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Gaia's really opened me up a lot to the real world under the rising and over-multiplying facades of society. How could I have ever imagined at the age of 15 that there were actually people who had sex before the age of 18? And pregnant at the age of 12? (okay, Today Tonight also revealed this to me).

So many people depressed, so many people hovering over a thin peice of life that they depressingly hang onto for dear life.
The rejections, the turmoils, the pain, the depression, the corruption, the perversion, the utterly disgusting.

Sometimes I just wonder how I've survived this long knowing that all these things exist.
I mean, how could I have not known it. Everybody looks and acts so innocent. How could somebody like Deborah kidnap a girl?
How could her boyfriend rape that girl?

How could people commit suicide because they got 99.95 equivalent UAI mark in countries such as South Korea and China? Just how?
How can a person have so much pride that when something such as a simple professional mistake occurs, they become so depressed that they kill themselves?

It seems beyond me.
Yet, that isn't because I'm a jolly, happy, free kid who gets whatever he wants. In fact, I'm not that at all.
Yet I don't go to the extreme. How come these people do? What causes it? Is it phscological? Physical? Something to do with themselves, their own gene makeover, or, their parents and surrounding peers?

I don't understand it. But life seems so depressing. And...it is strange too.
You do something and it could have totally different effects depending on the person.
For people take different perspectives on things, depending on how they were brought up, and depending on their own knowledge and experience.
And I think that the most powerful people are those who can look at things in more than one way, and try to look at things as close as they can from the other people's perspective; and to try to see how to act accordingly to those actions and the intention behind those actions.

Heh. But most of us are weak. And this weakness makes us uneasy.
If we were all understanding of each other...if only we were to even the slightest, I believe the world would be a better place.
But that's verging on a Utopian-like thought which for humans is utterly impossible no matter our intelligence.

...fear.
How do people become so depressed that they commit suicide?
How are they 'thinking mechanizm' working?
I fear that one day I might unknowingly become like them. Or who knows, I might already be one of them.

There isn't much to be happy about in life. We usually can't get anything that we want with sacrificing something else. For humanity...has tried to impose rules on themselves. I don't even have to think to know the consequences.






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Justice.Maiden
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commentCommented on: Sat Dec 31, 2005 @ 01:58am
It takes one who has suffered to know more than those have not or those who has someone close to them that has felt pain.

Hardship can teach us... it can kill us. (through depression and so forth)

Everyone has been through there own ones. Many things in life even small ones, it can build up to become one big problem. I guess why people think im so old (usually guess around the 20's crying ) is that i know whats out there... to keep peace is hard and cause ive learnt a lot about what its like, just by having a person thats close to me suffer through a lot.

i hate being called 20 .... gonk


commentCommented on: Sat Dec 31, 2005 @ 02:34am
Yes. I've had friends who have cut themselves, tried getting run over by vehicles on a deserted road, screaming in the middle of the night outside in their street.
I've known people who just broke down in the middle of a hallway during school.

And I'm sure it isn't that great to be them.


On a side-note: I don't want to be called a granny either...
gonk



Darek Khort
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elaeye
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commentCommented on: Sun Jan 01, 2006 @ 03:54am
Wow...that was deep. *nodnod* That's true.

It all depends on your willpower I guess. Either you can struggle on or simply break down. Guess those people made a foolish choice and gave into their pride or sank into despair because their pride was beaten.

Guess you should just enjoy life and carefree-ness while it lasts. ^^ Not that it is going to last much longer. xp

On another side note: I know you don't like to be called granny xd But you said you didn't want to be called Gramps...



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