Fleeting Moments

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. ~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

Life is tough, but there are some really great moments. We shouldn't live for them. However, we can certainly remember them. Letting them take us through the darker, or less fortunate moments in our lives.

It's really nice to be happy and smiley, it doesn't always happen all the time. More so as you cannot fake a good time or happiness. It has to be real or nothing. Joy on the other hand is another matter. Nevertheless, sure you can plan ahead and put on smile, but it won't necessarily assure the results your looking for or desiring. It's a bit like how you can prepare a fishing line, and hope to catch something, but ultimately, if the fish don't come, they don't come.

With that in mind, take happy moments, they don't last for ever. Enjoy them as they come, and let them live forever. Although, people are having it tough, there is really nothing wrong with having a good time. One should not fear, unless, you have not done your part. If you haven't done your part, enjoy this moment now, and than do your part.

Furthermore, as mentioned before, there are others who don't have it as well, but you being miserable on their behalf, is definitely not going to do them any good. Rather it would be counter productive, because we are most efficient when we are happy and hale. Being the former will ensure the latter and itself. So by being happy, you are most likely to do something for them, rather than being miserable where the only person who needs help is yourself. 

It can be disquieting to see people happy while you are gloomy, but you should really let people enjoy those moments. Yes, it may see that their happiness is out of place or inappropriate, when sometimes the world is burning or yours is. However, their happiness is only for a moment, life is fickle, those that laugh today may cry tomorrow, and those that weep today, may rejoice tomorrow.

At the end of day, sometimes we need to kick ourselves to have a good time, it can be hard at first, and sometimes it won't always work, but you would be surprised how things works. Lastly, while we have responsibilities and we should never do anything rash, sometimes, it's really just a case of: eat be merry, for tomorrow we may die.

Peace, Its Ginna Cost You An Arm, And A Leg

Peace is not what the UN thinks it is

It is not an uneasy one

Nor is it the silence between reload and fire

It does not care for one's battle attire

And seems to come when things are only so dire

Peace is wonderful:

 If you can afford it

Peace is love:

 Unattainable and unreliable

Peace is free
But oh so rare

It is something to wish for

Something worth killing for

It comes it goes

Nobody really knows.

Every war is the loss of it

Every bullet fought for it is the cost of it

And the many souls the price of it

It's been said to get peace is to make it

But only through deserts and naming them empires 

However, the real question is

Was it worth it?

The lives that will never be

The stories desolate mothers will receive

And the heartbreaking letters that will make sweethearts grieve

The sad answers is yes

As a man once said

We must be firm today to avoid war tomorrow

If we linger between the cusp of peace and war

We only deter the reality of the destruction and what will soon befall

To fight today, could save little ones

But, kill their fathers in it's wake

Yet, only natural for things so rare

To be sold to those only with courage and dare

If there is anything to be learnt or burnt

Teach others that blood is currency to pay for it

Iron the maintenance of it

Cheap glue and comprise the destruction of it

Mass Destruction Event

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ~ Albert Einstein

People are afraid of weapons of mass destruction, and rightly so. However, what is not right is the idea of creating a very dangerous weapon or finding one, and than trying to get rid of it. The thing is, what has been built can be built again. What has been loss, can be found again. So if you try to get rid of something, it only means that someone with less scrupulous will find it or build it, while you don't have it.

In life, there are things that are put upon us, sometime they are for us, and we must bear them, and other times they are not for us, yet we try to bear them. Nevertheless, when we have the former rather than the latter, we must take what has been given to us and be good stewards.

With destroying a weapon of mass destruction, it would seem smart, but the thing is that two wrongs right don't make a right. Destroying something so it will be destroyed does not always work, this is not algebra.

Another thing to keep in mind is, ideas are like fruit in the sky. They are accessible to everyone. Even once they are used they are still there, waiting to be used again. While an idea may come to you, it may very well come soon to an another. This is seen over and over and over in history with people racing to show their invention to the world before others.

In additionally, there was once this case of a monkey. This monkey, found a stone and cracked a coconut open. While that might not seem interesting, what was so interesting was the fact that a hundred miles away, another monkey did it, it had never done it before. However, it would seem that somehow, the two monkeys actions were correlated. One by the first monkey to the second monkey. Furthermore to prove the point, once the first monkey did it, other monkeys from different islands also started doing it too. Maybe monkeys can communicate magically over long distances or maybe that ideas once pulled down can be used by others?

 So if you did build something, would someone be able to copy it? Most likely so, as there are some very good copy cats. Also, once the impossible has been proved possible than anyone can do it. Because, people now realize it's possible so they will try till it happens. Otherwise, for instance, before people thought flying was impossible, but seeing you fly, now they know it is possible.

To reiterate, nothing is lost, the truth, or facts always will come out. Rather trying to prevent something, build a better alternate. In essence, don't try to stop the wave, try to divert and control it so it goes along a safer path. One that is in the hands of a good person rather than someone who may or may not wish good or evil for humanity. Don't leave it to fate, for she is a very sick mistress.

What's Your Next Move?

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.~ Isaac Newton

Once something is done, it can never be taken back. That is why regret is such a popular past time. In all that we do, we should make sure that our actions are good and upright. One of the reasons so, is that the whole world is watching you. You may not know it, but someone is always watching you. While that might sound like someone is stalking, people are always looking. Whether just at a glance or for a life time, people are watching your actions.

There is a song, it talks about how children will see and learn. The song carries on to say that while children may not obey they will certainly do the things that you do. Armed with that knowledge, one must realize, that people are a bit like children, as there is always part of them that is a bit like a child.

Although, a lot of people believe that they are the center of the universe, most people don't really think much of themselves. However, whether you are the president of the United States or just an average person, there will always be someone who is watching you for guidance. It may be something big or small, but sometimes what one person can change things. People follow what others do, “If John did it... Why not me too than?”

The history books are rife with what one person did and the rest followed. People aren't cows, but sometimes people just follow along like them. Have you ever seen the wildebeest in Africa? What starts as one simple direction from an individual, ends in a powerful force of nature that is unstoppable.

We've all heard the age old saying, actions speak louder than words. How we carry ourselves carries great weight, you may not know it, but your actions are like seeds. You are constantly sowing into people lives, even if it be a short or a life time. We either sow good things or bad things. What our actions be today may tip the balance for tomorrow.

How we act today will define tomorrow. Inaction is as guilty as action itself. We all have our responsibility. We may not know it, but what we do counts, because others are counting. Our actions are not really our actions, as they affect others as much as they affect us. So even if you're washing toilets for a living, someone is still watching you. Maybe, they see your clean toilets, or maybe it's when your not cleaning them. Whatever it be, you may not be famous, but your actions may start something famous. What you choose, will either determine them being famous in a good way, or infamous in a bad way.

Worry To Your Hair Get's All Furry

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. ~ John Lubbock

It's not a joke, but it should be when people tell worriers not to worry as it's bad for their health. Alongside of worrying about their worries, they now get to worry about worrying. It's rather silly advice, some better advice would seem to be needed.

Worry, it is the state of being nervous and dreading of what is to come. In the world of worry, it is quite linked to anxiety and fear. However, these are two separate issues, and should not be mixed up. The difference between the two is that fear, is fear of the known, and anxiety, is fear of the unknown. Sometimes we are worried, but we don't know what we are worried, and other times we know what we are worried about. 

It would not be very helpful to talk about how debilitating and harmful worry is, but it is necessary to highlight how important it is to address this issue. Moreover, if it's affecting sleep, relationships, and health that action should be taken. Even, if those aspects aren't being affected, one should still try to fix it, just because worrying isn't a nice thing.

To fix worrying is not a matter of waving a magic wand, which would be pleasant if so. However, everyone has different techniques or needs for curing it. Some need breathing techniques, like breathing in through the nose for the count of four and releasing out of the mouth at the count of four. Further methods are, taking the time to sort through one's worries, and find out why you are feeling that way, instead of being worried. Alternately, it may be just simply saying no to worries and leaving it at the front door and picking them up later on. Additionally, sometimes talking about it and working it out the matter with someone can be all that is needed. The problems seem smaller and sometimes a solution is brought to light.

There is a place for worry, but it shouldn't take up so much of your life. It shouldn't be something that paralyzes. There's nothing wrong with worrying about things, if you use it constructively and plan for the future. Otherwise, worrying is not good. If one is like, "Ah, I see that problem, I will fix it". However, if one is like hiding under the bed and worrying about the future, that is not helpful. Worries are real, but worrying won't help, planning is the constructive form of worrying.

 In life and much more, there are so many more worries that we have than the last generation. However, sometimes one needs to come to terms with one self and make peace with everything, find your balance, sort through worries or leave them behind. As a people, we have to be smarter, there are a lot of things that we can't control and that is scary, but do what you can do, and what you can't control will be what it will be. We must try our best, but ultimately, everything lies in lady fate's hands.

Pain, A Strange Gift

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life. ~ Angelina Jolie

A world free of pain would be a horrible place. It may sound strange, but if you talked to a leper, he/she would be able to tell you why. The reason is that lepers can't feel pain, so thus they don't know when they are damaging parts of they're body. This lack of awareness of pain, causes them to injure themselves, and body parts, thus fall off. So in a ironic twist, pain, a horrible thing, is really a good thing in a sense.

Pain is a messenger, whether it be physical or emotional. It's something that tells us that something is wrong. If it is ignored, it can cause dire results or something similarly unpleasant. It's an alarm, a warning like the beeping when you reverse your car too near to another object.

 Pain is a great motivator, if your feeling pain, you will most of the time react quite quickly. It is also a great teacher, like learning that stove tops are hot, poking bee's next is not wise, or insulting people bigger than you; Pain makes you learn.

However, there is a whole industry dedicated to not feeling pain, feeling depressed get rid of that pain with a pill, sore, pill, headache, pill, emotion, pill. The list goes on, the problem with that is that there is usually reason for feeling pain. If you cut of that feeling, you run the very risk losing the part that is giving you pain. 

Although pain has it's benefits, people seem to have made a whole philosophy around it, which is not right. Pain can be explained, but not to the point where you see it as some amazing thing that should be worshiped. It's startlingly, when people start saying it made me such a better person because this and that. It's good if pain helped you, but ultimately, it's how you reacted to pain, or the people who helped you through, not pain. Pain is not nice, but it has it's purpose.

It's easy to wish for a world without pain, but pain is something that is part of our lives. Pain is not a problem, the reason for the pain is the problem. It's our job to find the reason for that pain. Pain is not great, but it's something that helps us notice where we wouldn't.

Some Facts About Gays and Lesbians

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person. ~ Pope Francis

Here is a compiled facts about gays and lesbians for your enjoyment.

1. Being Born Gay

There is no scientific proof that there is a specific gay gene, which would seem to indicate that being "born gay" is not possible. Furthermore, gene scientist have found that genes cause tendencies for certain things, but ultimately, humans have control over their destines. Also, homosexuals have no different brain structure or any other body part that sets them apart from other heterosexuals.

2. Good Parents

Same-sex-couples were found on media sites and news channels to be found excellent parents. However, what was not mentioned that the research that was done was done with teams that consisted of a gay man who had a husband and children. Furthermore, the research was sampled. Basically, teams picked five thousand out of thirty thousand, which they did not say why they picked them. Also, with the studies, the questions that were asked to same-sex-couples were asking if the children were happy and successful at school. Strangely enough, none of the parents replied with a negative that they weren't raising successful children or happy ones.

3. Out the Mouths of Babes

Interestingly enough, several grown adult children of same-sex-couples said that they loved their same-sex-parents, but all they really just wanted was a dad/mom. One bisexual man citing that he believed it necessary that kids be raised by a father and mother. In addition, these children commented that they knew others who felt the same.

4. Happy Homes?

It has been found that one in every three same-sex-couples have experienced some form of domestic abuse. However, rest assured, experts say that this is neither too little or too much compared to heterosexuals couples. Proving that violence is very much about equality.

5. A Riot About Liqueur?

In the Stonewall riot, which is celebrated annually as gay power, is actually about brutally and alcohol. In the riots, a police officer lost his eyeball and his colleagues beaten at the bar with no liqueur license. 

 

6."Equality"

Although, Asians make up nearly ten percent of the population of America by ratio, there are more gay and lesbians characters in Tv  than Asians even though there are three times more Asians than gays and lesbians in America.

And there you have it. So, what can we learn from this, probably that not everything is as it seems. However, it is important to remember that whether something be right or wrong, people should be always be treated fairly. On the other hand, this does not mean that you have to believe everything. Nor should you be afraid of looking at facts even if it makes others uncomfortable.