Originally posted by apathist I have lots of complaints, but they pale to the wonderful.
Nature is wonderful. Don't worry about losing or winning.
I think we all have days and moments when life is good, then other days it's your turn for the proverbial bucket of s--t; such is the human condition, and it's taking it all in ones' stride that's the secret. Then again if we manage to ignore the bad things then we run the risk of ignoring the good things, too, and life can reach a point of neutrality, which is kind of boring, really. From a personal perspective, I have an underlying sense that my life is far better than I realize most of the time, but that's about as far as I've got with it...And as for winning and losing, I try to do the former but don't lose any sleep over the latter; we have to play with the assumption that we ain't going to win all the time. That would get boring, too.
Originally posted by apathist Nature is wonderful. Don't worry about losing or winning.
What is winning? I think if life were a chess game, there would be no such thing as checkmate. Pieces are shuffled around the board until the game is lost on time.
Originally posted by KnightStalker47 What is winning? I think if life were a chess game, there would be no such thing as checkmate. Pieces are shuffled around the board until the game is lost on time.
So it's all about how you shuffle them, and whether you enjoy the shuffling thereof. And in the end of course we shuffle off this mortal coil, as Mr Shakespeare would have it.
'Statistically, the probability of any one of us being born exactly as we are in
this precise time and place is so unlikely that your very existence verges on
the miraculous and should be a continuing source of dazzlement for you.'
Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke 'Statistically, the probability of any one of us being born exactly as we are in
this precise time and place is so unlikely that your very existence verges on
the miraculous and should be a continuing source of dazzlement for you.'
"You are not here by mistake. Around the world and down through the ages
there has never been another you, and there will never be another you..."
Makes me happy.
There will be many other nights like this,
And I'll be standing here with someone new.
There will be other songs to sing, another fall, another spring,
But there will never be another you.
Originally posted by HandyAndy There will be many other nights like this,
And I'll be standing here with someone new.
There will be other songs to sing, another fall, another spring,
But there will never be another you.