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Have you ever stood back and detached yourself from the human species? I've said in the past that as whole, people whomp, but indiviually it's something else entirely. You watch them and you watch as their hands move and their feet take steps and you realize that it's really rather spectacular. I mean, do you ever just think...what are they thinking? I mean, do you ever think about the rationality that propels people to do whatever it is that they do.
I mean, take religion for instance. I don't understand religion. There are various types of explanations for creation and man's supposed supremacy and all those other pesky little mysteries of the world. Taking those, religions incorporate basic principles of moral living and convey them with creative stories of Gods and prophets. And then people, for whatever reason, prescribe to one version and they carried out the attached rituals. Now, the part where I get lost is where they then proceed to defend their version and actually go so far as to kill and die for it. I mean, it's like they've taken a good idea and corrupted so far from its original purpose, that it loses its meaning and becomes nothing.
Then there's love. A relationship has one of two possiblities: in ends when one of the two dies, or when one of the two call it quits. Of the former, it...weird to think that one day you'll come upon someone and hit off to such an extent that you'll be together forever. Obviously, I'm single, but still, to be the notion of falling in love is both paradox and romantic fantasy.
Then there are breakups that either nice and clean...or a complete slaughter. Lord help the friends in the middle! Still, that again I don't understand. I mean, if they breakup with you it should be a good thing- it spares you from an unhappily ever after. So why do some people take months to get over it? I mean, maybe two weeks, tops, unleash the break up was horrendous. The other thing I don't understand is slander. Why is it sometimes when there are breakups the person who was God's gift to man last week is now the slime of the earth? You got dumped, not raped.
Which brings us to communication. I have always been fascinated with language; how the same words can soothe in one arrangement and inflict pain in the other. Words themselves are fascinating. I find that people who are diverse in languages are...phenomenal. It truly is impressive how he took the noises we make and converted them into syllables which in turn spawn words. To be able to say one line and having mean a thouasand things to a thousand people is incredible.
So, basically what I'm trying to get across is that people, as a whole species in general, suck. However, when viewed separately and objectively, they're more. And there in lies what makes them beautiful.
Guenivere · Fri Apr 28, 2006 @ 05:56am · 3 Comments |
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