what is a man that does not make the world a better place?

to all the innocent victims of the michael phelps tragedy i offer you my deepest sympathies. michael phelps was given a gift, the ability to swim with great athletic confidence. this young man used his gift to bring this country home many gold medals from the greatest athletic competition in the world. unfortunately, after an awe inspiring performance, we have recently discovered that he is still a human being therefore making him prone to mistakes. case in point, the recent release of a photo in which he is smokitng marijuana. first tho i would like to congratulate the hero of the hour, the brave person who captured this on film. it must have been a very difficult and stressful decision to make to turn the photograph over to authorities. authorities that would use proper discretion to bring mr. phelps poor judgment into the light of the masses. im sure the man of the hour was conservatively compensated for his heroic efforts. mr. phelps was once uplifted and his accomplishments made him an inspiration to the youth of this decaying society. like his hero, australian ian thorpe, phelps is a man worth looking up too and modeling your life after as he did with mr. thorpe. phelps, a young man that has dedicated his life to the pursuit of olympic gold, should have known how society works and that amidst his intense training that takes up almost all of his time, the repercussions of his actions.....

oh wait...

he has been training the vast majority of his life. He has won 16 olympic medals, 8 gold at the last olympics alone. if nothing else the gold medals should distract you from anything else because that is what this society is obsessed with. money gold and all things monetary. this reminds me of our hero from earlier. what a scum bag. this person held the fate of another person in their hands and decided that they would turn it over for money and let someone else deal with the difficult decision of how to address what michael phelps did or to protect the innocent people that uphold him as an american hero. im sure whoever this person is never committed a moral crime in his or her life aside from standing next to the person hitting the bong and thinking if they had a picture of this it might be worth some money. i would put money down that whoever this person was, was next in line to hit the bong. i guess my question in all of this is why would someone choose to take hope away from someone else? im sure they received money along with that hope. i will say michael is an idiot for getting caught. honestly though, what he did is so small in compared to the person who took the photo knowing very well what would come of it. i hope that persons bank can turn all the hope that person collected into money because my bank doesnt provide that service yet...

computers are for customers only

have you ever thought what it would be like a hundred years from now? or how about two hundred years from now? will there be flying cars? will meals come in pill form? will anything be futuristic like it was supposed to be in 1984? or how about this, will the trash be over flowing? will wildlife only be seen in books because of the insane urban sprawl that has wiped out livable habitat? will pollution reach a point that it makes seeing the sun a special moment? what will your childrens children think of what we are turning the planet into? these questions are only the first that come to mind when i take 2min to think about this subject. i wonder about the legacy that i will leave behind. will i leave a lasting impression or just an impression that lasts. what i mean is will i change the way a few people think about consuming and leave a lasting impression or will i continue to consume and consume and contribute to the growing mass of trash? there are so many things that are recyclable that people over look. how about homes? instead of repairing a home in need i see more and more that they just knock it down and build a new one. i know it is possible to bring an old house back to life and it can be easy if you know what youre doing. when they knock it down it now creates double the trash. why why why? maybe because people are lazy and modular homes are cheap. they only last 50 yrs but who cares because the people that lived there for 25 have moved and the next batch only 10 and guess what? now someone comes in the house is run down so they knock it down and rebuild. lame lame lame. laziness and greed. the two things in this world that do the most destruction. instead of buying new threads at the mall go to a second hand shop. i rarely buy new clothes and only for a certain event that requires something i dont already own. i mend or have someone else mend my old clothing to the point that it is no longer salvageable. there are so many things in my home that i dont touch or need. why do i have them? well a lot were gifts and others i never stopped to think about what i was doing in purchasing them. today tho when i buy something i think about where it was made, how it was made, and what will happen to it when im done with it. if i dont agree with one of the three things i dont purchase it. im not a diehard patriot but i do believe in this country i was born in. im not racist but i try to only buy things made in this country because it helps this country. people see the bleeding hearts all over the world and miss the ones right next to them. lets leave a lasting impression and start cleaning up this country. try to consume less, buy less and if you have to buy american. help your neighbor in the house next to you not the continent next to you. i would love to think people will be proud to be from this country in the future, not the current trend of people turning their backs on it.

my first dance.

i look around and see a lot of the world is stationary. everyone is so busy doing the hustle and bustle that they cant even see what is going on around them. people have stopped growing. there is a lot of life i dont know about. a lot i will never be able to comprehend. a lot i care not to know about. i like the simple life altho not so simple. i see these people standing still through their daily life. we have become a society obsessed with the material world. the money world. the consumption world. how many things can we idolize? we have god, buddah, muhammad, money, plastic, american, oil, land, and anything else we can put our name on to claim as our own. i have a question, when and who said we were allowed to do this? who said it was important to do this? at what point in history was one man inferior to another? can anyone tell me this? no because none of us were around at that point in history, so why is it important for us to know it? because it changed the course of history forever. it is the reason you and i exist today. should we be thankful for this? thats a hard question to answer. we are here and by default given a chance to change history as it has been changed for us. what got us where we are happened so long ago they could have never seen the outcome. new question. what will things be like 100 years from now? how about 200 or even 300 years from now? that is a scary question to think about especially in the times we live in today. the world seems to be in a perfect balance of chaos teetering on the pinnacle of human beings and doings. where will the world be left when you no longer exist? what will you leave behind? if you have children then you have the chance of leaving behind great great grandchildren. what do you want them to know of you? you could be someone that stood up to your fellow man and said stop the hate, the violence, the lies, the greed, the torment and the terror. i bleed just like you and i will die just like you. in the end we are all the same no matter race, religion, bank account, social standing, or number of views on myspace. Or on the other hand you could continue your path of voluntary blindness. you can slave away for the machine and accept that your life serves no purpose for the greater good. the world could keep this current trend of beautiful chaos or it could collapse and swallow all the good things that we know. there was once a time when morals of man stood for something. i no longer see this. honor and dignity were once more valuable than the almighty dollar, or euro. our future generations, i fear, will know nothing of this. they will not understand that man was once something to be proud of. they wont see that we upheld something that wasnt tangible. their minds wont expand beyond that which can be held. we could potentially destroy the "idea". have you ever had an idea? when was the last time you had an idea? with this world of instant gratification you no longer need that many ideas. life is handed to you via convenience. you only have to work hard enough to afford what you want. you no longer have to strive for greatness because it has no value. is that how you want to live? its scary to think where that will move things. i say dont settle for what you can hold in your hands but fight as hard as you can to gain every idea and free thought you can conjure up. never stop thinking and strive to improve and simplify your life. think about what you do on a daily basis and how it will effect the future. be that great person that saved the world...

The only teacher worth anything to you is your enemy

"When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be clumsily told and you will still love the tale, if you love truth. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you cannot deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed."

-Han Fei-Tzu, Xenocide