Make it stop

[matrixmann]

It's tough of a deal to watch comrades dying away, not being able to treat their wounds, to soothe their anger and hate, and to stop them from committing actions which prove to be senseless in the end...

Comments

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Exactly, great and brave but we all need strategy so it is not in vain.

[matrixmann]

It is in vain if you see after an amount of time what they thought needing to fight and to run for. If you recognize it's much of a kneejerk reaction what they did, but as they decided to do it, they thought this was the real - the true thing.
Today you sit there yourself and shake your head over how much waste of energy it was and where it probably would have been better invested...

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Exactly it is very important to learn to direct your anger in the right direction so you get results.

[matrixmann]

I think it's not only controlling the anger.
Something I also find is... Education at all. Education in the intellectual manner.
Like - when I do this or this, it causes this or this or makes it it even stop. You know?
Things I've been witness to - this is the main thing that occurs to me while looking at it. "You even knew better than this and still you did...?", "You should have known better that this is not gonna stop anything..." - and still you sit there and think like "How long has he / she been dead now?". And, while looking at the results from an action, you think like "It's all been in vain... It's like nothing happened." Names get forgotten, people forgotten; if it really was to serve a higher thing and not a personal quest for revenge, then it was a shitty idea and actually the ones who did it should've known better. Even back then, even years ago, 'cause the world doesn't change so briskly.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Well, knowing how to control different things is part of being educated. So, I agree. No person is born with ideas ready in their head to pop. This is what idealism suggests. Instead you learn things from environment, from what other people left as legacy and then you form your ideas and not the other way around.

[matrixmann]

Legacy to build on, which mistakes not to make and so on, I know.
But what comes after it?
Often I think like "there's so much lack of knowledge how things work - more lack than knowledge at all", and that sometimes makes you commit mistakes. Because you imagine this or that helps, but it doesn't, you think of yourself as mega-important that the world's gonna orientate itself by you, but it truly is not going to.
Say... You just think things work by the easy way, and you deeply believe in it, but the truth is, it totally doesn't do so. But the belief is going to make you run into one direction that is damned to fail from the beginning - because things don't factually work this way, if you want to achieve a certain goal.