I try to
think of myself as the wanderer of time. I like to move with the flow, roll the
dice, or even make lame, overused expressions. I tend to keep to myself,
whether it is my words or my mere existence.
You see,
I like to live a life in complete seclusion due to those who do wrong and those
who think they do right. So many times in today’s society, we see so many
people do things judged as right and wrong. We forget to judge our own actions
as those we see of others. The one thing I find sad is that the mere definition
of right and wrong can be changed, and all we have to do is agree to it. For
example, consider the word” nice.” We associate it with kindness and a goal for
life. Yet, hundreds of years ago, if someone called you “nice,” you were known
as “foolish” or “stupid.” That’s the beauty of language.
Then, let
me ask you this: Is it right to kill any human being for any reason? What if
you sacrifice one person in order to save a group? Is it technically right to
sacrifice a life? How do we judge if one’s life is exceptionally greater than
another? Oh, yet we have websites dedicated to calculating our value in this
money-hungry society. Wonderfully enough, Time
magazine collected data to give us a grand number: $129,000 for one life. How
is it right to put a number on a living, breathing being? I guess God created
bags of money rather than lives of priceless value.
“Sorry,
sir; your life is significantly less valuable than those five people. We have
$129,000 vs. $645,000.”
How do
we know if this life has a bigger impact on the world than the five people?
Next, we
have war. How is war logical at all? We fight for what we don’t believe in.
Much of the time, it is over religion. I find it funny that so many Gods in the
world say not to fight in war, to have peace, but in spite of our religion, we
fight anyway. Yes, I just made the assumption there is more than one God for
there are many cultures that transform Him into their own. After all, we view
our creator in different images; that is why He is said to have many.
Are my
rants about religion and the accusation of human interaction and activity
appropriate? That is for you to decide. We view our own emotions to be above
others. We think that it is okay to feel one way, say what we want, but when it
comes to another individual’s opinion, we blow it away. We fight for what we believe
in. We were taught to fight for what we believe in. If that is true, then
doesn’t that mean we are fighting one another?
To view
the human race as a whole has become a sad, sadistic hobby of mine. It is sad
to say that once a strong-willed race has become a bunch of offended,
narrow-minded beings. “I cannot believe you would allow the children to say God
in school!” “How dare you say that in front of my child! It offends our
heritage!” “Don’t say ‘Merry Christmas’! Say ‘Happy Holidays’!”
We also get
offended when people are reluctant to say “God bless America.” We get angered
if we hear a “Happy Holidays.” Why not say who you worship blessing the nation
of endless possibilities? Why not express your own holiday to the world?
Instead of getting offended, let’s allow us all to say what we believe in.
After all, we do have freedom of religion. This is a two-way street.
How does the existence of such incidents going
on in the world crumble the human race so effectively? How have we allowed
ourselves to become such a race of shame? We cry and complain about our
differences rather than accept and use them to our advantage.
This is
why I prefer myself to be a wanderer of time. I think of past and future concepts
that anger us—that separate us.
And
because of all our differences, our ignorant perception of the human race, we
have become a nation of war. Not just a world war, a civil war. No! Not a civil
war, a human war.
This war
does not have two sides, but billions. In fact, it seems like I am not the only
one who is living a life of seclusion, but the rest of the world is now as
well.
Welcome
to the war.
MCS: I was struck by your reference to Time magazine's assessment that a human life is worth $129,000. Wow. That's a startling example of how skewed our perceptions are.
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