You have exactly the life you want. (X-post GetMotivated)
Posted Nov 26, 2014, 10:42 PM UTC
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Love how your mind slips in the thought of happiness... until you realize it wasn't said once until the very end. Insightful little panel.
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I like this one.
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The life I want is a life where I get whatever I want without having to do anything to achieve it. Get bent.
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People seem to be missing the point here.
The context is three fairly affluent white people discussing their own desires and hopes. Contrary to what others are driving at, the point isn't that you can apply yourself hard enough and be anything - the point is that these people haven't even tried hard enough. They just didn't go down that route.
Like, myself - I couldn't guarantee I'd be a successful academic by now, but I'd stand far more a chance if I actually chose to go that route and do what's necessary. In the end though, I decided not to go into post-grad work. I sometimes think, "damn it, I want to be an academic" and then I remember that actually... I don't. Yes, in the present moment, I'd like to be reading a book on metaphysics, but I made a ton of other choices towards things I wanted more than doing that right now. I wanted to have fun rather than read a million papers. I wanted to be able to live where I want rather than move wherever I could get a position. I chose a lot of comforts because I want them more than the alternatives.
So I think it's actually a good post. It's just a reminder that we choose creature comforts over what's necessary to "be rich" (we'd rather be laid back and likeable than staying until 9pm and being cutthroat - not the only ways to get there, sure, but they're options). It's not saying, "you're an idiot for not trying hard enough", just "you chose things you wanted more".
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Shit man, if I was a cartoon character I'd bang that girl.
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Yeah, why don't the people in third world countries just GET food for their starving children? They obviously don't want it enough. #wisdom
They just have other things they want more. Like malaria.
That's clearly not what it was saying you conflict seeking douche. God you piss me off.
It had a reasonable point, but of course you applied it to people it wasn't directed at, taking it completely out of context. Are you starving for food? I doubt it, since you're here browsing reddit so get off your fucking high horse.
Oh come the fuck on. The point is horribly unreasonable; it's saying that everyone chooses their situations and that no one is a victim of circumstance. We're making fun of it because it completely ignores chance. Not everyone can do everything if they set their minds to it. It's not deep, it's silly, so I made a joke. Calm down, it's just reddit.