The "Freeola Customer Forum" forum, which includes Retro Game Reviews, has been archived and is now read-only. You cannot post here or create a new thread or review on this forum.
No, really. I used to think, about lots of things. When I went completely insane for a year, I have faint memories of writing out a six page essay on why gravity doesn't exist and why it was all made up. It irritates me that I can't find that document.
And there are a lot of questions in this world that if we found we'd all sit around for a very long time and try and work out the answers to. The most frightening thing is that people answer them in their own way, and then they believe their own way works for everyone else.
Now I can tell you for certain that my life isn't for everyone to live, and I'm sure I'll be equally messed up if I tried living yours.
But to be honest I don't care.
And that's what it's beginning to come down to. I think it's called evolving.
Now don't get me wrong, caring has a very fine line. But when six people I don't know, who in fairness have probably lived fantastic lives and have done well for themselves, die in some tradegy, then ok. I think it's pretty bad the world has to lose such people who do seek out so much from life, and well, the only way I'd ever have known they existed is when they die.
And what's it supposed to be? A wake up call? I've had enough of those thank you, so many I can be now be wide awake, and fast asleep. Which I've missed.
And I'd like to introduce you to my life.
Because am I going to miss six people who I've never met? No. Am I going to miss a building full of people who, to my heart, mean absolutely nothing? No. These are people in a world of many, and most of which will never mean a single thing to me.
However, in this massive planet, lies my life. Like the Earth in the universe, it's small, and insignificant. But it's there, and it's mine. And in comparision, I'm probably the smallest of specs on the smallest of glasses that nobody would even notice before pouring in the whiskey. I'm just there, and I'd wash away in the water and the wind.
And it doesn't bother me one bit.
Because my life is important to me. It's not much, it's not really anything. But it's life, and I have lots of little things that make me happy.
I have someone very beautiful and close to me who I love more than anything in my world or any other that I've noticed. I have wonderful friends, who while may find their own lives hard, I'll always be there for them. Because they're part of my world, and I have so much power over my world it's just unbelievable.
You know what's really cool? There are loads of other people on this planet, and while I've never met them and I probably never will, they've all affected me. Because in their little worlds, they've decided to record music, make films, paint pictures. And that's their world, and that's what they do. And I can come along, and I can listen to them, and watch them, and see what they've done, and it can make me smile. It can make me think about my little world and all it's moons which spin around it so fast. It makes me think about all my sunsets and all my sunrises that occur so faster than the ones of this planet.
And while the sun could be rising somewhere right now, it's also setting somewhere else. And yeah, it's beautiful. The sun really is beautiful to this planet. And I love to watch it.
But the most beautiful of sunrises and sunsets have come from my little world. And that's the way it'll always be.
And my world, I carry it around in my coat pocket. It's always there, it's always with me. And me and my world travel around this land, and everywhere I go now, it's home.
And what I think about now, because well, I do still think, is that where I can take my world next. What perhaps I can sit down inside it and do. And make. Because I have the ability to make other people smile. I don't really have any intention of trying to make you live like I do... that'd be silly, I mean, whatever you're happy with and all... but I can show you my world for a little while. I can pluck some things out of it and I can wave them about and it'll make you laugh, then you can find something locked down in the back of your world, and show me, and hell, I'd laugh too.
And there's nothing more than that. We're in a universe, in a tiny little galaxy, on a planet spinning around a sun, in a body that carries our world. And our world is the most important thing of all these. The planet in which we live is ours to own, and it's important also we keep this planet well. Because there's plenty of room here, plenty of room for all the worlds that inhabit it, and plenty of room for more.
So why does it come to reason that there are some people so unhappy with their own little worlds that they decide to end the worlds of others? They forcefully end their lives, end all they've lived for, and take from them their entire live and world. All they live for, all that means to them may mean nothing to someone else... but that's not the point. The point is their world is not yours to control.
The point is while your world may be important to you, it won't be really that important to anyone else. And sometimes you find someone who really finds your world so fascinating, and someone who wants to come and visit your world, and let them in yours. And hell, perhaps you'd want to do the same.
And maybe some worlds will pair off. They don't become one giant bigger world, they just become two worlds that live together in peace.
But well, sometimes it's hard to understand that. Sometimes it's hard to understand that for all that may happening in the world, and all that's going on, the most important thing in the entire world may be the most simple of things to you.
And I see some of you talking about Iraq, and how George Bush is going to bomb everyone, and well, I know I disagree with war, and that's why I marched and that's why I protested. But I'm just a tiny little world in a tiny little planet, and there's not much more I can do.
And I see some of you talking about how futile life is, and some of you may talk about smoking and some of you may talk about games... you talk about films and you talk about everything that's important to you. And that's great, but most of the time it just doesn't interest me, I'm sorry.
Because it's important to you. That on it's own should give you all the pride you need. You may become the chairman of the international league of nose hair plucking, and that to you might be exactly what you've wanted to do all your life, and while nose hair plucking just isn't what I'm looking for in life, I'd be proud for you, so damn proud. Don't expect me to understand the way you feel, but just know that I think it's great you've got something.
Because what've I done? I managed to save a caterpillar's life the other day, that made me so happy. It's my Dad's birthday soon and I'm writing him a letter, and that makes me happy.
The sun shines, it makes me happy. The wind cooling my skin, yeah, that makes me happy too. I'm beginning to play the guitar better, hell, in comparision to some, I'm pathetic, but I can play some things better now, and it makes me happy, and it makes me proud.
And in this simple little life I live, with simple little pleasures that make me so happy, I've come to know some of the most fantastic people that I could ever possibly imagine meeting, and they've made me so happy. And I've had the absolute pleasure to be able to look into other people's worlds for a while, and to learn something but my own world that perhaps I didn't see before.
And I'll continue to get a little depressed sometimes at my world, and I'll continue to giggle at the tiniest of things that make me happy, but all in all, I'll continue to float around inside my world, working on a little to make something I can be proud of.
Because my world? It's fantastic. I love all of it, I love everything in it, and I can accept it all. And while you probably don't live like me, or perhaps you do, the only advice I can give you is to accept your little world. Treat it kind and love it, and you'll find life so much easier.
And my world makes a difference. It's so small, so slight, but it does make a difference.
And for all I've lived for, and for all I've done... if I look back at my world and see how complex yet simple it really is... I feel SO damn proud, if somehow, just somehow, I can affect someone else's little world, and make them live life for the better.
Because people aren't countable. We can be classed as human, we can be classed as people, but we are individuals. We are all seperate worlds spinning. And to affect one person, is incredible. To affect just one person to help them understand themselves a little better, to help them to live their life a little easier, then well, that's all I can ask for.
Because we're not all just skin, bones and a name.
We are all seperate entities living in a beautiful world. We all have voices, and they are all different.
So don't be afraid.
Never be afraid.
You have as much right to live as anyone else. You have as much right to shine as anyone else on this planet.
Shine how you want to shine. Keep searching, keep finding more that makes you happy. And soon you'll realise that so much makes you happy. Even if you've not even seen a tenth of this world, you'll find so much that makes you smile just within that portion.
And the most important thing for me to say is thank you.
The thing that means to most for me to say is thank you.
Because you've shown me so much and you've held me up. You've been there and you've worried and you've talked to me and you've helped me. You've affected the way I live and love and the way I smile. You've changed my perspective and there's not much more I can say to you all but thank you.
So thank you for all you are. Thank you for continuing to live your lives and helping me to live mine.
And tomorrow will just be another day.
Grix Thraves wrote:
> The reason we're equal is because we're all alive.
I though we had established that all life is incomparable. If you are changing tack again and claiming we're all equal because we are alive it now seems that you are using the first interpretation I gave of "all life is equal" in that everyone has one life, and that's why we're equal
Grix Thraves wrote:
> We're different and that's what makes us equal.
No I know you know this is a contradiction, I can tell by the next line.
Grix Thraves wrote:
>I'm not talking about textbook definitions.
We asked you to define a system, we agreed that there was no system and that is why all life is incomparable.
Grix Thraves wrote:
> I have still not contradicted myself but you're all finding
> it extremely difficult to understand.
Ever considered that you might just be wrong. The greatest philosophers and scientists proposed a theory, and then spent a great deal of time trying to refute it in order to develop a better theory.
To me, really all you shown is that to say all life is equal because it just is is one of the worst arguments I have ever heard.
Grix Thraves wrote:
> I know sometimes I find it
> difficult to explain myself but it would be very helpful if you
> questioned me instead of jumping to conclusions.
>
We did question you. We asked you what system you were using to evaluate life. Together we decided that there can be no system to evaluate life. Surely this should have ended there?
>
> This was a post aimed at them, and still is. I'm not asking you to
> live the same way I do, I'm just giving you some of my views.
and you're entitled to your views, but surely you put them here to be discussed, which we have. You shouldn't take it so personally.
Chill out a little
> time after time I still see people complaining about how
> bad their deal is.
Some peoples deals are bad. Some people chose to end 'the greatest gift of all'. I chose to post my feelings about how bad I feel on an anonymous forum where I don't (well I didn't) know any of the people. By doing this I hoped that it would relieve a little of how I felt in my Real Life.
Before you(and others I have seen) judge people who post anout their bad deal on what I post, either stop and think about how the person behind that post is feeling, or althernatively ignore the post and don't judge it.
Its good that you feel so happy with your life, but remember that for people who are depressed it is an illness over which they have little control
We're not damn painted portaits hanging on a damn wall.
We are living breathing creatures and we've all got our own way of life.
The reason we're equal is because we're all alive.
And that's ALL THERE IS TO IT.
It's not because I have wings and you don't it's not because you can bowl a fooking apple down a crooked lane better than anyone it's because you have life and you choose to do what you like.
You're all making this far more complicated than it needs to be.
You are alive.
That is all.
Some can fly, some can swim, some can walk, some can't. Some have better hearing but can't see and some have better vision but can't hear so well.
It doesn't bloody matter.
We're different and that's what makes us equal. I'm not talking about textbook definitions. This isn't about the biggest coconut in the stand, folks, this is about the fact that we're all given the greatest gift of all and it doesn't matter what we have when we're given it it's the fact we're given it to start with.
So sure you can blame whatever you want on your inabilities. You can say that you can't bowl as fast as another person because you weren't born with the arms, you can say you can't fly because you're not bird, but that's no excuse to not be happy for who you are.
This is the way I live and these are my opinions which I hold strongly and true. I have still not contradicted myself but you're all finding it extremely difficult to understand. I know sometimes I find it difficult to explain myself but it would be very helpful if you questioned me instead of jumping to conclusions.
Yes, birds have life and so do dogs and even that caterpillar, yeah, he's got life too. Does he know different to what he is? No, neither do we, yet time after time I still see people complaining about how bad their deal is.
This was a post aimed at them, and still is. I'm not asking you to live the same way I do, I'm just giving you some of my views.
> I wish I could fly.
i wish i cud flyyy
into da skyyyy
> So now we are born equal to birds and fishes as well?
>
> m'okay
I know,
but that was Grix's original argument,
go figure.
m'okay
That would be the best thing EVER. Nothing could surpass soaring on the wind currents...NOTHING!
*starts drooling*
> Thats silly. Nobody can fly or breath underwater. Many people can
> win a wheelbarrow race. Your not proving anything.
>
> And if some people could fly or breath underwater then they wouldn't
> be our equal either.
Grix said all life, birds fly, fish breath underwater
> Simon Says wrote:
>
> "are you implying that we aren't all born equal ?!?"
>
> No, I was just trying to help you understand. Didn't work, damn.
>
> "I thought that we had established that you believe that your
> system that is no system but is still a system even though it isn't is
> that there is no system to evaluate life, and compare one life to
> another."
>
> Yup. Not lost, are we?
>
>
> "What you now seem to be saying is that we are all born with
> different potentials, and how we use them is our choice."
>
> Yes... and?
You said we are all born equal, but brought up differently.
If we are all born with different potentials how can we all
be born equally?
>
> "So how do we measure potential then? I suppose that's
> incomparable too."
>
> A man without any limbs hasn't got much of a chance at winning a
> wheelbarrow race against someone with all limbs. Make of that what you
> will.
>
Therefore, using the system of evaluating life by wheel barrow race we are not all born equal.
>
> Don't you find it a shame you can't fly? I do. Or breathe underwater.
> That would be really cool.
yes, I do actually, it would be really cool
"Having the same quantity, measure, or value as another.
Mathematics. Being the same or identical to in value.
Having the same privileges, status, or rights: equal before the law.
Being the same for all members of a group: gave every player an equal chance to win.
Having the requisite qualities, such as strength or ability, for a task or situation: “Elizabeth found herself quite equal to the scene” (Jane Austen).
Adequate in extent, amount, or degree.
Impartial; just; equitable.
Tranquil; equable.
Showing or having no variance in proportion, structure, or appearance. "