"And some day we will die
and our ashes will fly from the airplane over the sea
but for now we are young
let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see"
-Neutral Milk Hotel
Life is a funny thing, to question it means that your going to bring the question of life to the grave. Most of us don't bother to ask questions like these because there isn't any known answer to them, so we just go along for the ride. After listening to an amazing song, In an Areoplane Over the Sea, and reading, Pretty Little Mistakes, i realized how much the not knowing affects a persons life. Pretty Little Mistakes is a bunch of ways that your future will turn out, depending on your choices. This Verse from the song reall stood out to me in many, hard to explain, ways.
In a way, Neutral Milk Hotel is telling us the meaning of life. To live it to it's full extent and enjoy the experience. I think this is the most correct answer i have ever heard. After listening to this song multiple times, it processed through my mind that this was the answer and i will be wasting my "precious" time if i try to go deeper. Then i realized that we have the answers but we don't know where to look. I know that is a HUGE , used to many times, line from movies and stuff but its true.
People are so eager to know how and when and why life ends and the events that lead up to your easy or rough going, that they create books like Pretty Little Mistakes. Even if it means finding out that you die in a flock of angry seagulls, or live to the very end of time.
"Oh frog and toed oh frog and toed why are you lying in the street?
you didn't look
before you crossed
so now you look like apple sauce
oh frog and toed
oh frog and toed
why are you lying in the street?"
-AUTHOR UNKNOWN
The famous frog and toed song that parents use to get their kids to look both ways before they cross the street...kind of cruel. But that is the truth about life, you step out of line once, and your dead. Frog and Toed didn't look, for once in their lives, they walked without looking and then they get run over by a car and now they look like apple sauce. It drives my nerves to the edge!The one time that you leave your door open, your house cat runs out...Life is to complicated.
KNOW THIS
-every thing you do, you will pay for it...good or bad.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
How the simplest things can mean the world
Throughout my considerably short life, i realized how much meaningless things are to some people, but they can also mean more then an average human can imagine, to someone else. With the holidays coming up, i thought about Christmas and Hanuka. Gifts and presents are a huge part of them, as well as celebrating your religion. A gift to most people in our class seems like a nice gesture and a pleasant surprise, but to other people, it can assure them that someone cares about them and is willing to spend money to prove it. People less fortunate then others experience this with something as small as a card or piece of candy.
Another thing that can also be valued or recognized as worthless is a dollar. As we grow older, we realize the importance of a single dollar, but as our younger selves, we were willing to through money in every direction. In Breaking the Bank, the main character Mia Saul, is surprised with what seemed like endless amounts of free money that isn't being noticed by the bank, she jumps from a slumish life to a upper middle class life with organic expensive food. After getting thousands of dollars for no charge, she ends up saving the money and goes shopping with her daughter, Eden, and gives away one hundred dollars to a homeless woman. She passed another homeless man and gave him what she had left, sixty dollars. The large amounts of money that she gave away meant that those two homeless people could by warm clothing and eat nutritious and full meals for a couple of days.
After reading the Glass Castle and Breaking the Bank, I realized that the stories can be related. At mutiple times in each story, they both had little or no food. While being stuck between books, i explored the unknown experience of connecting books in unlikely ways. A good book can be short and, well, simple but it can still be the greatest book in the world. If you have a personal connection to a book, then it can mean more to you then another book would, or the same book to another person. It depends on a persons perspective to the world and how they live their life in their own unique ways.
Have any thoughts and/or book recommendations?
Another thing that can also be valued or recognized as worthless is a dollar. As we grow older, we realize the importance of a single dollar, but as our younger selves, we were willing to through money in every direction. In Breaking the Bank, the main character Mia Saul, is surprised with what seemed like endless amounts of free money that isn't being noticed by the bank, she jumps from a slumish life to a upper middle class life with organic expensive food. After getting thousands of dollars for no charge, she ends up saving the money and goes shopping with her daughter, Eden, and gives away one hundred dollars to a homeless woman. She passed another homeless man and gave him what she had left, sixty dollars. The large amounts of money that she gave away meant that those two homeless people could by warm clothing and eat nutritious and full meals for a couple of days.
After reading the Glass Castle and Breaking the Bank, I realized that the stories can be related. At mutiple times in each story, they both had little or no food. While being stuck between books, i explored the unknown experience of connecting books in unlikely ways. A good book can be short and, well, simple but it can still be the greatest book in the world. If you have a personal connection to a book, then it can mean more to you then another book would, or the same book to another person. It depends on a persons perspective to the world and how they live their life in their own unique ways.
Have any thoughts and/or book recommendations?
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Money is just a bunch of paper cuts
While reading Breaking the Bank, a book about an average woman who gets excessive amounts of free money, i realized that the world revolves around money. If your rich, you have every thing you can think of, if your poor, you don't know when you will eat again. People judge each other on how much money have. I have noticed that many things in this world are created so that the government or any other company has another way to get money. Its sad how much we rely on something that used to be a worthless piece of paper.
Multiple times i have seen people on the train asking for some kind of food or money. I have been told that they will spend it on beer and drugs but that isn't necessarily true. Yes i am sure that is what some poor people do but many of them are looking for a way to get food for either themselves of their families. When stores or restaurants have that sign that says "NO SHOES NO SHIRT NO SERVICE" they need to understand what it means not to have those basic items. They would be the ones who are getting money so i don't really get the point of that sign.
Once a month i help out in a soup kitchen and it proves how many people need help and are living off of the bear minimum. More people need to help each other so that we can live in an equal world. The Upper class people can donate more money to charities and homeless shelters. Middle class can also donate money and time into shelters and soup kitchens. Lower class can accept the help and benefit from it.
Many things in this world are thought of as a better this or that but they are really money makers. Privet schools provide a "better education" so more parents send their kids to privet schools along with thousands of dollars. The education is the same in both privet and public schools. Why pay more for something you can have for less.
Kids and adults take things for granted. Food and money are both involved. Sure it would be nice if the Government gave away thousands of dollars too every family but it wouldn't mean as much to a family who really needs it compared to a family that can do without it. Sadly money is everything in our world and it shouldn't be.
Life only gets more complected with money involved but we wouldn't be able to servive without it. What do you think?
Multiple times i have seen people on the train asking for some kind of food or money. I have been told that they will spend it on beer and drugs but that isn't necessarily true. Yes i am sure that is what some poor people do but many of them are looking for a way to get food for either themselves of their families. When stores or restaurants have that sign that says "NO SHOES NO SHIRT NO SERVICE" they need to understand what it means not to have those basic items. They would be the ones who are getting money so i don't really get the point of that sign.
Once a month i help out in a soup kitchen and it proves how many people need help and are living off of the bear minimum. More people need to help each other so that we can live in an equal world. The Upper class people can donate more money to charities and homeless shelters. Middle class can also donate money and time into shelters and soup kitchens. Lower class can accept the help and benefit from it.
Many things in this world are thought of as a better this or that but they are really money makers. Privet schools provide a "better education" so more parents send their kids to privet schools along with thousands of dollars. The education is the same in both privet and public schools. Why pay more for something you can have for less.
Kids and adults take things for granted. Food and money are both involved. Sure it would be nice if the Government gave away thousands of dollars too every family but it wouldn't mean as much to a family who really needs it compared to a family that can do without it. Sadly money is everything in our world and it shouldn't be.
Life only gets more complected with money involved but we wouldn't be able to servive without it. What do you think?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)