I really like how Steinbeck described that innate restlessness.

Discussion in 'The Whiners' started by ConeyIslandOfTheMind, Dec 31, 2006.

  1. ConeyIslandOfTheMind

    ConeyIslandOfTheMind Member

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    (This is really random, but it's a thought. Before the wine and fireworks begin.)

    He talked about how we as humans have always been prone to move around, to find something new, to adapt. Before agriculture, we were nomadic. And even after agriculture caused huge civilizations to form, there were those that weren't happy with the given situation, so they moved to find something new.

    It was much more elegantly said than that, but I think I understand why there are people, like myself, who are instinctively restless. It's our roots.

    Eh, food for thought.

    Yaye wine. :D
     
  2. BraveSirRubin

    BraveSirRubin Members

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    I can truly relate to that. I have always felt an extreme urge to move move move and never stop... and I have acted on that urge every bloody time :p.

    Ironically I am also madly in love with nature and everything that is of core, natural essense on this earth and not man created.

    Are we not evolving?
    Stubburn?
    Or real? :)
     
  3. -peaceman69-

    -peaceman69- Member

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    I personally subscribe to the theory that none of us are real. It makes life far easier to explain:D
     
  4. BraveSirRubin

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    Monkeys have to be real, for the simple fact that they are monkeys.
     
  5. rhasta.penguin

    rhasta.penguin No more hippy...ugh

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    Im not quite sure if i am like that or not. I would think i am, concider when i grew up here i felt stern on leaving. And while i was in arizona after awhile i felt the same way to. I feel this way to, but i also feel that i am just wanting to move around continously until i find where i fit in and need to be. There really was no need for me here, and no need for me in AZ. I always have a place in my heart for all the places i live and all the people i get to know, but its never enogh to keep me attached there. Maybe when i move to san francisco it will be different

    i need to read more [​IMG]
     
  6. Duck

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    if it was in all humans, then we'd still be nomadic

    but some definently have it
     
  7. gulfwinds

    gulfwinds girasoles para los amigos

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    most of the ones i know like to sit back and let life blow them wherever. Never been one of those, but i think i'll become one in time.
     
  8. GargoyleMoreFood

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    Steinbeck is awesome. :)
     
  9. Green

    Green Iconoclastic

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    I think there are people who are never happy no matter what.... like my sister.
     
  10. Duck

    Duck quack. Lifetime Supporter

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    the more and more I think about it, the less and less this seems true for me
     
  11. spooner

    spooner is done.

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    I like having a permanent base of operations, but jaunting is required.
     

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