The beauty of life

Originally posted by @chaney3
I'm just saying that a privileged white guy living in a foreign country, along with his internet friends, may look at life through a different lens than that of normal people.

...[FMF you] look at life through a different lens than that of normal people.

I think most normal people in normal families - which accounts for some absolutely huge proportion of human beings - operate on the basis of attending to each other's happiness, including making sacrifices for each other, especially parents, and spouses, and children who look after elderly parents and grandparents, or that put siblings or cousins or nephews/nieces etc. through school etc. etc. I don't think this fact is affected much by what country one lives in, whether it be "a foreign country" or the country one was born in.

chaney3: Or maybe you're just a privileged white guy in a foreign country.

Originally posted by @kellyjay
A racist thing to say.

I am not sure what he means by "privileged white guy". He doesn't seem to have a clue. Maybe he has some sort of perception of Indonesians being inferior, so much so that there is somehow invariably "privilege" attached to a "white guy" in a chaney3-world populated by cardboard cutouts and silly peephole stereotypes. chaney3 may not have travelled much or may not have had to make his way in this world much.

Originally posted by @fmf
I am not sure what he means by "privileged white guy". He doesn't seem to have a clue. Maybe he has some sort of perception of Indonesians being inferior, so much so that there is invariably "privilege" attached to a "white guy" in a world populated by cardboard cutouts and sill stereotypes. chaney3 may not have travelled much or may not have had to make his way in this world much.

Wrong!!!
All I'm saying is that some people, like your friend, enjoy putting a quote up in their online profile as a goody goody feel nice today quote, but rarely act on it in 'real life'.

Originally posted by @chaney3
Wrong!!!
All I'm saying is that some people, like your friend, enjoy putting a quote up in their online profile as a goody goody feel nice today quote, but rarely act on it in 'real life'.

I am very much a family oriented man and professionally a lot of what I do is about capacity building and training of others - or adding value to their efforts to succeed in what they seek to do - so the idea that the OP proposes rings true for me.

So what's your take on the beauty of life? How do you define it?

Originally posted by @chaney3
It's a touchy-feely statement that looks good on paper, but most people are either too selfish, or too concerned with their own life to actually do it consistently.

*Consistently being the key.

But all that cynicism certainly doesn't prove it untrue.

Originally posted by @suzianne
But all that cynicism certainly doesn't prove it untrue.

So what's your take on "the beauty of life"?

Originally posted by @chaney3
People are mostly selfish, with brief periods here and there concerned about others.

If you don't think the OP's take on what the beauty of life is true - or if you don't think the OP makes a valid proposal about what life's priorities ought to be - what would be your definition of the beauty of life?

Originally posted by @fmf
"The beauty of life does not depend on how happy you are - but on how happy others can be because of you."

Just read that on a friend's 'status' on WhatsApp.

How true is it? As explanations of 'the beauty of life' go, can it be bettered?

The beauty of life is there regardless of what anyone does or thinks.

It's objectively there.

Originally posted by @philokalia
The beauty of life is there regardless of what anyone does or thinks.

It's objectively there.

What is your definition of what the beauty of life is?

Originally posted by @fmf
So what's your take on "the beauty of life"?

LMFAO!! she onlylooks for the porn

Originally posted by @fmf
What is your definition of what the beauty of life is?

sadly some days in the news mans total disregard for others takes any beauty out of life, hate and hate crimes fill our tabloids, only evil deeds seem worthy of air time, not many glass half full days, its a nice saying and a nice thought but like the bible more fairy story than reality.

Originally posted by @chaney3
I don't need your sympathy, I'm just telling it like it is.
People are mostly selfish, with brief periods here and there concerned about others.
*Especially so if making someone happy interferes greatly with their own life.

Evidence points against this.
For millennia people have helped those less fortunate than themselves.
Selfishness only comes into play when "survival" is an issue.

Unfortunately these days some people consider survival is having food, water, shelter and a 50" tv.

Originally posted by @fmf
"The beauty of life does not depend on how happy you are - but on how happy others can be because of you."

Just read that on a friend's 'status' on WhatsApp.

How true is it? As explanations of 'the beauty of life' go, can it be bettered?

Yes. It's real beautiful to be a biological organism with all kinds of electrical/mechanical functions trained by the environment to perform which ever way we decide is right, to grow old and die, and never to peep again.

Enjoy it while you can.

Originally posted by @secondson
Yes. It's real beautiful to be a biological organism with all kinds of electrical/mechanical functions trained by the environment to perform which ever way we decide is right, to grow old and die, and never to peep again.

Enjoy it while you can.

A while back I came out of my house, where there are a number of stone steps, and was greatly surprised to find a single flower growing out of the concrete. It completely befuddled me how it had managed to grow there as there was zero grass or mud. (I took a photo of it on my phone). It survived for a day or two before dying.

Fleeting but beautiful.

Originally posted by @secondson
Yes. It's real beautiful to be a biological organism with all kinds of electrical/mechanical functions trained by the environment to perform which ever way we decide is right, to grow old and die, and never to peep again.

Enjoy it while you can.

This is your definition of the beauty of life? How odd.