CYNICISM

VIRTUE IS THE ONLY GOOD AND ITS ESSENCE LIES IN SELF-CONTROL AND INDEPENDENCE.

I BELIEVE THAT THE WORLD SUCKS BUT I ALSO FEEL THAT EVERYONE HAS GOOD IN THEM AND THAT THERE IS HOPE.

WITHOUT THIS, I WOULD HAVE ALREADY SUCKED THE END OF A GUN!

I'm kind of the other way around - virtue is just a word that people like to apply to themselves because it makes them feel morally superior - chaos is far more productive than control - the world is an intrinsically marvellous place and everybody has a part of themselves which is truely disgusting.

Hope is just an inability to appreciate what this moment now has to offer.

I love life and have never had the urge to suck the end of a gun (was that a sexual metaphor I seem to have missed? I just don't get you heterosexuals!!)

I AGREE WITH YOU, CORTICA. BUT LIFE IS HARDER ON SOME PEOPLE THAN OTHERS.

I FEEL FOR THOSE THAT I SEE HAVING TO SUFFER SO MUCH!!!

ENJOYING LIFE?? FOR SOME IT IS ABOUT JUST SURVIVING.

NO! ON THE METAPHOR. NOT EVEN THINKING ABOUT THAT.

LOL... I'm confused. Isn't life about overcoming problems? And doesn't everyone have problems?

I agree that some people have it way worse than others, though. What really bothers me about that is when people try to help them but are stopped by tyrannical forces. For example, a little while back I read about a doctor who went to China to help educate the Chinese people about aids, because, as we know, there is a major HIV epidemic in China. Well, the doctor was trying to explain to the Chinese people how Aids was spread, in order to try and stop it from spreading. As it turned out, the Chinese government had sent a government organization into the poorer parts of China set up so that the Chinese farmers could sell their blood to the government for money. The conditions underwhich the organization took the blood were completely insanitary. Needles were shared, and if one person who sold blood had HIV, by the end of the day everyone who sold blood had it. The Chinese government hated the fact that the doctor was actually telling the chinese people this. A little while later, the docter disappeared. He had reported to his wife in California before he disappeared how he had been followed and how he didn't feel safe. Now ofcourse, it doesn't have to be the Chinese government who actually "did away with him" because he was telling the Chinese people things which the government didn't want them to know, but anyway it still seems awfully suspicious to me.

And anyway, my point is that there so much corruption in the world that even people who try to do good often fall victom to bad guys' evil plots. It practically gives out a warning sign to anyone who wants to do good that if they try they'll well... In a lot of circumstances wind up dead. Not very happy signals. Not very good incentive. Quite infuriating. Life doesn't make me a cynic, though it is easy to look at it that way, it just makes me frustrated.

wuts wrong suzy? o_O

I agree morgan, i think when someone goes through a lot of problems, they dont know where to turn or what to do that they blame their lives or people around them, i dont think this is wrong..infact i dont think this is wrong at all, cus i dont know, maybe they'll learn through it. Suzy, maybe this will cheer you up? 😐

I seen a rainbow yesterday
But too many storms have come and gone
Leavin' a trace of not one God-given ray
Is it because my life is ten shades of gray
I pray all ten fade away
Seldom praise Him for the sunny days
And like His promise is true
Only my faith can undo
The many chances I blew
To bring my life to anew
Clear blue and unconditional skies
Have dried the tears from my eyes
No more lonely cries
My only bleedin' hope
Is for the folk who can't cope
Wit such an endurin' pain
That it keeps 'em in the pourin' rain
Who's to blame
For tootin' caine in your own vein
What a shame
You shoot and aim for someone else's brain
You claim the insane
And name this day in time
For fallin' prey to crime
I say the system got you victim to your own mind
Dreams are hopeless aspirations
In hopes of comin' true
Believe in yourself
The rest is up to me and you

Lisa Lopez...to quote dxp, I'm very impressed! 😉