what is going on?

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Posted by niradon on October 29, 1997 at 09:09:00:

serious, this is completely serious

has anyone else in this world suspected that there is something very strange going on?
I am not talking about a conspiracy theory or anything of the sort.
Why does it seem as though every person on this planet is completely screwed up

everybody has their thing, everyone has a missing part or a deep fault or something in their character, or a tic
or a vice, like strangely desperately needing to be succesfull in a career, or wanting to be the "best" whatever

Is there a reason for this? has anyone actually stopped and said "I am going to work this out"
this thing, this fault, this restlessness or meaninglessness or whatever, this "human condition", have you noticed, seems to cross ALL geographic barriers, all racial barriers, all religious barriers .....
what the fuck is going on? is there something wrong? ..... who is responsible?

is it possible, is there even the remotest possibility that there is a reason for this, that there is something that no one, or very very few, has understood or realised or seen?
I mean is it possible to put everything aside,.......

and say
forget what my father did to me
forget that I desperately want my friends to respect me
forget that I wish I was someone else
forget that deep down I really dont like myself
forget that I need people's attention
forget that I am scared of commitment
forget that I need commitment
forget that my wife left me
forget that my flatmate annoys the hell out of me when she turns the TV on really loud in the lounge room
forget that I want my ex-girlfriend to like me despite of the fact that I dont like her

so that maybe it is possible to see what the hell is going on in everybody's mind all over the world

do you ever get the feeling that everybody in the whole world is running around like a headless chicken?

why has hundreds of (documented)years of political history, different peoples attempting all sorts of different ways to organise their societies seem to make very little impact on the human condition
why is it, and you might disagree, that people in third world countries who often find it difficult just to feed themselves, often dont seem any more or less happy than anyone else.

thought never seems to stop, it goes on and on and on and on, seems to repeat itself a lot

I dont know, I am not convinved that we HAVE to live with this bullshit, day in day out, its always there.


when you are a little kid, eventually, you wake up and you are on holidays and you sense "everything is ok", but now, as an adult it feels as though there will never be a holiday, as though this is it

serious, it feels like there is something really wrong