mikeyboi20 ([info]mikeyboi20) wrote,
@ 2005-10-20 12:45:00
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Simple
First off I'd like to say that I know that I have allready expresed this idea in a previous live journal, therefor, I am aware of the lack of originality of it.

As I went for my walk today and thought about my "life of unhappiness" I realised that my life isn't really that unhappy. I just happen to have one of the wost systems of apraising a good day in the world.
eg: Yesterday I had an enjoyable class, afterwards I got an A on a papper. Then I went to OOC and had a great conversation with the new people. Then I went home and I read a book I had been looking forward to for weeks. Then I surfed the net for a hour for possible jobs with a BA. And lastly I watched 2 hours woth of south park with Cam and Kevin. My point is that by all acounts in most people's perceptions that would be a good day. But instead of being happy I was bogged down in this thick cloud of unhappiness thinking about what I don't have.

The thing is I don't know if I'm capable of apriciateing the good things in life at the same rate that I moarn what I don't have. But I guess all I can do is try.


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[info]hmhvv
2005-10-21 01:01 am UTC (link)
is there truly anything that in life we can appreciate and call it good? in the end is everything not compared to which experiences in our lives that stand out the most. Most of all the negative experiences are the ones that stand out in our minds more than those of positive ones? And by comparing all our everyday experience to those negative memories, then do we not just create this inability to appreciate a good day out. Because in the end we wonder why it is that we don't feel good on a supposed good day out?!?

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[info]hanfastolfe
2005-10-21 09:59 am UTC (link)
The trite expression I can cite is possibly apocryphal: "Spend a minute with a beautiful girl and it seems like a second. Spend a second touching a hot stove and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." - Einstein.

The take-home message as applied to this discussion we're having is that good experiences seem shorter and more fleeting to our minds than bad experiences do because our time sense is fundamentally subjective.

The other problem with bad experiences is that we can't change them, but wish we could. That doesn't happen with good experiences...

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[info]yellowjam
2005-10-24 11:06 pm UTC (link)
spelling work on spelling
apreciate not apriciate..
mikey im a big bitch

i hope youve been well.. we should try to hang out sometime, you can visit my payday loans office..

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(Anonymous)
2005-10-25 04:26 pm UTC (link)
It's actually "appreciate".

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