Nihilism 101
I am one of a million more "me"s.
My life, like yours, like anyone's, no matter how you put it, is totally and utterly average and that is basically the universal experience.
Dreams are what keep us going right? Even if 99% of the time in most people’s lives they don't really work out how they want them to. How many people realize their dreams? We push it like nothing else, that's society man, Dream big and you too can be successful. Just dream big.
But where does that put us? Us, the millions of people like you and me that have to "fill the factories" and sell us our clothing and serve us our dinner and be there to change our twenties down in to a 10, a 5 and come change when we buy a bag of chips? Society just doesn't operate if we're all big business men, or actors or famous musicians or doctors or the president.
"Hi I'm Tom and I want to be Bill Gates. I'm going to go to elementary school, then in high school, I'll discover that I can drum decently so I'll play in a few bands, but I won't follow through with it. I'll try post secondary education but I'll find out that I just can't make the cut, I just don't have it in me to push myself like other people can. I'll work a multitude of minimum wage jobs, telling people of my big goals (that I'll never be able to realistically realize) so that neither they, nor I, will have to feel sorry for my inability to succeed."
See, we all say that Tom just suffers from the inability to commit to something or to fight for his dreams etc.. etc.. But Tom's story is the story of the vast, vast majority of these little town and villages we occupy. All parents see big things for their children, very few of them actually see it happen. Do you really think that all the famous people you know about, you know about because they are the best there is? They’re good people who are in the right place at the right time. That’s really all there is too it. An extremely select few are actually the best. The rest just fill the space between. The average majority.
I own quite a few pieces of old navy clothing. This makes me unique.
I am completely non-descript. No matter how much I may try to make myself seem "my own creation" in the end, I'm just another brick in the wall, a cog in the machine, a piece of biology trying to sustain my petty 70+ years of existence before I can start making the claim "I'm not long for this world." Which, in comparison to all the years of history, I can start to claim right from the moment of my conception.
Do you know what's interesting about the above paragraphs? Is that they aren't new at all. No new ideas, no new observations. Just an average guy reciting universal thoughts that have been thought endlessly before. I am proving my own claims as we speak.
So what’s wrong with striving for middle range? Most of every one will aim big and hit medium. But you can’t just aim for medium, otherwise, what point is there to you? We’re all medium and if you’re just going to be one of us, someone else can take your place. Striving big gives the illusion of potential success, which I guess is reason enough for living even though most can’t really hope to get there. But why live then? Remember the healthy saying, suicide is never an option? That’s funny because, really, suicide is always an option, just not one that people like you to take. Mr. Average tells Mr. Average not to do something.
But the thing is, despite all this, even if you did kill yourself...Dude, you’re still not new. That’s been done before too, for entirely the same or similar reasons. Way to be common.
Have a nice day.
I am one of a million more "me"s.
My life, like yours, like anyone's, no matter how you put it, is totally and utterly average and that is basically the universal experience.
Dreams are what keep us going right? Even if 99% of the time in most people’s lives they don't really work out how they want them to. How many people realize their dreams? We push it like nothing else, that's society man, Dream big and you too can be successful. Just dream big.
But where does that put us? Us, the millions of people like you and me that have to "fill the factories" and sell us our clothing and serve us our dinner and be there to change our twenties down in to a 10, a 5 and come change when we buy a bag of chips? Society just doesn't operate if we're all big business men, or actors or famous musicians or doctors or the president.
"Hi I'm Tom and I want to be Bill Gates. I'm going to go to elementary school, then in high school, I'll discover that I can drum decently so I'll play in a few bands, but I won't follow through with it. I'll try post secondary education but I'll find out that I just can't make the cut, I just don't have it in me to push myself like other people can. I'll work a multitude of minimum wage jobs, telling people of my big goals (that I'll never be able to realistically realize) so that neither they, nor I, will have to feel sorry for my inability to succeed."
See, we all say that Tom just suffers from the inability to commit to something or to fight for his dreams etc.. etc.. But Tom's story is the story of the vast, vast majority of these little town and villages we occupy. All parents see big things for their children, very few of them actually see it happen. Do you really think that all the famous people you know about, you know about because they are the best there is? They’re good people who are in the right place at the right time. That’s really all there is too it. An extremely select few are actually the best. The rest just fill the space between. The average majority.
I own quite a few pieces of old navy clothing. This makes me unique.
I am completely non-descript. No matter how much I may try to make myself seem "my own creation" in the end, I'm just another brick in the wall, a cog in the machine, a piece of biology trying to sustain my petty 70+ years of existence before I can start making the claim "I'm not long for this world." Which, in comparison to all the years of history, I can start to claim right from the moment of my conception.
Do you know what's interesting about the above paragraphs? Is that they aren't new at all. No new ideas, no new observations. Just an average guy reciting universal thoughts that have been thought endlessly before. I am proving my own claims as we speak.
So what’s wrong with striving for middle range? Most of every one will aim big and hit medium. But you can’t just aim for medium, otherwise, what point is there to you? We’re all medium and if you’re just going to be one of us, someone else can take your place. Striving big gives the illusion of potential success, which I guess is reason enough for living even though most can’t really hope to get there. But why live then? Remember the healthy saying, suicide is never an option? That’s funny because, really, suicide is always an option, just not one that people like you to take. Mr. Average tells Mr. Average not to do something.
But the thing is, despite all this, even if you did kill yourself...Dude, you’re still not new. That’s been done before too, for entirely the same or similar reasons. Way to be common.
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