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Originally Posted by TheDragon
Once again, I'm sure someone can feel positively about their lives, and still have a drive, but I think people would be hard pressed to find many examples of people who have had a serious drive to do something, and ended up changing the world, that fit the profile of someone who's happy and content, even if they can be.
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Last night I watched The History of Man on the History Channel, and there were plenty of examples of how different human beings made marks for the progress of humanity, with positive drive as well as the contentment and happiness they enjoyed from their efforts.
It is "clear" however that human beings are constantly looking for ways to control the environment and explore new ideas and understandings of "life" and what it means, what it is and what it can be. Because of that our environment is ever changing and we have populated the world in large numbers. Sitting back in deep thought about wanting to make a mark that can change the entire world has been done by many throughout time. I think that now however, our world is "crowded" and it is getting harder because we don't have as much room to "expand" as we did in the past.
So it is no wonder that the younger generations feel that making a mark now would be so hard that "sacrifice and misery and unhappiness" would be part of making that mark.
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