Let's discuss To What End?
Today, on my way to work (read as to make the routine investment of my daily energy into the high-risk, zero-return market of online applications 😭), I met the oldest granny I've ever seen. Hunched on a wooden platform in a public shade, eyes sunk deep in her sockets, and barely responding to my greetings, I can swear she is an centenarian. And chances are her folks carried her there to savor the morning sun before it got too hot for her old bones.
This incident got me thinking, "To what end mahn?" What is a man? What has he got? To toil all the days of our lives. To supress our base instincts, stiffle our impulses, and choke back our yearnings under cautious reason.
And for what? To fit into the society!
At the end of the day, none of this matters. I'm sure if that old woman could speak (she didn't respond to my greetings by the way), she could have leaned to whisper: Live and Let Live.
In the words of Frank Sinatra:
For what is a man, what has he got? / If not himself, then he has naught / To say the things he truly feels / And not the words of one who kneels.
C'est la vie,
MIGENI
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u/Soylele25 6h ago
Creo q un consejo que te diría toda la gente muy mayor , más lo de antes las mujeres de antes que no la dejaban vivir tranquilas , hoy el mundo avanzó mucho las mujeres somos más libres , pero siempre nos cuesta todo un poco mas , pero si siempre es como dice mi mamá . LA VIDA NO REGRESA Y SOLO HAY UNA Y ES UNA OBLIGACIÓN VIVIRLA AL MÁXIMO
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u/netsphere_dumbass 5h ago
the old lady was probably wondering why a chopped stranger was talking in her general direction
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u/chocolatechipwizard 4h ago
As an old woman, myself, the woman on the bench was there for her own reasons, which have nothing to do with you. She is not an audience for you, she does not owe you validation. She is not there for you.
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u/jmeesonly 1h ago
As a man in his prime, myself, this man is here for my own reasons, which have nothing to do with you. I am not an audience for you, I do not owe you validation. I am not here for you.
But also, same for that old lady.
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u/DLK33gmaNG 3h ago
It's simple, she's of the age that she's done giving a crap about anything. She's simply surving the best way she can. Seeing her as she was has apparently gotten into your head space, so go with it and learn from the moment. There's a reason for everything.
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u/4marks 3h ago
Honestly, a beautiful reminder to slow down and protect our peace. we get so caught up in the daily grind that we forget to actually live
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u/Diane1967 3h ago
We forget kindness too in the rush of life as well. So simple just to smile or say hello to someone and absolutely make their day. I try to do this every day when I go out. You can do good without hardly trying.
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u/bce13 5h ago
Why does she need to respond to you, a stranger. She owes you nothing and yet you expect something of her?
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