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Pblakeney

Shaman
A New Zealand (albeit ex-Cambridge) Journalist I like quite a lot, Joe Bennett, muses along very similar lines...

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"to float in its variety..."

I pretty much came to that conclusion in my late teens. It is very liberating to accept that you are meaningless in the big scheme of things.
You are, like it or not, but accepting that fact is the hard part. Then you are set free.
 

Rusty Nails

Country Member
I pretty much came to that conclusion in my late teens. It is very liberating to accept that you are meaningless in the big scheme of things.
You are, like it or not, but accepting that fact is the hard part. Then you are set free.

As an individual you are also useless in the big scheme of things.

I have long accepted both of these facts, and that is why my anger and sorrow at all the shoot that is happening in the world has its limits. My anger and efforts are directed at those things I can affect as an individual.
 

All uphill

Slow and steady
I pretty much came to that conclusion in my late teens. It is very liberating to accept that you are meaningless in the big scheme of things.
You are, like it or not, but accepting that fact is the hard part. Then you are set free.

How wonderful to see and embrace that so early in your life!
 

briantrumpet

Timewaster
How wonderful to see and embrace that so early in your life!

I managed to find a photo of PB when he was 17.

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