Grasping onto thin air only to fall into the unkown.

If you look at a picture, what does it tell you? Well I guess this could depend on the picture. Right now I am looking at a picture of an elf squashing a beetle. I find this interesting, an elf caught in the act of destroying the life of another living creature, but why? Is the beetle a threat to the elf? Or is it far more likely that the beetle is a threat to the elf’s comfort, that the beetle was buzzing too close to the elf’s head or had taken a bite of the old cheese wheel on the counter. Is it alright to destroy life to ensure your own comfort, or is this only true when discomfort is felt by the far more powerful creature? When does one living creature have the right to destroy another, and furthermore how is this decided? It is funny how people claim that it is not right to “play God.” “One human should not be able to take the life away from another, because they ‘are not God’ and they can not create life, so they should not be able to end it.” This is funny to me, because if it wasn’t for people playing God in the first place there would not be a God. History has proven time and time again human beings are selfish, that one human being will do whatever he can in order to achieve his specific agenda. This is not to say humans are evil, that they are trying to destroy each other or the Earth. There are simply side effects to our ignorance. The funniest part about human ignorance is our own perception of it. Some of the most ignorant people on our planet are the ones who see themselves as the most educated. These people are ignorant because they sit behind facts and figures, books and documents, thinking that they have all the answers. That they can somehow surmise an solution to all of life’s problems with scientific reasoning, this is ignorant. Why? Because humans are not reasonable. Even the most “enlightened” individuals suffer from their own human error, maybe even more so because they, themselves, do not see it. The most ignorant people on our planet are those that think they have found the truth. Do not get me wrong, I think it is very important to be constantly searching for the truth, but I grow weary of those who are content, those who feel their God, or their superiors or their reason has all the answers. It is these people who are so blind by their own contentment that they will do anything to secure it, they would do anything to secure their comfort. I no longer see an elf killing a beetle, but instead I see the gigantic hand of the powerful, squashing the hopes of the weak. We have all played both the role of the elf and the role of the beetle, but yet we still can not seem to find a compromise, a solution that allows us all to coexist. This picture has told me that the only black and white on this earth is life and death, you are either alive or you are not. You can not claim to value life in one situation but then completely disregard it in another. Life is life and death is death, no one knows the meaning of life and no one has a cure for death. Live long, live happily, but live far, far away from me.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

Into the unknown Humpty fell for he was not prepared to deal with what lay below his comfortable wall. When Humpty hit the ground he broke into hundreds of pieces which could not be put back together. What was once a powerful and influential individual now laid all alone and broken in a world he did not even know existed. Those who he thought were his friends abandoned him now that he had lost his influence. His false sense of importance shattered into more pieces than he physical being. Poor Humpty Dumpty would never be complete again, all because he never heard of stairs. Do not hang on to the known, instead be willing to embrace change, to embrace yourself and all your surroundings.