They want to bring them down, tell them that life isn't what they think it is. They want to make sure they have a "real" view of the world. But really, is that helping idealists at all? Are the nonidealists doing it out of love, or doing it because their own lives are so unhappy that they're doing it because, "gosh darn it, if I'm not happy then no one should be."
I just don't understand it.
Joel and I are idealists. We have so many ideas of how life could be better and more free, according to Christ and his words. This is not to say that we don't know how the world is right now, but we seek for the world to be better, not just revel in what it already is. But so many people just can't handle that.
Since when did Christianity include pessimism?
Even I'm a culprit when I'm in a cranky mood, but good gracious, I see it everywhere. Christians who are just trying to be "realistic" about life and relationships. Perhaps we should stop trying to preserve ourselves and rejoice at every opportunity afforded to us. Rejoice even when there's no call for it or no reason, even when we are wronged or spat upon. Instead of becoming a product of our tough experiences, to forget them and act contrary to them, so that we in turn don't burden them on others.
"By acting like a man in love, he became a man in love."
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