Well, as long as I can remember, life is good, life with siblings is good, life with parents is good, friends at school are great, and so on...
Wehenever I see movies of drama tv shows that depict a character living in different, or opposite rather, than mine, like not having friends at school, or living in a broken family, etc, I always thought of it as just entertainment... (Not to say that I'm entertained by those things, but just like horror movies, I always thought of it as an exaggerated scenarios that would most probably never happen in real life)
In short, I do really live in a bubble...
Well, not exactly like that, but you know what I mean...
Now, finishing school, and entering "the real world", or somewhat closer to the reality, in university student life, there are those things that does cause some level of "culture shock" to me.. I was like, "this actually happen to people?", or "people actually do that?", or "there's actually married couples that are actually unhappy?", and so on...
But still, these "shocks" that I've experienced is rather a realization that those things DO actually happen, rather than any first hand contacts with most of those things... I do still live among the people that don't really live with such things..
I really can't explain it, but I think that we tend to gravitate to those who are somewhat similar to us, if that make any sense... So wherever I go, I always make new friends that always have a positive outlook towards life, have ambitions that they aspire to achieve in life, whatever it is, never really hurt any of their friends (never intentionally, at least), etc...
And such life keeps on going, and... Well, perhaps the bubble I live in is still very much intact... It does become to be a more transparent bubble, I guess, in the sense that I'm more aware of the problems that people are facing out there, but those things never seem to penetrate or burst my bubble, just yet..
Now, maybe it's a good thing is I can clarify that by "problems" that I mentioned, I don't mean hardships like coming from families that are relatively poor, having financial problems, etc... Because I have many friends from various backgrounds, including those that are poor and rich.. But the problems that none of them have are the things like depression, being suicidal, frustrated with life, involved with drugs/alcohol/etc- related problems, violent behaviour, etc...
So it does basically become a rather big fat giant bubble that we all merge to be in, that in the end make us to have difficulties to really empathize with people outside of the bubble that are facing such issues...
Hmmm... When I rethink about it, it is sometimes funny when there's some conversation among us that happen such as this:
"OMG, look at them.. How can they live like that, wasting their life without any purpose like that..." (normally pointing towards other people that keep playing video games day-in-day-out etc)
"Yeah, pity..."
"Wait a sec... Didn't you used to be just like that before we became close friends like this?"
"...... Huh... Oh yeah.. It's weird that those episode in my life sometimes seems like never have happened in my life"
When some of the friends with such background tells their old stories, it is quite apparent that they don't even understand themselves why the heck did they live like that back then.. Like, what the heck? How can I live like life is meaningless, have no purpose whatsoever..
So... Thinking back about that, I guess it's not really that all those friends in the bubble actually living in the same bubble throughout their life... I might be one of those that was born inside a bubble, haha.. But I guess somehow we have created this big bubble among us and stepped inside it and enjoyed a big bubbly life among us, without actually realizing it...
Whenever I log in on xanga, or read the news paper, etc, it does feels like looking out the window from inside the bubble, looking at whatever the heck is happening outside...
And as I'm pondering on this, I think if this goes on, we'd be living in a bubble until we die in it...
Which, kinda sounds like a negative thing... But, whenever I look outside, I do honestly wish that some of the people outside can actually step into the bubble with us and "know" life in an entirely bubbly perspective... Perhaps this is mostly due to the feeling that I have that feels that they don't deserve to be feeling the way they do, and battling the struggle that they are facing...
Hmmm.... I don't even know if any of this makes any sense, but.. Yeah...
Feels like just letting that out of my chest...
Don't even know if this is a rant or what.. Not a rant, I think.. Rather a diary-like entry, perhaps..
It's a child's toy, you sit on it and bounce around. His name is Brobee and he's from the kids show Yo Gabba Gabba. We took that picture because my four year old sleeps with that thing every single night in his bed like it's a regular stuffed animal!
@aSeriesofFortunateEvents - haha... well it does look like a regular stuffed animal i guess.. that's a good child's toy right? it kind of make them to work out a bit at the same time... i believe there's an exact similar thing for adults to work out with.. i'd think i would have a better lower back and side muscles if i have been playing with such toys when i was growing up (as i think that's the main benefit for the adult version of it)..
You are welcome anytime - let me know and I will make sure there are clean sheets on the bed in the guest room.
I think that's what I love about the Internet so much, actually. I gravitate to people who are similar to me, but describing yourself here showed me how dissimilar we are. We probably wouldn't even talk in real life, since I'm sort of a drag to be around. The Internet changes that, though. You get to know people and see new perspectives on life; new ways of thinking.
@PseudoLeben - that is indeed true... i wouldn't realize that i'm living in a bubble if not for the internet, perhaps..
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what is that you are holding on anyways? if it's a cartoon character i'm not familiar with it..
It's a child's toy, you sit on it and bounce around. His name is Brobee and he's from the kids show Yo Gabba Gabba. We took that picture because my four year old sleeps with that thing every single night in his bed like it's a regular stuffed animal!