Saturday, April 25, 2009

Throw the Stone


It is amazing to me how life just seems to send you curve balls. I mean this in any way shape or form. Being that it is late, I seem to notice these tiny intrecacies more clearly, for example why do we, as one humanity, say that life does this or that, when we never seem to denote what that really is. When we say things like "life just seems to send you curve balls" is this merely an attempt at self-pity in which we can shift the blame of the "curve balls" to this abstract thing called life?

Shifting blame. The more people I get to know the rarer genuineness seems to be. Why is it so difficult to find a good friend? Shifting blame, another facet under the main heading of selfishness, looking out for ONLY one's self. My generation is a cancer. We seem to have produced a type of selfish virus, based on what I do not know. It may be television or just the social construct, but does that matter anyway? I guess one could say the only way to cure something is to find the reason why it came about. I mean isn't that what doctors and scientists are doing everyday, looking at the symptoms to find the cause or to find what really causes Alzheimer's. Cancer. My generation is a cancer, and the worst part about it, we don't even know we are sick. We are told that you need to look out for yourself because others will only undermine you. But really, what society are we trying to create by doing this?

My brain seems to be on overload, I am switching topics but all seem to be vital.

What is the goal of this blog? No one reads it. If people did, I think i would get a lot of angry e-mails for throwing these types of "curve balls". So my goal isn't to address the public, for the public don't care if they are eating vomit if society tells them it is what they should do they will do it. My goal? Honestly, I do not know. A type of untangling of thoughts perhaps. To get something down. Something concrete in a way.

I'm desperate for genuineness. I see fake people everyday, see them go through their daily lives cheating others, but more importantly cheating themselves. When will they learn? I guess they never will. How can they? The "good" do nothing in this world. They sit back and judge, and I am one of them! Actually, I am the leader of them. I am the first one to cast the stone of judgment, and the worst part about that... I have no right. I am just as stupid and moronic as the best of them...just in different ways. The good do nothing. They argue that there is nothing we can do, people have fallen too far. How about we help just a few to get back up then? Why don't we cause a change in one person's life? Do it, if not for those whom are hurting, do it for yourself. See the ripple affect of change.

Imagine this:
It is a warm summer day, the sun is hot and you finally have enough time to get away from the world. A slight breeze flows by your face and through your hair cooling the sweat that sticks to your face as a mask suffocating the skin beneath it. Walking along the path you listen to the rocks shift and settle under your feet. The grass is green, full of life being nourished by the hot sun. You get to the place of peace, under a tree you settle in the refuge of its shade. Life seems so simple in these times, and you realize that times like these are what you truly long for. To feel peace within yourself and with the world. You forget all of the troubles back at home, at school, and at work, all the people that frustrate you all of the things that bug you. You forget about all of that and pick up a rock and toss it into the pond in front of you. You watch as the water rises and falls in a melodic kind of way.

The simple analogy is this: our world is terrible, and in order to have this peacefulness we either need to detract from the world completely or change it. Change it by picking up a rock, an idea, and toss it into the placid world, a world that seems to care nothing at all about the individual, but is so focused on it. Cause a change in one person's life and see how the world ripples and changes because of it.

Listen to this because the logic is sound, however, it relies solely on the choice to WANT a change. Change the placid and stagnant pond we call our home.

1 comment:

  1. Good stuff, Erich! Be the change, be the change! I know I'm working on it! :-)

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