| Home | RSS Feeds |
| Funny Pictures | Funny Videos |
| Funny GIFs | YouTube Videos |
| Text/Links | Comic Editor |
| User Rankings | Channels |
| Copyright Removal Request | |
| |
Comments(1251):
#1362
-
brothergrimm (03/26/2013) [-]
DJ 4DM1N posted a comment on normal content.....
<<within 5 minutes
<<within 5 minutes
Got this from one of my favorite webcomics. Amazingly motivational little speech. Just thought i'd post in case anyone came lurking or in case i need to link someone to it.
"Well of course, the most pernicious disease in the world is stagnation. We all know that, yeah? I mean, that stuff will eat your whole life away if you let it. And a lot of people do.
Think of it: you’ve got a job you can hardly stand… but it pays the rent, so you keep it. You’ve fallen into a clique you’re not completely in tune with… but they make you feel wanted, so you carry on. You’re clinging to a series of ideas that don’t quite fit the facts… but they help you feel you’ve got a handle on the world, so you keep on clinging.
And, of course, you’re miserable. But in a tolerable, manageable sort of way. To take a chance on a new direction, to turn your back on all these little bits and pieces of security that almost (not quite) work… well, better to be manageably miserable than a flaming bonfire of spectacular failure, eh? And before you know it, every moment of your life has gone fluttering away.
Ah, but there’s a silver lining isn’t there? Because all of us, everyone one, have a cure for this epidemic…
Dreams.
Our Dreams.
It’s all about our dreams when you peel it all away.
Dreams. Oh yes! I mean, I know it sounds a bit of a cliché, but… well, I think some things are so important you’ve got to keep repeating them, a hundred thousand million times until people really, truly, take them to heart.
So yeah, dreams are important. And I think there are more dreamers today than ever before in the history of anything… but… they’re so afraid, so many of them. Afraid to lose all their “Manageable misery.” It’s all just so… so…
…Pathetic.
Pathetic… and selfish.
Are you seriously telling me… that you would deny the world an exquisite painting… just because the cardboard firm down the street is hiring? That you’d stay out of politics because your mates would think you a twat? That the greatest secrets of quantum physics would go forever unearthed… because your Dad thinks girls are fit only for babymaking? Does that really sound good enough for you? Really?
MADDENING!
And don’t you dare tell me I’m unrealistic. I know a body’s chances of actually sinking their claws into a dream are fairly grim. But… not to try? To settle into the grey doldrums with nary a peep?
It’s like my nanny told me: she said:
“The world is a beautiful place, V. And it’s beautiful… because of people who are not safe.”
Beautiful sentiment, that."
-Vicious Whisper, Witch and Musician
(excerpt from webcomic "Heart-Shaped Skull")
"Well of course, the most pernicious disease in the world is stagnation. We all know that, yeah? I mean, that stuff will eat your whole life away if you let it. And a lot of people do.
Think of it: you’ve got a job you can hardly stand… but it pays the rent, so you keep it. You’ve fallen into a clique you’re not completely in tune with… but they make you feel wanted, so you carry on. You’re clinging to a series of ideas that don’t quite fit the facts… but they help you feel you’ve got a handle on the world, so you keep on clinging.
And, of course, you’re miserable. But in a tolerable, manageable sort of way. To take a chance on a new direction, to turn your back on all these little bits and pieces of security that almost (not quite) work… well, better to be manageably miserable than a flaming bonfire of spectacular failure, eh? And before you know it, every moment of your life has gone fluttering away.
Ah, but there’s a silver lining isn’t there? Because all of us, everyone one, have a cure for this epidemic…
Dreams.
Our Dreams.
It’s all about our dreams when you peel it all away.
Dreams. Oh yes! I mean, I know it sounds a bit of a cliché, but… well, I think some things are so important you’ve got to keep repeating them, a hundred thousand million times until people really, truly, take them to heart.
So yeah, dreams are important. And I think there are more dreamers today than ever before in the history of anything… but… they’re so afraid, so many of them. Afraid to lose all their “Manageable misery.” It’s all just so… so…
…Pathetic.
Pathetic… and selfish.
Are you seriously telling me… that you would deny the world an exquisite painting… just because the cardboard firm down the street is hiring? That you’d stay out of politics because your mates would think you a twat? That the greatest secrets of quantum physics would go forever unearthed… because your Dad thinks girls are fit only for babymaking? Does that really sound good enough for you? Really?
MADDENING!
And don’t you dare tell me I’m unrealistic. I know a body’s chances of actually sinking their claws into a dream are fairly grim. But… not to try? To settle into the grey doldrums with nary a peep?
It’s like my nanny told me: she said:
“The world is a beautiful place, V. And it’s beautiful… because of people who are not safe.”
Beautiful sentiment, that."
-Vicious Whisper, Witch and Musician
(excerpt from webcomic "Heart-Shaped Skull")
How many fj points would it take to buy one gold badge?