I like to think I have a pretty open mind. So no not really. Life tends flow like a river, nice and easy so long as you don't get caught up in every piece of grass that's flowing by.

lol dont get me wrong, I'm not the guy sitting on a couch glaring at children playing outside on a bright sunny day, gritting my teeth and hissing "If only they knew, then they wouldnt be so happy!". There are many good things in this world too and you can still find news that reports on those things (although you'll have to dig through a bunch of fear news to find it). I would like to think of myself as some one who is at a happy medium. I know how to love and cherish the good things I come across but I am not so bubbly that I let myself become ignorant to the harsh reality of the worlds dark side.

I always get a little sad when I see children playing and having fun, because then all I can think of is how they will be dead one day.

What?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQlmywY_qEM

I'd probably be a heck of a lot more cynical if I lived in the city, out in the country I don't really associate with anyone except my friends.

Lol epic. I approve this comment.

Don't really know how to elaborate, chum. My uni is big on education majors, so we have a place on campus for elementary kids to come. I walk past them frequently; they're so oblivious to the world, just having a bunch of fun or saying the cutest little things. svcks that they will all grow old and die one day.

I have thought similar things before but I dont dwell on it. Thats life. I used to be terified of death when I was 4 and would cry to my parents that I didnt want to die. But I have learned to accept it knowing that nothing lasts forever. Children will grow up, have children of their own and die and the chain continues with their children and will continue on until the human species dies out.

The trick is not to think of them growing old but to love and cherish their innocence, to embrace it. Having a child of my own has brought me to this way of thinking. It seems like yesterday I watched her take her first breaths, and now she's about to turn 3. The time has gone by so fast and it scares me that it will all zip by before I know it. But I will cherish and forever remember all her little cute things.

This is the most blunt and depressing post I have ever seen on this forum.

But our kids are so precious and should never hear the truth.It's better to let them think regardless of how they played they are still all little champions.I wonder how many athletes were hampered due to this truly awful mindset.

The truth usually is depressing.

Hmm... I thought it was rather funny.

Well, my country is a greedy capitalist hell full of lazy [censored] who sit around and complain, not to mention that we're [censored] OWNED BY CHINA. I would really love five minutes alone with a baseball bat in a room with the dumb [censored] who borrowed trillions of dollars from them.

Yeah, I'm leaving this [censored]hole ASAP.

What, the inevitably of death?

Hope is a tool in which everything is built from.... once you lose that... you might as well live in a cave and eat your food raw

Pessimism is the mortar that holds society together. Without it we'd be a bunch of na?ve chumps skipping around sniffing flowers and watching Bob Ross all day.

I found out I hate people.

For the latter part of your sentence, only if you let what you read get to you.

Welcome to the club. I'm the president. I knew I hated people when I was like 12.

It's not being ignorant. To be ignorant would be to lock yourself up and not listen to the news and pretend things don't happen.

But things that happen beyond my control, no matter how depressing or bad they are shouldn't affect how I feel about my life. I know what happens in the world, and it's not a nice place for the most part, but I choose not to let it affect me and not to worry about it. It's all about scope. I'm not important in the grand scheme of things in the world, but I am important on a small, individual level. Living my life within that scope and enjoying every moment of it isn't being ignorant of everything else. Its just choosing to focus on what I deem important and valuable to me.

If someone gets murdered for example, then yes that's terrible. But why should that affect how I perceive the people around me when they've got nothing to do with it? The people who I care about and the ones who care about me, why should what other people do negatively alter our friendships and relationships?

My anxiety disorder has made me a bit cynical and so has some other events, but I am more of a sarcastic cynic. I make sure I always keep a sense of humor so I don't lose my mind early in life. My anxiety disorder and how prone I am to being depressed pretty much means I better keep up the sense of humor if I want to stay sane.

I have stopped being surprised by much these days. I just know people are prone to doing dumb things and don't feel being too amazed is worth my time in those cases.

Sorry but I disagree. I have a daughter and I want her to know if she fails at something then she needs to get better if she wants to succeed. Living in a advlt world will teach you real quick that failure only grants failure and winning grants success.


Pretty much my mindset. If a plane crashes in China and kills everyone on board then yeah that svcks, but whats it got to do with me? It's not that we dont care, we don on a small scale, but we dont let it bother us if its not going to effect us personally.

ha a bit cynical yes but not pessimistic as there is some truth to my words. While the world might be not exactly be growing darker by the day it is indeed much worse then 50 yrs ago. You can compare all sorts of things from present day to say early 60's and even though there was war going on, the violent crime rate is about 1/3 of what it is today iirc (I looked at this awhile ago, correct me if wrong but I think we're at least doubled from the early 60s). That's just counting violent crimes that were documented, not all the sick depravity that is happening everywhere and keeping Chris Hansen in business.

Personally I feel much of the reason why many people are F'd up across the board is because of what we're communicating on right now...the internet. Access to every desire and depravity does things to people, not to mention all the Facebook crap that is the cause of many a suicide/murder nowadays....I heard 1 story of a mother killing her baby because it wouldn't stop crying while she was trying to Facebook farm which is insane.

The world is indeed darker friend but that's not to say you have to grow dark with it



ha I can't tell if that's clever sarcasm or you're being serious here. If you're serious then that thinking is part of the problem I touched upon before. If all kids are champs then what incentive is there to be the best you can be? If every gets rewarded then why try hard or strive to succeed? I think kids should be encourage and supported as champs from their parents but not disillusioned to believe that everyone wins as that's not the way the world works

In the 60's most crimes probably were not reported. Especially if they happened to minorities.

I don't buy your argument Haggar. I bet most minorities in the US and in other places (Africans under Apartheid or Aboriginal peoples in Australia etc etc) are quite happy with things today in comparison to how they were when they were under the thumb of Western Imperialist ideas. Fun thought, Aboriginals were considered to be inhuman and nothing more than beasts on an official level in Australia's not too distant past.

I don't think crime has increased as dramatically as statistics indicate. I think our tools and technology for detecting them has increased much more. You also have to consider what is considered a crime in these statistics. How many people would let small crimes go back in the 60s? How many cops are encouraged to meet a high quota in modern times?

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and Statistics."
-Mark Twain

ha I hear what you're saying but i'm going off of U.S. statistics from the FBI which doesn't make them 100% reliable yet still somewhat accurate.

Fact is according to their stats, that violent crimes was at an all time high in the 90s and has tapered down in the past decade or 2 which seems accurate from my observations.

Also if you ask anyone who was a kid back in the 50s-60s then they will tell you that they could walk the streets and play after hours without some sicko snatching them up. Child molesters always existed but there seems to be more now then ever and I think the internet plays a part as it gives these sickos easy contact with kids and access to child porm that you couldn't get easily before internet

Internet is evil and the downfall of decency