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I have changed a lot since the end of 10th grade, and I am glad. I would never want to go back to the apathy and ignorance that I had supposed, for the years I've lived before, was just life. I would never want to go back to living my priveleged life without the realization of what that costs others. While I am not sure what my life will be, at the very least I know that it will be something far beyond my previous expectations. Not only have my personal relationships improved, but I now realize that the adventure that I have always been drawn to in stories is not just fiction... life can be that real, if we realize that there is more to it than the American dream, school, college, family, work, death...
I have realized that life does not have a price, and you don't need to get special qualifications or test scores, or even do any work that you don't enjoy to have life, to live a valuable and exciting life, and to fight for real change (as opposed to the sort of change you will get negotiating with the endlessly boring, apathetic, beauracracy-choked morass). Now that I have seen and experienced the sort of things that can be done from the bottom up, I have hope that I'll never fall back on to a path to become another machine-part in the mass of boring, destructive competition we call a 'free market'.
I do not think people were meant to be machine parts. I don't think they were meant to perform a single task, almost every day for the rest of their lives. I know, simply through the most important, meaningful parts of my life, that money is not required for fulfillment. Many of us say that but few of us believe it or live like we believe it.
Also, I think that quote (which no-one seems able to find a definite source for... it's most commonly attributed to Winston Churchill, but that's not true) that basically states that if you're not idealistic in youth, you have no heart, and if you're idealistic after youth, you have no brain... is bull. It seems to be an excuse for a lot of people to feel better about themselves, as if it's somehow more intelligent to give up on actively thinking and doing because it's much easier to do nothing. There are a great many intelligent people who have lost none of their idealism, even past the age of sixty.
Also, Cobalt Season is very nice. Ryan and Holly are wonderful in person. Here is one of their songs...
It's flat for miles around me
Land as far as I can see
S'pose the world is kinda like that
Seems like a fine idea to me
So I'll write a book (now)
And I'll sell it to the masses
And I'll inspire a revolution
Until the lonliness passes
And what the hell is wrong with me?
I should have been a father
I should have been a brother
I should have been a friend
So forget about religion
It'll never save your soul
Not even capitalism
It could make your wife a whore
Just get rid of all your crap (now)
Just give it to the poor
So that they can have your crap (now)
So that they can want some more
Turns out it's never quite that easy
Or perhaps it really is
That man's words can come to haunt me
Those words can come to haunt me
I need a brand new story
One to set my mind at peace
I'm tired of waiting here 'til Glory
I need that Kingdom to release
Come pourin' down my street here
Come streamin' through my hall
Come swellin' up around my bedside
Come with healing now for all
It turns out I am the obstruction
Turns out I have been one
To loose them or enslave them
And just leave them all undone
I have realized that life does not have a price, and you don't need to get special qualifications or test scores, or even do any work that you don't enjoy to have life, to live a valuable and exciting life, and to fight for real change (as opposed to the sort of change you will get negotiating with the endlessly boring, apathetic, beauracracy-choked morass). Now that I have seen and experienced the sort of things that can be done from the bottom up, I have hope that I'll never fall back on to a path to become another machine-part in the mass of boring, destructive competition we call a 'free market'.
I do not think people were meant to be machine parts. I don't think they were meant to perform a single task, almost every day for the rest of their lives. I know, simply through the most important, meaningful parts of my life, that money is not required for fulfillment. Many of us say that but few of us believe it or live like we believe it.
Also, I think that quote (which no-one seems able to find a definite source for... it's most commonly attributed to Winston Churchill, but that's not true) that basically states that if you're not idealistic in youth, you have no heart, and if you're idealistic after youth, you have no brain... is bull. It seems to be an excuse for a lot of people to feel better about themselves, as if it's somehow more intelligent to give up on actively thinking and doing because it's much easier to do nothing. There are a great many intelligent people who have lost none of their idealism, even past the age of sixty.
Also, Cobalt Season is very nice. Ryan and Holly are wonderful in person. Here is one of their songs...
It's flat for miles around me
Land as far as I can see
S'pose the world is kinda like that
Seems like a fine idea to me
So I'll write a book (now)
And I'll sell it to the masses
And I'll inspire a revolution
Until the lonliness passes
And what the hell is wrong with me?
I should have been a father
I should have been a brother
I should have been a friend
So forget about religion
It'll never save your soul
Not even capitalism
It could make your wife a whore
Just get rid of all your crap (now)
Just give it to the poor
So that they can have your crap (now)
So that they can want some more
Turns out it's never quite that easy
Or perhaps it really is
That man's words can come to haunt me
Those words can come to haunt me
I need a brand new story
One to set my mind at peace
I'm tired of waiting here 'til Glory
I need that Kingdom to release
Come pourin' down my street here
Come streamin' through my hall
Come swellin' up around my bedside
Come with healing now for all
It turns out I am the obstruction
Turns out I have been one
To loose them or enslave them
And just leave them all undone