我笑、我哭。我活著。

[silentpalms]

I think I'm one of the few people left in the world that actually likes Green Day. Yea, they're sellouts and hypocrites and whatever else you want to call them, and their music isn't exactly the pinnacle of artisticness... but I still like hearing it. I suppose I'm one of those people who's willing to detach creations from their creators and look

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[galith]

The things you keep in your life need to make you smile every day.

I'm not so sure about that... At the very least I'm worried that if you hold to this kind of standard then you'll end up keeping nothing (or next to nothing) in your life. Or worse, you'll end addicted to some kind of happy drug. Things in your life need to make you smile, but I think it's also important for them to make you cry. The trick, from my perspective, is to enjoy the crying.

[silentpalms]

Heh, yea... the title of the entry, actually, is "I laugh, I cry. I live." I didn't really express the full idea very well [I tend to be bad about trying to express things in concise enough terms to get a point across, and this often leads to things like the entry above, that sounds rather lop-sided, rather unintentionally]. I think the point of that sentence that you pulled out was really - that if you're going to be pouring lots of energy into something, it really needs to be something you actually want for yourself, instead of, say, you want the car because you want people to know you have lots of money when you're driving it around. I understand that not everything is always happy and perfect, and that you can't really appreciate happiness if you don't experience sadness, anger, frustration, etc, as well

[troglodyteking]

There is a bit in my favorite short story, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas where the narrator says that "Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive." That always struck me as a nice way to express it, although it is not terribly useful if one is not good at determining what the appropriate measures are and what falls into what categories.

[aidar2ch]

i think you just made history by being the first person to have a serious quote on my quoteboard, not just something stupid that you said. (although i have a few of those from you as well :-P )