rude awakening
so today in english we studied the poem
Dulce et Ducem est. Its a poem about a a gas attack in WWI. Its very vivid and brutal. The poem contrast its title with its content, you see, the title means "
It is sweet and proper to die for ones country". It was almost a shocking reminder of my friend Brad who died almost a year ago now while he was serving his country. We were great friends growing up. I find it hard to believe that it would be fitting for him to die for his country, but i still struggle with the fact that, yes, it is incredibly honourable. To hear my classmates go on and on about how it is not proper to die for ones country was hard, I would've said something, but i was torn, and still am. I don't know. Is is fitting to die while serving one's country?
academy awards are stupid
why would i idolize people who act for a living?
But anyway. I actually have to go to school this week, which sucks. I haven't been to school since the 16th. Its not like I go lots in the first place, only two days a week. There was going to be a point to this blog, but i cannot remember it anymore.
woops
i haven't posted in a while, i've been busy, so to make up for it i will have to make this one a doozy.
So today i went to the World of Wheels down at the Saddle Dome. It was pretty fun, lots and lots of cars. Almost too many. I felt kind of bad knowing that someone spent hundreds of hours to prepare a car and glanse at it for a second and think "hmm, not bad", when really if I had seen any of those cars on the street I would have though "WOW!!"
Afterward we strolled over to see Ken King, who is the president of the Calgary Flames, and i also got to meet Daryl Sutter, who is the GM and who was the coach of the Flames for years, up until this season. Apparently my dad was offered tickets to the all-star game in Dallas and her turned them down. I mean...???? Fly down on Ken Kings jet and see the all-star game for free!
I went and saw a couple of movies recently. I saw Ghost Rider, and The Bridge to Tarabithia. One of them was excellent, and one was not. I'll let you guess which was better, a little hint: I cried in one of them.
I also discovered that it takes 2 hours for me to make it from my house to Falconridge in NE calgary, thats 2 trains and 1 bus. I went and visited a friend at work. Now people are wondering 'why would you travel 2 hours to visit someone at work?' To which i say 'why not'.
I don't know what else to write at the moment, oh, other than NEVER EVER RENT CHANANGO!!
Letters
so i have deceided that i am going to start writing letters to my future wife, although i do not know who she is, i do think it's a cool thing to do. Here is the first one:
Dear Loved One,
I'm writing this to show that I care about how you are living your life, that even while i don't know you I feel as though what you do is important to me. I pray that you are keeping yourself pure, as I am for you. I look at it like this; Imagine that you have a boyfriend, and now imagine that there was some girl there with her arms all over him. I want you to know that I have been keeping myself for you, and although it has not always been easy, I know that you are so worth the wait.
Tonight we went skating, I wish you could have been there. We could have curled up by the fire together and listened to the sound of ice battleing metal. I wish you could smell the smoke as is cut through the crisp night air, and the wave of warmth you get from skating as hard as you can. It was a fantastic night. Only made better if you where there. I look forward to our meetings
Lovingly,
don
why
are we so scared of death? For me, i don't think its death im scared of, more of that uncertanty surounding the moment of death. I know im going to heaven, but how im getting there i don't. Also, will it be slow or fast, painful or numb, hot or cold? So many questions. I don't really know, thats what im scared of, the great unknown. ya. thats my biggest fear.
I had some friends go try out for Canadian Idol today. A couple of them made it through to the celebrity judges. One got booted, im not sure how the other one did, she's really good. I won't be surprised if she makes it through to Toronto
lets see how this goes
beauty is all around us but sadly why can't we see it. i mean its in everything, everything has the touch of the hand of God. We take forgranted what we are given, even the hard times. Why is it so hard for us to be thankful. I don't know, i see people all the time, at work, on the train, on the street, and sometimes in my students, who just seem unsatisfied with what they have been given. We live in an incredible country and should be thankful for that. The thing is that most people say that they are thankful for what they have, but the next minute ask for something else. I don't really know where this whole thought process came from, i guess its just me telling everyone out there to be thankful what you have, no matter what you have. Even if its hardly anything, it is something. At times it might feel like you have nothing left but it is at that point you must rejoice.
dont worry be happy
so my great aunt died yesterday morning. she had a massive heart attack and passed away before they could move her to a nice hospital in Black Diamond. Its sad, she has so much history in her life. We weren't very close, but she did live with my grandparents for years, so i did see her quite often. Well she is in a better place, and has been rewarded after years of faithfulness to God
snowy
egad its snowy out! This may prove to be good though, hopefully going snowboarding on Sunday at Canada Olympic Park. Crappy hill, but lots of friends, and some real snow. First time out this year though, i hope im not too rusty, i'll have to make sure i go show off in the park( and by show off i mean make a fool of myself)
so i felt like listening
to some music, so i went on to myspace. I know i know, its myspace, and my presence on the site is quite the rarety. Fortunatly my computer is being stupid and wont let me do anything without closing the browser. I don't know whether or not to be happy or sad about that. Oh well.
Oh and i read a blog today from someone who hates macs. He said that they were glorified fisher price toys made for people who don't want to learn to use a computer, as well as for people who believe in feng shui. I thought it was funny.
Freud
So in my nature of religion class today we discussed freud. anyone who knows anything about freud will know how much he loves religion. i was soooo surprised when his theory of religion came back to the oedipus complex. for those of you who don't know what freuds theory is, here you go:
There was a group of people that he called a Primal Horde (real positive huh) and they moved around doing only what they got the urge to do, and they were rulled by an alpha male. Whenever the alpha male had a son that was old enough to challenge him, the son was kicked out of the family. Eventually the sons banded together and killed the father, but they felt regret about this and took up a totem animal(sacred) to represent him. Once a year or so they would kill and eat this animal to represent killing their father and they consuming his power.
Freud, as i sacastically illuded to earlier, did not like religion. He felt that we had no use for it. Here is my probem with Freud. He seems to have just created his own religion, the religion of psychotherapy. He, Freud, is the god of this religion. In many psychology circles Freuds words are unquestioned. In a funny sort of way he seems to have commited this Patricide towards God and seems to put himself out there as a little bit of a god. I dunno, any comments would be appreciated
Superbowl
i don't get it. football that is, in general. Sure its fun to play, but why would anyone in their right mind pay to go see other people play. Even if they are good, what difference does it make. I don't like watching sports, well, that's not entirelly true, i do like F1. Now there is skill, a lot better than ClasCar (NasCar), seeing as i do like my cars to turn in TWO directions.
the city can be fun
I went into the city today after music practice this morning. Oringinally it was to buy some pants that i ordered in, but they actually were not ordered, so no buying of pants today. But i ended up jumpin on the train and going all the way up to the far northwest, a good 45 min train ride. I went to visit my friend Kim. We watched Garden State, which i must say was an excellent film, very funny. After that we, kim and i, got on the train and headed downtown to meet a friend of ours. Unfortunatly for him he couldn't find his keys, so he couldn't really leave the house, so we went even further south on the train and went to Chinook mall and visited our friend Cidney, who works at Second Cup. Kim and i hiked around the busy mall, saw more friends, chatted, and moved on. I bought a new hoodie, actually its the first hoodie i've had in years, so im pretty pumped; plus have of the funds went to HIV and AIDS in Africa.
Fun Day, i like hanging out with friends
Blizzardy Flurry no good day
wow, its been snowing all day, no complaints really. I like the snow, i just don't like the cold. We haven't had very much so at all this year so...let it snow.
I just got back from highriver, i had to pick my sister up from school, and my mom let me take her Jeep because the roads are bad. See, i drive a front wheel drive car because they handle well in adverse conditions, but four wheel drive is a completely diffrent story. It's like there is not a spec of snow on the road at all, that is unless you gun it around a corner, then you can do a controlled drift. Fun. like i said, i like snow.
im so proud of myself
wow, look at me posting a bunch of stuff and all. I feel like a real blogger now *tear*
Today it is cold. period. Just plain cold. The light breeze raps on my knuckles and makes them ache as i hold my McDonald cup, and my vision is blurred by the snow that's flung up by the approaching snow blower. cold.
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