What makes us who we are....or are who we make out to be
Had a thought on the way in to work this morning - what makes us live the life we do? Let me explain.
Here I am fast running into dire having enjoyed a few years of IT glory, been married, had a defacto, some girlfriends along the way, reaching middle age, not travelled much - not that I've been inclined to or have holidays away (hate the tropics), reasonably fair health apart from ongoing overweight and depression (which requires lifetime of medication until my last breathe), etc etc
Forget the negative slant on that previous paragraph, I only write it to give contrast to what I'm trying to say.
Basically 48 year old male, divorced with 2 grown men for sons, born in UK and lived in Adelaide since 1969, enjoy the white collar employment these days than the labouring aspect, enjoy listenin & watching music, sensitive and somewhat spiritual soul, blah blah blah.
Whereas someone else say an old friend Carl, grown to be somewhat living day to day, was married many years ago, has had a daughter since then who is probably around late teens by now, god knows where he is, worked the holes of Cooper Pedy, last know to be in Moonta, drank and may still do to the max, tried and may still do dope, and probably happy and content in his life enjoying each day. Well maybe / maybe not.
Is there somewhere in the Matrix that they can re-program your life and memories to be some alter ego with different skills in life, career, friends, finance, holidays to remember, a love shared with another that is to be in awe of, etc so that you could do a complete and drastic life change rudimentary in just overnight. You wake up the next day a completely different person in bed lying next to you is the one person you KNOW is the true love of your life, no rush to go off to work, look forward to an evening surrounded by many friends to share musical whims jamming away and indulge in the refinements of nice foods and wine without a care in the world.
Or perhaps a Buddist Monk or a Roadie or a lamp post?
Is there such reality as a Seachange?
I think we just have to fantasise it all out and hopefully as the days pass by to lessen our minds' wanderings to let us come back to earth and get on with day to day living.
Here I am fast running into dire having enjoyed a few years of IT glory, been married, had a defacto, some girlfriends along the way, reaching middle age, not travelled much - not that I've been inclined to or have holidays away (hate the tropics), reasonably fair health apart from ongoing overweight and depression (which requires lifetime of medication until my last breathe), etc etc
Forget the negative slant on that previous paragraph, I only write it to give contrast to what I'm trying to say.
Basically 48 year old male, divorced with 2 grown men for sons, born in UK and lived in Adelaide since 1969, enjoy the white collar employment these days than the labouring aspect, enjoy listenin & watching music, sensitive and somewhat spiritual soul, blah blah blah.
Whereas someone else say an old friend Carl, grown to be somewhat living day to day, was married many years ago, has had a daughter since then who is probably around late teens by now, god knows where he is, worked the holes of Cooper Pedy, last know to be in Moonta, drank and may still do to the max, tried and may still do dope, and probably happy and content in his life enjoying each day. Well maybe / maybe not.
Is there somewhere in the Matrix that they can re-program your life and memories to be some alter ego with different skills in life, career, friends, finance, holidays to remember, a love shared with another that is to be in awe of, etc so that you could do a complete and drastic life change rudimentary in just overnight. You wake up the next day a completely different person in bed lying next to you is the one person you KNOW is the true love of your life, no rush to go off to work, look forward to an evening surrounded by many friends to share musical whims jamming away and indulge in the refinements of nice foods and wine without a care in the world.
Or perhaps a Buddist Monk or a Roadie or a lamp post?
Is there such reality as a Seachange?
I think we just have to fantasise it all out and hopefully as the days pass by to lessen our minds' wanderings to let us come back to earth and get on with day to day living.
posted by Riker58 at 4:50 pm
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