. In the end, when you are dead, you are dead. Unless you were some famous person like ol' George Washington or Descartes or somebody, your name dies with you. Only two or three generations of people will have even met you and most will be hard pressed to randomly share the stories of your life with those they spawn. Your own happiness and the passing on of your DNA are the most important things you can worry about. Yeah, getting a nice job with lots of money rolling in is nice, but it is not important. When you die, it won't matter where you worked or what kind of money you made, if will only matter what you did for your children, what you gave to them in the way of morals and ethics and a sense of self. In this way, you can pass yourself down to all the offspring of your children. Giving them a good hold on life allows them to pass this to your grandchildren and then to your great grandchildren without actually being alive.
The best way to do this is to be a happy, responsible, truthful and expounding human being. Explain life in detail, lead by example, smile when you don't have to and your children will as well. Your mother and father are your first teachers. As much as many parents want to blame bad behavior on schools, this is foolish. A child learns the most from his/her parents and is only effected slightly by the pulls of peers and teachers in a school setting. This is not true in ABSOLUTELY every case, but in most cases.
Share your happiness and joy with your children, not your pain and sadness. Show them how great a rainbow can be and how nice a spring breeze is as it kisses your cheek with its chill. Make pottery with them, support them when they do well and council them when they do poorly. Teach them how to roll on the carpet so that it tickles their feet. Laugh at movies with them and frolick in the flowers with them. Don't nag them for their hair or their clothing or the condition of their room or car. Let them make those decisions for themselves, but lay the foundation of happiness and enjoyment of life and the rest will follow. Don't fight with them, learn with them. I know I'm only 19, but I love life and so do my parents. I learned every good thing I know from them and I thank whatever gave me this life every day for such wonderful parents and such a wonderful childhood. Don't treat your children bad just because your parents treated you bad. Do the right thing and follow a different example, the example of happiness. Find what makes you happy and pass it on! That's what life is to me.
College isn't important, a job isn't important, not even how long you life is important, as long as you are happy with yourself and share yourself with your children! I finally realize why some people die with smiles on their faces. They know that their life was not in vain because they were happy and they passed it on to others, maybe not even their children, but someone. Perhaps I don't have to life forever like I spouted in one of my earlier posts. All I need to do is be happy and share that feeling with others in whatever way I can.
What really spurred all of this on was me thinking about changing my major. I felt like Chemical Engineering wasn't going to help anyone if I just went to work at a freaking beer company, but that isn't true. It doesn't matter what I do, as long as I am happy and make others happy.
Driving all alone can really make you think. I like driving, especially with 105.7 playing to inspire my thoughts. *sigh* Good times.
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