Mediocrity

When did we stop telling ourselves to beat out the competition? When did everyone get trophies for just showing up?  People do not understand the dangers of such a mentality. In the guise of inclusivity and sensitive sensibilities we are raising a generation that thinks competition is bad. And that to compete is bad. If Mother Nature and thousands of years of human history is testament to one thing it is that without competition one will die out. The urge to survive and to do what it takes, that's what we are killing. With this talk of so called inclusivity we are killing the natural selection of things. How will we know that one is truly good at what one does?  Only when one outperforms. It's the only proven way, how else will the human race move forward as a species?

Blood

Blood truly is thicker than water. The distance between siblings is something which is unknown to one such as myself. I believe that if such a distance exists then it is the fault of their upbringing. I wouldn't say the parents are to blame but there are many factors that's go into successfully creating a bond with your sibling. It's a strange thing to explain one cannot fathom anyone else in that place. It's a special bond one that's it unbreakable. Even under duress this bond will stay intact like an anchor it shall weather the metaphorical storm and come out on the other side. I now think about Romulus and Remus,  Cain and Abel some of history's most famous brothers all known for the henious acts that were committed to one party of the relationship. Romulus killed Remus as Cain killed Abel, why would one not want to be ones brothers keeper. A strange concept, when you look at your blood as an entity that is separate and not unity everything else starts to get murky. And down this road we go till another Cain kills another Abel.

Nepotism

How does one deal with an advocate and practioner of nepotism. That is a question I struggle to answer today, one could argue that one must take the hit road be the bigger man so on and so forth. But what happens when the cost of the decision that favours nepotism, when people lose out on opportunities because someone wants to favour the nepotist.  I've had my fair share of interactions with nepotists and my understanding of their psyche and reason for continuing with this disgusting and rather archaic habit is that they simply do not think that they're in the wrong. If a lie has been told a thousand times it doesn't become the truth using the same logic practising a wrong path for a thousand years doesn't make it right. The victims per se of nepotists suffer a loss of confidence and rather wonder why the world propagated idiocy as such. 

Preservation

I learnt a lesson in self-preservation today. No matter who you claim to be, when it comes down to it you'll throw anyone under the bus. You will cause pain to others around you, you shall purloin their peace and send most of them to a suadade. This is your nature, it is my nature it lies dormant in all of us for some it comes easily for others a tad bit of coaxing is involved. How do I know this you ask? IT'S BASIC HUMAN NATURE. It saddens this one that this is the norm for a lot of you out there, and then one see that hardening oneself and building those walls that arent scaleable and cannot be breached was the righ path to take. How easily we throw our fellow man into the lurch, and while he falls into tha bottomless abyss he muses "what did I do to deserve this?" I say to that man " You did nothing old sport, you just happened to witness the decay that is a human being and for that I am truly sorry". 

Magnitude

I found myself gazing at the night skies but a few moments before I decided to write this, what I understood in those few pristine minutes I fear has changed me in a way I cannot fully fathom.  I looked up at the black enveloping mass, I just gazed and then I began to appreciate the beauty of it all and at the same time, I was humbled by what I saw, what I was learning. How does mankind even dare to think that we can fathom what cannot we fathom, we constrict the universe to our laws and pretend that chaos can be tamed and that in some way we are special and the masters of all we lay our sight upon. What arrogance, what arrogance from a beast with a slightly higher cranial capacity than a chimpanzee. We think ourselves, masters of the universe, we aren't even fit to grace her presence. As I gazed longer I wanted to remove her garment of stars and the heavens and learn her secrets, we live under her mercy in the warmth and comfort of her bosom. And yet we cannot appreciate what we see, we have this unwarranted need to control and conquer. To what end? What is the end result, what do we hope to gain from all of this? I found myself overwhelmed with emotion. A man who doesn't know what to feel anymore, and this fact scares me......

Confusion

You ever feeling confused ? Ever wonder as to what exactly is happening around you and what your place is in the midst of all this chaos. I have mused many a time as to try and ascertain what my place is in all of this, to no avail. I am no better armed with any reason or answer to solve this riddle. We don't think anymore, no one does everyone is involved in his or her own world, a world that exists only in the tiny little rectangular box in his or her hand. Why is it when the whle world is telling me that we are better connected to one another I feel that we aren't, that the gulf between two human beings is incresing at an alarming rate. Some might argue that this is the way of the new age and that I must embrace it, I have no quarrel with what you say brother but tell me with all your "friends" and companions how many will stand by you when you need them to. You may counter every single statement I have written with an argument your mind has come up with in order to make better sense of what I'm saying some of you may say I spew venom with the written word, again I say to you brother I have no quarrel with you or with what you say but these are the facts as they are. The bare naked virginal truth, a truth that we have all forgotten. Some of you may laugh at me call me a madman and throw my "sermon" aside but pay heed to what I say brother, these false orders these realms of chaos that we so carelessly court. These realms that we believe we may control but in actuality we cannot and we never will. Pay heed brother wake up, ignorance is not bliss being naive gets you killed wake up rise and be more than the ape. Lest you find yourself pushing daisies . Wake up before its too late