Is it worth standing up for your ideals, even if it means becoming isolated, poor and weird?Is it better to do what you think is right or have a comfortable normal life?
>>83278705depends what it means to you i guessif you can live with doin the wrong thing then do itif you can't then fuck em off
at the end of the day i've gotta say no its not worth. it's like the cyclist who keeps going even when he's seen the car isn't giving way when it should. "but i was in the right", he gasps as he bleeds out on the pavement
>>83278705>Is it worth standing up for your ideals, even if it means becoming isolated, poor and weird?im too egotistical not to
>>83278705If your ideals make you poor, isolated, and weird, they probably weren't good ideals.
>>83278705It's 100% worth standing up for your principles. The more you decide how to live, the more beauty you will see in the harsher shades of life.For example, say you love an ugly woman. There's nothing wrong with her, really, but society thinks she's gross(a fantasy, I know. Women aren't incels). You still can see beauty in her. You see something ideal in her that nobody else seems to. It is worth giving up whatever you have now to live your life with her and value your life as you would if you were rich?>>83278900>im too egotistical not toEgotism is well and good before it gets corrupted by fear. There is nuance to it.>>83278991Living in the wilderness away from society and just chilling is a bad ideal now?
>>83279500Living in the wilderness isn't chill. You can enjoy it and it's fine, but it's challenging and quite stressful at times.
>>83278705I think a lot about this too. I believe it is not as black and white as most people think. There are times when you should stay silent and there are times when you should raise your voice. The timing escapes me too. There have been occasions when I wished I didn't speak out as it made me look like autistic, but if I didn't I would be a hypocrite in my own head and I can't stand the thought of that. The problem is that I understand social cues (for the most part), so I do recognize when I will look like a retard, but the people observing don't get that and think I am some kind of sperg (which I kond of am I guess). Still, it is a price I am willing to pay most times for staying true to myself.
>>83279529Yeah, but it's the kind of stressful that doesn't make you feel like garbage. The challenges are more straightforward and real and physical. You just have to actually do them. Your shit gets destroyed if you don't know what you're doing, but that's the extent of it. There's none of this: You let your dad down. You let your mom down. You're not a doctor and have no bitches. Your life is over. You should kill yourself. You're a burden to everyone else around you. You're going to work at walmart forever while everyone else has sex. It's more like: "aw fuck. I left my food out and now it's soggy and I'm either going to make it to the department store on an 8th a tank of gas 3 hours away or die trying to get there. Fucking shit, I'm stupid! Why am I so--- Ahhhhrrhrh! Fuuuuck! Youuuuu!"And then you fix it in like 3 or 4 days of walking. Or you die. Out there, it is what it is. In society, it's never done and you're always being edged by this that or the other impossible project.
