|
What I have to say has already been said. I have only this to add:
The people who are saying that we are sheep (or that there are sheep at all) display what are, to me, blantant symptoms of being in a state I was once in. I thought I was depressed... and I made myself so, but only because I didn't fully understand what it meant to take responsibility for myself - to take control - and how essential that is to living a fulfilling life. Depression and a lack of ownership over one's own life; whichever the cause, the other seems always to be the effect. To ask why we are living a certain life instead of to strive to live the life we desire is to give over control... to give it. It isn't taken from us so easily. (Unless of course we are talking about the mass media mind control thread. That is a whole other can of worms to consider, and I think it is very related to this thread.)
__________________
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
(Michael Jordan)
|