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
This comic reminds me of the same gripe I had with the movie Click.
The message seems to be “Life is short and precious, so appreciate every moment, because it’ll be over before you know it.” Which sounds nice, and sweet, and thoughtful, and is complete and utter horse shit.
There are times when life just plain sucks. When it’s boring or tedious or even torturous, and it would be 100% worth skipping if you could. When you have a headache at the airport and have just found out your flight has been delayed by 3 hours. When your tooth cracks at 4am and you’re waiting for hours in agony until a dentist opens up. When you finished a long work day and just want to get home and collapse, only to find the roads are blocked in a massive traffic jam. These are not fulfilling experiences. You do not learn or grow in any way, except to become more tolerant to enduring unfulfilling experiences. Of course it would be better if you could skip those things!
“Every day is hell, but take time to enjoy the small moments of joy it offers” I think is a better message
Even the bad experiences of your life shape who you become, a life with no hardships would probably be dull, ofcourse it’s a balancing act like most things in life
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
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?!
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.
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.
“Life’s a bitch and then you die.”
But hopefully there are some shining moments and milestones inbetween. Cherish those moments and the good times.
Learn from (and learn to let go) of the lesser ones.
I read it as life is short and precious, and most of it fucking sucks.
If the movie had any actual balls it would have leaned harder into the parallels between his magic remote and suicidality, and it would have shown a lot more of the agony of choosing between experiencing the absolute worst things in life versus escaping entirely into nothingness.
But it was a kid’s movie so there we are.