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| I haven't written in xanga in a long time. and my life is really just very strange.
it's so funny how the people you never thought you would get along with, who you were sure you'd dislike upon meeting, actually turn out to be the most intresting people who provide you with different and fresher perspectives on life. For instance, this past week or so I've been working with people, one in particular who I was sure wouldn't like me, and I was sure I wouldn't really get along with. and I find that this person is actually much nicer and broader minded than the people one would imagine me making friends with. this other person that I've been talking to a lot lately has also really surprised me, seeing as they're extremely conservative and happen to be good friends with people that have given me a lot of grief in the past... but he's actually really great. and it's just so bizarre. The past couple of months have really broadend my mind, now I'm willing to give everyone a chance, no matter how they might seem to me just from observing them.
and all I've been listening to lately is folk music, i.e. BOB DYLAN, The Byrds, The Mamas and The Papas, and other stuff with brilliantly written harmonies. I could be quite happy just listening to this forever... it's a nice break from the pessimism and violence that most (not all) modern music bears. life isn't all about violence and pessimism... and the media is just breeding a generation of kids that get conned into thinking they have problems, being 'misunderstood', and 'OH NO I CANT HAVE EVERY SINGLE THING I WANT', and drugs as a trend. it's sad. music and drugs, drugs and music, they've lost their original purposes and ideas. rock and roll was meant to be pure and cleansing, not about how much money you could make or what a fashion statement you were. it was about being creative, and optimistic, and maybe making the world a better place, not about how bad things are. and even if it was, the point of the music was to try and improve said wrongs. most musicians as of now just whine, whine, whine into their microphones about problems they don't even attempt to fix, because that is, sadly, what sells. sex dosen't even sell more than misery now, and that's just strange, sad, and wrong. in real life, you don't want to hear people bitch about their problems all the time. the same goes for rock music.
as for drugs, they weren't originally a trend or a fashion statement, they were experimental and meant to offer a cleansed perception of life. people did and do take it too far, I'm not saying that they haven't. it's just that when people get out of control with drugs or alcohol, it's not the fault of the substance itself. it's your own fault for not knowing yourself well enough to tell yourself 'hey, I shouldn't do this because I'll more likely than not become addicted, and ruin everything'. you'll never hear me advocate drugs like heroin, or cocaine, or any harder substances, but smoking pot every now and again, or social drinking, or even tripping on something like shrooms, is not a bad thing. I'm tired of hearing people blame their personality flaws on whatever it is they take. if you can't handle it, DON'T DO IT. and I'm tired of people saying 'OH THIS IS BAD AND THAT IS BAD' when they've never even taken the substance in question, or drank alcohol, or anything of that nature really. you might have had alcoholic parents, or a cokehead godmother or a friend that takes other peoples perscription medication, but remember... NOT EVERYONE WHO DOES THESE THINGS TURNS INTO A MONSTER. the movies are not accurate, the idiot celebrities you see being arrested for DUI or doing other stupid things are not accurate. I suppose what I'm trying to say is, drugs are usually not an inherently bad thing- the way some people react to them is, though. If you choose not to drink or take drugs, good for you. you cant miss what you've never had, and people who have morals are refreshing. but please, do not get in my business about what I do or don't do, and more than that, don't talk about what you've never experienced. everyone's just laughing at you. | | |
| remember when xanga was the coolest thing ever?
and life was a little less complicated?
I miss that, and I miss you.
"I really love you, and I mean you
well, oh baby, my hairs on end about you..." | | |
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