Comments on: bigger than that http://randomfixation.net/2007/06/30/bigger-than-that/ very random. Wed, 05 Jan 2011 07:31:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Matt Hawke http://randomfixation.net/2007/06/30/bigger-than-that/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Matt Hawke Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:45:21 +0000 http://randomfixation.net/2007/06/30/bigger-than-that/#comment-67 Being happy without the risk of falling sounds awfully like a hedged bet to me. It also sounds like a very curtailed definition of "happy" too. I would go on to suggest that such an experience of "happy" is really an experience of resigned discontent. That is, once one has decided that the risk of falling is too great to even contemplate, one is resigned to the idea that the base level of happiness is all one will ever experience. (Notice the use of the passive there...) Each to their own, naturally, but I do exhort you [all] again to dream big and pursue those dreams with all of your energies. While the risk of falling is great, the reward of dreams come true is much sweeter. Being happy without the risk of falling sounds awfully like a hedged bet to me. It also sounds like a very curtailed definition of “happy” too.

I would go on to suggest that such an experience of “happy” is really an experience of resigned discontent. That is, once one has decided that the risk of falling is too great to even contemplate, one is resigned to the idea that the base level of happiness is all one will ever experience. (Notice the use of the passive there…)

Each to their own, naturally, but I do exhort you [all] again to dream big and pursue those dreams with all of your energies. While the risk of falling is great, the reward of dreams come true is much sweeter.

]]> By: Rachel http://randomfixation.net/2007/06/30/bigger-than-that/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Rachel Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:27:50 +0000 http://randomfixation.net/2007/06/30/bigger-than-that/#comment-66 ease and simplicity aren't the point. happiness is the point. to be happy without the risk of falling ease and simplicity aren’t the point. happiness is the point. to be happy without the risk of falling

]]> By: Matt Hawke http://randomfixation.net/2007/06/30/bigger-than-that/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Matt Hawke Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:49:28 +0000 http://randomfixation.net/2007/06/30/bigger-than-that/#comment-65 I am sure that it's easier to not have a dream, but surely ease and simplicity isn't the point. When has anything worth doing ever been easy? No, the point here is that a dream can be far better than originally dreamed, if only you pursue it. And the law of averages (or is it the law of large numbers?) says that the more you dream, and then go after that dream, the sooner one of them will come true. I am sure that it’s easier to not have a dream, but surely ease and simplicity isn’t the point. When has anything worth doing ever been easy?

No, the point here is that a dream can be far better than originally dreamed, if only you pursue it. And the law of averages (or is it the law of large numbers?) says that the more you dream, and then go after that dream, the sooner one of them will come true.

]]> By: Rachel http://randomfixation.net/2007/06/30/bigger-than-that/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Rachel Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:40:38 +0000 http://randomfixation.net/2007/06/30/bigger-than-that/#comment-63 perhaps to some the nothing that comes with the lack of dreams, or more so the refusal to dream or hope to avoid the inevitable disappointment is where contentment lies. it is far easier to not have a dream then to have big dreams only to have to let them go when one realises that nothing can ever come of their dream. perhaps to some the nothing that comes with the lack of dreams, or more so the refusal to dream or hope to avoid the inevitable disappointment is where contentment lies. it is far easier to not have a dream then to have big dreams only to have to let them go when one realises that nothing can ever come of their dream.

]]> By: Matt Hawke http://randomfixation.net/2007/06/30/bigger-than-that/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Matt Hawke Sat, 07 Jul 2007 04:27:54 +0000 http://randomfixation.net/2007/06/30/bigger-than-that/#comment-61 But we must experience disappointment to fully understand elation or contentment... So doesn't that suggest that disappointment is part and parcel of it? I prefer to dream big and be disappointed than not to dream at all and be nothing. But we must experience disappointment to fully understand elation or contentment… So doesn’t that suggest that disappointment is part and parcel of it?

I prefer to dream big and be disappointed than not to dream at all and be nothing.

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