>>Life doesn't have to have meaning--it is just
a happy event--a carnival ride.<<<
May be you're right Mike...
You just reminded me of one story.
A psychologist, let's say Jim, test two group of people to dig 3 feet and then tell them to refill it with the dirts they just dig.
Changing the place to dig each time, he ask them to repeat this dig and refill over and over.
Jim paid very well, more than twice the market labor wage.
One group, half the people quit the job only after working half day, and the rest also lost enthusiasm for the job and didn't get much work done. They were dragging on just to receive the wage at the end.
To another group he told them he said, there is a gas pipe that is
leaking somewhere and if they didn't find the leaking, it would danger the lives of many. No one quit and they digged many more holes without any rest.
Same job, digging ditches over and over, but when they were given the meaning to their work. The outcome was very different so as their attitude toward work.
Yea Mike, maybe life is like digging a ditch, doing same old shit over and over until you die.
But still somehow if I could understand the meaning of life, I thought I might have a different attitude toward life and will have more fruitful result at the end.
jon |
