My Thoughts On Life

This is a guest blog written by Mona. Please comment and let me know if you liked the post, and what you think about me having future guest blogs.

Have you ever asked yourself why you are getting married?

Standing in the alter looking at the person who you will spend the rest of your life with, is an amazing feeling. Some of us will ask ourselves, I know I love him but am I doing the right thing? Why am I marrying him? There are questions that flow in our heads in the moment that we are committing to spend the rest of our life with someone who we say we love. We spend our teen-hood dreaming of our future spouse. Now we have found The One! And we are about to say I do! But, have you ever stopped to think why he/she is the one?
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I am pleased to announce that I will be posting a blog by a guest blogger soon. Her name is Mona, and she will be discussing relationships.

It is hard wired in our minds; humans thirst for power and wealth. They will stop at nothing until they stand on top of the world. Until they can tell anyone to do what they do not wish to do themselves, and possess anything they can possibly imagine.

It is sad to see how money drives us as a race. How much we crave it. How much we fight for it, steal for it, manipulate for it.

WHY?

Because with money comes power. With money comes wealth. With money a person can say, do, or have whatever they so desire. read more »

Funny Thing Happened to Me Last Night!

I was getting ready for bed; I showered and was just about to brush my teeth when I zoned out. I started thinking about things that happened during the day, and what I didn’t realize was that my mind started me down the path of getting ready for going to work instead of getting ready for bed, and before I realized it, I had gotten my hair gel out, rubbed it in my  hair, and fixed my hair. And, as I started washing the gel off of my hands, I snapped out of it and thought, “Wait a minute! Why am I washing hair gel off my hands? Why did I just fix my hair?”

It got me thinking about how we humans tend to go through life in autopilot. How our minds so cleverly have an involuntary reflex to perform repetitive tasks for us without us ever having to waste the time to think about every little mundane task day in and day out. Without such an ability, we would be forced to concentrate on even the smallest of tasks we perform. Tasks such as breathing and blinking would need our full attention, otherwise we’d forget to breath. read more »

Disposable Cups. Disposable Phones. Disposable. Disposable. Disposable.

Every day there is a new product on the market, or an older product being revamped, that somehow incorporates the idea of easy disposal when it’s no longer needed. Anything a person can think of is in some way becoming disposable. It’s very scary if you stop and think about it for a second. How many items you throw away in the trash every day. How frequently you have to take the trash out.

I know that as consumers we have gotten used to the concept of:

Buy → Use → Trash

We are so used to it that we don’t even think twice about it. We have forgotten completely about the time when ketchup and soda came in glass bottles, and that those glass bottles were given back to be reused. We have forgotten a life without paper towels and plastic bags.

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It is a natural instinct to be pulled in by the beauty of the opposite sex. To be mesmerized by someone so beautiful that you know only God could have created her. Your heart races. Your pupils dilate. Your palms sweat.

What is more beautiful in this world than a man and a woman catching each others’ eye, and instantly drawn to each other? Such a perfect thing. So pure. So innocent. So desired.

If this truly is perfection on Earth, then why be concerned? Why, when the majority of the time there is complete innocence in such attraction? Because of the desire. Because of the wanting and needing of such chemistry. With such beauty does occasionally come flaws. Does come imperfection.
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We are instinctively selfish, all of are. We are from birth naturally selfish.

The moment we gasp for our first breath, we are fighting for our own lives, and we think of no one but ourselves in such a moment. We choose ourselves over others. Life continues this way for all of us. We cry in the middle of the night because we need milk. We fight to be at the head of the line, just so we are not the poor sucker further back in line that does not stand a chance to get to the front before supplies run out.

We are selfish to see others afflicted with pain or suffering from the comfort of our own homes. To hear of death or rape, only to forget about it five minutes later. To hear someone cry out for help, only to turn our backs for the sake of our own safety. To tell ourselves that there is nothing we can do to help those who suffer. To succum to our innate selfishness.
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Rhetorical Question

Why do we have trash cans?

Seriously, why? I mean there is a trash can, sometimes even two, in front of every store in this country. We each have several of them at our homes. And, yet it amazes me at just how much trash does not wind up in one of the millions upon millions of conveniently placed trash cans all over this country.

Can someone shine some light on this for me, because I have truly been dumbfounded by this simple question for such a long time? Please, I implore you. I beg you, why???
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