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So it begins...
2003-07-16 18:34:32
Read if you are in a thinking mood. Note that none of this is meant to offend or be stated as undeniable fact. These are simply my own personal views:
Behold, the first great and mighty journal entry of SSJVegita0609... or rather Jeff. Yes, a simple 4 letter name describing who I am, and encompassing my entire role and persona in society as a whole. It's amazing how similar we humans, who tend to be so self centered to assume we are greater than all those around us, including members of our own species, are to the lowley pets we keep around for both companionship and amusement. Without our names to distinguish one of us from the other, could we even function successfully as a unit? It's a good question. Many different species on the Earth tend to be fine without any means of oral communication. Of course, fine is a relitave term, sure the species may survive and evolve as times and conditions change, but are they really living the best way they can? Probably not.
Humans are very much like that as well. We have so many great things that we've constructed on this world, and yet we can't wipe out a simple matter like starvation. It's really because we have all our priorities misplaced. We don't seem to realize that money is merely paper with ink printed upon it. We don't realize that so called "great" and "powerful" leaders are as human as the poorest of people. As the infant brain grows and gains its physical structure, it becomes more and more closed minded. We lose our ability to look at anything in an unbiased manner as we did when we were small children. Why is this? It's mainly because the actual structuring of the brain is based on learned information. Our parents, no, I shouldn't do something so cliche as to blame parents, the entire world tells us that certain things are important. These things become the bases for our lives, and motivation to work and produce whatever it is we end up working or producing.
These things become so astromically important to us that they actually take over the brain. Certain philosophies emerge to blind us from outside interfecance. Basically, the human mind figures "I have to many things to worry about myself, why should I care about 400,000 children starving half way around the world? It's not my problem, I have my job and education to worry about." Even closer to home, we stop caring about things like the 400 murders a year that take place in Washington DC alone because we are, in fact, too preoccupied with obtaining society's created neccessities. Why is it that the tabaco tax in VA is the lowest in the nation (4 cents, from the average 60 throughout the rest of the country) while its educational budget is puny and grossly ineffective. Hell, thats even something that society itself could fix, and yet it doesn't happen.
I suppose the main and overreaching purpose of me writing all this in the first place is for you, the reader, to remember one solid thing. Nothing is more important that the preservation of human life and happiness. Money is nothing but paper with ink, it came from the trees. Please be sure to live a life that isn't ignorant of the suffering that occurs in the rest of the world, or perhaps even in your own city or town. Hatred and greed will not solve any problems, merely make things worse. Think outside the social brain box that your head has been in since infancy, and do whats right.
And that's that for now, whatever your reason for reading, thank you for doing so.
JOURNAL: SSJVegita0609 (Jeff Hudecek)
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