are our lives really our own?
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Yes, if you take charge of your own, but they are audited by Big Brother more and more every day.
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We still think we are individuals.\n\n                  I AM
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you cant because it is nonsense,\n\nthis is what i would say trust your self\n take desisions for your own life ,stand on your own two feet,look inward and learn to take responsibility for your own existance ,instead of of seeking support from other suyposed authorities like ,society ,or God ,or the Government.
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Not all of us can take over as dictators (Mao, Hitler), not all of us are genii (Albert Einstein), not all of us can exist in magic (Houdini), not all of us are idiots (Presidents Bush and Mugabe) and not all of us can be movie stars and live in soap operas all our lives. We're not normal, we're all different and unique and that's what makes life so interesting. It's the thought that you're 'normal' that makes you so mundane. The real question then is: will YOU live and die just like a 'normal' human?\n\nBesides: Life is a journey. Enjoy the ride. It's how you make the ride interesting that dictates what kind of life you live.
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Yes. Our lives are revolving around them.
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No this isn't the life I had imagined.  It is both better and worse, depending on when I was doing the imagining.  But I have a lot to be grateful for, if I look for it.  I married my best friend, we have a nice but modest home, and we are both employed.  We have friends and family who love us.  Although not in perfect health, we are mobile and not living in constant pain.  Our needs are taken care of and sometimes some of our wants.  There are folks who have more than and less than us---but as long as we are grateful for what we have things are good.  Very good.\n\nLife IS an adventure---regardless of where you are.  Really look around you to see all of the people you have the opportunity to make a difference in.  Even the little things that you say to a child or stranger may make a difference.  When I remember the simple things that people said to me that changed my life, I doubt that those people knew how much it would mean to me years later.  To love and be loved is the most productive anyone can be.  To give to others is the most rewarding thing you could do in life.\n\nAre you only concentrating on the positive things in your life that you want to grow or the negative things?
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Life is what you make out of it. It's this simple.\nMy opinion if you hang out with loosers you my become one.\nI my self am loving life-I'm a head custodian at an Elentary school in Concord, Ca and my side job ia a children's Author of three published books.
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Yes.  Ultimately you are the only person that ever has to live with every choice you have made, and follow every path you ever took.  It doesn't matter what life throws at you, its always how you react to it that matters.  That is the part that makes us all individuals.  We have free will to decide what we make of whats put in front of us, so we are the only people that can be held responsible for our own choices.
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And I thought we all are searching answers. \nWe all have our own questions, but some can ask, some can’t ask. \nSome time we don’t know what to ask, how to ask and whom to ask. \nSome time we keep on searching something for whole of our life and when we find the same, we realize that we are more empty from in side. Little more thirsty. \nWe cannot decide which are the real answers of the life. \nSome time we cannot decide if we are happy or sad. \nSome time we cannot decide if we got everything or we lost everything. \nNo one knows what is the real answer.
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To be honest it is not about believing it or not it is about thinking outside of what we have always been told.  More about possibilities.
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At times I do.  Sometimes I feel like life is just an endless cycle of work weeks and weekends.  Mondays thru Fridays, then Saturdays and Sundays.  Mornings, afternoons, evenings, and nights...then it starts all over again.  Same with the seasons.  Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall, then Winter all over again.  We have to do exciting things and change up our routine and be careful not to fall into too much of a routine or things in our lives become mundane.\n\nI don't necessarily feel that some other force is governing my life.  I feel I have control over the events in my life for the most part (other than circumstances I that are beyond my control).  I believe we only let ourselves go into auto pilot.
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it is true. they control every aspect of our personal lives.
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How about "Are we the makers of our own destiny?"\nWe had a debate on it last week.
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In what sense? In my personal life, not entirely. I'm working on bettering myself. Although in a lot of ways, I'm pretty content. With the world, eh...it is what it is.
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We are born mostly dependent.  We move then towards more independence.  However there are no absolutes.  Each individual is unique.  So we will always be dependant upon others to some extent, as others will be dependant upon us.  On the other hand, we think for ourselves and are responsible for our own decisions and the consequences.\n\nAnother way to look at the picture is to say that we move from less responsibility towards more responsibility for our own lives.
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I think everyone has their own purpose. We're all different in different ways. It depends on what we were sent to accomplish. We're all here for a reason. Even if we were a "surprise" when we were concieved.
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Honey, I often wondered the same thing...but then I realized that while we all live in our own realties, we are linked by our own human existance.  Things don't dissappear into dark nothingness simply because you have left that area.  How do I know this?  Because I am sitting here in Cleveland right now smoking a cigarette (not gange like you are), living in my own little reality.  Also, I think it is important to realize for yourself that you are just a small fragment of a whole.  You need to get over yourself, and I don't mean that in a snotty way, I mean that you are dealing with your id, which is a common human experience, and one needs to give of their selves in order to conquer his or her feelings of isolation.