Somethings just make you think. Here is a small collection.

DISCLAIMER: The following are all personal opinions and ramblings. I will try to have them make sense to most, but you never know.

Japanophiles like to talk about how polite and considerate and advanced Japanese culture is, and how it's inherently better than American society. It's not, really. Each country is simply screwed up in a completely different way. Saying one country is better than the other is like saying a gaping chest wound is a "better" injury than four broken limbs.

Tuesday, September 11th, 2001 (9-11-01)

A day that I wish not to remember but a day I will never forget. We need to be united. One Nation Under God. We as a nation need to move on, not to prove anything to the world but to ourselves. We must show ourselves that we have the strength inside each of us. The strength to go on. I sit here at work today having a hard time being here, but I must press on.

I am 23 years old. As a natural youthful reaction to such terrible things, I thought to myself, I'm not ready to die. I'm too young. I don't want my future children to grow up in this. Why now? Why my generation? Why? Knowing that these acts are the begining of something much worse. I am no prophet. I can not see the future, but unless this nation unites I feel it will crumble from the inside out.

America is just a child in the world, and that child's innocence was stripped away. Our piece or mind, and sense of security has been taken. Nothing will ever be the same. But we need to find a way to regain some of what we have lost.

I pray for our leader, President George W. Bush. His strength and resolve are vital now. A calm mind and heart are important for decisions that will affect us all. Dear lord, protect our leader and give him your strength and peace. Help him to do your will. Help him to bring this nation together to stand united as one. Amen.

Please pray for this nation. Pray for strength and peace at heart. Pray for the strength to move on. Pray for what has been lost. Pray for yourself. Pray for our leader. Pray for our unity.

God Bless America.

Love at first sight?

What is love at first sight? Is it a strong desire to be with someone or a strong desire to meet and know that someone? These two options I believe are Lust and the Path to Love. Lust is a purely physical attraction. A desire to be physically close to someone. There are no other elements required past attraction. Love is more complex and requires many elements such as strong emotions, trust and friendship. To really love someone you need to get to know them intelectually and emotionally. This builds a base for love to stand. Physical love comes later. In general I believe that most people confuse "love at first sight" with "lust at first sight." They see that special someone and have a strong desire to be close to that person which is a physical desire. If you see someone and desire to meet and get to know them, that is a desire to build a base for love. Therefore: "Love at first sight" is a simpified phrase for a "Desire to know someone at first sight."

A reply to Love at first sight

Is love a necessity of fate or just a convienence of life. I am not talking about the fake love of two children, but of that of understanding individuals. I am in love and she knows it, though the road of our travels has gotten rough I have prevailed for the most part and though I struggle for the small part of it I still go on.

A convience of life I don't think it is. It seems that for the most part of the individuals I know this is how it seems. Much of the people I relate don't hold how I love, they use it as a polishing point for their own purposes. I love, though I may not be loved as so in return. It was once said that a misdirected love is as good as no love but I can't see that. To be loved or to be loved by one is the best. Truly love is grand, but what when love goes astray?

Stick with it or run away. I have decided to stick with it and it seems to be coming back. But what now? The facts are still there and the past doesn't erase itself,stray feelings or alter motives might be assumed though not intended. I want what is not delivered yet to me. I need what I shouldn't have, why is this? Why do I contest the parts of me that are the grounds of I. Why do I continue?

My standing love keeps me going. No much else. Though I stand strong, I stand Alone it seems. My friends say one thing, my family says another, I know what I want but realize what I am going to get.

How is it that I can see a head of the path? I can't see around the corners though but for the most part I can see what is coming's can see though I am said to be blind. Is love blind and if it is how does it find us? It strikes hard and with much pain at times but it seems worth all the pain.

Guys are like drugs
An observation I have made which has come back to my attention as of late. Guys are like a drug. Some make you feel really good. Others make you feel like shit. Sometimes you want to combine some things for a better effect. Being around certain guys is like a high. When they leave you fade or crash. When they are gone for extended periods you suffer withdrawl. You could try live with out them, but once you have a taste for them you want more.

From Moonlight Valentino
Talking about women with the huge puffy hair.

"Secretly they'd like to be invisible. They hate their bodies and their mothers and their hair and their teeth and their lives.... But they don't want you to know that so they spend all day every single day creating that look so nobody ever asks who they really are."