But in the end you pay for your choices. Doesn't matter what kind of lifestyle you live, you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.
One can not change their past but can change their future. Don’t dwell on past decisions. Live, learn and adapt as necessary.
We acclimate to our situations and get used to them. First-world problems are precisely that - we fret about overpriced GPUs and smartphones while others struggle to find enough to eat. Even some rich people will tell you that life isn't a peach and they have their own issues to deal with. I consider it a core part of the human condition - we always want more than what we have. It's rare that we take the time to appreciate the things we have and the life that we live. I consider myself lucky to be living in the twenty-first century, where we have modern medicine and modern comforts. Only a hundred years ago, people were dying from things that would be trivial today (bacterial infections, viruses, birth defects), and half of all children died before reaching adulthood. If I had been born before the age of modern medicine I would most likely be dead by now (or crippled), but most people in the developed world can expect to live a long, healthy life. This is why I despise anti-vaxxers and alternative medicine advocates - they take our quality of our life for granted and fight against the scientific advances that have served us so well. I thank science for the life that I have. It's one of the reasons why I run grid computing apps, donating my computing power to science (especially medical science). We still have a long way to go though - cancer is still killing people every single day - and our lives can always improve. It's possible that in my lifetime we will not only be able to beat diseases like cancer and AIDS, but also eliminate genetic defects and even reverse the aging process through scientific advances (the search for everlasting life may be nearer than we think). Human progress must always continue, and we must always strive for a better standard of living, perhaps even becoming an intergalactic species with teleportation technology. Of course by then we'll be complaining about how boring intergalactic travel is and how slow teleport pods are
Well I don't know about the rest of you but.... my 2019 New Year's resolution... And no it's not a meme...
I feel like more lives are ruined by choosing to do nothing than lives that are ruined by making bad choices. But that's just me. A lot of us just spend our lives watching it go by from the safety of a routine.
A very intriguing reply. I like to think that I've made my own choices in life, but hell maybe I haven't.
No. It was the 'Merovingian' as he explained that, every cause has an effect and every effect has a cause. Causality. The 'Merovingian' was based on the descendants of 'J of N' who created/co-opted The Roman Empire into what we know as France and Germany today. So, as the OP was talking about fate versus destiny, I felt it was appropriate to lend credence to the basis of the philosophical underpinnings of causality through the statement that is at the heart of causality when used for governance. This (in essence) is what the directors of Reloaded copied. The character is even referred to as 'The Frenchman' and, if you recall; the original Matrix was flawed without choice or consequence. The 2nd Matrix had choice injected into the code, falsely, as it removed the idea of choice, for one which is better suited to the illusion of choice: causality.
hehe yes I remember, just saw Matrix 1 yesterday, didn't stay up for 2 though... quite found myself thinking about philosophical implications in those movies too, yesterday, some points where Smith in the first part already says things that make you wonder... At least I got the trilogy right after all
