Don’t Know Why
It is sad that many of us abandon these ideologies as we mature into adolescence, an age marked by inner and outer conflicts. I have always wondered why such simple techniques to resolve a conflict are abandoned as well. Hatred evolves and grows, jealousy becomes more profound, and our ego becomes consumed with a marked selfishness. We resolve our conflicts with more conflict, and we endlessly spiral around in a vicious struggle between our wants and our needs, between what we expect and what we are offered, until we miraculously grow out of adolescence and emerge as young adults who have [reasonable] control over our attitudes. We grow older, and spread into the many wings of society, gaining painful and pleasurable experiences. We love, we marry, and we re-experience the burden of our youths with our children. We grow old, remain seated in our grandchildren’s houses, and resolve our great grandchildren’s conflicts with candy and memories. We are then confronted with the inevitable thoughts of death, we fall into denial, and then we accept our fate. We spread whatever love we have to offer onto the people around us. We give them part of our spirits so that they would live on fond memories of us when we depart into the immortal realm of souls, where we are born anew
I have always loved the way children behave and think. I have always believed that they possessed an irreplaceable spirit, one that would carry them through the hardships with a smile, one that would offer forgiveness to other friends if a mistake has been made. They have the ability to absorb and endure emotional and physical pain more profoundly than older people do, and most of the children manage to solve their conflicts with a candy or a symbolic game where they are taught that friendship is the most valuable treasure a human soul can acquire and possess in his or her lifetime.
It is sad that many of us abandon these ideologies as we ‘mature’ into adolescence, an age marked by inner and outer conflicts. I have always wondered why such simple techniques to resolve a conflict are abandoned as well. Hatred evolves and grows, jealousy becomes more profound, and our ego becomes consumed with a marked selfishness. We resolve our conflicts with more conflict, and we endlessly spiral around in a vicious struggle between our wants and our needs, between what we expect and what we are offered, until we miraculously ‘grow out of’ adolescence and emerge as young adults who have [reasonable] control over our attitudes. We grow older, and spread into the many wings of society, gaining painful and pleasurable experiences. We love, we marry, and we re-experience the burden of our youths with our children. We grow old, remain seated in our grandchildren’s houses, and resolve our great grandchildren’s conflicts with candy and memories. We are then confronted with the inevitable thoughts of death, we fall into denial, and then we accept our fate. We spread whatever love we have to offer onto the people around us. We give them part of our spirits so that they would live on fond memories of us when we depart into the immortal realm of souls, where we are born anew.
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mumbled on September 21st, 2009 at 6:57 pm
I think the explanation is very simple.
once you start hanging out with people like Shadi, you basically lose faith in people, life, and the whole universe. Those people just suck the joy and everything virtuous out of people around them.