Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Life Is Intolerable
As best as I can tell, life is intolerable. Oh, not always of course. A case can be made for all the big wonders and little blessings and blah, blah, blah. But when you really boil it down, our entire existence rests on a few really ugly premises. First, life, and by that I mean the big life, life with a capital L, must ingest other life in order for it to remain life. Or, put another way, in order to witness the miracle of creation, we must continually eat, and then poop out, a little bit of that miracle. Second, one of the charming side effects of sentient life is emotional pain. The fact that dead and fermenting plant life creates alcohol - a terrific anesthetic for emotional pain - might cause one to think that this is, by nature, a compassionate universe. Think again. Keep dulling that pain with booze and you wind up, if you're lucky, in a church basement sharing your tears with complete strangers. If you're not lucky, you wind up on a waiting list for a motorcyclist's liver. And finally, there is the ever-present knowledge of death. In order to "more fully appreciate the gift of life," we all get to ponder a violently sudden or slow and agonizingly painful descent into oblivion -- after which our beloved bodies turn into the stuff of nightmares. Which brings me back to my original premise: life is intolerable. But rather than go gently into that creepy night, I've decided to listen to you and want your perspective on life. Am I a cynic? I glass half-empty kind of guy? Comment and make your voice heard before you're dead and your vocal chords are being eaten by a swarm of disgusting bugs.
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fuck you!
ReplyDeleteI don't get why you bitch so much? all you do is bitch at stuff. what is your freaking problem? You could be in Haiti buried under rubble. but no you're sitting in front of computer screen bitching about nonsense.
ReplyDeleteyou make sick.
YOU ARE SSSssssooooOOO Right. But why tolerate it by sitting at a computer screen and punching keys? Punch a hole in the ice, and make a fish suffer,(it may relieve some of yours.) Or start running,running,running, (any aerobic exercise will do,) and see if you can do it for 5 hours non-stop. Don't read this! You already know it's a fuckin' waste of time. DO SOMETHING! Jack-off, swear insanely, see how far you can spit, piss your pants, but don't DON't try to do anything that others may think is positive or productive. It adds nothing. GODD LUCK!
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