Thursday, May 25, 2006

Emotional despair

this world is full of emotional despair. i felt that after watching "Hotel Rwanda" a couple of nites ago. don't jump on me cause it took me this long to watch it but i did watch "Sometimes in April" which was based on the genocide in Rwanda and it was even more graphic than "Hotel Rwanda". Now to my main point.
being a human, u will every emotion out there, sadness, happiness, anxiety, despair, loneliness but the one that u will never completely feel is Peace. why is that? even if u did feel peace it doesn't stay for that long. it would do wonders for all humans to feel peace for a longer period of time but it's impossuble. it's impossible because we drag every emotion that we ever had in the past to the present and to the future. so even if we do feel a drop a peace it is overcome by our emotional despair!!!
I'm out!!

Saturday, May 06, 2006

Self-Reliance

so i decided to read self-reliance by RALPH WALDO EMERSON in order to understand some concepts of life. the great thing was that it reaffirmed how i feel and how i should live my life. Emerson writes that we should not be dictated by the world, we should do what makes us happy. He states that there will always be people who think they know what we need to do better than we do but the whole concept is to Trust yourself. then i remembered ROBERT FROST in THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED in which he states
"Two roads diverged in the woods and I, I took the road less traveled." we need to learn to take risks in life, if not, how boring would our lives be. I don't want to die without accomplishing my dreams, in order to do so, i have to take some risks. Taking risks leads me back to SELF-RELIANCE!!!!