this will most likely be unproductive, seeing as I'm sitting in the middle of the room and even though no one is here, I am still painfully aware that they will be
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great blogpinchhazardNovember 7 2009, 16:22:16 UTC
Your final sentence encapsulates this idea succinctly: that a great number of people insist on pining over times they never knew, times that only exist as romanticized dreams. And since this can never, ever happen, since one can never escape the Now, they feel upset and frustrated and freely rant about how terrible our times are.
Wanting to live in a different time has less to do with time and more to do with putting something unattainable before us so that we can feel a little bit of the self-pity and misery in which we love to wallow.
Personally, though, -- and while I have my own ways of wallowing in self-pity, -- I don't get the whole "wanting to live in another time" thing. This particular one drives me nuts, maybe due to my practical nature. "You've been given life and love, yet you insist on dwelling on what you don't have and can never have?" I would ask.
That's just me, though. We all have to find our own way of projecting onto the outside world the self-dissatisfaction that we see within.
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Wanting to live in a different time has less to do with time and more to do with putting something unattainable before us so that we can feel a little bit of the self-pity and misery in which we love to wallow.
Personally, though, -- and while I have my own ways of wallowing in self-pity, -- I don't get the whole "wanting to live in another time" thing. This particular one drives me nuts, maybe due to my practical nature. "You've been given life and love, yet you insist on dwelling on what you don't have and can never have?" I would ask.
That's just me, though. We all have to find our own way of projecting onto the outside world the self-dissatisfaction that we see within.
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