How the hell did our forefathers make it....

[sarettah]

(includes Foremothers too...btw)

They lived without electricity, running water, toilets........ In constant danger of death from Wild Animals, Outlaws, Disease, Weather.... They had ten times the cause for stress and despair that we do and somehow they managed to walk/ride across 3000 miles of predominantly wilderness and settle it for us........

So we can now complain and medicate ourselves over how stressfull our lives are.......

We have new diseases and conditions invented every day and new drugs to control them too...

We have "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" (loosely translated to "always tired condition") we have "Organic Brain Syndrome" (Thats the one that gets me Organic==Live, so translated it becomes "Live Brain Condition"...ooops, your brain is alive, we got to medicate you).. and all sorts of various other ailments and conditions.......

So, how did they do it back then without shrinks and without the drugs.....

Were they healthier or stronger than us, did these "conditions" not exist back then... Or did they exist and were just never diagnosed....

My feelings on it are that we invent these conditions because we simply have too much fucking time on our hands... Back then, they were consumed by the need to survive... We are no longer consumed by that... Survival for most of us is pretty easy these days... Now living, thats a harder one and we become consumed with the need to live, the need to be happy, the need to feel accepted.......Bunch of fucking hogwash.........

We start substituting our wants in place of our needs and end up despairing because we don't have what we want and instead of getting our asses up off the ground and working our ass off for what we want, we sit and whine about not having what we want until someone labels our whining as a condition and invents a "feel better" pill for us....

If we can survive 3 days without something, we don't need it....... (Scott Nearing)

If we want the National Psyche to be better, perhaps we should majke it just a little bit harder to survive... Perhaps through our efforts at actual survival we would find that we don't have the time to be depressed or tired.........


Just imo of course.........