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Originally Posted by Hoppipola  Lol Mark, I feel silly now,
because;
1. I am a teenager.
2. I realize I have a lot to learn, and you all are older and may or may not be wiser. |
Ahh, sorry to make you feel silly. Diplomacy isn't my strong point
And I wouldn't say I'm wiser, but perhaps my life has just shown me that a lot of the thoughts I used to have, which you're echoing, were caused by looking at reality through grey lenses, making everything look dreary and hopeless. Eventually I saw more clearly and I think you will too (and your photos, some of which are awesome(!), show that you can see the same).
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Originally Posted by Hoppipola I usually believe in everything until it is disproved, except Scientology. |
Why not Scientology?
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Originally Posted by Hoppipola But me... If anything I believe in living in the moment, and many moments can change the path of my life. It's what's weird about me, I look around (Say America for example) and see all the typical working class. I mean I'm sure when they were younger they wanted to do something amazing or whatever, but they ended up in their quaint little lives, as do their neighbors and so on. |
I was talking about that with a friend recently. She said that when she was hanging out with hippies she looked at people in suits, working 9-5, staring into space as they zombie-shuffled along to and from work. She thought they were lost, not really living. It wasn't until she started working and still enjoying herself (and the rest of her life outside of work) that she realised that she'd only seen one tiny fraction of those other people's lives (and that it's sometimes hard to look energetic when you've been studying all night and still have to work the next day).
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Originally Posted by Hoppipola And it's just that sometimes I feel that even if I wanted something to be extraordinary about my own life, I will just somehow end up with a 9 to 5 and bills to pay (which I am not complaining about.) |
I think one good thing about SR applies even from an objective perspective. That is that you can turn your life into whatever you want. You just have to want it strongly enough (and from an OR perspective, you also have to work to get it. Which you
will do if you want it enough).
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Originally Posted by Hoppipola I always seem to be looking for something out of the ordinary, to experience something amazing like that just because I don't want to end up like most people. |
And yet none of us really knows what "most people" are like. We only see what our learned perspectives allow us to see.
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Originally Posted by Hoppipola |
Some great work there! I made the mistake of looking at them before dinner. That BBQ one made my mouth water!
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Originally Posted by Hoppipola For example, If I were to go to a war zone area in the middle east, and took a nice photograph of children playing a game, that means something. Lol it all comes around; I want to show people how beautiful and amazing any place can be despite what bad goes on there. With photography and writing, you can make grass by the side of a road seem wonderful. |
There you go. You can do exactly the same for your own life, either through photos or by changing
your perspective.
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Originally Posted by Hoppipola P.S. The only amazing thing I could probably convince myself into believing in would be Lucid Dreaming. |
Heh, and just to highlight the influence of different perspectives further, lucid dreaming is something I don't think requires belief because it's something grounded in a natural phenonemon. It's simply conscious awareness of being in a dream state. But it still is amazing!
Though I guess it's kinda like saying "I believe in stress", or "I believe in ADHD". Even though both are widely accepted and well researched, not to mention widely experienced, there are still some people who believe they're made up.