Life or Something Like it

Our lives are like books. Full of plots, sub-plots and chapters. The prologue is the time you cannot remember from youth. Every chapter afterward is a new and exciting story. Every end brings a new beginning, and so on and so forth. Chapters full of drama, suspense, comedy, tragedy, action, romance, and heartbreak. We thrive on movies or books "based on a true story". We live to examine life in all its aspects: good, bad, and ugly. Our hearts and minds lead us on our path. The balance between the two is sometimes very hard, and for some, too hard to bear. We form bonds with others, which can be so very hard to break. Sometimes those bonds need to be broken in order for us to grow. The bonds we form in life are part of what make us human. We enter into and out of others' lives for reasons, and we all learn a little something from each other, whether we admit it or not. Often when we experience a breaking or forming of bonds we end one chapter and begin another. That of course is the most dramatic effect. Falling in love, or having our hearts broken definitely fall into the ending/beginning metaphor. I hope we all experience the former, and not have to go through the hardship of the latter. Speaking from experience of course. Another seguay from one chapter to another is the ever mighty epiphany. These moments of clarity and realization help separate us from other life on the planet. We are self aware. The only one who can ruin your life is you. The only one who can make your life the fullest is you. Emotion and Thought are narrators in your book of life; never let one have all the dialogue. Your will is your power, and it's up to you to use it for your own benefit or demise. Don't be in too great a hurry to write the epilogue.

The Passion

Religion and violence. Violence and religion. For millennia these have gone hand in hand. Is it truly religious, or is the beliefs of some being used as a scape-goat for personal affairs? I am not anti-religious, but the questions posed by violence using the excuse of organized religion is wrong. The major religions in the world teach about peace. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are related in countless ways, and contain some of the same characters in their histories. Having faith is a good thing. Attacking another's faith because it is not your own is a bad thing. The recent cartoons depicting Muslim caricatures is offensive to Muslims. Why offend someone's religion? Attack their faith? To sell newspapers? UPEI's "paper" The CADRE is the first "paper" to print the cartoons in Canada. The student run paper is having the issues taken off campus. This of course is not the first time this has happened, but the questions exist: Why did the CADRE print the cartoons? Why are they controversial? Is it freedom of expression? The is a line between freedom of expression and propagating HATE! As someone who is not a Muslim, I do not find offense in these cartoons. The Islamic community however has taken great offense to them around the world. People are dying over this. The gap between peace and war is widening. Muslims have faced a great deal of persecution over the past little while. I know the argument can be made about 9/11. But those were extremists! Are we in the midst of the LAST CRUSADE?! Our religions are not that different, and ARE ABOUT PEACE!!!!!!!!!!! Religion is something that has been corrupted from the start. The worst thing that could have ever been done about good ideas, was to write them down! As soon as ideas, and beliefs get written down, they carry more value, and mindless automatons consider them the ultimate truth. I was told once by a "good Christian" that I was going to hell because I did not believe that the bible was the word of god, and that Jesus was not the only son of god. This proves my point! Being a good person is not good enough to go to a better place after death. I'm a "bad" person by not being a "good Christian". I'm sure if I lived in an Islamic nation I would be condemned for not being a "good Muslim". Do you see the problem? These religious nuts are so preoccupied with their outrageous religious dogmas that they forget what makes us GOOD PEOPLE! Helping others and showing kindness. Not judging. I know I seem to be somewhat hypocritical about not judging people, but we all need to WAKE UP! So to all religious fundamentalists around the world who have nothing better to do than condemn others for being wrong:
FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fate?

Does fate exist? It's one of those philisophical questions we tend to ask every now and again. Boy and girl meet, hit it off, and part ways. Important? What happens when that boy and girl find thier way back to each other, and the boy grows very fond of the girl? The fates then deal a blow, the girl has to leave. Is it a random coincidence? Was fate messing with the boy? OR was fate giving the boy a second chance to have some time with the girl he had grown fond of? I suppose it is the old adage of half empty vs half full. The truth is we may never know, it is all a matter of point of view("Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view."-Obi-Wan Kenobi). Will fate intervene? Pehaps the boy and girl will meet again. Perhaps. Someday. I hope so.

"I may know everything, but I don't have all the answers."