What if the last words you ever spoke to someone, was infact the last words, you ever spoke?
What would they be and what would you think about them? How would you feel if they were something horrific and hurtful? Or beautiful and majestic perhaps.
Think about your loved ones and the last things you said to them. What if you never saw them again, what would those last words you exchange be, they'd haunt you for rest of your life no matter what they would be.
I think this simple notion is lost on us today. We live our lives not even expecting death sometimes. When it happens in every second of every moment. Hell upto now, you reading this, approx 100 people will have died, some from disease, some from old age, some from accidents, perhaps even some from murder. Too many people respect themselves so much they forget and maybe have no respect left for anyone else. It's all well and good to look out for number one. But hell if we all did that all of the time... well I bet there would be a sharp decrease in our numbers.
We fail to realise that the people we pass on the street, the people we see in bars and coffee houses, the people we see driving their cars, the people on the bus, the people who clean up after us, well, we forget that they are infact... people.
Everyone looses people close to them, we cling onto the best we can to all those around us, to all those we hold dear, but we can't. No matter how hard our grip and how enduring our strength is, we will loose them, we will loose them all. We never take the time to fully respect them or thank them for all they have done and all they are and then when we want to say it most, they aren't around to listen.
We try so hard to make people happy, to make ourselves happy and to be strong. We do all we can to make an impression, to be something people can be proud of. Most of us fail, spectacularly. But that doesn't make us anymore or any less than anyone else.
Today. right now. It's... an odd time. It's a time when you can see something so old being paired upto or placed next to or related to something so new and cutting edge. Our time is confusing because it seems... everything has been done before and we're just borrowing different aspects from the past.
Everything has been done before, but everything hasn't been done by YOU before. So you, you can do anything.
Thursday 24 February 2011
Wednesday 9 February 2011
The Opportunity
What, if you could, would you do, in order to live forever? What price would you pay and what hurt would you inflict?
What are the limits you would push and even transcend, just to survive?
What lies in the heart is dark and what the mind seems to block out is even darker. We all have the audacity and the ferociousness, you can deny you're animalistic and carnivorous nature all you like, but we, like all beings of this earth, are animals. You strip away the fabrications of society, of conformity and obedience and you are left with a harsher world than what you know. "Dog eat Dog" does not begin to cover the sheer horrors, I, you, and everyone out there is able to do. That some, do infact do. Some of these people us 'normal' fail to 'understand'.
You may think I'm talking only about the bad here but I'm not. "It's only after we've lost everything that we are free to do anything" Is this true? Surely, some of you, maybe even all of you, would be curious to find out what it is like to indeed be someone else. What many of us fail to realise is that we are infact ALSO that someone else. The eternal devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other, Ying & Yang, Good & Bad, The Hero & the Villain. It is the balance of this that can contribute to a whole human being. Most would think there is never an ALL bad, or an ALL good person out there, but what if there was. Does this need to deny this possibility reflect into our jealous envious nature and how we can never be happy with what we have and always want for more. Are we bred of consumerism, are we children of a never ending lust for more and more, whether that be knowledge, time, money, love.
What is it we need though? What if anything is necessary?
Take for instance the Dropsophila Melanogaster, AKA, 'The common Fruit Fly'. At most, apparently, a lifespan of 30 days. Imagine if your life was that short, imagine what you'd do, and if you could infact do it, what would do your aims, your drive, your passion(s), what would be your rationale? Does order and integrity, morality and chance, happenstance and consequences become forgotten in the times of dire circumstance and situation? Or is even the threat of death no excuse? Is the fear of annihilation a reason to loose yourself? To loose what it is that makes you so... 'human'?
I myself use death as a ploy to inter the morality of you, of your surroundings and your time. The looming of destruction brings out the worst in us, doesn't it? It is arguable that the same could be said for money, fame, sex, chance, opportunity. Look at X-factor and all the other shows of the like, if you added a fight to the death to the mix it'd most likely still get the masses queuing up for a chance to be on TV. It seems the fabled "15 Minutes of Fame" we were all apparently due in our lives has now become a Quest for even just 5 seconds.
Can you tell me, or rather, can you tell yourself. That you wouldn't do something drastic for an apparent "once in a lifetime" chance/opportunity? Even if that something drastic was even a crime, a horror, an act of destruction? How far would you go for yourself?
Where would you draw the line?
That's the funny thing about lines, they're like marks in the sand, they'll either be blown away slowly or taken all at once by the waves.
What are the limits you would push and even transcend, just to survive?
What lies in the heart is dark and what the mind seems to block out is even darker. We all have the audacity and the ferociousness, you can deny you're animalistic and carnivorous nature all you like, but we, like all beings of this earth, are animals. You strip away the fabrications of society, of conformity and obedience and you are left with a harsher world than what you know. "Dog eat Dog" does not begin to cover the sheer horrors, I, you, and everyone out there is able to do. That some, do infact do. Some of these people us 'normal' fail to 'understand'.
You may think I'm talking only about the bad here but I'm not. "It's only after we've lost everything that we are free to do anything" Is this true? Surely, some of you, maybe even all of you, would be curious to find out what it is like to indeed be someone else. What many of us fail to realise is that we are infact ALSO that someone else. The eternal devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other, Ying & Yang, Good & Bad, The Hero & the Villain. It is the balance of this that can contribute to a whole human being. Most would think there is never an ALL bad, or an ALL good person out there, but what if there was. Does this need to deny this possibility reflect into our jealous envious nature and how we can never be happy with what we have and always want for more. Are we bred of consumerism, are we children of a never ending lust for more and more, whether that be knowledge, time, money, love.
What is it we need though? What if anything is necessary?
Take for instance the Dropsophila Melanogaster, AKA, 'The common Fruit Fly'. At most, apparently, a lifespan of 30 days. Imagine if your life was that short, imagine what you'd do, and if you could infact do it, what would do your aims, your drive, your passion(s), what would be your rationale? Does order and integrity, morality and chance, happenstance and consequences become forgotten in the times of dire circumstance and situation? Or is even the threat of death no excuse? Is the fear of annihilation a reason to loose yourself? To loose what it is that makes you so... 'human'?
I myself use death as a ploy to inter the morality of you, of your surroundings and your time. The looming of destruction brings out the worst in us, doesn't it? It is arguable that the same could be said for money, fame, sex, chance, opportunity. Look at X-factor and all the other shows of the like, if you added a fight to the death to the mix it'd most likely still get the masses queuing up for a chance to be on TV. It seems the fabled "15 Minutes of Fame" we were all apparently due in our lives has now become a Quest for even just 5 seconds.
Can you tell me, or rather, can you tell yourself. That you wouldn't do something drastic for an apparent "once in a lifetime" chance/opportunity? Even if that something drastic was even a crime, a horror, an act of destruction? How far would you go for yourself?
Where would you draw the line?
That's the funny thing about lines, they're like marks in the sand, they'll either be blown away slowly or taken all at once by the waves.
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