Portfolio

So, I'm ready to show Stariha that you CAN create a good video portfolio! Finally something that I can do that I can honestly say that I like.

Suicide due to history... or the lack of it

So i know this isn't a light topic at all, but I want you guys to think about something.
I was talking to a friend of mine, and she told me an idea that her husband has... not really an idea but rather a 'stance on a subject' that he has. He believes that the teen suicide rate is so very high because we have told teenagers (and everyone for that matter) that they can do anything. And what is our history highlighted on? The good things! You hear of those guys that did something bad, and you hear of mistakes, but usually that is muddled behind a HUGE success, or a BRILLIANT idea. We have almost CHANGED THE HISTORY of those before us to tell the younger generations (Our generations) that they can do anything, just look at so-and-so, they built this awesome building, they cured cancer, they created airplanes WHATEVER. We always show these generations what the good things are that people can do.. but what does that do to the kids in our society that fail? What does it look and feel like that everyone before us could do things, but we fail... and society is screaming at us that we can do anything that we want to do, when in fact we CAN'T!!! Sometime we have our limitations... and what choice do we give them when we laugh at their in-capabilities just because we have painted this idea that nothing is impossible...?

Just a thought.

Changing History

yes. I think that the government could go into our past and change what we believe. As soon as yesterdays 'history' no. but definitely from years ago, or maybe on nearer topics but of those that we are very poorly informed on. It is not very difficult to convince a naive person of something... now is it?

50 YEARS LAAAATTTEEEERRR (in a ghostly whisper)

So I don't know about you guys, but when I envision the future, its a lot of white. A lot of clean, sterile surfaces, and a lot of blankness. Our 'brilliant' scientist and inventors will come up with ways of having things... without needing things. Or creating ways of not needing things all together. I don't think we will run down the rotten hole that the nineteen eighty four guy is talking about... Maybe eventually, but I don't think in fifty years they could!? I think that there will be too many strong heads to allow something like that to happen, I mean, just look at our College English class. Don't try to tell them that they raised the ration of chocolate to 20 grams, because they will CLEARLY spit back in your face that it was in fact LOWERED to 20 grams. Its like Dylan Thomas says 'do not go gently'. I don't think we would... or that we could.. for we have had INDEPENDENCE printed into our minds since we were verrry young.
So back to what I was saying. I think that we will have wars, yes, but I think (and hope) that it is more of a safe war... like to protect us, not the greedy wars that we encounter today...
So that is mostly my insight