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Jan 25, 2013, 12:52 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2011
Location: Northeast USA
Posts: 23,288
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Originally Posted by TheDragon
Not if you make a major impact for "generations to come."
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It is interesting to see how "some" think about this question IMO.
It is a very "general" question and what happens is when someone asks a question like this it is often "assumed" that everyone will come from the same mindset as the OP. And even if everyone just "votes" yes or no, that is still "assuming" and not really seeing the way others really see the question.
If someone has their own idea of what the question means to him/her, and it is different than what the OP is assuming everyone will "think" it means, it can lead to the kind of gridlock we see all around us that we consider "world wide unrest". Often it can take a lifetime of suffering just to learn this. And it can leave a "mark" that is only considered a trajedy of "what not to do" more than something that can be "a much more positive impact for generations to come".
What I see in my own country is such a devide and so much anger because of this "ongoing debate over what the citicizens think the current leadership means to our country".
I watched the election process and it is obvious to me that alot of the messages were not really "direct and to the point where the citicizens had a clear picture/understanding of what each candidate "really wanted or intended for my countries future". And all that was really discussed was just "ideas" and neither candidate really had a "clear plan of how his idea was going to be achieved".
It is often a "normal" human trait to have a strong desire to make some kind of mark that will be remembered for generations to come.
We can look at human history and see many ways this desire did leave some kind of "long lasting mark". However, sometimes that mark was a sign of devestation and emense "ignorance" that while it did cause a change, it also was a setback that took many generations to "recover from". However, the recovery process often contains deep cultural resentments that has led to what we see today in our world.
As I sit in my OE little world where I am learning about the reality of what has made me the person I have been, I am seeing what really went into shaping so much of what I am and how I perceive so many different things going on around me. Many things happened to me in my life that truely distrubed my sense of "self and safety" and then something happened that finally broke me. And I put my trust in reaching out for help and sadly my reality was missed and that only made me feel even worse and that resulted in my hovering around a sense of "insanity".
I took the time to gather files of things that went wrong in my life, I sat across from a man who's answer was "drug treatment" and because I didn't want that, he determined me to be something even farther away from my reality. But once he did see my history, it was much clearer to him, why I was struggling so much, and I will never forget him staring at me in such a sincere and concerned and serious way and he said,"You are a very misunderstood person". But sadly, what was also clear to me is that he was not going to personally take on "making corrections" and that is because he would have risked creating "liablity". In that instant, what I witnessed is not just "my little problem" but a problem that we all see and are disturbed by as we look at the "global unrest" that troubles all of us.
If there "was" a way that I could truely make a mark that expresses that, I would have to say that it already "cost me my happiness".
I think about our history of man and the desire to "make a mark" in so many different human beings. But amongst many of these humans, the mark was not "positive". Instead, the mark left a long future of many that held onto a dangerous "victim mentality" that spread through cultures that fueled "ignornance" and opened many doors for
leaders that perpetuated the kind of ignorance that only leads to the "insanity" of human nature, verses healthier more balanced and meaningful ways for true global "good mental health" which would provide for "world peace" to take place.
Even as I sit here writing this, someone will "misunderstand me" maybe because I happen to be an "American" that is attached to some "stains that can lead to someone in a different culture to deem me "just some crazy, stupid, lets get happy American". Which actually proves my point.
Open Eyes
Last edited by Open Eyes; Jan 25, 2013 at 01:07 PM.
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