" why do we fall down bruce? so we learn to pick ourselves up"
ya know what. people are suffering.
ya know what. they should
in my sad and sick head there are 2 different kinds of suffering. there is a helpless suffering that people are stuck with and there is a temporary suffering that will go away.
Example of the first would be african people starving. theyre suffering
an example of the second would be my mother has cancer.
both are awful. in no way and i saying this should make you glad. i cannot help the first really. i cannot save them. i cannot aid them to the point that they need. i applaud them for being better than i am.
the second though... i almost want to say we should let them suffer
my reason is because they are walking away from this so much better than before if they realize it. should we ignore them in their suffering? no. but should we make it so that they no longer feel any suffering? no
this is the first time someone could be faced with seeing someone die. that is a very important thing. the whole theme of the world is this is my escape. we should stop trying to escape and face that suffering.
we turn to drugs, sex, drinking, friends, music, art, journals. anything to get us away from this suffering. we keep running from everything we fear and we run from everything that causes us pain. we need pain. should our lives be pain? no. but we need pain.
Pain and suffering are either important to us maturing or through pain and suffering we do mature. Jesus was tempted, Paul was blinded, every greek hero has a fall before they triumph, every comic hero messes up before they succeed.
I never defined suffering or pain here but i do not want to. i want you to define it and then reread everything and see if this all makes sense.
suffering is caused by something. that suffering brings on self trials, self trials brings about triumph, that triumph gives us experience and out of experience comfort and out of that comfort more suffering in time.
lets say my mother has brain cancer, that makes me very worried that she will die, i have to live for 3 months thinking that she might die, she does not die, i have faced a possible death for 3 months and now i am experienced with that. i have grown from my suffering. eventually more suffering will come and i will take that too and grow
the whole point of this is that people try so hard to avoid suffering and in avoiding that suffering they miss any amount of experience they could get
people are suffering
and it is good
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Have you ever stood and stared at it? Marveled at its beauty, its genius? Billions of people just living out their lives, oblivious. Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world, where none suffered? Where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization.
i wanted to say this for my art project presentation but it came out so blahhhhh. you sir, are a boss with words. i totes agree.
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