kketchum's Diaryland Diary

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The Universe

Hey, hey.

What's happened today in Wonderland? Well, I ditched school to go shopping with my mother and sister.
By shopping I mean sitting in the car reading Brisingr ;D
I'm up to...the end of the chapter "Kiss Me Sweet".
Oh, and what a suprise. Eragon still needs a sword.

Anyway...

"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you."
-William Arthur Ward

It's true.
Especially the "Ignore me, and I may not forgive you"
To me, that sentence extends past ignoring but neglecting to notice in the first place. Too many of us walk around drowning in a pool of our own thoughts. Seeing, but never really taking in the beauty that surrounds us.
Surrounded us.
We've kinda destroyed the Earth haven't we?
Maybe that's why we've become so blind...we are brought up with the idea that the world belongs to humans and that we have just changed it to fit our needs. Perhaps deep down we all know the truth...we were given the gift of knowledge so that we could lead the world of creatures, and then destroyed it because we don't seem to have the ability to be satisfied with equal power. That's embarrassing. It's no wonder that we have easily been taken over by technology, now we don't have to communicate directly with each other and be reminded everyday of the horrible human flaws that plague the Earth.
This may be completely irrelevant but...
I find it so fascinating that humans have a natural assumption that the universe is divided into black and white. Of course there are those who say that nothing is black and white, but shades of grey. Hasn't anyone considered the possibility that there are no groups or ranges? That nothing is more right than wrong and one thing isn't better than another? That everything just is, existing without comparison or opinion? It is the most basic conclusion, and is probably the intention of who/whatever created the universe (God, Fate, Karma, Reality, the Big Bang, take your pick) and yet it is so hard for the human mind to fully comprehend. We put so much faith in morals and instinct, punishing those who go against what the majority agree is 'right'. But aren't these people just doing what they think they should? I mean, I'm not saying we should feel sorry for rapists and murderers because they're misunderstood, but they are just doing what we all are. Existing. What they do is bad (Oh my, was that another moral taking control?) and it hurts other people, so of course we can't let them roam the streets with the innocent but to call them disgusting...and it's hard for me to not just say they are and be done with this rant but...they are just living in their own world with black and whites that we don't agree with.

This is hard to conclude, as I have not asked a question and answered it with a series of witty sentences but stated my own ideas which have ended up like a blanket which has been shredded and sewn back together as a dress. I suppose I will end with a taste of some ingenious thought from the one and only Terry Pratchett.

"It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things."

"+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++"

5:24 p.m. - 2008-09-23

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