Leaving?
So there's just a few things that I kinda want to talk about. There's a ton of things that really confuse the shit out of me. certain boundries that we all place upon ourselves, things like staying in one place for so long that you get a little comfortable. I thought that if ever given the choice, that I would never leave my friends and lifes work behind in Edmonton. I thought that there was enough left here to at least peek my interest and make me stay. But most recently I kinda just realized that there's really no point in staying anywhere really. That even if we have a family and live in a big house with 3 bathrooms and a power mower out in the tool shed, there will be nothing new. No really exciting events could be expected. So all you're really doing is waiting. Waiting for your kids to get smarter than you, waiting for them to grow up, just waiting for your light to go out. So why of all lifestyles, is it the most desirable to have? I mean why not just travel all your life? Why even have children? The way that I see it is why bring a child into a place so horrible? The world we live in is in its worst state its ever been in and its not getting any better. I dunno this could all just be a bunch of phsyco babble but let me know what you think anyways
posted by LastVegas @ 3:20 PM
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I think I may have quoted this before but in Frank Herbert's "Dune" there's a great line that goes something like "Leaving a person behind is a real sadness. A place is just a place". Which makes at least some sense to me, leaving a friend is much worse than leaving a place. Sometimes, however, they are the same thing and to leave a place you have to leave a friend. That's not as easy, and that could be why people don't move as much as they would like to. At least that's true, in some amount, for me.
i understand completely. as cliché as it sounds, life really is too short to spend it doing things that don't matter, and that don't thrill us or that don't make anyone happy.
of course there's no sense in staying in one place. when you really think about it, why would you? and yet so many people do for fear of being alone.
as for the "why bring a child into such a horrible place" idea, i disagree. yes, the world is a shitty place and no one likes it, but maybe that one child is the one to change it. maybe by denying this child the chance to live, you are setting the world back another 500 years.
what does leaving mean? does it mean not seeing people anymore? i left to come to france and yet feel closer to many people back home than i did when i was there.
maybe people are always with us. if there's enough of a connection.
but maybe the leaving you're talking about really is about not taking them with you... sometimes that's important too. sometimes we're more present when we're absent and more absent when we're present...
and sometimes we've just got to go to find out where we're headed as well as where we are.
and sometimes,probably even much of the time, this going is completely internal. a place is just a place.
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