FMAH
Questions
1. What should we be doing with our lives? Should we be attempting to make it better? Is the the world going to get any better with what, we as individuals, are doing? What are we doing to make it better? The poor, homeless, starving, substance addicted, ill, mentally disabled, or general helping.? I feel this world needs serious helping. Getting a job that only contributes to the capitalism and greedy corporate power hungery smashers seems to only make it worse? I know that its probly impossible to avoid any of this, but should it be so accepted? Should money and greed be our motivators in life or should we be thinking about another way to fullfill personal success?
2. Why is it when we are asked the hard and difficult question of our actions, its called accusations? And do we have to simply accept the differences in each others behavior towards other and themselves? I understand that we all have our own live to live, but it usually imposes on others lives. Why can't we try to find ways to help each other out, instead of being self-interested and self-serving? Its the baser instincts that drive that, but why can't we try to rise above it? I know its impossible to completely serve others, but the idea should be there in our heads and constantly at work. Over indulgence is self-defeating and will end up feeling empty at some point. I'd hate to be on my deathbed someday thinking I lived my life only for me. It just seems devoid of compassion.
3. Why is it, that coming from a highly privelidged country, that we believe we are better than the people in third-world countries? We more special or greater than they are because we were born into the right place and time? What if you or I were in their place? Would you feel you were less deserving of the wealth and luxury of "them Americans"? Yes, I worked hard in school. Yes, I study alot. Yes, I sacrifice time and energy for my prosperity.
But do you still deserve it more than that person with the handicap? A handicap can be a learning disability, a physical disability, a finacial disability(having no money), under the control of a tyrant and escaping on a longboat and trying to make a new life for yourself. Like going to General College at the U of M. Cause that is only for the truly pathetic? Or maybe for the disadvantaged, who finally were given a break at life. Or a language barrier?
Or make one or two mistakes at life and pay the rest of it punished. Like a drug addiction. Or what if your abused and grow up to have a mental or emotional disibility caused by it, and thus are tortured for the rest of your life? Shouldn't someone be helping them? Why does it always have to someone else? Why can't we all put in our fair share at making it a better world?
Why does the rich have to get richer and the poor, poorer? Or why does one have to suffer at all?
A few too many thoughts right now, and I was hoping this might clear some of out for the night. It hasn't and I'm as angry and as frustrated as I started writing this.
I'm trying to prepare myself for some difficult decisions that lay ahead and I need solace. I just want to fuckin' scream and cry all at the same time. If people don't even begin to have compassion for others, where do we go? When can we start putting others before ourselves?
I know we have to have selfpreservation, survival, but when does it become too much? When do we start thinking about what we can do for others and not just for ourselves?
This is a long entry and I need to rest.
Cha-ching. The sound of another Super America register being closed. Let's go to war for oil. Yeh, thats looking out for the small guy. Fucking assholes.
FMAH(Fucking Mad As Hell)
1. What should we be doing with our lives? Should we be attempting to make it better? Is the the world going to get any better with what, we as individuals, are doing? What are we doing to make it better? The poor, homeless, starving, substance addicted, ill, mentally disabled, or general helping.? I feel this world needs serious helping. Getting a job that only contributes to the capitalism and greedy corporate power hungery smashers seems to only make it worse? I know that its probly impossible to avoid any of this, but should it be so accepted? Should money and greed be our motivators in life or should we be thinking about another way to fullfill personal success?
2. Why is it when we are asked the hard and difficult question of our actions, its called accusations? And do we have to simply accept the differences in each others behavior towards other and themselves? I understand that we all have our own live to live, but it usually imposes on others lives. Why can't we try to find ways to help each other out, instead of being self-interested and self-serving? Its the baser instincts that drive that, but why can't we try to rise above it? I know its impossible to completely serve others, but the idea should be there in our heads and constantly at work. Over indulgence is self-defeating and will end up feeling empty at some point. I'd hate to be on my deathbed someday thinking I lived my life only for me. It just seems devoid of compassion.
3. Why is it, that coming from a highly privelidged country, that we believe we are better than the people in third-world countries? We more special or greater than they are because we were born into the right place and time? What if you or I were in their place? Would you feel you were less deserving of the wealth and luxury of "them Americans"? Yes, I worked hard in school. Yes, I study alot. Yes, I sacrifice time and energy for my prosperity.
But do you still deserve it more than that person with the handicap? A handicap can be a learning disability, a physical disability, a finacial disability(having no money), under the control of a tyrant and escaping on a longboat and trying to make a new life for yourself. Like going to General College at the U of M. Cause that is only for the truly pathetic? Or maybe for the disadvantaged, who finally were given a break at life. Or a language barrier?
Or make one or two mistakes at life and pay the rest of it punished. Like a drug addiction. Or what if your abused and grow up to have a mental or emotional disibility caused by it, and thus are tortured for the rest of your life? Shouldn't someone be helping them? Why does it always have to someone else? Why can't we all put in our fair share at making it a better world?
Why does the rich have to get richer and the poor, poorer? Or why does one have to suffer at all?
A few too many thoughts right now, and I was hoping this might clear some of out for the night. It hasn't and I'm as angry and as frustrated as I started writing this.
I'm trying to prepare myself for some difficult decisions that lay ahead and I need solace. I just want to fuckin' scream and cry all at the same time. If people don't even begin to have compassion for others, where do we go? When can we start putting others before ourselves?
I know we have to have selfpreservation, survival, but when does it become too much? When do we start thinking about what we can do for others and not just for ourselves?
This is a long entry and I need to rest.
Cha-ching. The sound of another Super America register being closed. Let's go to war for oil. Yeh, thats looking out for the small guy. Fucking assholes.
FMAH(Fucking Mad As Hell)