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Now, suppose someone gave you a life... "





 i'm getting really into looking at the way i look at life, and judging people accordingly. it's really gay =D  like, when people say their life sucks, or are having a bad day, i think about how they react to things, and how their way of reacting might not be the best way to get things fixed.
for this reason, i feal really bad for cris. his life sucks. like he's tryin and tryin and all these bad things keep happening. but because of all this bad stuff, and how he's not giving in and just dying or quitting his job.. or wasting his money on drugs or something, he's a stronger person.  i guess that's why i love him... this character build up does good things for him.  like, now he's got my love, and probably many's respect, and he'll always look back on this as the time he didn't give in to horrible things.   i'm afraid there may be a limit that life can push him to, and i hope he doesn't ever reach that.  but i guess we'll never know how that'll turn out if it never has to happen. 
although, maybe sometimes it's better to give in.  i haven't lived all situations, i wouldn't know.  every thought you have basically sums up your existence.. so why exist painfully.  let bad things slide every once in a while or you'll probably live a life of problems.

For every action, there's a reaction.  Every reaction builds who you are.   Existentialism says that people write their own lives.  Every moment of every person's life is filled with decisions: what to say, where to go, what to think, how to act.  Most decisions model who you are, and become second nature as you grow older.  A better life is built from getting out of that norm, to decide to live life in different paths, and enjoy every second of it.  Although, the kind of life you want to live is completely up to you.

A man hitches a ride from a stranger, and doesn't know where to get dropped off.  After the other passenger proposes a series of desultory directions, the man asks, "Where’s that?" and the driver replies, "Well I don't know either, but it's somewhere, and it's going to determine the rest of your life."  A major theme in existentialism is the idea of writing your own life.  In one of the Chicken Soup stories, this idea is approached in a similar way. You decide to write your life down, given a pen and paper. The great thing about being human is that there are so many ways to start doing that. “Would you plan and plan before you ever wrote a word? Would your plans be so extensive that you never even got to the writing?” “And of what would you write: Of love? Hate? Fun? Misery? Life? Death? Nothing? Everything?”  Life is everything you want it to be, and you can decide what will be your focus.. it’s amazing.
            Life is where you want it to be. This example, like every other example given in Waking Life is a very explicit one.  Every way he decides to react to that aimless location will probably change his life: maybe not directly, but his outlook on life.  An angrier person may get really upset about this, and kill people.  But that decision would send him to jail, which is where his life is headed since he decided to live that way.  Somebody just living through the motions would just let it happen, and keep living their life like nothing happened.  Somebody extremely nervous may freak out and cry about the situation.  Their life would probably always be like that: nervous breakdowns, fear and anxiety, but that decision is theirs to make. Somebody rushed may tell the driver not to go that way.  Any number of things could happen, and they all coincide with the way you look at things.  When things go badly, it's your fault, because they can go whichever way you want them to go.

I like the sight =]