// Oh, Woe is me.//

Oh Hay! I’m posting again. (About damn time…) I know its been a while since I posted. Well a lot is going on that was rather important. Um. Some one close to me died. Yes really sad and all. I did my crying. And I’m ready to move on with my life. This sorta thing happens. I just have to keep my chin up and look to the future. Which leads us into our topic of the week(Month?).

You ever spend some time around those people who just seem to complain about how hard it is to be them? Have you ever done that yourself and later experienced those people? Always crying a moaning. Basically pissing on any good time or possible planing to make a better future for the both/all of you? Well if you haven’t guested it by now. This blog is all about the pissing and moaning people of the world. At least most the time.

Now I’m not talking about people who just got shit on and basically have had their lives turned upside down. I’m talking about the people who have had plenty of time to prepare for said shitting, watched the shitting happen, then proceeded to complain about the shitting and DON’T EVER STOP! If its one thing people may have noticed by now, its that Pessimistic people really rub me the wrong way. And I can’t be around them for very long. They just can’t help but talk about how HARD, how DIFFICULT, how STRENUOUS it is to be them. Well you know what? FUCK YOU! I know how hard life can be. I know what BS can completely ruin your plans. My father molested me, I was always sick as a kid worried I would DIE in the middle of the night, couldn’t socialize properly, shat on by the school system, wasted 4 years out of highschool figuring out what I was supposed to do with my life, helped my mom through her drinking problem and even suffered mental abuse from that then when its all said and done. I’m TRANSSEXUAL! But you know what. Other then the trans part, that is all in the past and I’m looking forward.

I could write a shit storm about how hard my life as been with no moral of the story. With the only point being to shock people and have them pity me. I would probable get more popular by posting that kinda of BS to. But the sad song of “Oh, Woe is me.” just isn’t my style. I did too much of that when I was younger, and I have to tell you. I’m better off now that I have out grown it. Life is what we make of it. We are in control of our future. Nothing is predetermined unless we let it be that way.

So on to what I’m saying. Beyond the rage filled paragraphs above, I have a real massage to this. Stop, take a deep breath, and analyse your life. Take a walk if you have to. Clear your head. NO NO! No drugs or alcohol. Those only prolong the problem and make new ones. We want a real clear mind. One with out foreign toxins or other people to cloud your thoughts. Think on your own. Question with your own mind. Don’t let rage, depression, jealousy cloud your judgement. Just let go of all your negative emotions and breath. Smile and take in all that the world as to offer… There. You see? Better right. Just let your thoughts go for a moment. Watch the world with eyes not weighed down by negative emotions or drugs. You may be surprised at what you see.

This world is too lovely to let yourself be controlled by the negativity. We all have bad days. We all have times when we are sad. We all feel like its hopeless some times. We often see conflict as a large crack in a gigantic damn when its only a small leak under the kitchen sink. Just take it slow and rethink the situation. It will become easier if you let it.

People who don’t want to be around pessimistic people or self loathing people is because they know these kinda of people are toxic to them and just wrong about the situation. It may be bad, but as long as you are still living its not hopeless. Its not as these pessimists believe it to be. They seem to think “Oh, they just don’t want to hear the truth about the world.” when in fact its not true at all. We don’t want our thoughts poisoned with the their cannibalistic philosophy.

These people feed on the attention they get. They love to see you cry for them and want you to feel as much for them as they do for themselves. They will use this pity to find others who have had poor lives and feed on them in order to bring them down to their level. Its a poor cycle and one that consumes too many people.

Some of these people can be brought out of it and just need a friend to help them up for a while. And its not usually the friend who is in the same situation, but rather the ones who have gone through something similar and rose above it. Sometimes they don’t even need to be someone who has gone through it. Sometimes it can just be an ear to listen to. Then after all is said and done, bring them into something that involves other people and slowly introduce them into a more social environment. Of course you have to go at a slow pace. You can’t make them feel uncomfortable. That isn’t your goal. You want them to experience a good time and get away from their self loathing, not push them back into it.

By all means, I’m not asking anyone to take on the responsibility of trying to help some one out of their shell. Some times, they just need a little push. Other times, its better to just ignore those people who refuse to get past their self loathing. Seeing as they are not going to support a health relationship. But I think We get the point by now. People should be more optimistic and take life by the horns, blah blah blah. More Puppy and rainbow thinking that people really don’t want to hear because its not “EDGY!”

I’m okay with having only 3 people read my blogs. At least some one likes them. And that makes me happy that I can share my thoughts with at least someone else. Perhaps I’ll get up to 4 people. Wouldn’t that be exciting?

// Everyone else is [blank] but Me!//

Have you ever felt as though other people are just stupid? Have you ever felt like they where drones? That you and your friends where the only people that really understood what was going on? That other people who don’t fit into your demographic of people “Just don’t get it.”? Well you are in luck. Because I have some good news for you. EVERYONE feels that way.

Now I’m not going to excuse myself of this prejudice against other people who don’t view the world like I do. I mean.. I’ve thought that other people where just drones, mindlessly following what ever seems like a mildly good idea. Though I try not to do this, I find myself in this situation frequently. However, this sort of thought is strange to me. We all believe that we somehow “Understand” something that the general public just can’t wrap their brains around. We are, in our own minds, The main character to an Epic story viewed by the mind of the coolest person we know(Ourselves).

So how do we determine who is right in this situation. What standard does each individual hold up to what makes another person “Worthy” of their presence? Are we all just naturally conceded, believing that we somehow stand out from the rest of the human race? I doubt that. I believe that this is actually a coping mechanism. Something to keep us motivated and not discouraged by other more successful people. Sometimes we may feel the need to look down on other people in order to try and make ourselves look better in comparison.

The real shame about thinking like this is that we often times miss out on information, relationships, opportunities these other people could offer us. We prejudge them and partly ignore what they have to say because we have this idea in the back of our head that they can’t offer anything to us. When this is pertaining to the work place, this is a sort of working side by side with someone. Only doing it because we have to rather then working with the other party.

Perhaps the hipster, goth, jock, christian, monk, “normy”, old person, young person has some piece of wisdom or knowledge that can be valuable to you. Maybe by opening up to these new people we can make new friends/allies and find common interests.

I don’t know if this is the same for other people or not. But when I was younger I felt like this more often then I do now. And the reason was because I felt very lonely in my own head. No one could hear my thoughts and comment on the way I think. No one could see my mind. Or even could see me for me. I felt as though I was locked in my head. That interaction with other people was clumsy and false. Sometimes I felt as though my mind was more real then reality itself. I eventually asked the question to myself “Does every one feel this way?”. And the answer to the question was surprise.

I share what I know with others not to somehow express that I’m better then them. But rather to give them another point of view they might not have looked at. To grow their minds and open them up to new ideas. I Don’t feel better then any one else and I don’t like to feel that way. I like feeling like I’m an individual and great at what I do. But i don’t have to alienate what other people might be able to offer me to do that.

Maybe you are right though. Maybe no one else quite gets it. That shouldn’t stop you from trying to explain it to them. Perhaps you have something to offer the world. If so, share your knowledge and wisdom. And let them share theirs with you.

// Hopelessly Optimistic//

For those of you who read my posts(Aka one of three friends of mine who actually decided to follow me and read them) and know me in real life, You know that I am extremely optimistic about 60% of the time(This counts that percent when I’m in a bad mood or talking about finding work. FREAKING JOBS!). I try to see the good in things and look at a problem from a different angle. Though, not a lot of people do this(That I have noticed). Many people are more then happy to complain about a problem then do anything to fix it. This is a real shame. Seeing as if these people put even half the energy they spend in complaining and applied it to fixing the problem the world would be much better off.

Too many people are hopelessly pessimistic. Its the popular thing to do. And I don’t do things that are popular. If I did, I would have some other art for my profile, talk about controversial topics and be telling every one that they are stupid and explain how horrible the human race is. The problem with that though, is it would be a lie on my part. I don’t believe much of that and I have no intention of trampling over some one else’s beliefs. I wish simply to enlighten people and help them expand on their beliefs. Part of this has to do with my own belief that humanity is, for the most part, a positive entity in this universe. We just haven’t quite got there yet.

I’ve seen some of the best and worst of what humanity has to offer. And more often then not I see the best shine through all the grime we like to display. We are still growing as a species. We are still trying to find our place in the universe. We don’t know what our destiny holds for us or what waits us out there. We are still young and don’t fully understand our own impact on this world.

We have great potential. Don’t give up on humanity because of a few rotten apples. This is the main thing I want to express to every one in the world. Humanity isn’t evil. We aren’t some force of destruction. We aren’t a virus. We are Infantile. I know calling us infantile sounds like I’m mocking the progress of humanity. However, despite all our achievements, we really haven’t gotten that far just yet. We are still rather narrow sighted and stuck on a few things that seem important in the moment. Things that we fight tooth and nail to keep the same or change. Things that a alien species or a god would see as trivial. And things we fought over just a few years ago we look at now as something that should have always been in place. So yes! Describing humanity as infantile is the right description. This description isn’t a bad thing though. We are still growing. We are still young.

Eventually, humanity will mature. We will get our heads out of the clouds and away from silly things and learn what it truly means to be sentient. We will eventually understand our place and appreciate the universe around us and the people we share a planet with. I am Optimistic because I know we wont stop asking questions. We wont stop feeling for each other. We wont stop because we want to be perfect. Our seemingly hopeless dreams is what makes me smile for our future.

I Know we will become greater then ourselves because that is what we want. Its the goal we never stop trying to achieve. So I will continue to be An optimist. Despite all you naysayers.

// Naturally Unnatural//

I hear more often then not that humans are the worst species on the planet. That we are the only species that wars, destroys environments, enslaves other creatures and so on and so on… These same people also believe as will blow up each other and ruin the planet as a result to our own destructive nature and its better for use to just leave this planet through what ever means necessary. Usually their suggested solution for this is to kill off all humans(Though none of them have the balls to take that step.) so the earth can take its natural course and be in complete balance.

Okay, first off, Humans are no worse then the other species on this planet. We are not the only species to war. Insects have wars too. Rival colonies of ants will destroy each other. And you can’t say that isn’t a war because it is! They are fighting for the exact same things we have fought over and it was called a war then. So how is it different? I’ve heard “Oh, the ants are fighting so they don’t have to compete for food.” Yeah, sounds like a war to me. We have fought over land for farming or hunting. So how is that different? I’ll tell you.. Its not.. The major difference between us and other animals is we have a greater ability to plan and have greater foresight then these animals. Our wars are fought for the same things as the ants just through a longer time span. There are always going to be creatures competing for food, this is just the way it is. We do the same thing. Yet we give ourselves so much crap over this. Why?

Now what about the environment? I can’t argue that humans are destroying the natural environment. Or can I? Well it is true that we shape the areas we live in to suit our needs. This isn’t actually destroying the natural environment. Merely, changing it. The idea of “preserving” a natural environment to keep it the same is a absurd idea. The world is always changing and so are its creatures. How do you preserve it to say the same when the natural course says that the environment must change? We have seen these natural changes occur over night even. A large storm rolls into town, wipes out a major city and leaves everything a wreak. Animal life is uprooted or otherwise killed, humans have been killed and perhaps 100 years of building is all gone. I’m not saying we don’t need to be mindful of our environment. Because we do. Just that what is natural and what is not is a bit of a sketchy idea. If a beaver builds a damn, stopping the water flow to a local lake, potentially killing off hundreds of fish, is that a artificial environment change? We don’t see it that way. But if a human does that then its a artificial environment change. Why? Too me this sounds like a double standard. If a human does it its wrong and messing with the natural order but if a animal does it its alright because its the natural order. We have a word for that. Its called hypocrisy.

This one I’m going to have to bring up a link for here. Because this one no one is going to believe. Humans are not the only species that enslave other species. (got to love the ants. They where doing what we are doing now and then before it was cool.). I believe that link should explain it all. If you want more information on this sort of thing, you can google it. You might be surprised at what you find. (Just a little something I found that I thought was interesting. Yep thats right. They slaughter their enemies young. And if we do that its a “War crime”…)

I’ve heard people that believe that the world would be in perfect balance if humans where not a part of the equation. What!?!? What part of that belief even remotely makes any sense? Its like saying “Oh this movie would have been perfect if I didn’t have to pay to go see it.”. First off. For that example. Movies take money to make. Which means they have to charge some one in order to produce the next movie.. As for this believe that humans shouldn’t exist. This is just wrong. I’m sorry, but its wrong. There are 9 known species of the homo genus. 8 of them are extinct. So what this tells me, is that a super intelligent, tool using, sentient species was long in the planing before humans crawled out from under our rock. We are the lucky ones to have survived. And looking at the information from the other paragraphs before this, we can see that any one of these species would have taken the same route we had. So for those of you who believe in the wisdom of mother nature. Doesn’t it make sense that sentience was long in the planing before hand?

We are not at odds with nature. Humanity isn’t a separate entity. Our choices are not void of nature. What we do is a part of nature because we are a part of nature. The so called “natural order” of things can’t be disrupted by us because we are a part of that order. How we change it or how any other species changes it is the logical conclusion of what is provided to us. Humans aren’t this super evil that only exists to ruin what “mother nature” has put in place. We have evolved to the point where we can shape the world around us, but we aren’t the only species to do that. We are not divorced of this world. Yes we should be mindful of the choices we make. Not for the sake of another species, for our own sake.

Over 99.9% of species on the planet are extinct. We aren’t helping to kill them off quicker, we aren’t ruining mother nature’s plan for this planet. Clearly, she is much better at killing things off then we are. Their are new species that pop up here and there. However more species seem to die out then new ones replace them. The truth of what nature is showing me right before my eyes is that diversity is being killed off by nature. The natural order is to destroy as many diverse creatures as possible and leave only a handful of the most adept left to cultivate the planet. This is the most logical conclusion I can see for this planet’s future. Even if we are not a part of that future, this is the course it must take.

We are carnal and destructive because our mother is carnal and destructive. We consume everything around us and take anything we can get because our mother made us fight and kill our siblings(our siblings being the other species of this planet. In case you haven’t guessed.). We feel compassion for other creatures because we know how hard it is to survive on mother’s world. Mother nature didn’t make a mistake with use. We are the most mindful, compassionate, loving creatures on this planet. We make ourselves out to be this horrible, destructive force, yet we feel remorse for killing another animal to even feed ourselves. We pray over the dead to express thanks for it giving its life to use, even though it didn’t want to die. We have rituals to respect these animals we know as prey. We go out and clean up messes we have made and clean animals so they can have a chance at life again. We know that the mess was our fault, and many of us seek to make it right. We get nothing in return from many of these animals. And no other creature seeks to correct a mistake they have made that might hurt an environment.

Humanity is a prize of nature. Through great hardship something wonderful blossomed through us. An ability to feel beyond ourselves. And our love and compassion bleeds into much of what we do. Many of us desire to make this world a better place for us and other species. No other species has claim to that.