24.6.05
I got this idea after seeing weizhong's new 'frends' list, with 3/4 of the links having 'blogs about day-to-day affairs'. Then I see the SPG and her (gasp gasp) naked photo and how she brings the House down and go 'whoa mine is a serious waste of potential'. Hah! With this keyboards I shall Forge a Revolution.
I might regret this 'cause it is 1.30 am and I am halfway through King Lear's downfall and the only thing that's powering me is coffee, or the thought of it.
Blogs are sources of Power. Nowhere else will you get space to write and publish and broadcast to the world, and Influence. Kenny moves millions (millions) to tears with his daily angsty one-liners of love, loss and loss (refresh the page anytime to see a new tag, or just look carefully and you will see it moving). Yesyesyes
Angst is cheap, 'cause we get it in truckloads off MTV, the OC, and most importantly, each other. Each other's blogs, actually. I mean, has anyone actually as angsty in real life than he/she seems to be/want to be online? NO! They are perfectly normal.
We are perfectly normal.
Repeat that. We are perfectly normal.
Much as it would seem otherwise, most of us actually are quite happy (except when kbh/DA...). We live happy lives, punctuated by brief episodes of laughter, and extreme joy. Count the number of times you've laughed with a friend/family member/had fun/enjoyed life in general, then subtract the number of times you've been let down/killed/dumped/daoed, and you should get a big positive number. If not, then *hugs*
We live happy, enjoyable lives. I mean, where else can you get a bed, aircon/fan at night, 3/4/5 square meals a day, school, computer at home. Ask the starving, kwashiokor-bloated kid in Darfur forced to scrape cassava roots. Repeat, we live happy, enjoyable lives. We are not slaves, to be thrown about by whatever punk who decides to do so. We have hands, feet, spines, eyes, knees, to make, to move, to change, to see. I.e. if something is gone wrong, angsting proves nothing. Our problems are a one yen coin in the Bank of Japan compared to some others, like
kyoto protocol
'scientific' whaling
eu crisis
darfur
congo
aceh
lky and his dynasty
initial d rocks
Your life sucks?
You have no life?
School drags you down?
You want to die?
I want to live. The chinaman working in a nike sweatshop who made the shoes you wear so that he could earn his hundred renminbi to feed six children wants to live.
aiee. do something michael do something. save the world hold a rock concert skydive basejump conquer america become a millionaire find saddam solve poverty cure cancer destroy AIDS get us out of this place kill bush finish the kinglearessay. do something michael do something.
michael reads the economist goes to hardwarezone.com likes to play com games likes physics a lot a lot goes to the library a lot a lot likes science club trainings likes band a lot a lot likes trombone likes to run but badly likes competition
i.e. michael is a NERD
but a happy one (:
the coffee isn't convincing anymore so good morning...
ate your heart out at 1:22 AM
