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I would like to share a few recent words/thoughts of mine that I usually wouldn't share at all in a public manner. Other than with those who are closest to me, rarely will I catch myself ranting about anything unless I deem it necessary and beneficial to my surroundings. People just don't have the patience for questions anymore. Myself - I tend to question almost everything around me without thinking twice. There's never a straight answer or a 'one word' reply that satisfies me. There's always another side of the story that may not necessarily surface on an acknowledgeable level that I just can't ignore...

You see, most of us have already become accustomed to the routine of accepting our surroundings and pursuing what life 'grants' us because essentially (and to state rather bluntly), we are an arrogant race and we always will be. To slightly elaborate on that, perhaps attempt to think of the last time you honestly analyzed a situation without yourself in mind or the repercussions an action (verbal, physical, even mental) executed personally would have on your surroundings. I'm not necessarily saying we don't think before we act, I'm simply saying we only act because instinct has told us to. As much as you want to believe your thoughts and your person are significant, I will tell you right now that significance and ignorance do not dwell in the same house.

Okay. So maybe that was a little too blunt. I think I might have left that statement without (necessary) further explanation and more than likely left some of you puzzled. Allow me to elaborate once again, this time in a more meticulous manner that hopefully helps preserve my sincerity. I know for a fact some of you were under the impression I was questioning the validity of our conscience and our choices, or even more so the validity of ourselves as beings and individuals (generally speaking, of course). You must remember that we are simply yet another organism provided with a host that we endlessly use to our own nourishment and benefit. We too serve as hosts for other 'germs' and 'parasites' that we may not acknowledge or see, but multiply in numbers we couldn't even imagine - or want to. Think about it. We know what particles look like under a microscope, we know what cells look like. We know all of this. And yet since we are all in our own collective ignorance, we believe that we are different. We believe the earth we stand on is not another 'cell' or 'micro-organism' and that because we live on it we are significant. Have we forgotten how many planets and stars and even 'absolute space' itself is just beyond our skies? If we had a chance to look at space - what we know of it, anyhow - under a microscope, don't you think there would be at least SOME similarity in other things we look at? Hell, space is big enough! All you'd need to do, really, is somehow blast yourself above the clouds and into space itself and just look around! So what does this have to do with me questioning or theorizing our human conscience as we know it?

Everything and nothing - all at once.

And ladies and gentlemen, that's the beauty of it.