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humanodon  ·  4008 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: On Escape

    I don't understand. Why would you want to not be comfortable? Isn't that what nearly everyone is working for? To not be hungry. To have a nice house. To buy the latest gadgets and entertainment?

I never wrote that I don't want to be comfortable. All the things you mention are things that people feel they do not have at that point in their lives.

    You just stated that you didn't want to bend it to your will. That you don't want comfort. So why bend it then? And to answer your question, the point would be that there's no way in hell that it's possible to change that much of the world within the 60-100 years I have.

This is not what I wrote. If you choose to read it in this fashion, by all means.

    You say that as if it's simple. In the 20 years I've been alive, I haven't found a single person that I find genuinely interesting. And most people I interact with don't care for what I say. Or are communicating with me because they need to for some reason.

It is simple. It is not easy. Simple and easy are different words with different, though often convergent meanings.

    With no point or objective, there's literally no reason to do anything.

So what? There are still things you can do. It's easy and very comfortable to sit back and criticize things. It takes real effort to feel alive. That's the point I'm making. You're 20 years old. That is really young to have everything all figured out. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'd much rather live my way than yours.