By all means, correct me if I'm wrong, but your post basically seems like a nice way of saying "get over it".
That's correct. The fact that you have the luxury of having the time to complain indicates that your lot in life probably isn't all that tough. Look at TFI; despite his rather dire situation you don't see him complaining. You're not facing anything that countless men and woman -- many, no doubt, considerably more talented, intelligent and worthy of immortality than you -- haven't also faced. Get over yourself; in the big scheme of things you are just not all that important -- none of us are.
All conscious beings have infinite value, and none of us deserve to die against our wills. Yes, lots of people have shorter and more painful lives than I do; that's part of the tragedy! Just because some people choose to deal with their emotions differently, doesn't mean that nobody should ever express themselves. I honestly find it hurtful that you would belittle my feelings about something I find so horrifying. Please be more respectful in the future.
It seems to me hes just trying to give you perspective to make you feel better. When Im feeling down, I think about how at a different place in time I may have been caught up in a concentration camp, I instantly feel 99% better every time.
This reminds me of the quote, "If we were all to put our troubles into a big pile and have everybody take out an equal share, most of us would be content to take back our own."
Although, in the perspective that you mention it here, the fact that we are all dying of aging, taming your anger is a bad idea. Cast aside all petty anger and focus on the one that makes a difference. For example, if we were in a concentration camp, we would not be well advised to "get over it, there are many worse off than us." We would be well off to rage against our captors.
Well, aging renders the entire planet a concentration camp. Compared to the wonders and the glories that await us, we are suffering. To watch our relatives and friends die, and with dreams unfulfilled, in a universe and exisence that we havent even begun to scratch the surface of in terms of discover and purpose and everything else, is tragic to an infinite degree. Dying of cancer at a young age may be x amount worse than dying of aging at an average age, but dying of aging compared to the seeming infinity that awaits all of humanity is an infinite amount worse.
In other words, the schism between dying young of cancer and dying of aging is moot compared to the schism between dying of aging and dying of something hundreds of thousands of years from now. Hence, your rage is well placed and needed.
Edited by brokenportal, 23 April 2009 - 06:58 PM.