Sunday, March 30, 2008
more responses to tuesdays with morrie..
i think to an extent americans are afraid of death. there certainly is a taboo of it, you are never supposed to talk abotu death to a person who is really dying and such but at the same time death is shown in horror and action movies and no one really thinks about it. maybe it is thrown around so much in the movies and media that when death actually occurs its kind of a shock that it could actually happen close to home. im not saying that death wouldnt be a shock without this but the idea of one of my close friends and family dying is just so unimaginable for me at least. but in reality, life is precious and anything could happen at anytime. people need to start really living life, there is too much worrying and emphasis on what we as teens should be doing with our time, i say screw that. i am going to live my life the way it should be lived and i am letting no one hold me back.
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haha, yea. It seems that death has been elevated to a point that we seem to be riding alongside with it at times i think? Well yea. i know what you mean by how adults say we should do whatever for the "future." but, isn't it wasted time if there ends up being no "future" for us ourselves?
now that's a problem.
yeah, dying is definitely a taboo. It's so awkward to talk about sometimes. like when someone tells you someone they know died it's really hard to know what to say or do because it's such an uncomfortable topic for some reason.
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