Recent opinions

"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. 

On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, 

every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. 

Thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, 

every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every hero and coward, 

every creator and destroyer of civilization, 

every saint and sinner in the history of our species, 

think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, 

in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. 

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, 

the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, 

are challenged by this point of pale light, 

and underscores our responsibility and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot. "

This statement has been running through my mind a lot lately. Thinking about how stupid people are, thinking they are better than other people. It's true, we do imagine that we have self-importance. And we die anyways. Same as the people we think we're better than. We spill so much blood for what? A transitory victory, that when we die, is forgotten. There is no point to any of it.  

I'm saying this while going into the Army... that makes a lot of sense. Fighting in a war I don't really believe in, I don't even understand it. But it's something I think I'm called to do, after the daydreams/hallucinations stopped [which were basically about me getting killed... every. single. time.] I still want to do it. It's to prove something to myself and to send a big "f-you" to the people who said I was worthless, I could never do anything, and I should just go kill myself. I am going to make something of myself with this temporary life on the pale blue dot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DboMAghWcA&feature=av2e