let the wind erase me like the memory of a kiss
Kassie's writing meme, five am special edition: three for the price of one
Day 01 (April 3) - Your current relationship, if single discuss how single life is
Day 02 (April 4) - Where you'd like to be in 10 years.
Day 03 (April 5) - Your views on drugs and alcohol.
Day 04 (April 6) - Your views on religion.
Day 05 (April 7) - A time you thought about ending your own life.
Day 06 (April 8) - Write 30 interesting facts about yourself.
Day 07 (April 9) - Your zodiac sign and if you think it fits your personality.
Day 08 - A moment you felt the most satisfied with your life.
Day 09 - What you hope your future will be like.
Day 10 - A passage from a book that has touched you.
Day 11 - Put your iPod on shuffle and write 10 songs that pop up.
Day 12 - Bullet your whole day.
Day 13 - Somewhere you'd like to move or visit.
Day 14 - Your earliest memory.
Day 15 - Your favourite photo of yourself and why.
Day 16 - Your views on mainstream music.
Day 17 - Your highs and lows of this past year.
Day 18 - A photo of you in the last item of clothing you bought.
Day 19 - Discuss disrespecting your parents.
Day 20 - How important you think education is.
Day 21 - One of your favourite shows.
Day 22 - How have you changed in the past two years?
Day 23 - Give five pictures of guys/girls who are famous and you find attractive.
Day 24 - Your favourite movie and what it's about.
Day 25 - Someone who fascinates you and why.
Day 26 - What kind of person attracts you.
Day 27 - A problem that you have had.
Day 28 - Something that you miss.
Day 29 - Goals for the next thirty days.
Day 30 - Your highs and lows of this month.
Day 03 (April 5) - Your views on drugs and alcohol
Drugs and alcohol are neither inherently good nor inherently bad; it may be a cliche, but as far as I'm concerned, the statement that they're as good or bad as the people who use them is absolutely true. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather that harder drugs like heroin and cocaine didn't exist, and PCP can die in a thousand fires - when I read the word "drugs", I think of prescription medication of all kinds, not just painkillers, marijuana, ecstasy, and other common street drugs. The really hard stuff is in a class by itself.
Drugs can be valuable tools - imagine a world without caffeine or tylenol or antibiotics or anesthetic for a second - but as a culture, we use them too easily, and the medical community doesn't seem to understand the concept of moderation and responsibility.
This societal attitude bleeds over into the world of recreational drugs and alcohol; people spend the first two decades of their lives under strict parental control, and then they go absolutely crazy and make a lot of really stupid decisions as soon as they're out in the world. Rather than teach our children how to use alcohol safely, and give them more rational reasons to stay away from harder drugs than "THEY'RE BAD, NEVER DO THEM", our cultural stance is strict and prohibitive - and really, when has that ever worked?
I'm not saying that we should be boozing up our twelve-year-olds. Just educating them; showing them responsible alcohol usage by example, teaching them how to be safe (what to do/what not to do) and giving them safe environments to experiment in when they're old enough. Look at the Europe example, where rates of alcoholism are much, much lower - children grow up knowing how to use alcohol and most countries' cultures see excessive drinking as something that losers do.
Personally, I love alcohol. I really, really do. I don't like being drunk, though - I enjoy a drink or two every now and then, and I go through time periods where I'll have a beer every other day, but I don't see why people like getting smashed all the time. It can be really, really fun on an occasional basis, but being drunk all the time just doesn't sound appealing to me.
When it comes to recreational drugs, that's a risk I'm not willing to take. I value my brain and my body too much.
If other people do it, I don't have a problem - I prefer not to have people who use them extensively in my life, but I'm not going to run around saying that marijuana and shrooms should be illegal because I don't want to take them.
Day 04 (April 6) - Your views on religion
Can be summed up in a single quote, written above a Tibetan lamasery:
"A thousand monks, a thousand religions."
I believe in all paths to God.
Everyone has different needs, spiritually, whether it's a need to believe that there's something more in the world, a rhyme to the reasons for the awful things that can happen, balance in the universe, or just a need to connect to a higher power (and, as such, I think the view that any religion is "better" than another is ridiculous).
I absolutely do not believe in shoving your beliefs down someone else's throat, because what's right for one person isn't necessarily right for another. Religion is used as an excuse for so much wrong-doing and so much bullshit in the world we're living in; most of the people walking around in this country haven't even bothered really reading and understanding the books that serve as their religion's manifesto, and run around preaching ignorance and hatred like it's going out of style. I can't stand that.
I'm also of the opinion that religion and spirituality are two different things; religion is a structured form of connection, spirituality is the goal.
I don't like people who use belief in God as a crutch, or who rail against God for the bad things that have happened in their lives and lose their faith because of it.
In my opinion, if God exists, He/She/Zie isn't concerned with maintaining balance in our individual lives, so much as He/She/Zie is with maintaining balance on a more cosmic level.
and as far as I'm concerned, faith isn't worth much if it's only strong when things are going well in your life.
Day 05 (April 7) - A time you thought about ending your own life
I don't want to share this in an even vaguely public forum, so I'm not going to.
Life is the most precious thing in the world to me, and I'm deeply ashamed of the few times I've seriously contemplated ending mine.
Day 01 (April 3) - Your current relationship, if single discuss how single life is
Day 02 (April 4) - Where you'd like to be in 10 years.
Day 03 (April 5) - Your views on drugs and alcohol.
Day 04 (April 6) - Your views on religion.
Day 05 (April 7) - A time you thought about ending your own life.
Day 06 (April 8) - Write 30 interesting facts about yourself.
Day 07 (April 9) - Your zodiac sign and if you think it fits your personality.
Day 08 - A moment you felt the most satisfied with your life.
Day 09 - What you hope your future will be like.
Day 10 - A passage from a book that has touched you.
Day 11 - Put your iPod on shuffle and write 10 songs that pop up.
Day 12 - Bullet your whole day.
Day 13 - Somewhere you'd like to move or visit.
Day 14 - Your earliest memory.
Day 15 - Your favourite photo of yourself and why.
Day 16 - Your views on mainstream music.
Day 17 - Your highs and lows of this past year.
Day 18 - A photo of you in the last item of clothing you bought.
Day 19 - Discuss disrespecting your parents.
Day 20 - How important you think education is.
Day 21 - One of your favourite shows.
Day 22 - How have you changed in the past two years?
Day 23 - Give five pictures of guys/girls who are famous and you find attractive.
Day 24 - Your favourite movie and what it's about.
Day 25 - Someone who fascinates you and why.
Day 26 - What kind of person attracts you.
Day 27 - A problem that you have had.
Day 28 - Something that you miss.
Day 29 - Goals for the next thirty days.
Day 30 - Your highs and lows of this month.
Day 03 (April 5) - Your views on drugs and alcohol
Drugs and alcohol are neither inherently good nor inherently bad; it may be a cliche, but as far as I'm concerned, the statement that they're as good or bad as the people who use them is absolutely true. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather that harder drugs like heroin and cocaine didn't exist, and PCP can die in a thousand fires - when I read the word "drugs", I think of prescription medication of all kinds, not just painkillers, marijuana, ecstasy, and other common street drugs. The really hard stuff is in a class by itself.
Drugs can be valuable tools - imagine a world without caffeine or tylenol or antibiotics or anesthetic for a second - but as a culture, we use them too easily, and the medical community doesn't seem to understand the concept of moderation and responsibility.
This societal attitude bleeds over into the world of recreational drugs and alcohol; people spend the first two decades of their lives under strict parental control, and then they go absolutely crazy and make a lot of really stupid decisions as soon as they're out in the world. Rather than teach our children how to use alcohol safely, and give them more rational reasons to stay away from harder drugs than "THEY'RE BAD, NEVER DO THEM", our cultural stance is strict and prohibitive - and really, when has that ever worked?
I'm not saying that we should be boozing up our twelve-year-olds. Just educating them; showing them responsible alcohol usage by example, teaching them how to be safe (what to do/what not to do) and giving them safe environments to experiment in when they're old enough. Look at the Europe example, where rates of alcoholism are much, much lower - children grow up knowing how to use alcohol and most countries' cultures see excessive drinking as something that losers do.
Personally, I love alcohol. I really, really do. I don't like being drunk, though - I enjoy a drink or two every now and then, and I go through time periods where I'll have a beer every other day, but I don't see why people like getting smashed all the time. It can be really, really fun on an occasional basis, but being drunk all the time just doesn't sound appealing to me.
When it comes to recreational drugs, that's a risk I'm not willing to take. I value my brain and my body too much.
If other people do it, I don't have a problem - I prefer not to have people who use them extensively in my life, but I'm not going to run around saying that marijuana and shrooms should be illegal because I don't want to take them.
Day 04 (April 6) - Your views on religion
Can be summed up in a single quote, written above a Tibetan lamasery:
"A thousand monks, a thousand religions."
I believe in all paths to God.
Everyone has different needs, spiritually, whether it's a need to believe that there's something more in the world, a rhyme to the reasons for the awful things that can happen, balance in the universe, or just a need to connect to a higher power (and, as such, I think the view that any religion is "better" than another is ridiculous).
I absolutely do not believe in shoving your beliefs down someone else's throat, because what's right for one person isn't necessarily right for another. Religion is used as an excuse for so much wrong-doing and so much bullshit in the world we're living in; most of the people walking around in this country haven't even bothered really reading and understanding the books that serve as their religion's manifesto, and run around preaching ignorance and hatred like it's going out of style. I can't stand that.
I'm also of the opinion that religion and spirituality are two different things; religion is a structured form of connection, spirituality is the goal.
I don't like people who use belief in God as a crutch, or who rail against God for the bad things that have happened in their lives and lose their faith because of it.
In my opinion, if God exists, He/She/Zie isn't concerned with maintaining balance in our individual lives, so much as He/She/Zie is with maintaining balance on a more cosmic level.
and as far as I'm concerned, faith isn't worth much if it's only strong when things are going well in your life.
Day 05 (April 7) - A time you thought about ending your own life
I don't want to share this in an even vaguely public forum, so I'm not going to.
Life is the most precious thing in the world to me, and I'm deeply ashamed of the few times I've seriously contemplated ending mine.