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Originally posted by Fortune
Spank-A-Thon, being poor, living in a coutry like Africa and suffering from famine or other terrible diseases or also having troubles like being handicapped are not the only real problems in life. Of course they are really serious (I'm not that stupid to say they're not), but it's a stereotype always keeping on quoting those problems as if they were the only ones you can call real. There are many studies telling that one of the greatest and most common diseases of the last century is called "depression", and there are several other sub-categories you can include in the same area as well. Many people, as you maybe (at least from what I'm reading..), don't even consider this problem as a really serious and effective illness and they keep on telling "It's nothing but teenage angst". I don't think you can call this only "teenage angst" because you know, there are actually many persons who are not teenagers at all that consider life painful and unfair even if they don't have the "real" problems you mentioned in your post. They hear speeches as the one you posted every single day from many different sources and they hear people telling them they don't have a serious problem because they don't have cancer, they have a work, they have a family, they live in the "right part of the world" and so on. But you know, those persons can even have their lives ruined by this kind of difficulties, even if their existance seems to be so normal and bright to persons like you.
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I understand what you're saying Fortune, but I don't agree with you.. The examples I have mentioned may seem like 'cliched' problems - but they are real problems...
Everyone in these forums has access to some kind of PC. That means there is one in the family (so you have a roof over your head and a certain degree of disposable income), or you have access to one at school (which means you have the opportunity to be educated), or maybe it's at work (in which case you have a job and thus have potential). So to be *****ing about how bad life is, when some people will never get to even see a PC, seems somewhat bad taste.
Sure, people suffer from depression. Sure, things don't always go well in life, and sure - sometimes I haven't been happy with my life... But to say you
hate life is too much...
Don't know if anyone has ever noticed, but both my sig and custom title read the same thing -
Carpe Diem Baby...
It means 'Sieze the day baby'...
If there is something you don't like about your life,
Carpe Diem - Sieze the day and do something to try and change it!
We only get one shot at this life - so instead of wasting your time and b.i.t.c.h.ing about it - get up and do something!
Carpe Diem baby!!!
- S