Self Ish Ness

actually, no, I'm not haha..

but just in case.

 

this is something i need to work on. when it comes to the dark side of humanity i have seen the most of it. yet i still trust people until they give me a reason not to. i used to be the opposite. i try to be the bigger person in most situations. i am the stupid one who still writes to my childhood best friend whos serving life in prison. ill never see him again, whats the point? he has long been forgotten by everyone else. yet i do it out of kindness. i still give my much older brother money when i see him in hopes he will get food or something, even though i know he will spend it on drugs. im just too nice.

sometimes i wonder if these people would ever go out of their way for me? the answer is probably not. i dont want to be a doormat.

 

loll

 

In that case, I withdraw the compliment.

 

And it is my dream to travel. What if I have no money for that?

 

I understand. Trust me, I can be way to nice too.. people HAVE stepped all over me though.. people DO take advantage of you (I mean everyone not you in particular).. and some don't.. but.. I guess - if it makes YOU happy to write to your friend in prison, or send money to your bro.. if you really wanna do it.. then fine. but if you didn't really wanna.. then.. no.

 

I don't really think attending college is anyone's dream..... it is someone's dream to do so beacuse society has told us since we were kids that it's the right thing to do, the respectable thing to do, and the only way to make a lot of money when you grow up. I highly doubt if we weren't brainwashed, people would be born thinking 'hey man, I can't wait to go to college!'

if an education is what is desired, there are many ways to educate yourself without sitting in a classroom.... you know, with first hand experience, books, museums, etc...

 

*claps* :hurray:

 

I agree there's many more ways even better ways to educate oneself besides school..

 

Bella said it right before, people mistake kindness for weakness.

 

Exactly. :cheers2:

 

To take form teh very system you hate, from taxes that other citizens have paid, when you hate taxes and don't believe in them? You are proving people NEED goverment. If there was no welfare, no Dole, becaus eno one signed up, I bet goverment would be a lot less intrusive and social welfare taxes would obviously be non-existent.
It's like my friend who always bitches about her dad's intrusiveness and over ebaring giving of advice, when he just had to buy her a fridge and washer and dryer and food...I bet her dad wouldn;t be so overbearing if her husband got their shit together and knew they could fend for themselves.

 

then you need to trade something, or get paid for a skill...or walk over the boarder and not use modes of transportation that cost money.

 

Phew!

 

I like my college degree and loved college. My husband doesn't have one and he could make awesome money if he wasn't in the Navy (not that he does too shabby now) and is far more respectable of a person than I am.

I have always wanted to go to college because of the freedom it allows. If for any reason my husband leaves me or gets injured and can't work, I can support myself or our family for the later. It provides total freedom.I don't doubt a lot of people feel like they 'have to go to college', I just wasn't one of them.

 

Freedom...... lol.

 

it doesn't feel like freedom until you're done and then you will miss it! ):

 

I miss it none whatsoever.

 

selfishness is a way of stabbing yourself in your back.
i want to live in a world that is NOT a zero sum game.
and no,
zero sum games are NOT a default condition of the universe.

pretending that they are is a lie told by people who think they get
something out of convincing everyone else of it,
so they can be selfish, and stab THEM selves in the back doing so.

because however nice they make their own nest,
or think they have, they still have to traverse the same world
the rest of us have to live in
at least some of the time
to keep it that way.

 

Thanks for bumping this thread themnax.