Quote of the Day
Today someone said something to me that — given the context of the conversation, and the tone in which it was spoken — struck me as being the loneliest thing I have heard in an era... Or at least thus far this week.
"We all make our own choices in life, now don't we?"
Sounds innocuous enough now that I'm typing it. But. Still. It was the "now don't we?" that really hit me.
(Not to mention the context, which I haven't the energy to discuss.)
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3 comments:
That is actually a good question. Do we? How many of our choices are made in a vacuum? How often do you just decide something without thinking who it will affect? But if you tack on the "now don't we?" I guess that emphasizes the aloneness.
~BPP
That's what I thought. If we want to pigeon-hole the entire world population (for simplicity's sake), I'd say it looks a little like this:
There are two types of people in this world. Those who consider how their decisions/actions impact others and, at times, even actively factor others into their decisions.
And those who don't.
So to consider that we all make our "own" choices ("now don't we") implies to me that we're entirely alone in everything we do.
Which may be true. But that, I would argue, is because of the second half of the aforementioned demographic.
(or to quote Lily Tomlin...
"We're all in this alone.")
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