Food for Thought
Pain is a universal feeling. Love and hate aren’t. You might think, naturally, that love and hate are universal. Some children are born and live alone, they never feel love, only hate. There are children sheltered from the world and its problems, their family protecting them with a strength only those few who went through the toughest times could have. They only feel love (this can go under discussion). But pain, who hasn’t felt pain, even the most sheltered children have fallen and hurt themselves. Or felt guilty or sad about one thing or another. So let’s say, for the moment, that everyone shares only two things, mortality and pain. If everyone is in pain, at one moment in their life, and they seem lost, are they really? If everyone has the same pain, and the same feeling of losing grip on the whole world and that they are the only ones that have to deal with this particular pain are they right? Think about how many people live on this planet we’ve royally screwed up (can’t go under discussion, this is true). Billions, trillions, what’s the next number after this?
More than only one, right? (Or so we think.) Since everyone shares the feeling of pain and loss/confusion is it right to say they are all alone?
Take this lyric in consideration;
“All the lonely people, where do they all come from”
Eleanor Rigby—The Beatles
Analyze that, “all the lonely people” What does that mean? All meaning more than one, lonely would mean alone right?
But if all of them, all of the “lonely people” are lost and confused and alone at the same time, then they aren’t
It isn’t true, you are never alone, and you might think that for this one time, one moment where you feel completely and utterly solitary and lost in this huge world with so many problems
YOU AREN’T
Do you understand?
Pain is everywhere
We are everywhere
We are never alone because of this
The one thing connecting every human in this verse is the one thing we wish most to destroy.
Why?
Why destroy the only thing that keeps us together, that keeps us human.
If you take pain out of the equation, then how would we know how to behave? If we were, not impervious, but completely free of pain…how more would we lose? How much more destruction could we create?
Would it go to that?
When you scream out, when you scream at the sky, begging God to answer you, asking why this, why him, her, them, it, everything and why you have to be alone at your most trying time with only him by your side (I’m not going to admit that God is enough…sorry)
Think about this
You’re not alone. You are never alone.
Does that help?
Probably not, it’s just sort of depressing.
Always together
Never able to help each other
A pathetic race of creatures, aren’t we? Hopelessly blind to what is around us. Never seeing the right choices, the right decisions, until we are at our last breaking point, where finally the bad choices line up to form a perfect lasting reaction. (so are bad decisions…bad?)
I’ve been chewing this over in my head for awhile now.
‘wabbit’ got me thinking about it again though.
~Lykaios
Pain is a universal feeling. Love and hate aren’t. You might think, naturally, that love and hate are universal. Some children are born and live alone, they never feel love, only hate. There are children sheltered from the world and its problems, their family protecting them with a strength only those few who went through the toughest times could have. They only feel love (this can go under discussion). But pain, who hasn’t felt pain, even the most sheltered children have fallen and hurt themselves. Or felt guilty or sad about one thing or another. So let’s say, for the moment, that everyone shares only two things, mortality and pain. If everyone is in pain, at one moment in their life, and they seem lost, are they really? If everyone has the same pain, and the same feeling of losing grip on the whole world and that they are the only ones that have to deal with this particular pain are they right? Think about how many people live on this planet we’ve royally screwed up (can’t go under discussion, this is true). Billions, trillions, what’s the next number after this?
More than only one, right? (Or so we think.) Since everyone shares the feeling of pain and loss/confusion is it right to say they are all alone?
Take this lyric in consideration;
“All the lonely people, where do they all come from”
Eleanor Rigby—The Beatles
Analyze that, “all the lonely people” What does that mean? All meaning more than one, lonely would mean alone right?
But if all of them, all of the “lonely people” are lost and confused and alone at the same time, then they aren’t
It isn’t true, you are never alone, and you might think that for this one time, one moment where you feel completely and utterly solitary and lost in this huge world with so many problems
YOU AREN’T
Do you understand?
Pain is everywhere
We are everywhere
We are never alone because of this
The one thing connecting every human in this verse is the one thing we wish most to destroy.
Why?
Why destroy the only thing that keeps us together, that keeps us human.
If you take pain out of the equation, then how would we know how to behave? If we were, not impervious, but completely free of pain…how more would we lose? How much more destruction could we create?
Would it go to that?
When you scream out, when you scream at the sky, begging God to answer you, asking why this, why him, her, them, it, everything and why you have to be alone at your most trying time with only him by your side (I’m not going to admit that God is enough…sorry)
Think about this
You’re not alone. You are never alone.
Does that help?
Probably not, it’s just sort of depressing.
Always together
Never able to help each other
A pathetic race of creatures, aren’t we? Hopelessly blind to what is around us. Never seeing the right choices, the right decisions, until we are at our last breaking point, where finally the bad choices line up to form a perfect lasting reaction. (so are bad decisions…bad?)
I’ve been chewing this over in my head for awhile now.
‘wabbit’ got me thinking about it again though.
~Lykaios
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