Thread: Your room

Originally Posted by Hyperborean

Hahaha. I suppose so, even though calling it 'dramatic' would be short of an understatement. It was, however, intented to have a subtle meaning, but it seems my efforts were both hapless and worthless, so I guess it means I'm inept.

I completely understand what you are going for. sounds like a metaphor a modern day Henry David Thoreau would say on his way to Walden pond.
Step away from materialism for a bit and focus on what nature has given us. Basically, material things can come and go, and the world around us is corrupted by greed. We always want more and more, and with that attitude we will never be complacent with what we have. So just relax, slow down and focus on the more important aspects of life, like "playing in the rain" as you stated.

Originally Posted by SaMaster14

I completely understand what you are going for. sounds like something a modern day Henry David Thoreau would say on his way to Walden pond.
Step away from materialism for a bit and focus on what nature has given us. Basically, material things can come and go, and the world around us is corrupted by greed. We always want more and more, and with that attitude we will never be complacent with what we have. So just relax, slow down and focus on the more important aspects of life, like "playing in the rain" as you stated.

You have undoubtedly grasped the essence of what I was hinting at. This is good. However, in these times, it is close to impossible to follow this phiosophy through, thus rendering it void and forgoten.

Originally Posted by Hyperborean

You have undoubtedly grasped the essence of what I was hinting at. This is good. However, in these times, it is close to impossible to follow this phiosophy through, thus rendering it void and forgoten.

Yes, I very much agree. Emersonian ethics of self-reliance are almost surely obsolete in our modern day world, mainly because society and institutions have strangled the mind's of people to make them follow the path laid out for them. Poe predicted this downfall of human nature due to societal institutions, Melville tried to make people understand and change, and Hawthorne knew it was too late.

People can't think for themselves, even in schools, everything is departmentalized, and everything is laid out for you, to help you get into college, and than into graduate school, and than business etc etc...

Even myself, someone who understands these ethics can't follow them. I think I want to, but I am so caught up in materialism and the sort, as you probably could have seen already by me posting in this thread earlier, and my posts in other threads.