Thank you very much for the compliments on my photography, I really appreciate it Mark!
Well, maybe I'm not hopeful. But every time a friend or anyone who is depressed comes up to me and asks me for help, I give them so much hope and confidence just through my words that afterwards they say, "Claire, I don't know what I would do without you." and truly mean it. And after, I feel like I opened up their eyes. It's like every time I gaze up into the sky, I realize how incredibly large and fantastic this world is, and I think about traveling the world almost all the time! That is why I want to be a travel journalist.
I actually am aiming on starting a column or something called "Beauty Despite--" it'll be all about traveling to places which have a stigma upon them; and by using writing and photography, I can show readers that the world can still be beautiful despite!
Anyway, enough of my poetic lectures;
I did a research paper on Scientology. I mean, If I were a Scientologist looking into my religion (Catholicism) I may think it is strange as well. But 'Evil Galactic Space Lord Xenu." Um, I don't think that works for me, lol. Seems to me that they are just making big bucks off sillly celebrities. In my opinion, it's one of those ideas that just seem too far out for me. (Hah, to think something can seem crazy to a person like me.) I've never spoken to a scientologist though.
See now I feel bad for judging the working class by their outside. I mean I suppose I have no right to say how their lives are, in fact I completely do not have a right to say, lol, but what if all those working folk are like your friend? 9-5 with happy lives, wouldn't that make it typical as well? In a general sense, that is.
If you spend your life only wanting... what good will it do without action? What if a mother loses a child due to some reason, and someone noticed her sitting and mumbling things like, "If I will it hard enough, my child will come back." And gets obsessed over it, would that be a disorder?
Could you proudly stand in front of the (estimated) eleven million orphans in Kenya, with dead parents because of AIDS and firmly state that if they wanted it enough, they could have their parents back and a wealthy, healthy, peaceful life?
I wish I could give them all parents again. I wish they could feel real happiness and settlement. But humans are corrupt.
I like my perspective. I see through myself at first, then I talk to other people and listen carefully at what they have to say, and then new aspects are open to me to view certain things through. I love that epiphany feeling when someone describes another perspective of something and it fascinates me. Like in the thread "Why should you not work." or something. Like if you described a video game, you could either describe the fantasy world, the characters, weapons, magic, OR you could describe the game chips, the prices, the inner workings of the actual game itself. And I never thought of it that way, lol.
I'm not much of a technical thinker. I think. Lol.
About lucid dreaming, it's just the fact that in this reality, there is a place you can go where your imagination is your limit. (oxymoron! lol) A place where you can do anything and everything! I think it's amazing, and I really want to have one. (Just so I could put myself in one of my favorite video games or books!)
Anyway, tomorrow I leave for Camp. Not fun camp though, band camp. (Ha-ha.) So i'll be back on Tuesday! Don't miss me too much!
Keep on thinkin' guys.
P.S. Mark, nice having this (very slow) forum conversation with you
It'd be more fun to talk in an instant message kinda way though. (and I am very much used to having extended conversations with the adult kind. :P I played an MMORPG. Lol)