Life Like an LA or Boston Marathon
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Re: Life Like an LA or Boston Marathon
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Exactly, signing up for life seems like a decision I wasn't asked to make at the beginning. However, after realizing I'm alive, I chose to continue living. I sign up for it everyday I get up. It could be seen as a blessing and a curse.PeterRabitt20 wrote: ↑02 Apr 2021, 10:15Interesting how we sign-up for marathons. I've read that some philosophies say that we also signed up for life as well—I don't remember myself doing that though .sssns wrote: ↑02 Apr 2021, 01:10 Life is similar to a marathon because your commitment to the race determines how you endure the distance and eventually cross the finish line. It is more like an LA marathon because you get to meet all sorts people with different reasons why they signed-up for the event. It is your race, so it is your pace.
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Well said! I read that in some cultures (or myths) we did get a choice to either signup for life or not. I read that somewhere but unfortunately can't remember the source.Folushour wrote: ↑19 May 2021, 12:40Exactly, signing up for life seems like a decision I wasn't asked to make at the beginning. However, after realizing I'm alive, I chose to continue living. I sign up for it everyday I get up. It could be seen as a blessing and a curse.PeterRabitt20 wrote: ↑02 Apr 2021, 10:15Interesting how we sign-up for marathons. I've read that some philosophies say that we also signed up for life as well—I don't remember myself doing that though .sssns wrote: ↑02 Apr 2021, 01:10 Life is similar to a marathon because your commitment to the race determines how you endure the distance and eventually cross the finish line. It is more like an LA marathon because you get to meet all sorts people with different reasons why they signed-up for the event. It is your race, so it is your pace.
If we agreed we were born, if we disagreed we weren't born. Either way I don't remember that agreement
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I view us as the LA marathon. We are all allowed to attend no matter how seasoned/conditioned you are. Some of us will have a better time than others.
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However, life is an experience of both. We may want it to be like the L.A. marathon, but the pressures of the Boston one are always snapping at our heels.
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Personally, I think that life is like an LA marathon but not everyone who signs up gets to run the exact same route. For example, women tend to encounter the glass ceiling in their career, ethnical and racial minorities encounter far more discrimination in society, and immigrants and refugees are not granted the same rights as citizens of a country. Because of these differences, it feels like life is open to everyone - like the LA marathon - but for certain people, shortcuts open up during the race while for others, even the regular route gets closed off.
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