| | [Note: A friend of mine wrote a Xanga entry on which I left a big ol' long comment. The big ol' long comment was something I'd like to put here as an actual entry, though, 'cause it's something I'm pretty outspoken about even outside of Xanga. So here is my edited comment, edited for any irrelevance in the original.]
My friend: "I want to be alive and I want to live and I want someone to be adventurous with [and] I want someone to be okay with the fact that I'm a free spirit."
Me: “Do you want to be 'alive' as in live materialistically and free from morals? 'Cause that's usually what people mean when they say that sort of thing, but [in the next paragraph] you chastise that sort of lifestyle, the life of living for and giving in to all your desires. And is this also what you mean by 'adventurous' and calling yourself a 'free spirit'? A lot of people think it's impossible to be a good person and an 'adventurous' person. These people these days, the most creative they can get when trying to think of 'fun' or 'adventurous' things to do is to have a party in which everybody does nothing aside from getting drunk and screwing whoever's sitting next to them. And that's all the fun they can ever think up. Where's the variety? Where's the adventure they're so craving? I think it sounds less like freedom and more like being trapped in a cage of monotony, a slave to the stereotypical.”
My friend: "Material objects are just objects. Sure, it'd be great to have that $770 pair of [shoes]...but that's not what I truly want and truly value."
Me: “Good to hear you say something like that! You're right that material things won't make you complete. Humans have a spiritual property, a soul, so there is no possible way that earth, a place with nothing but material, can supply what we actually need. And there is no possible way a human can supply what we actually need because humans are flawed, as we've all seen. Sex doesn't give us what we need; just what we want. Drugs, beer, money, jewelry....We may want it, but it's all entirely unnecessary and it all rots away eventually. Nothing but a perfect spiritual 'something' can make us feel complete and be complete.”
[So there's yet another entry about today's youth, with an extra little ditty about materialism.]
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