So since today's a daily double, there'll be twice the topic-y goodness. Yay!

Something that's been on my mind ever since I wanted to blog again was the concept of the sins. Seven deadly ones, and they're bad things to have. But like most things in life, sins too are subjective things. If anything, the fact that you reword these in a certain way suggest that even though they're deadly, we need to have them to live and prosper, like how good needs evil to make a difference.

Take envy, for example. One of my personal favorites. Also a commandment - Thou shalt not covet. Taken literally and in its original form, we're not supposed to desire what others have, and appreciate what we do have. That's the meaning God and the original people wanted us to think, and for good reason. It can cause us to act unusual and eventually go to great lengths just to get what someone else has. For example, look at that one movie, the Orphan. Yes, it's not a good example, since it's a horrible movie and modern, but it's still there. Midget woman poses as a child to be adopted by a family, only to usurp the entire thing and lust after the man who adopted her. She wants a man bad, and in this case, she wants that wife's man, at any cost - even trying to kill adopted family members (and succeeding for some) just to get to it. Now that's pretty grim.

But think about it for a second.

If we only appreciated what we had, wouldn't it eliminate one of the easiest causes for human drive? If we were to simply lay back and accept what we had (That's what she said), we wouldn't advance forward. Sure, for some well-off people that wouldn't be much of a problem, since they have what they need, but what about the less than fortunate? If they didn't have a goal to reach for, a destination, they'd be living their lives in abject squalor. While true, one could argue that "You should motivate yourself", that's not that easy for most people, especially if they don't exactly know where they're going. If you had, for example, a dream to be "as rich as Bill Gates", that would not only be motivation, but envious as well! You want the wealth of Gates because that's not what you have, and now that you have the goal and destination you can work to achieve it. Of course I wouldn't recommend stealing it, but good, honest work would be best. While it's not the primary driving force, Envy is something that propels the human world, and its achievements, forward, and that's definitely not something condmenable.

I'd reevaluate envy and label it as more of a cautious vice, if you will. Something to tap into, but not too much (heh. innuendo).

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Let's step off this weird high horse and get into more normal things. Like what happened today.

Thankfully nothing emo. Friend of mine went to court, to extend a restraining order. By now you can guess that it was a girl restraining a guy, and you'd be right. Passion does bad things to good people. It's funny how that stereotype can go, eh? Girls usually get restraining orders on the guy, and not the other way around. She got what she wanted and so I was happy for her.

Gonna go bike soon hopefully, but since my earphones are still being shipped to Utah, I've got no auditory enjoyment for the ride. It's not that I don't want to hear nature, it's just kind of weird to be biking in general silence.

Mom says I need to improve my schedule since school is almost starting. I'd agree logically, but it just feels to good to relaaaaaaaax. (huh, they still use the old smileys after nearly 7 years)

Signing off for now, hoping something brilliant will come

-R

Coming back to xanga after almost a year, it's weird to see how much it's changed. And how much I've changed. It's so painful to sift through from the very beginnings that I've had with xanga, from the times of html code and typin lyke dis lolol to just the person I am now. But it's such an interesting view at the past, and a window into how, when I'm in my 30s or 40s, I'll look upon myself when I was this age. Retrospect is such a funny thing. Even the word is kinda odd. It's like, half retro (whatever that's supposed to mean), quarter perspective. I always thought of it as a fancy science term. But I'm rambling.

Since I'm too lazy to make a blogspot and focus it on something I'll try and post here from now on. I might get back into posts again. Who knows.

In the meantime, hello xanga!

-R