The true expression

The written word. One of the greatest achievement of humanity, but which can sometimes carry so little value. We are seeing more and more that heart moving speeches are so simple to write (any decent politician can write a lovely tear jerker), but they fail to put belief behind the words they sing so freely.

I ask you, in a world where language is changing, where everything is changing are we allowing so little emphasis to come on points of view? Are we failing to see that the more we talk the less we actually say? Soon it will take us minutes to relay how we feel, or maybe emotions will be a thing of the past, where we actually can't explain how we feel. I hope not, but we live in an ever changing world, and if we ever tried to stop it changing we would become the enemy and misunderstood. Life goes on always but i do, in the back of my mind, fear an age of Newspeak coming upon us. Don't take this the wrong way I'm definitely not a prescriptivist, but i do believe that language should try to hold on to the value of emotional representation. Otherwise our society may one day die out from the lack of "something the scholars used to call 'love'".

So let us spread love while we may. The hardest thing for me to write is "tell someone you love them" and i don't really know why. It seems that deep down i feel embarrassed saying it, and personally i feel as if it's something I have to say on my own, without any help of any form. Something which is gone after a moment, but takes an eternity to build up to. So here's a challenge for me too. Tell your loved ones how you feel. And I'll leave it at that.

What if?

I often find myself wonder what it would be like if reality (all that we know) stopped existing. Now some people would say that this is impossible. But i tend to believe that all things are possible, just some are really hard. Many people would refuse to accept the non-existence and others may just go with it. We may end up with a world in which we create our own everything, but the after we've dabbed in pure creation we as humans wouldn't be able to stop. We would crave it more than anything, it would become a drug to us. So I like the idea of a world where pure creation is possible, but I'll stick to this reality for the moment.

A Picture Suited To All

You want to live your life? You Want to live it to the full? Then get up! Go outside (whatever the weather) and do things and meet people! If you just walk down the street and blend into the background of everyday "life" passersby will forget about you. But if you step out of the norm, out of your comfort zones and do interesting things, people will want to know more. Don't let this world stop you. You try to do things and people put rules and guidelines in your way, which mean you have to fill out form after form just to do something you could have done in an afternoon. If we as people don't experiment with things how can we invent new things? Sometimes it's a stroke of genius, most of the time, it's an accident. So go! Get up and achieve something!

The Moment Between Thinking and Doing

Practise. If you want to do something, practise. There is no quick way around things. I have tried for many years to find quick ways around many things and found nothing. So if you want to pass your exams (GCSE, A level, driving test, whatever) practise at doing the things they will assess you on. Oh and don't leave out the bits that you can't do. Why? Because it will only drag you down later on. e.g. the exam day. If you don't understand something, ask. Don't be scared if you don't know, you want to do well in life? Then ask until you understand and can do it without it hurting your head from thinking. I have a great deal of respect for people who can do things i can't; sing, dance, shoot a bulls eye every time, remember seemingly unimportant details, and so on. But if i could be bothered practising, i could learn to do most of these things. Then all it takes is time. And like most other humans who have a life. I have precious little time to myself (or so I seem to believe). So what can i do? Well I could stop going to college and thus skewer my future, or I could get my priorities straight. Thus allowing myself to waste not a second of my time...
This is the real world however and i'm sure there would be days when i just couldn't be bothered.

Checking out the news

You know whats good? Staying in touch with family. It's made really easy by things such as skype or msn, especially when parts of your family live overseas due to better weather (well not at the moment). As our culture has advanced so has the speed of communication so we can get up to the minute news from the entire planet. But this speed increase usually means our lives have to speed up as well. And sometimes that's a bad thing indeed. We need peace we need relaxation in order to enjoy life. If we don't whats the difference between us and robots? ( it comes from the Czech word robotiti: "to work as a slave or a drudge") and I'm sure non of us are slaves since it was abolished in 1807 (in England anyway). So enjoy work but also enjoy life. Since work is a larger part of peoples lives, it makes sense not only to enjoy it but also to be around people who you get on with, so they can make your job seem a little more worth while.

Making Choices

It has always been an opinion of mine that, when making a decision I should think it through for a couple of days first. Weigh up the pro's and con's and then tackle the main issue head on. I only suggest this because i have not done so before in other situations and it has ended very badly. I am a great lover of music. I enjoy most types and have a massive collection, mainly from the 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's. But i have older and newer music than these. I enjoy pop, rock, ska, techno, blues, metal, country, classical and so forth. But now i reach a choice. Do i collect only music i like/know, or do I collect it all. Every song by every band for the last 50 years. The first would refine the collection and make it mine, make it personal. The second would make it a database, for my friends to look up songs by. After several weeks I'm still torn and both seem pretty good to me. So I'm going to try my best to weigh up the pro's and con's and then I'll make a decision.
Not to make a decision is to not live life to it's fullness. And i definitely want to live.