The Cycle 2

The ultimate question. What do we, as human beings, want? The only answer we’ve been able to come up with…to be happy. But like a domino effect, one question leads to another. So, next question. What makes us, as human beings, happy?
Is it cars, clothes, money? And if not then why do we believe so? The obvious answer…because what we as human beings want is to be happy. And what makes us happy, more than being accepted…loved? And in our society, in this day in age, cars, clothes, and money are tickets to hop aboard the acceptance train. I can’t think of anything else, besides the smaller, less trivial things. So, love. What is it? What does it mean? A question that will never truly be answered or understood. But…we, as human beings, try our best to interpret the impossible. We are stubborn. But, besides that…since I am the average human being, meaning still looking for an answer, still trying to interpret what I can’t because I have not found “love” or happiness, I have come to a new theory. We, as human beings, want a fairytale. It’s genius and quite obvious actually.
Who created fairytales? Where did they come from? Well, they were once real, or very close to what our world has made them to be. I wonder if they were happy? The prince charming and fair maiden of every story. This probably sounds like nonsense, but it’s true. Think about it. The most popular fairytale of all. Cinderella. Its what everyone wants. And not just the love part. It’s your classic rags to riches, boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy loses girl for being an idiot, boy and girl make up, boy and girl live in giant house, married with children, happily ever after story. Now, this may not be exact…not all women want to be rescued by prince charming…or even a prince for that matter. And now days, with women being able to make their own money and be responsible for themselves…the roles of boy and girl could easily be switched. But, nevertheless, all we want, or the only thing we know to want, is to have a fairy tale.




Life is very, very, very short. We start a baby, rosy cheeks, and soft bottom. At this stage, we are represented, as everything good in the world, because we are innocent, not yet exposed to the sins of the world. Sins that have only one purpose. To find or create happiness…love. We continue this stage, in reality, until we reach adolescence. Along the way we want, of course, and we have needs like any other person, no matter what the age. But at adolescence, we start searching and wanting more. We want to know who we are and where we belong. We face real, every day adult problems at such a young age. Then we reach the carefree stage, also known as any age before 35 and after 21. College is complete, and although we are still searching, wanting, needing, and aging…we are overwhelm with freedom and desire and mostly curiosity of what the world holds for us. After 35 we get slapped hard in the face with reality. We realize we now have more responsibility than anything else. And while we get consumed with worries and responsibility and our everyday tasks that we must complete in order to survive…which to us now is the most important thing, we lose our want and need to search and find happiness. And then we realize what has happened to us all so quickly. This is called the midlife crisis. We wish to be young again…search for happiness. And then the rest is a blur…you grow up and essentially, “get over it”, and die away disappearing from the world like a crumb at the beach. You are not forever forgotten, but you never wanted or found what you were searching for. Love…happiness…acceptance. And although some do find love, happiness, and acceptance…the fairytale we all want…it is not even close to fulfilling the amount that actually should. Everyone. And so my next question for you is…is life worth living?

Not trying to be all suicidal…but really consider the question.
We have a cycle. And from what I’ve lived so far…it’s never ending. It starts with birth.

BIRTH>SCHOOL>JOB>MARRY>KIDS>RETIRE>SENIOR>DEATH.
And depending on your religion or what you believe in…you are even reborn and though the cycle might not be identical…depending on what you are reborn as…you still have one main goal…survival.
No one in this world knows how our world came to be. Some look to religion, and others to science, to find the answer. But it doesn’t look like it’s helped much.


I mean…is life really just a fairytale…without the happily ever after? And what do we, as human beings, need to do to find the answer. We need to live.
So live!!! Don’t get caught up in the crazed cycle where you live just to live. But live to see the world, live to meet great people, live to learn, live to see our history!
Don’t live just to live. But, live to see life.