Choosing not to choose is the dumbest choice

Levi 2022-04-20 09:01:07

Choose a life, choose a job, choose a career, choose a family, choose a TV, choose a washing machine, a car, a record player, choose health, low cholesterol, choose insurance, mortgage, installment, choose a friend, choose to wake up on Sunday not knowing who you are , choose to sit on the sofa watching TV, junk food, choose to get rich, choose low-level fun, choose the most shameless deeds, choose the future, choose life...

Why should I choose these? I choose not to choose. So I followed my friends, set fires, robbed and drugged, rebelled against all the rules, screwed up everything in exchange for short-lived false happiness.

To choose or not to choose is a choice. The result of choice is that I will be a selfless machine in my life, and shamelessness is exchanged for satisfaction; the result of not choosing is that I will be in endless chaos, surrounded by anxiety and sadness, relying on drugs to give me false happiness. It is a choice to exchange falsehood for real happiness, or to exchange truth for false happiness.

Life is never good, a tsunami of pain, and joys are tiny and fragile. Choice may be blind or wise, but not choosing is just escaping, not acknowledging that happiness is as difficult to grasp as an illusion, paralyzing yourself with artificial happiness, thinking that you can escape the torture of life, but in the end you fall into the endless abyss and be brutalized by life. left behind. You are choosing life, life is choosing you, and if you give up the rules of life, life will give up on you.

Humans create rules, systems, values, morals, and build walls to trap themselves in order to protect themselves, and at the same time, we hate these walls that limit our activities. Human beings are governed by endless fears and desires, and human beings are fragile and shameless.

That being the case, why should we reject our own filth. What's wrong with exchanging your own hypocrisy for a little real happiness? Go choose, choose betrayal, choose job, career, nine to five, choose family, friends, children, choose washing machine, record player, choose health, low cholesterol, choose insurance, mortgage, installment, choose future, choose life. .....

The future is bright...

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Trainspotting quotes

  • Begbie: [to Renton] You better clean up your fuckin' act, sunshine. Cut that shite out forever.

    Mrs. Renton: [Nodding her head] You listen to Francis, Mark. He's talkin' sense, kid.

  • Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: [to Mrs. Murphy] I'm sorry Mrs. Murphy. That wasn't fair Spud goin' down and not me

    Begbie: [to Mrs. Murphy] Well it's not our fault! Your boy went down because he's a fuckin' smackhead! And if that's not your fault, then I don't know what is.

    [Mrs. Murphy turns to walk away]

    Begbie: I was the fuckin' cunt who tried to get him off it.