The miniature earth

[Cadaverous Pallor]

View. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvTFKpIaQhM)

I have to say, it moved me.

[Gemini Cricket]

I liked it, too.
:snap:

[Chernabog]

Me too -- good use of the Donnie Darko music :) :) (which moved me in that movie, too). But 75% of the world's population doesn't have a bed, a closet, and a refrigerator? That's an amazing statistic.

I often find it strange to put my own life's problems in perspective. Each social/financial strata has their own problems -- I mean, everyone has "real" issues, it's just that the basic necessities of life are addressed (and/or sometimes taken for granted) in most of the people's lives around me.

[cirquelover]

Thanks CP. I even made the boy watch it. He said " It was eye opening". It definitely helps you put things into perspective, doesn't it!

[BarTopDancer]

Wow.

[innerSpaceman]

yeah, ok, so I cried. so what?


I've always known, and like to constantly remind myself, that I am so fortunate and live a far richer life than 99% of all the people alive and who ever were alive.

I can never be thankful enough.


But our planet plainly sucks and I want to try a different one.

[Not Afraid]

All the gratitude in the world does not make this mundane things of my life not suck.

[blueerica]

Must spread mojo before I can give any more to NA.

Nice find, CP. I always find these things fascinating.

[innerSpaceman]

Personally, i find that gratitude does indeed eliminate or calm a good deal of the sucky things in my life.

It's all about perspective anyways. Changing that perspective can change anything.


Nothing is objectively sucky. It's we who decide to make it so.



Granted, some things are going to be deemed sucky by most rationale people. It's still a perspective.





Anyway .... as bad as things may suck for any of us .... we know they could suck way, way, WAY more. Sometimes I am very glad for my problems. They may suck to me .... but I'm fully aware that if these are my problems, I've got it pretty good.

[BarTopDancer]

If all I have to worry about today is the stupid traffic making me late for work then I have it pretty good. That traffic may be caused by an accident where someone will never make it home.

[blueerica]

I find that the 'suck' level of something has more to do with the scope of experiences one has had. Though I think that at one point in my life I begrudged those who would bemoan things that I couldn't understand (as in, 'Your life is so awesome, how could you have anything to complain about?'), I've come to appreciate that sort of thing.

I've come to realize that my self-esteem has plummeted in some ways because I don't have as many people around me as I once did. Now, I was always the girl who had no problem going out to the movies, going to restaurants, coffee shops, whatever, alone. So, I figured that I was pretty independent - and the fact that I wasn't, due to my lifetime of having a crapton of friends and acquaintances, really frightened me, snowballing the low self-esteem issue. My life was so awesome, that losing something that I didn't even recognize as such a gift was devastating. I'm 'getting-over-it' now, and am becoming happier with just doing my own thing (truly doing my own thing).

And iSm makes an excellent point that seeing stuff like this actually helps to make the other things more calm, because it puts the issues in my brain into a bigger perspective. When watching this... I realize wow... my problem is that my life isn't as cool. How lucky am I?

Pretty damn lucky.

I'm in love, I have fun, I have no worries about a roof being over my head at any point, so WTF's my problem? I have a bank account... I am rich!

[BarTopDancer]

I'm in love, I have fun, I have no worries about a roof being over my head at any point, so WTF's my problem? I have a bank account... I am rich!

And a computer!

We're all pretty damn rich, even when we're pretty damn "broke".

[€uroMeinke]

I wonder how many of those people are hedonists

[Not Afraid]

Real hedonists or closet hedonists?

[€uroMeinke]

well heck - let's get numbers for both