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*sigh* How long since my last post? How long since my last post worth reading? Eat it up.
I said once that the whole of the human race should spend a minute a day weeping for lost beauty. At the time I was thinking of the natural world and the methodical destruction of it (and specifically of stars; how long has it been since I, in big city Edmonton, saw more than a dozen stars at a time?), but now I want to widen my statement to include all the times we lose beauty in our lives.
I think children are smarter than almost all adults, and the younger the child, the better. Some kids are miniature adults nowadays – it breaks my heart to see a nine year girl worrying that she’s fat (and she’s thin as a stick, too). Children…they don’t know what society expects of them, so they don’t conform, they haven’t formed strong views on much of anything, they’re not racist or sexist or anything really…blank slates. Psyche, without persona. Humans as humans were meant to be.
Society’s insane. It wants logic and forward-thinking, wisdom and experience, but it also wants to look no older than twenty five. It wants new ideas and spontaneity, but rewards those who are truly spontaneous, saying what they think when they think it and moving however they want with the label “crazy” and murmurs about autism.
You know what I think? Everyone’s too future-centric. The enjoyment of the present is lost in the hopes of the future, and nobody realises that jam tomorrow is nothing when compared to dry bread today. There are people in my class (most of whom are 14 with a few 13-year-olds hanging in there) saying what they’ll do for A levels or IB (seventeen or eighteen), forming opinions about which sixth form college they’ll go to (seventeen/eighteen again), looking at universities (twenty) and what they’ll read there.
I wish the whole world would slow down. The future can only be changed by working in the present, and if you don’t enjoy the present, where will you be in the future? Stop. Slown down. Stand and stare. You’ve got the whole of your life ahead of you! Plenty of time; all the time you’ll ever have. If you love it, do it. Who cares what the world thinks? Who cares about money (it’s just paper and metal, after all)? Who cares about the future? Dry bread today! Tomorrow never comes!
Something I don’t understand is people taking jobs they hate (eg McDonald’s…ugh…) for money. Let’s say you spend 8 hours sleeping. You’ve got 16 hours in each 24-hour day to live, and if you’re working 9-5 then you’re working 8 hours a day. Work in a job you hate and you’re spending half your waking hours doing something you detest. What a waste of a life. I’d rather starve happily then eat miserably.
Abrupt end to my rambling, of course- stick that in your pipe and smoke it!!!!!
Three people busy in one average-sized house. Person B and C are in the same room. Person A needs to get a message to person C- so he/she yells the message across the house to person B to pass it on. Doesn’t it make logical sense that Person C will have heard it anyway!? Allow me to clarify;
A: Hey B, tell C that I’m hungry!!!!
B: C!!!! A’s HUNGRY!!!!!!!
C: I HEARD THE FIRST TIME SOMEBODY SCREAMED IT; I DON’T NEED TO HEAR IT AGAIN!!!!
No translation on this one; it’s just something worth writing but not quite worth reading.
A pen on the paper
Writing our stories
Pouring our hearts out
Consuming our lives
Thoughts shaking,
Hearts breaking,
It tears us apart.
A hasty script,
or a creative novel,
It makes us or breaks us
always overrates us…
6 pages later
I find myself
Face down on the ground,
Having fallen down,
Without a breath left.
But still I rise
from the dirt
To face a false medic
And let the tears fall
The ink has been running
Like water on stone
and the novel is over
We’re rebuilding our home.
One can always turn their own bleeding hands
To cover their sad eyes,
To block their hopeful ears,
To silence their sobbing mouth…
But one can never resist
The urge to take a peak,
The temptation to listen,
The desperate need to cry…
It’s human instinct;
Nobody can turn away from fact,
As hard as we try,
We still have to meet the sad realization…
And look at what we’ve done.
“You can always keep kicking, I’m sure a hole in the contraption will help.”
Surely when you were young you’ve played ‘Telephone’? You know; when people pass on a message to each other through whispers and the last person to hear it shouts it out. It’s always a laugh to see something like ‘I’ve seen lassie eat smores’ become ‘I have grass in my shorts’.
My mother over-exaggerates almost everything she says; whether it’s something she just witnessed or something she heard from someone else. Sometimes it’s difficult to decipher where the true fact is hidden. Or maybe it really did take an hour for me to wait 10 minutes for my SIN number. Great work there. The only times I can recall hearing straight facts have been in direct quotations; like Bible verses. Get your facts straight.
By the way; this post is, in reality, a gently noted rant.
“All in all a terrible movie. I highly recommend it ^.^”
Have you ever tried to draw straight lines freehand? At least as a kid? Chances are you found it excruciatingly impossible. And when your straightedge starts to wear down? Should you keep using it despite how wobbly your lines may become? I’m using too many questions in a paragraph. Looks like my straightedge is a tad worn, too.
What am I getting at? Certainly not grammatical mistakes! Of course not. “My abuse of the ever-useful question mark is completely irrelevant.” Earlier today I had attempted(and failed) to troubleshoot some Vista-related issues in Winamp. My forum search for ‘vista issues’ gave me over 50 pages of results but none of them were related to Vista and less than half of them had anything to do with Winamp. Where are the forum mods? “Here we have an extremely crooked line; somebody obviously made a slip.” =/
I can’t help but notice how many people fail to decide what to consider as being ‘morally and socially correct’. Most people who make this mistake will actually notice it; but refuse to do anything about it. A rather large scale example; something illegal in one country is legal in another. Does that mean it’s okay to do as long as you do it where it’s legal? Perhaps you’re a good, respectable person and don’t personally see anything wrong with the said act. The fact still remains that it’s illegal somewhere. You have to think of why it would be illegal. Unless of course, the country is irrational- in which case you have to verify that very fact. But one of the most problematic examples of this “failure to draw straight lines” is comprehension of biblical law. Such things are often debated; the most obvious of which being whether or not it’s okay to get tattoos. Arguments include ‘But it only applies to old testament!’ vs ‘God doesn’t change his mind. His written laws are solid and definite.’ Who are we to decide what side is correct? Some of you may make a decision to never get tattooed so you it won’t matter anyway. But then you still have a wobbly line nagging at the back of your mind. “For whatsoever is not of faith is sin” (Romans 14:23) This verse should come to mind. Although 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 does not directly apply to tattoos or body piercings, it does give us a principle, “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” This great truth should have a real bearing on what we do and where we go with our bodies. If our bodies belong to God, we should make sure we have His clear “permission” before we “mark it up” with tattoos or body piercings. A tattoo that glorifies god? Now you’re getting somewhere. The laws in Leviticus state that you are not to ‘desecrate your body with such piercings and tattoos’. Not all such tattoos and piercings have to be desecrations.
If you keep letting wobbly lines slide; you’ll end up with a giant scribbly mess and you won’t have a clue at all. Straighten these lines before they tangle. You can use the same straightedge- just use the other side of it. You have to look further into the problem.
Praying for the riddance of mosquitoes- is that alright to do? Try to decide for yourself when you see this thread; http://www.thejesusjoint.net/viewtopic.php?t=2424&sid=7baa9fb897c3123bcab8b28da734ea32
