Re: [Talk] The quiet life?

看板EngTalk (全英文聊天)作者obiter (加油)時間19年前 (2005/09/23 17:36)推噓0(0推 0噓 0→)

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※ 引述《amepluie (凱琍)》之銘言： : Gosh...I feel like I'm writing an essay... : Anyways: : Obiter's comments are very true to a certain point. (Yep that's right.. : a little disagreement). : People have always described NZ as a country suitable for "retirement". : (I think that says a lot about the type of environment NZ is). : Therefore it "may not" be appropriate for young adults to stay there. : But just out of curiousity... what's wrong with a comfortable life? : Yes it is slow, quiet and peaceful. But one still needs to work to support : oneself (of course this will bring up yet another hot topic in NZ - the : unemployment benefit but let's not go there yet shall we?) : And work will keep people alive, believe it or not. : Yes the workload will be much lighter than to comparison of TW. : But if it is not necessary, why work till your body cannot handle the pressure? : Personally, I enjoy good life and I will work to ensure I have that life. : But once I reach there, I'll stop. : People may comment I am not aggresive enough or not motivated enough. : But anyways, that's my interpretation of "balanced life" : Secondly, about the comment that people are not "tough enough". : Actually it reminds me about the term "Strawberry generation" (sorry... : very very direct translation XD) : People's actions are caused by the environment they are brought up in. : Life in this generation is not comparable to the generation beforehand and : afterwards. So I've always doubted, why put the same expectations? : Every generation has their own problem to encounter, I do not believe it is : sensible to compare the degree of "toughness". : To extend on that though, I strongly belive human, in their human nature, : are highly adaptative. We shall survive in whatsoever scenario given to us : (well..maybe not everyone @@). : (seems I'am a bit out of the topic..) Anyways my point is just that people : in NZ are like that cuz NZ environment is like that. : But given chances they can be like TW ppl too. : ------------------------------------------------- : I remembered I have another point that I would like to mention but... : the program just crashed and my thoughts flew away with it -______- : NVM. : Anyways, please feel free to correct me, perhaps my thoughts are immature? : (hope not..) Hi... The funny thing is, I actually agree with you. Actually, I'm not sure that we really disagree on anything at all. I don't think there's anything wrong with a comfortable life. In fact, that's what I had always aimed for. Indeed, I used to think that people who feel that they are trapped, complain about trivial issues in life are quite pathetic, and simply could not appreciate the fact that they have an excellent life compared to millions of others in the world. Now all that's fine in theory. BUT, in my post, I was talking about how I feel. And there's nothing that I can do about them, because I am yet to formulate a good explanation for them. Right now, they are just feelings, just like that. And the explanations that I'm thinking of so far, can only be that because life is too comfortable, that we start to forget that we are living in a very good life. In fact, we start to take things for granted. And then, we would think of things that we DON'T have instead, and become depressed because things are so slow all the time, and there seems to be no progress... I do try to remind myself constantly about how lucky I am really, and that I am indeed leading a very good life. But sometimes, I still can't help but feel a little depressed, all the same knowing that I should not feel this way... It is quite ironic indeed! P.S For some reason, whatever I write tends to run into an essay...........:P -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 222.152.234.141