Tucken

I chose misery and forgot about it.

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by , 07-27-2012 at 03:15 AM (197 Views)
So I had been gathering a lot of info and done a lot of thinking. It wasn't an outspoken question, but I was wondering "Why do I do all these things that I don't want to do?". School, keeping contact, carrying phones and devices with me everywhere I went, fears and routines. All so boring, and messed up.

So I began various experimentations. I started to exercise, for the first time in my life. I researched healthy foods and was excited eating flat breads and barley gruel. In the midst of, something equal to a doormitory, of partying university students. Perhaps you'd be surprised, or not, that when you eat oat-meals in the evening, and not in the morning, people have much opinion about it! That when you begin to exercise, your own parents think there is something wrong with you! That as an adult when you don't care about school or homework, though even a kid would state it without hesitation, then things are serious!

I was getting angry very with all these systems and people controlling me. Increasingly blaming them, blaming parents, teachers, politicians the more I researched my misery. For good reason...Maybe. The social conditioning is there, that shouldn't be denied. Society is as it is.

One of the things that I've been the most angry and upset about is school. I never wanted to go there. As a kid, I struggled greatly first day I was going to kindergarden. Yet I was overwhelmed by everyones demands. My father had to go to work, I remember...And I had no keys to the house, like my older siblings. What could I do?

It was a very barbaric thing to do, forcing a little kid into something. And not just anything, but a twelve year imprisonment, until he was so accustomed to it he didn't mind it. It was a secure cell, and the future held great promise, with higher studies and western civilization goodies and what not.

And then it hit me, just a few weeks back. Even though I'm sure I've thought about it before. Now it kinda dawned upon me. I could have refused, fought it, made it unacceptable. I owed it to myself. Even at that early age...And everything which followed upon it, followed because I accepted this in the very beginning and fell in line. Went to school...

I cannot blame any teachers or parents, it was all my mistake. I failed myself then and there. Crap!! ARGH was I angrrry with this.

From now on, I'll do better :). And all blaming outside is bound to begin with myself, perhaps from somewhere long ago, long forgotten.
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Updated 07-27-2012 at 08:53 AM by Tucken

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  1. the crow's Avatar
    When you are a child, you don't have a choice.
    Nor should you.
    No rights.
    This is normal, and results in a reliable society.
    When children have rights, and adults treat them as equals, we get what we have, now.
    A complete, dysfunctional mess.

    Part of being a child is learning, from adults, how to be, and how to behave.
    A child puts what the child wants before anything else.
    When you get a whole society of these children-become-adults, you get what we now have.
    A complete, dysfunctional mess.

    So no, you couldn't have, and shouldn't have, done it differently.
    You went through, and are going through, what all humans are designed to go through.
    It's called growing up :)
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  2. Tucken's Avatar
    Ah welcome. To some extent, I realize that as a child, you don't have much choice. It is too much to ask of a child to care for itself.

    I can't accept just anything, it has to make sense to me. The very prospect that I should leave my fate to parents and teachers and society...very hard to accept.

    I could choose to leave it to them. A surrender, but how can you do that when it's to a dysfunctional school? Not that I knew that at the time, it just sounded boring. And who are they to send me there, saying I require it, couldn't I test it out for myself and see if that was so or not? If that is not my choice to make, even as a child...Very hard to accept. I don't think I can. Neither do I know what would have made it right, what I should have done. Guess you just move on. It's a bit sour.

    I suppose, that if education had been good, I wouldn't have had complaints about it, but been grateful. At least that is the result of dysfunctional societies. And dysfunctional people. But blaming them ends here =). Else I'd be miserable.

    Hmm I am very controlling.
  3. the crow's Avatar
    You're also falling head-first into the modern trap of assuming that everything has to be pre-approved, by you, before it is valid.
    I see this, all the time, on the internet:
    When people read something, the first thing they do is decide if they agree with it.
    If they do, it's right.
    If they don't, it must be wrong.
    This is a very strange way of doing things, don't you think?
    If you assume that you are in a position to accurately judge everything, what can you possibly learn? Nothing that you don't already know!
  4. Tucken's Avatar
    That is true. Thank you for telling me. In some areas of life, I will stay an idiot for a very long time :).
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