Death

Why are people scared to die?  It’s just the end.  You die and then you decompose.  It’s nothingness.  It’s an endless sleep without dreams.  You don’t have to think, you’re simply gone.  It’s not that unfathomable.

Why do people need a coping mechanism of sorts for death?  That’s all that religion is, that is all that heaven, paradise, and reincarnation are.  I don’t understand fear of death.  Once you’re gone it doesn’t matter anymore.  You don’t even know you are dead.  You don’t know anything.  You don’t think.  You just cease to exist.

Easily Inspired

I work in a store.  It’s not the best job, but it’ll do for high school.  Lately instead of turning on your flasher in order to get change, a “change needed” button has been added.

Every time I hear the “change needed,”  I think about just how true this is.  The world is practically in ruins, but let’s focus on the United States alone, at least to start.  I think a lot of it can be summed into two words–Bush administration.  If Obama does not get elected, as Hillary is out of the race,  I’m not quite sure what we’ll do.  Republicans have been screwing this country for at least eight years, if I knew the number was longer, I’d give it, but I can only remember so far back.  Change is needed, and it has to start somewhere, but it will have to start with a Democrat (or a third party, but chances for a third party election are slim).  The government goes in cycles.  It has several years of policy-making then several years of reform.  It’s time for reform. 

Besides the government, people are too materialistic.  They spend money on theings they don’t want and half the time don’t even use.  There are people who spend more money on a bag than a poor family does on food in a year.  We waste so much food that  49 million people could be fed with what we waste. 

Back to government, a bit.  I don’t understand half of the laws.  The death penalty is legal in many places.  It shouldn’t be.  The system isn’t perfect.  It’s more cost-efficient to keep criminals in jail than to kill them.  Also, the death penalty does not lower the crime rate at all.  Steeper punishment does not prevent people from acting out.  While we’re on jails, a lot of prisoners are there due to a reason related to drugs.  Drugs should be legal.  The end.  They are a personal liberty that people should be granted.  Speaking of personal liberties, gay marriage should be the standard for every state.  The arguement that marriage would lose its sanctity is ludicrous.  By that, divorce should be illegal also, which a lot of people would be highly angered by.  Love isn’t gender-specific.  People should be able to marry whomever they like.  If your reason against it has to do with religion, it is not valid.  The government is a secular institution and its laws should be not be ruled by religious views. 

That’s it for now.

Neglect

Why do I always feel so neglected?  It’s as if everyone–my friends, my family–are sweeping me away beneath a rug.  I’m not sure if it’s them or if it’s me, but it’s probably me, pushing them away.  But, if that’s how I want it, why do i feel this way?

Hate

I don’t understand hate.  I don’t understand how somebody can say, “I hate them,” after just hearing their name or seeing them somewhere, and I mean without ever having met them or really seen them portrayed as they really are.  I don’t get how you can look at another person and say that you would rather not have them exist than have their creed, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, the list goes on and on, exist.  Today, I was watching some documentary on HBO about Rosie’s cruise.  It was all gay and lesbian couples.  It got me into that thinking kind of mood.  How can anyone say they hate them based on their orientation?  How can you look at another person and say that they’re not deserving of love, or marriage, or children, or whatever you want, based on that?  Is love not love in any form?   Is love not good?  What difference is there between you and whomever you hate?  Do they not have the same emotions as you?  What really makes them that different?  I just don’t understand.