Reading through some of the increasingly divided threads yesterday, I just wanted to ask these three questions. Probably no need to respond to anyone else's answer unless you just can't help yourself, but here goes: 1.) Do you believe you can make a difference to this world before you leave it? 2.) How would you judge your own life a success when you're gone? (Assuming you can watch it back once as soon as you're dead before departing to your afterlife of choice or to cease to be) 3.) If there is one piece of philosophical advice you can give to the next generation when you're gone, (not political advice, to avoid all the recommendations on who to vote for) what would it be.
1) No. 2) I wouldn't be able to judge if my life was a success when I'm gone as I don't believe there is an afterlife. 3) I'd advise everyone to watch this video:
I'd like to reproduce more but Laura does her hair too much, has too many headaches and is tired a lot.
Stop arguing with people about things you can't change, like politics, brexit, lockdowns, vaccinations, vertical football etc. You'll waste hours, days and weeks of your life, you'll get angry and frustrated, and you'll lose some very good friends. And when you've finished, you won't have changed anyone's opinion, and nobody will have changed yours.
1..Only by passing the values of decency and respect to my children who will carry on...oh and support the Reds 2..Was I happy, did I make my family and friends happy, did I have very few regrets. 3..Nope..they won't listen anyway as we dint listen to previous generations, hence wars, politics, hatred etc etc carries on...some intelligent person once said...History teaches us everything but sadly we learn nothing.
if the person looking back at you in the mirror knows you've done a good thing does it really matter who else knows............. the rest is pure self serving vanity
Heavy stuff for a Wednesday morning! 1. Yes - maybe. I'm starting a Master's degree this autumn which will hopefully eventually transfer me to a field where I feel I might be able to do something to make a real difference. I'm a bit worried I've left it too late though... Looking at it another way, though, everything we do makes a difference - my little bar isn't much, but I know it's been the place in which people have forged friendships, celebrated, commiserated, just had a nice time and so much more. It doesn't feel like much to me, because its effect is probably limited to maybe a couple of hundred people, but in another way I suppose that's a lot! 2. Absolutely no idea. Maybe having made more people happy than I made sad. Seems a bit trite, but in the end that's probably how I'd try to measure the success of anything I did, and living is just a series of things that you do.. 3. I'm not sure it counts as philosophical, but just be nice to people. All good things stem from that. Luckily, in my experience the next generation seem to be much better at this than mine or those above me!
1. Yes. But only collectively with others. That how we can change things. 2. Depends what you exactly mean. I was fortunate to have been brought up by such caring parents with values. And I hope I’ve extended that to my own offspring. That would be success for me. 3, Be kind. Don’t fall into the trap. of tit for tat. No matter how hard it is sometimes. No regrets. can I add 4. Please. If there is such a thing as reincarnation. Can I come back as a Barnsley fan. I can’t bear the thought of it being anyone else Especially Lxxds.
1. No 2. Life just is, it shouldn't be judged as successful of a failure. 3. In the grand scheme of things the entire human race and our planet are totally insignificant, so enjoy yourself.
Indeed it is. As it happens I'm feeling a bit philosophical today. I went to a garden party on Saturday and one of my friends is a drug user. A harmless pot head and binge drinker. Troubled, lost his mum a couple of years back. He went home at 4am Sunday and had a cocaine binge. This caused him to have a seizure and a head trauma. They found him wedged behind his bedroom door. Took him to Rotherham and did a CT his brain was fine so they sedated him and put him in an induced coma and transferred him to Doncaster. In the two day in between his brain has swelled and his brain has been starved of oxygen. If the swelling stops he'll be in a vegetative state for the rest of his life. If it doesn't he'll die. He isn't officially braindead because his brainstem is still active causing him to have hypothermia due to the reaction to the recreational drugs and he can breath unaided. He's only 29 and a good lad really. It's sickening and puts everything into perspective and really makes me feel lucky for what I've got.