January 16, 2012

  • Everything Is Sh*t

    I'm sick again! Right when it starts to clear up, I wake up one morning with a sore throat, and then a couple days later I'm sleeping all the time, and I have the sniffles, and a couple days after that I have a cough again. I'm really becoming cross with all this. I've been sick since November, and I don't care to be sick anymore.

    So I go on the internet, and I come across this lovely little comment (which is presented here urtext):
    people who are afraid to die are afraid to live.  embrace life!  death is already certain.  make the most of life!

    Now what the FSM is that even supposed to mean? And why do we have this vague notion that people who fear death can't lead fulfilling lives? Why does this sort of thing sound perfectly reasonable to so many people?

    . . . I'm being unfairly cross. I understand the sentiment, which is that you can't be so paralyzed by caution that you never have any adventures. It was presented as an answer to someone's post about fearing death. But not everyone who fears death is paralyzed by caution, and saying "people who are afraid to die are afraid to live" is hardly an answer. It's not going to make anyone less afraid. Maybe I'm more afraid than average, because I look at a comment like that, and I want to shake my head and say, you're answering an altogether different question.