I return to Canada in about a month. My once in a lifetime experience is almost over... which makes me want to experience more than one "once in a lifetime experience".
I've met so many people who say; You are only a kid once, its the time of your life... or high school is the best years of your life... and now everyone is telling me they wish they could be 20 years old again...
I don't want to be old and sad. I want to be old and satisfied. so in the meantime, no matter what age I am, I'm going to be having fun, experiencing life... there's no point in looking back and wishing you could do it over again.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Pride
I'm a pretty passive person. So I have a hard problem with the idea of pride.
But I’ve realized that pride is a collective experience, and to be truly proud of yourself is hard.
We are living in a pretty scary world right now, everything natural is being destroyed, or manipulated or contaminated... but we only see the facility of our lifestyle. Choose to look at any of the items you "own", ask yourself "where is this from, who made it? what is it even made of? and how can this cost so little if it took so many people to create?" If you can find one item in your room that you know the answers to all these questions, I am impressed.
Now before you decide stop reading this blog because it sounds like another extremist point of view on how we should be saving the world... stay with me. I'm not saying that we should all get together, hold hands and sing "O siem".
I know that we all need money. We all need a job. We need to be successful. We need to payoff student loan debt. We need live quickly in the world right now. We need to provide for our family. But we also need to be proud to be alive.
This is my personal opinion I might be wrong. But if you can't prove me wrong, can you help me by doing something we can be proud of? Can we show the rest of the word that the youth care about our future and the future after that?
But I’ve realized that pride is a collective experience, and to be truly proud of yourself is hard.
We are living in a pretty scary world right now, everything natural is being destroyed, or manipulated or contaminated... but we only see the facility of our lifestyle. Choose to look at any of the items you "own", ask yourself "where is this from, who made it? what is it even made of? and how can this cost so little if it took so many people to create?" If you can find one item in your room that you know the answers to all these questions, I am impressed.
Now before you decide stop reading this blog because it sounds like another extremist point of view on how we should be saving the world... stay with me. I'm not saying that we should all get together, hold hands and sing "O siem".
I know that we all need money. We all need a job. We need to be successful. We need to payoff student loan debt. We need live quickly in the world right now. We need to provide for our family. But we also need to be proud to be alive.
This is my personal opinion I might be wrong. But if you can't prove me wrong, can you help me by doing something we can be proud of? Can we show the rest of the word that the youth care about our future and the future after that?
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