Philosophy Thoughts

So I have been taking this philosophy class and I have loved it up until we got to modern philosophy and that is just depressing... everyone today is so pessimistic and I stopped and looked at myself and found that I am the same way sometimes but then at the same time by trying to break out of that I am alienating myself and I will continue to drive myself crazy because well life is so much easier when you go with the flow. Anyhow so a little while ago we talked about cameau... I think that is spelled right but I don’t know… Anyhow he gave this giant lecture/paper on how philosophy’s only real question is suicide or not! It was very... odd and depressing class period. His argument was that there was no point to this life. We are not here for any reason that our lives are so meaningless... and that is well so not true! But it reminded me of a song that I heard on the radio by Brook Dunn called God must be busy... I remember the first time I heard it I was appalled that people could think that. Every time I hear the song I just want to scream at the radio to anyone who is listening that the song is a lie! But then putting that together with my observation of how pessimistic people are these days it made sense... and it made me sad! Because well because of the truth I know about the gospel I know that there is meaning to our lives and that god does care and that there is a rhyme and reason to all the awful and horrid things that happen. It is sad and awful how many things that happen that are just plain bad and horrific! My little brothers best friend was diagnosed with a tumor that is life changing at the age 11. My bishop’s family was killed in a horrific accident that killed two of his children and his wife. I just made a new friend that I love dearly that I just found out there is a chance she may not live to see another year. And then you look at just the simple things that are so bad and awful. A 3 year old getting stung by a bee, a fender bender, having just finished curling your hair only to find that it is going to be raining the rest of the day. Life sucks a lot of the time but if all you do is focus on all these bad things you will never know the good things that come of them... life is too short to not live laugh and love as much as you can. This quote seems to explain it "for a long time is seemed to me that life was about to begin- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten though first, some unfinished business, still time to be served, or a debt to be paid. Until at last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. This perspective has helped me to see there is not way to happiness. Happiness is a journey, not a destination" One other thought. If you were to loose yourself in the service of others, Im sure you would discover that life is so full of meaning and love and you would pity small minded class' that try to toss a twist in preception of life and hope others could find the joy you found after a long hard life of loving service.