Expression

Its 2:00 am, and my mind is restless racing though the future.  To ease its worried state I pop in a CD my friend Adam gave to me during our last encounter. And Frankly I'm amazing how music effects and connects us to different times and places in life.  And these new songs will continue to define our lives just like the smell you would get from your mothers lasagna when you first open the door.

I've  realize that there is a song for every situation that exists in the world and these songs express emotions go by unnoticed until they are heard.  To sing and echo as long as humanity exists is mind bending just thinking about  Elliott Smith , Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and John Lennon as individuals who's ability never peaked.  True artists of expression.

I've been thinking about how to express myself, but in the whole process I jumble up word choices and spend more time looking dictionary.. Eventually I can vastly improve my vocabulary but I can already foresee the limiting potential language gives....

For example:

Imagine if Abraham Lincoln sang the Gettysburg address; how spectacular the song would be. Was he content with mere words?  Or was depressed to the limiting factor that a voice was; unable to hit the highs and lows and therefore forced to deliver a mono tonal speech.

It's the building of art. A masterpiece left unfinished.... But Everything is left unfinished....To capture emotion in mere words, that's the real task...

To conclude tonight i wrote a poem:

My world began eons ago...
and will end abruptly
                                  
Everything you ever wanted
Ceases to exist
When you pass into the vale

Reducing Valve

The mind is a complex entity that is related to the brain via functionalism. Functionalism means if the brain is damaged in anyway so is the mind. Different parts of the brain correspond to different areas of how the mind reacts; so damaging a part of your brain could mean your eyesight, another part your short-term memory, another part your sense of smell.

For everything we experience in this world relies on our five senses that include sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. These senses create the "grand reducing valve" that is our only sources of input in this world. Creatures that exist in different senses are entirely unknown to us because we have no way of understanding or studying their existence unless they could interact with the senses we can visually comprehend.

I will put god in the senses that we are unable to study because of the reducing valve. God does not exist within our senses and the belief in such an entity proves scientifically impossible. Therefore anything that exists outside our senses is scientifically impossible and the only downside to science.

Think I’m wrong? Prove it.

To Take Lead

A supreme political leader is able to adequately identify the needs of a country, move the countries resources to fill in the needs, and above all stay fair and balanced. A political groups agenda must fall by the way side for a leader to do an adequate job running a country in which multiple groups are in power. This leader must also be in the constant state of compromise; and if not up to the task, will be categorized with a singular idea that  ensures bias toward the whole.

A leader must be a grand listener, with the ability to consult reliable resources outside of his/her knowledge. Action has to be decisive and the words used by the leader must not be rushed. Speaking is the first draft of writing, so leaders must carefully choose the words to be expressed to his or her republic.

Productive

It dawned on me that my college years are numbered and it’s time to start growing up. 

While I enjoyed going to the bars and having a good time; I believe it will also be a present to not have a constant hole burning in my wallet. Besides it’s cheaper to do something more productive with your life if you learn from it, so i decided to get a drum book and a pair of new sticks.

It feels better when you have rhythm in your step, compared to the spins and light-headed feeling of drinking.  Don't get me wrong, I will still have a few drinks from time to time, but I had enough of it as a daily occurrence. Therefore in the spirit of lent, I'm going to give up this life style. Not that I'm a spiritual person, but i do believe the habit forming process of lent and produce life changing events if you can stick with it. 

Other thoughts on productivity....

My dad always said:

             "There's a time for work, and a time for play."  - Papa Bear-
 

A productive person does what?

• Only Works
• Only Plays
• Both

My roommate Dan argues that a productive person never works because they are wasting time working. Playing should be your "work" and individuals who do not realize that miss the big picture.

I counter Dan by saying, some individuals who only play miss out on the joys of work. To complete a job that you didn't intend to start makes an individual elated and glad he completed it. The feeling after the horn sounds and the money in your wallet as you go home to start something else.

Its interesting to view the two different philosophies.

I think my dad is right though; there is a time when an individual has to do something he didn't intend to fix. Otherwise the world of play wouldn't exist as it does today. It would collapse because no one would want to do the "hard work". Simply, we would be in an age far less civilized and less complex then the one we currently exist in. 

By working, we have time to play, and the right to enjoy all the gadgets and gizmos that exist because of our accomplishments or “hard work”.