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Why is everyone so over-excited all the time !!!
Hi All.
The exclamation marks were ironic. LOL. OMG. I'm SO WACK!
I had to share the fact that society's being so over-hyped is really contributing to depression I think. Why is it nothing can just be... especially in the media... it has to BE (someone, something, famous, rich, gorgeous), hype is everywhere. The X-Factor is a good example. But sadly so is media reporting on so much...
Young people are growing up in this culture of general over-excitement for everything. I have extremely over-excitable parents who go off kilter over everything and it's very damaging to a child.
Can we campaign for a middle ground? 'Reality' if you will. A third way? International Equanimity Week anyone?
The exclamation marks were ironic. LOL. OMG. I'm SO WACK!
I had to share the fact that society's being so over-hyped is really contributing to depression I think. Why is it nothing can just be... especially in the media... it has to BE (someone, something, famous, rich, gorgeous), hype is everywhere. The X-Factor is a good example. But sadly so is media reporting on so much...
Young people are growing up in this culture of general over-excitement for everything. I have extremely over-excitable parents who go off kilter over everything and it's very damaging to a child.
Can we campaign for a middle ground? 'Reality' if you will. A third way? International Equanimity Week anyone?
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you know, everyone was 13 once.
or 8... and compared to my niece I'm like an animated corpse.
Well, that's TV for you, and there are trends, but you don't have to watch it because it wants you to watch it and be in your face all of the time and never read a book or notice anything else becauseIcantstopwatchingTV!!!!
Hmm, depression, I'd go for poverty or marital breakdown. YOu know depression IS a modern thing, and we don't throw children down a pit anymore? AND, some kids aren't getting any christmas presents this year... butyoucandosomethingaboutit!
I agree almost entirely with you. If you try to jam pack your life with constant excitement and entertainment, you are doomed to unhappiness. Far better to do unexciting things most of the time and then sprinkle it with excitement. Makes life a lot better I think.
If you can meet with both of them, and treat those two impostors just the same....(With apologies to Kipling) then, you have balance.
But sara's complaint, and KoB/s solution are both unworkable extremes.
but I'm not saying settle for the mundane and mediocre... what I am saying is that whatever happens, be mindful that -
"This too shall pass".
Nothing is permanent, but this euphoria you are witnessing in others is an indication of a hyped-up positivity that will hit them all the harder when their bubble bursts...
People love fun, don;t they?
But the end of fun hits those the hardest, who cannot reconcile 'fun' with 'fin'....
Just dwell in the moment, and try to not be smug, as you think to yourself,
"You wait...you'll be sorry...."
(I find that bit hard, myself....if you manage it, let me know. We'll work on a plan together.....!
For either the middle ground and/or reality to catch on it will need a highly energetic, dashing, charismatic spokesperson to mount a campaign of media saturation. Even some type of crossover promotion would be quite effective such as if a celebrity monk were to compete on "Dancing With The Stars".
I think the middle ground is 'satisfied' - not excited, not depressed; not thinking about what you've lost, not thinking what you might get. Being satisfied with what you have right now...I'll try to follow my own advice :rolleyes:
I am SOOOO excited!!:D
Good lord! Calm down!
Palzang
http://thelink.harding.edu/index.php/features/2-harding/250-research-released-campus-wide-addiction
But I'm no neurologist...