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Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way

Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But yu can't

And the message is to make the best out of those bad moments somehow because like it or not, they're still a part of life and you only will have exactly one life. If you try to skip out the bad moments instead of making them better you only spend a lot of time not living

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Again. Total horseshit.

Skip out on the bad moments if you can! Are you crazy?! Live your life! Don't simply choose to accept monotony just because it exists! You're saying you shouldn't try to actively avoid bad moments?! What the fuck kind of grin-and-bear-it nonsense is that?!

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

well of course you should try to avoid them, but sometimes shit happens. and bad shit happens to good ppl.
it's how you deal with it that can turn those adversities into a learning and growing experience.
and no, it is almost never easy.

[–] Ray3x10e8@feddit.nl 4 points 2 weeks ago

Of course, avoid suffering as much as possible. But even you have to agree that one cannot simply avoid all adversity.

Even though it would be nice to have a skip button, the reality is that we do not. So the job of philosophy like above is to make such moments bearable. It is almost pragmatic.