This could have described me at one point, years ago. Yes, I was living a meaningless life, yes, I was a jackass...
but...
That was only because I had had so much of the real that I was sick of it and needed to find something that wasn't. Real life hadn't been kind to me, so I decided that bullshit sounded like a good idea for a while. Stupid, self-destructive, self-centered, angry, crazy, yes. But there was a real person underneath that.
I'm not saying they are all damaged. Some really are just shallow vessels, but you fall into dangerous territory when you group people together and say 'I've got your number,' and take away the idea of them as real human and real people with hopes and problems and feelings. Please, pity them, but don't feel so bitter about them that you reduce yourself by denying their existence, their humanity.
*is embarrassed.* ummm. It's not actually about a group of people. it's about a dream I had that was along the lines of Invasions of the Body-Snatchers, it's just I wrote this as soon as I woke up at 2 am and I posted it, intending to write an explanation for it once I woke up again.
However you do make some valid points about the human condition. :D
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This could have described me at one point, years ago. Yes, I was living a meaningless life, yes, I was a jackass...
but...
That was only because I had had so much of the real that I was sick of it and needed to find something that wasn't. Real life hadn't been kind to me, so I decided that bullshit sounded like a good idea for a while. Stupid, self-destructive, self-centered, angry, crazy, yes. But there was a real person underneath that.
I'm not saying they are all damaged. Some really are just shallow vessels, but you fall into dangerous territory when you group people together and say 'I've got your number,' and take away the idea of them as real human and real people with hopes and problems and feelings. Please, pity them, but don't feel so bitter about them that you reduce yourself by denying their existence, their humanity.
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However you do make some valid points about the human condition. :D
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