“Life is beautiful and for those that refuse to recognize this, I am sad.”

Fair enough. From your postings, and also from some of the creative choices you have made in playing Chloe, you seem to be quite an optimist. I have a question though: Do you think it’s possible that looking at life through an optimistic filter is potentially just as limiting as looking at life skeptically? Does the sunniness of Mozart not need to be counterbalanced with the weight of Beethoven? In literature, few classic novels are relentlessly upbeat. Perhaps that’s because… neither is life.

Milan Kundera’s “Unbearable Lightness of Being” delves into this issue of lightness versus weight– which is negative, which positive. It also gets into the issue of kitsch: art (and by extension life) that chooses to ignore that which is unpalatable, distasteful. The reason Sabina is drawn to Tomas, she tells him, is that he is the complete opposite of kitsch. And surprisingly, the thing she finds unbearable about life under communism is the aesthetic of communist kitsch: upbeat slogans and triumphal parades, the relentless denial of everything that is unacceptable in life. It’s surprising that her primary objection to life under a dictatorship is an aesthetic one, but I found it a very powerful statement of the character’s commitment to truth, to looking at life honestly and without blinking.

“Life is beautiful and for those that refuse to recognize this, I am sad.”

Life isn’t always beautiful. Life is life. I think a meaningful life consists of so much more than that. “Life isn’t always beautiful, and for those that refuse to realize this, I am sad.” If you are to define life, that’s more real…at to me it is.

do you know Tom Jobim and Vinicius De Moraes Bossanova… ” A Felicidade” ???
……………………………………………..
“…Tristeza não tem fim, felicidade sim.
A felicidade é como a pluma,
que o vento vai levando pelo ar,
Voa tão leve, mais tem a vida breve,
Precisa que haja vento sem parar…. ”
………………………………………….

Time to be sad… time to be happy…
but life is…. always beautiful…
take care

“Life is beautiful and for those that refuse to recognize this, I am sad.”
This made me smile allison.
You remind me of the coockie lady when she said;
“I make the cookies once a year, if you didn’t get it, TOOO FREAKING BAAAD!”

I think it means the same thing. You live just once, if you don’t find a way to enjoy it in whatever circumstances you are, well ….
Those people who don’t think so, may be they should go back to “Free Will” section and see what they wrote about how we are responsible to everything happening to us.

Samuel Johnson: “The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove”

Hi Allison.
Feeling sad is the opposite of feeling happy.
The more you are sensitive and passionate, the easier it is to move from one extreme to another.
It is difficult to rationalise these two sentiments. Sadness is it due to a specific event or it is in our nature.
It is a great advantage for a player to play with the emotions and thus make its true character.
This feature can not be left to the locker room after the shooting.
Sadness is the greatest source of inspiration for artists. No sadness, no inspiration.
You can not do away with this sentiment. It is in you. Even if you got everything that you want, the feeling persist. Small changes such as making the sport brings endorphins in our system and we feel better. Small changes are important not to lose your bearings.
You’re not alone in having this feeling. If Chloe from the episode ” Truth” asked how you feel, we could not as answer just “fine”.
When I am sad, I try to think less and I swim.
About Olympics.
Michael Phelt had problems with hyperactivity. He didn’t like to take medication, he told his mother, I shall swim. It’s really inspiring.
Allison, have a good and long weekend.

Bye
Claude.

Allison, when you said “Life is beautiful and for those that refuse to recognize this, I am sad.” I take it you’re implying that you were having a good moment.
But touching on some earlier good points by some of your replies, think about the terminally ill. Whether life is beautiful or not, most people are glad to just be alive!

i say life can sometimes be good mostly wen im watching smallville but im a very negative so it kinda sucks…but…

The way I look at it…everyday we live, it’s one day closer to our expiration date, so live it to the fullest and look for the little things in life that make you happy. =]

Kind of morbid, I know, but I’m just a morbid person.

You guuuuuuuys…when I read Allison’s post this morning… “Life is beautiful”…I thought, “Great! Simple! Not too deep! We can take a break today!” But nooooo…y’all had to go and ask all these thought-provoking questions! lol.

taylor nikole…I think I understand your question (“Is this sad feeling just for people who have potential from the beginning to realize the beauty in life?).

Personally, I think everyone has the potential to recognize the beauty in life…maybe not to the same degree as everyone else, and maybe not as often as everyone else, but the possibility is there.

When Allison said, “Life is beautiful and for those that refuse to recognize this, I am sad.” I interpreted that to mean that she was making a distinction between those who can’t see the beauty in life (at least for the time being because of their circumstances), and those who willfully refuse to recognize the beauty in life, despite being fortunate enough to have relatively good circumstances. Take me for example. If you look at my life…sure, it’s not perfect. There have been ups and downs. There is stress. But I am grateful everyday because I see, daily, people who have it worse than I do. And many of these people, they still manage to get on somehow, without bringing down everyone around them. So, knowing that I have it better than others, if I were to persist in seeing the bad side of everyone, to constantly complain, to always degrade others, to never show gratitude…then I would agree with Allison…I would feel sad for someone like that.

paul…I think you bring up some really great points. If I were that character in the book, I think what I would be offended by is not so much the positivity of the messages, but the falseness of those messages. It’s like that saying, “Don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining.” I am an optimist. If someone were to actually pee on my leg, my initial reaction would probably be, “Gross!” And certainly I would be puzzled as to why someone was peeing on my leg. But as an optimist, maybe I’d look at that situation and go, “Well, I needed to take a shower anyway.” Or, “At least it’s just pee and not poop.” But taking that perspective doesn’t mean I’m deluding myself into believing that it’s rain. In fact, if that person were to tell me it was rain, I would probably get angry because I don’t like it when people so blatantly insult my intelligence. So, I don’t think an optimistic perspective is limiting. I think ignorance is limiting. But I think skepticism is healthy. That’s what I am…a skeptical optimist, or an optimistic skeptic, whichever. I try to maintain a positive outlook, but I also like to question everything.

Damn straight life is beautiful! It’s our DUTY in life to find the beauty in it instead of waiting for the beauty to suddenly *poof* appear. The little details in life and the simplicity of it (once we actually strive to and succeed to make it simple) holds the most beauty, I believe.

You are such a great gal, Allison. With each and every entry, I feel more and more inspired to grab life with my bare hands and make the best of it while I’m here.

We should all leave this world with a bang!

Stay Awesome,
Aysha

-Excuse my english-
I come here almost everyday to read your opinions but sometimes the threads are very “deep” and my poor english is a limit for express my ideas. But today..

“Life is beautiful and for those that –refuse– to recognize this, I am sad.”
I think, instead of refuse, the words I should use are “for those that never see this, I’m sad”

Like Kamil Karaszewski (#49) said, some people haven’t the chance of know it, I’m sure everybody here is thinking on start new proyect, maybe write a book (me!), get marry, learn piano; but some poor people who is lucky if they get something to eat today, they (maybe) don’t think the same.

A hour ago finished a UNICEF’s TV program called “Un sol para los chicos” (“A sun for the children”). It’s made yearly, and the target is get donations from people and corporations for help children on Argentina.
In a moment of the night there was a report of a woman who record on video some children of poor zones of my country, the question were “What is your dream?”. You can see on all children that eyes of happiness and hope. Doesn’t matter if they had nothing, they wanted to be a doctor, a soccer player, an actress… but, when they grow up and start to know the life they have, where the dreams and projects are very hard to reach, even if they fight; they will start to lose that hope, and they are going to think about the “beautiful life” is for fairy tales.

Maybe the life is like a ball inside a box. When you open it, you can get a leather ball, a plastic one… of course you can try to customize it and make it better. The problem is when you open the box and see the ball broken, Can you fix it?

For those of you who say that life is not always beautiful, I have this to say: Life is ALWAYS beautiful…..it may be hard and it may not always be fun, but we are but specs in the vast unending ocean of the universe…..we have been blessed with the gift of life that seems to have happened no where else but here, and one day it will all come to a screeching halt…..so respect life for what it is, amazing and BEAUTIFUL!!!

Allison.. Have you ever gone to the
Wine & Food Festival in NYC?? I think you would enjoy it

http://www.nycwineandfoodfestival.com/2008/index.php

I love you!!!! kisses…

hello alison. my name Eduardo, I live in Brazil, accompany even from far away his work, adore you very much. Please answer me. kadupira@yahoo.com.br