Stretch My Legs

It's been over a year since I last posted, and to be honest nothing much has changed. I've come up with a new topic though. I call it a topic because it usually makes people think a lot more than they normally would. Here it is "Reality is based upon the individuals perception. When enough individuals perceive reality in the same way the concept of truth is born." Why is the person who says the sky is green wrong? Majority rule is the simple answer. Then again the Earth was flat and we were at the center of the universe too. I've come a long way only to end up back at the same conclusion, just traveling from a slightly different direction. We live in a society where deviating from the social norms is frowned upon and worthy of being immediately ostracized from the "in crowd". It's sad, but if you pay close attention it's becoming more and more apparent that popular opinion means more than the individuals opinion or even the facts at times. I've read about the bullying "epidemics" as they call them, and I won't argue. Children are committing suicide because they are verbally, physically, and mentally abused by their peers. Some people will blame the individual who committed suicide rather than the society which drove them to it. If there was something wrong with the child to begin with what made him or her that way? We were all shaped in one way or another by society while we're young. Why else would we call them the formative years? I don't know about everyone else, but I was always told to be the best that I could be. Not the best that someone else could be. Why teach them to be an individual and then later put them down for it? This was only the first example which springs to my mind about this sort of topic. Just trying to type what I'm thinking here right now, and I've managed to lose myself in my own head. I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry when this happens.

Now I think I remember where I'm going with this. Reality is like a person. It should shape itself (read my post entitled Diamonds if you want to further understand this statement). We shouldn't have to shape it. Which actually reminds me of a gambit called Occam's Razor "The simplest answer is usually the right one." Well now I think I'm officially rambling. Reply with your thoughts, feelings, critiques, etc. I like to hear others thoughts on my thoughts. If they serve a purpose of any kind I'll take them to heart, and head while I'm at it.

Issue

I've been trying to write something new for a while now, but I just can't do it. I can't find something that I can really touch on that's 'me', and what I've been trying to do is force it. However I must simply realize that I can't force it, because I always get halfway through and find myself thinking "This isn't what I want to write, this isn't what I should write, this isn't how I really think." Then I came to the conclusion that, what I really want to say now is that you can't force 'yourself', when you say or write something that is 'you', it doesn't require much thought, it just comes out. Now I've gone straight to the point and said what I needed to say, and was considering attempting to write more, but it wouldn't be what I want to say, so I need to end this here before I try to force myself to write more.

Diamonds

In my personal experience people are like diamonds. They have many facets, and not all of them shine, and like most every diamond at its center there are flaws. Life is like a laser, it shapes the diamond in different ways, it can hack away large portions, or slice away tiny slivers. They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, two people can look at the same diamond and find it beautiful for many different reasons. In my personal opinion a diamond is most beautiful in its original state, untouched by unnatural shaping, and free of any bonds or coverings. The same goes for people, the worst thing that can happen to a person is to allow themselves to be shaped or held back by another person, or people. The thing I find most beautiful are the flaws, the most natural part of all things in existence, there is no living or nonliving thing that is perfect (feel free to argue that point), and flaws are one of the most unique things in any thing be it a human or a stone, yet they are constantly covered up like they are something to be ashamed of, something bad, something that lessens worth. Yet people hide their flaws, cover up what makes them different, for the sake of 'fitting in'. People shouldn't 'fit in', a human is not something to be pressed into a mold, or discarded because they can't.

Masks

When I say masks I don't mean an actual physical mask, in my personal opinion everybody wears a metaphorical mask, meaning they don't show exactly who they really are. I think it's ok to wear a mask, then again I wear quite an elaborate mask myself. In my world I'd like everyone to give their own personal mask a shape, or defining features so to say, it doesn't need to be anything too complicated.