An underlying fact about humans is that against all odds we will find ways to survive and keep going most of the time with sheer willpower alone. This may seem like a small thing to post about but think about it why do we do this? Is it because we believe that we have something worth living for or is it a more self centred aproach that we believe that the world truly would be a better place with us in it. Another human, another human using a car, using electricity and slowly killing themsleves with the choices they make, but hey they donate to charity occaisionally and use solar powered water heating so evidently they are truly doing the world a great deal of good. This post is not meant to think that the world would be better off without you it perhaps wouldn't but the world would would be better without a large amount of people unnamed and not remembered. Back to the original idea, humans , whether it is some sort of over inflated sence of righteousness or just something simpler like love. To quote someone i think love brings us together and tears us apart, it is the best and worst emotions the best because it brings happiness to all regardless of their situation and worst because when it fails all hell breaks loose within yourself. Suddenly I fell so very angsty so I think i'll stay away from love in this post from now on. The ability to survive is not of course limited to humans all creatures on this earth want to survive whether they fully understand it or not. There reason for survival seems to be just to breed and protect their offspring until their offspring can survive for themselves and then repeat the process. Perhaps that is our basic underlying reason for surviving or wanting to survive whether we know it or not.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
You changed the channel then you changed our minds
If we fall, then we all fall, and we fall alone
The human psyche is a strange one. Nearly all other animals will never think to abandon friends or families at the sign of danger yet we as humans are quick to do so. I believe that this is our strength but also our greatest weakness. This every man for himself attitude to life can help if say the person you are abandoning knows that they are going to die and for you to stay would be pointless. Yet we abandon each other at the slightest possibility of danger. The reason behind this is that we are scared. Yes we are scared, of death perhaps , or perhaps what comes after. This can cause us to live maybe longer but eventually we will be alone and we all die at some point. I say that death should not direct our actions if death calls for you you should embrace it willingly but is this just another escape. An escape from the chaotic world that we are born into. Some people believe that there is an afterlife that is the light at the end of the dark tunnel that is our world.I propose that there is nothing. The reason behind this is that I believe that we cannot accept death no matter how much we say we do. We are born into this world and slowly gain full control of our actions we see what we want to and do as we wish. Therefore I believe that we cannot fathom ourselves being nothing with none of those things. Another reason I believe is behind the afterlife belief is that humans are rather self centred and we do not like to believe that this is it, that after we die in 60 years or so we will be but a vague memory to those left, if we are that even. The point is that we all die and we run from this all our lives but we cannot run forever.