It's Been A While

I meant to post a while ago, but I didn't have the time. It's been pretty busy lately between school, life, etc. Anyway, time to catch up.

I was talking with a friend a week or two ago, and we couldn't agree on the most valuable commodity in a high school and college setting: substances or money? Money gets substances, but substances get money. Obviously, while everything can be bought with money (as I will mention later), the demand for substances is greater from what I've witnessed. There is always someone who desires marijuana, alchohol, caffiene, concaine, acid, ambien, and even adderol, but very few people walk around trying to sell money just to hoard it. As the value of money drops, the value of substances stays constant or even increases. While the enchange of perscrption drugs and illegal substances remains in the underground market, the affect is still positive for the persons involved. I'm not condoning dealing drugs or doing drugs, but I'm also not denying that they exist, they are sold, and they are used.

Anyway, my second point is that everything can be bought. In America, money is power, power is fame, fame is popularity, and so on. Material goods, physical appearance, friends, and fame just begin the list of what a member of the elite class can have (if they don't have it already). Long story short, I'm hoarding my money, I don't know for how long, and I don't know when I'll spend it.

If you couldn't tell, I didn't know how to end that thought. I don't really proofread this, I just write it. The more time you edit something the less original it gets and the sentences become cookie-cutter repitions. I'll have more to write soon enough.

New Years Wishes

2009! This will hopefully be an improvement from '08, but who knows. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

I have no real New Years resolutions, but why should I? Let's just live life to enjoy it. Of course, work and support yourself (and your family if you have one), but take that little bit of time each day to have some fun. Read a book, listen to music, work out, play some video games, see a movie, or do whatever you love doing. If people tell you it's pointless and stupid, tell them they're the stupid ones. What's wrong with having fun?

On that note, I'm going to bed, and wish you all (all two of you who will read this) a Happy New Years and a Happy 2009.

Read This?

This is the first entry of something that will be cared about by few and read by nobody.

Hell, if that won't stop me nothing will.

I spend a lot of time thinking. About what? Doesn't matter. Science, math, philosophy, video games, you name it. A lot of the time it's a retreat from dealing with life. Why? Because life sucks. Life doesn't suck in a suicidal emo way, or a manic depressive artist way, but in a general "society's gone down the shitter" way. We're born, we're taught a plethora of things (most of which we will never use in life), we go to college, drink and take drugs, get a job, hopefully get married and have kids, get old, and die. Granted, there will be moments that take our breath away in the meantime, but in the end, a very small number of us will leave an impression in society for future generations. If you take the portion of people who made groudbreaking discoveries and slice that into little pieces, only one of those pieces is actually worth studying. That little slice contains those who were seen as destroyers of society. That little slice contains the only people that can help society open its eyes.

OJ Simpson, the "innocent" murderer, proved that the wealthy can buy their verdict in the court of law. The terrorists who destroyed the World Trade Center proved that one of the most powerful nations in the world can crumble from a few guys and a couple planes. Charles Manson proved how pliable man is and how far we are willing to go for a little sense of security. Ted Bundy proved that an education and good looks are enough to throw the police off your scent for a while. The Joker (and by this I'm referring to the character and mindset of The Joker, not literally Heath Leger's character in The Dark Knight) "proved" that with a little anarchy, society can fall to its knees. 

Why the hell should you care? I don't know, and if you don't why did you read this far? The bottom line is, we've obsessed with material goods to the point of needing them to survive everyday life. Perishables and necessities aren't enough any more. John Doe can't bear watching Pay-Per-View on his 32" television any more. He needs that new 40" one. Jane Smith could never be seen with her '07 Prada handbag in public. She needs the '08 model. We see ourselves by what we own and what we wear. Granted, I like to look nice, but I don't define myself off of what pair of torn jeans I'm wearing.

I'm not telling you to do anything. I'm not preaching a new way of looking at life. I'm not writing this for anyone except those who'll read it.