Environmental experiences

Has it ever happened to you to have things occur which you did not expect and did not particularly like, either? Although we are a generation which demands to be in control and has the illusion of being able to do it, we are so weak and lousy at finding a thread. Many of us live for the moment, with little thought as to what future may bring. And when we find ourselves in the future, we have no idea what to do with it.

We write about ourselves and our experiences in blogs and listen to music which, we think, mirrors ourselves. We ride high up on our corporate horses and switch between jobs as if we were at the stock exchange and needed to buy ourselves more and more shares of life... when in fact all we need to do is dip in it as deeply as possible and forget to live for ourselves, living for the others instead. There is so much suffering and so much emotion hidden in each of us, that we forget the very same thing happens to the near and the dear ones... and thus the sadness goes on under the layer of apparent happiness.

A line in a film I've recently seen said: "You always die alone". I think you die when the other people in yourself miss the chance of being there with you.

You always hurt the one you love
The one you shouldn't hurt at all
You always take the sweetest rose
and crush it till the petals fall...
(Michael Buble, You always hurt the one you love)