Why you should not take life TOO seriously.

[MoonNieve]

I know I am not the only person that feels this way.

We as a species put so much effort and stress into our lives about small things, when we are at no point guaranteed a tomorrow. We live as if we guaranteed a long life when in actual fact anything can happen at any given time. Although this is quite a depressing topic in some way and form, I feel this specific topic also helps ground me and reminds me to enjoy what is happening in the now and present, as opposed to always hoping and dreaming of my future. Situations that seem like a big deal now seem minuscule.

This is why when it comes to things like politics, religion and controversial topics, while I very well may have an opinion on it, I certainly wouldn't allow the opposing view to make me feel angry. What would be the point in that? This time on planet Earth is valuable, and I would not like to spend this valued time being angry over something that I can not change (an opinion of the opposing view for instance) There is so much anger in the world, a bit like angry neighbours living next to each other, when it would just be nicer for everyone is we all tried to get along, or at least live in peace.

This is a bit of a short 'myTake' today, since I am tired. I just wanted to send some thought out there on how I am feeling.

[DJB72]

Last year I almost died of covid. Fighting the damn virus cost me my leg.

In rehab for the last 3 months of a total 6 consecutive, and 8 total months of 2020 in hospital, I quickly got a reputation among the staff.

They knew when I was around because they could hear so much laughter.

Don't take life seriously.

My first question I asked my doctor after he'd told me I had to have the leg amputated was if my medical insurance covered the cost of a parrot and eye patch. He was somewhat shocked, then just burst out laughing.

Two months earlier in that exact bed they had fought for over 2 hours to revive me after my heart stopped. They broke 5 of my ribs saving my life. And when I asked if the ribs were broken or if I was bruised the response told me they were concerned I was going to try and sue for the injury. I couldn't believe it. I just wanted to know, having just spent 3 months in a coma, what had happened and how long I would have to guard my left side!

But I was known for my laughter. I've had a total of 6 bad days emotionally since the amputation. 5 of those since I was discharged a month ago.

It's not difficult to take life seriously. It can be overwhelming. We live at the speed of "swipe". A thousand miles an hour.

We're designed as bipeds to live at around 3-5 miles per hour.

So I've decided to go back to the speed I'm designed to live at - and it'll be a while before I'm there regularly.

One thing's for certain: you can't take life too seriously at 3-5mph. You have enough time to deal with it.

On your own terms.

[MoonNieve]

I am so glad that you are alive and with us all here today <3

[DJB72]

All things considered, me too 🤪😊

[Browneye57]

Tell us what makes 'time on earth valuable'. Please, we're dying to know.

So, let me tell you about my neighbor... she's now in her eighties...
She didn't like that a tree in our yard grew up slightly taller than her roof line, so she dumped herbicide over the wall and killed them all - over a grand worth of mature shrubs between our two houses.
She sprayed or applied herbicide under our fruit trees ON OUR PROPERTY because she didn't like that grass or weeds grew under them. That herbicide goes into the soil and absorbed by the tree, and deposited into the fruit, which is given and taken by all manner of neighboring people including pregnant women and children.
She didn't like that there was some split firewood too close to her house, sitting on a concrete pad, because she was sure termites from it would infest her house.
She got rats in her attic and was sure they climbed up on her house from the trees or shrubs on our lot that are near her house.

So there you go. But we're supposed to 'just get along'. Sure. When she's dead I'll be happy.

In summary, YOU ARE COMPLETELY FULL OF SHIT.

[MoonNieve]

Reading through most of your comments on this site, I think your full of shit too mate 😂 must be fun knowing your not too far from pushing daisies coffin dodger 😂😂

[Browneye57]

Fuck off cunt.

[proNutro]

Personally I’m really happy with how my life is and I’m doing my own thing and I don’t feel stressed out by things. I’m enjoying finding out things I like and living the way I like but because I don’t let things stress me out that much anymore snd I’m so relaxed and going with the flow, not having all these worries, I so often get told I’m delusional, dumb, trying to be “perfect”. I even have this sentence told so often after I say I’m not trying to be perfect, I’m trying to be happy, “go back to your sewing, pink room and cats”😂
At the end of the day those people constantly live with “what if”, stressed, causing drama, always have to have some problem in their life to fix and if there isn’t one then they’ll make one.
I always tell those kinds of people that I’d rather live this “delusional” life they think I’m living and be happy, not stressed, relaxed and so on then life a life of this overwhelming stress, thinking everyone and everything in this world is shit, thinking everyone is out to get you somehow snd so on.

[Anonymous]

Good. I also stopped viewing the controversial and stupid questions like : Should hormonal birth control be legalized or should abortion be legal. Obviously the answer is YES. People should be given the freedom to live life the way they want to.
Because I know I will see idiotic, controlling, selfish and inconsiderate responses from males because they don't have to go through hell like a woman does.
But in reality no one can force anyone how to live their life.

[dantheman1118]

I agree with this strongly and I preach it all the time. So many things play a factor in this way of life. I think one of the biggest problems, if not the biggest is television. Nothing good comes from it. It's a box that brainwashes you. Not like hypnotizing but buts things in your subconscious without you even thinking about it. Everything on the television has some weird agenda. It could be the news, a tv show or just commercials. It could be an advertisement, political propaganda or just think of me later kind of thing. Overtime it's just filling you with nonsense. The worst thing about it (besides it's just garbage to start out with) is it steals the most valuable thing known to man and we not only let it, we get excited that it does it. It steals your time. Hours a week that you will never get to put to good use. Everything in our lives is replaceable except time. You can be the richest person that anyone could ever imagine x 1000 but all that money won't buy any extra time when you want it most. I bet if there was a way to convert time into money people would care more about that money than the 6 months they shaved off the end of their life.
That brings me to another thing I preach a lot about and that is money. People are in love with the thought of having tons of money. I don't understand why people get crazy over money. The concept of money is neat. The art of making money is amazing. But the actual money is something extremely evil. It makes good people not that great. It makes humans kill other humans. Just for money. The truth is money is nothing. It's fake. It holds no actual value. After we got rid of the gold standard it really doesn't have value. You know what the USA does if it needs more money? They will borrow from another country and then they print money. People getting house loans gets money printed. When we print a $10 bill it cost the USA like 70cents. So they trade us a.70cent piece of paper for something we all value at $10. That's the only "value" that bill has really. In reality our $10 bill is max value of.70cents. money is made up. Someone tell us that paper is worth$10 and I our hears we don't even fight it. We just say ok and we go along with the lie. The only value anything has is what we give it. There is absolutely no reason why we should value money any more than any other paper the only reason we think it's special is because some tells us that it is. Tomorrow everyone on earth could say "fuck this paper money BS." and someone could literally say let's value seashells as our new currency. And if everyone was on the same boat then now people would kill people for seashells.

My point is people need to value time more. Spend time doing what you love and not infront of your tv.

[Finchie40]

I agree , as I got older I realized life is too short to be stressing about things , a big part of me feels like I already experienced pretty much everything life had to offer me , to the point I don’t really care much about anything anymore, I just do what I do to keep me content and live my life the best I can , I am happy with what I accomplished and now I am just content , I don’t really have much more to look forward to so I pretty much do what I feel like doing , we are all going to die from something. So just live your life the way you are comfortable that’s all we can really do

[Freddy78361]

We, individually, are immaterial.
Our progeny/posterity are everything.

History has momentum. When you stop a routine or start a new one you create momentum in the other direction.

So if things are going well we want to keep them going at all costs for the benefit of those yet to come.
If things are going poorly now we need to work to fix them so things are better for those who won't know any different.

We, for the most part, are very lucky and blessed. I think people were more free 50 years ago in the usa but things are pretty good now all things considered. We need to keep it good.

I take that seriously. Sorry.

[Riebeck]

But good for them about being angry at such trivial things. That's the definition of living in the moment. They aren't thinking about life and death. I would say it's fine to take life seriously, just don't let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

[OfDeath]

I agree that people should calm down and not let the beliefs of others make them angry but sometimes that isn't possibly or rational. When other people believe that one should be killed because one doesn't share their beliefs and they believe that because their cultural superstition said so, they should be exposed and rebuked.

[KnightRevan]

Death is the most scary horrific topic for 99% people
on earth, i'm certain. Everybody avoids and dislikes that topic but that's the only thing in life which is true and certain.
When you take death seriously, you automatically take your life seriously. What we do impacts our future life.
People don't take it seriously because they don't know the reality. Reality is far from what they see.

[KnightRevan]

I worry about death because this is my golden time and if I don't find my way back while I'm alive, I'm doomed. Poisoned for zillions of years.

[Jjpayne]

I completely agree with this! It's good to be grateful for the present and focus on the present moment to live life the best we can while we can and live more for peace.

[ohshee]

Thank you
this is truly the best thing I have ever read on here to day I've become a little more wiser love your insight

[midnightmoon05]

Has always been my moto...
We never know what will happen.. but always do our best and appreciate each and every day we are here.

[MrCommodore]

Because worrying is like a rocking chair, great for passing the time, but it doesn't get you anywhere 😉

[worldscolide]

good take and very true. Taking life too seriously leads to way too much stress.

[FatherJack]

Good post , learning and being an exponent of the Noble Art Of Not Giving A Fuck also helps. I do miss savage banter and ripping the piss out of each other , esp back in my British Army days.

[loveslongnails]

The only time opposing views "anger me" is when they're dangerous, or threatening. I may disagree with you, even think you're ignorant for having that view, but that's different from anger.

[1stranger]

Gift!🤔?
Because life passes whether you take it seriously or not.

[ChefPapiChulo]

I’m taking things slower cause I hit a wall. I’m no longer a young 20 year. I’m a 30 year old. My chances at ambition are pretty much over. So I just do what I can now to get by.

[krin_m]

Well put! A lot of us feel that way! You articulated it very well!

[Deku2009]

Exactly, I don’t get why video game console fanboys and pc fanboys have to take crap so seriously.

[888theGreat]

I take it more seriously because I have fewer days left.

[ALewis30]

Stress is bad for your health. I enjoy watching comedy movies and shows

[NYCQuestions1976]

Well done, well said.