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Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
August 20 2014 13:04 GMT
#1
Anyone else catch themselves during an 'up' or 'down' in life? You think of a time when you're life was climbing then come back to the now only to see you are at a 'down'.

Then, the next day, as if unaware of how far you've sunk yesterday, starts to create a spectacle of opportunity and hope. You encounter it with skepticism: "this is just a tease, a down in disguise of an up just so I can tolerate the decline of everything around me a little bit longer."

When you're up and your life starts to show weakness, you feign ignorance: "Things will resume back to the way they were, I've got too much going on for my life to start falling apart." Then it does, you're slapped with the realization that your exit-strategies all fell through and you're out on your ass wondering why you only looked at the skyline instead of the incoming downhill slope that made your stomach flip upside-down and gulp in fear of the uncertain future.

But now it's moving up, slowly, without assurance. You wonder if it's too early to rejoice that this collar is finally giving you some breathing room, to fill your lungs with the rush of someone finally noticing you.

I guess that's what people mean when asked what others what they are doing right now: "I'm in transition". From the ups and downs, we're all transitioning.

In the end, it's a glass half-empty/half-full perspective where you can see the "downs" as your way to climb back up and the "ups" as life trying to stay afloat. Then you have to account for the different aspects of your life. Job is up, relationship is down. Job is down but health is up. Then account for the unknowable: Relationship is up, Health is unknowable but job is down so you can't afford to inform health.



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vult
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United States9400 Posts
August 20 2014 14:12 GMT
#2
I feel this way all the time. For some reason, whenever I feel a slight hint of optimism in my life or there is good happening, my mindset finds the fault and shows the risk and uncertainty of what is in front of me. Mystery of the future scares me, and the fact that I have no way of predicting where I will be 3,5,10 years from now and if I will be up or down scares me. But I guess that life is all about the plunge into the abyss and coming out stronger.
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1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
August 20 2014 16:06 GMT
#3
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Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
August 20 2014 16:26 GMT
#4
On August 20 2014 23:12 vult wrote:
I feel this way all the time. For some reason, whenever I feel a slight hint of optimism in my life or there is good happening, my mindset finds the fault and shows the risk and uncertainty of what is in front of me. Mystery of the future scares me, and the fact that I have no way of predicting where I will be 3,5,10 years from now and if I will be up or down scares me. But I guess that life is all about the plunge into the abyss and coming out stronger.


Yeah, this is sort of what I'm familiar with. I'm just starting my own independent life and I have so small ambitions that I want to achieve: my own big apartment (50-60sq.m), a big screen television, my own console (Wii U) and a job I love with a chance to grow in a company.
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omisa
Profile Joined January 2011
United States494 Posts
August 21 2014 03:15 GMT
#5
Can you imagine how utterly boring life would be without the ups and downs? Always knowing that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.

We always search for the ups. But without the lows in life, how would you know what the good times are like?

Life IS the ups and downs and everything in between.
\m/
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
August 21 2014 16:31 GMT
#6
On August 21 2014 12:15 omisa wrote:
Can you imagine how utterly boring life would be without the ups and downs? Always knowing that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.

We always search for the ups. But without the lows in life, how would you know what the good times are like?

Life IS the ups and downs and everything in between.


Is that really true? Life would be boring without it going down? That doesn't feel right.
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