People tend to relocate as part of their nature because there is a need for improvement. The desire for better housing or a better job is the drive. In other cases, moving is due to a negative and unexpected event. But whatever it is that prompts people to move, there is always a known location in which people can be found after they have done so. In that same way, when an object is moved, the new location can always be specified. When an object is lost, however, time and energy are directed towards finding its new locations. Yet, it can be found. So people move from a house to another, or from a city to another city. People change states and even countries. Objects are either relocated or misplaced, but they can be found. But there are other things of which a location cannot be identified. Such is the case with the love someone had at some point in time expressed for someone else and then said love is not there anymore. Where does love go when it is gone?
It is, first and foremost, difficult to say where something that is not material is located which is necessarily the case with love. Then, there is the problem of whether that item actually exists or not. But it does seem as though such things can be lost or placed as parasites on something material in order to be able to locate them. Love does not appear to escape such predicament. There is evidence of this in a recently discovered case. A certain couple that said to be deeply in love after sometime in the relationship decided to buy a dog. The love they felt for each other seems to have been symbolized by the dog. The both took equal care of the dog. It was equally important to both of the as part of their relationship. But as time went by they seemed to realize that the relationship was not working properly, or how they thought it should have been. Neither of them wanted to keep the dog, perhaps because it would be too painful to take care of a creature that had so united them. The dog was then gifted, and neither of them ever saw it again. When of the parties involved in such story was asked where the love went, the response was: wherever the dog is. This seems completely unacceptable because it would mean that the love they felt for each other relied on the presence of the dog and not on each other.
It is superficially simple to understand that the love did not die. The love remained, it just moved. But it is also rather complicated to accept that the love moved to wherever the dog went. One begins to wonder how to describe the love these two people felt for each other if it can be placed in another creature and sent away. It seems impossible that such possibility can be materialized. There are many couples that never have anything that can, in fact, be sent away in order for their love to move to another location; and, as a result, leave them in peace. Some people claim that it hurts so much live after they lose someone they loved, that living is unmanageable. But they forget that before they met that person their life went along just fine. So if love moves, then their life should be able to continue just as well considering that it has previously moved into their lives and that was also disturbing. Yet, they managed to live with that situation. The same way it becomes difficult to understand two people that shared everything come to a point in life where they do not even see each other from far away and life goes on. Perhaps because the question should be how two people that did not know each other came to share everything. Was it love or was it something else? If it can relocate, then perhaps is because it was never really there.
As Oscar Wilde said, “the only difference between a caprice and everlasting love is that a caprice lasts longer.” The problem is that most people assert that real love is eternal. Other people are smarter and instead of wondering whether love moved, they simply build a bridge and get over it as soon as the fall out happens. So love does not move: people do. They move on.
xoxo,
Poison Drops
©Copyrighted 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
The House of [Label]
The need for labels arises at very early age, which come in multiple presentations. Some of those labels are easier to identify than others, but all are equally important in determining the way a person is perceived by others. There are cultural labels that one is born with as well as those used to associate oneself with a certain group of people outside of cultural ties. There are also those neglected labels that one seeks to avoid due to the negative connotations attributed to them. Finally, there are also clothing labels that seem to be at the pinnacle of pandemonium. The form they take does not matter because the labels are inescapable. Everything has a label in this world however difficult to identify it might be. In the same way, every human being whether the person knows and understands it or not.
Human beings are born with a label of which they cannot dispose. That label is the one that connects one with the ancestors that inhabited the land in which one is born hundreds of years before. In other circumstances it was a different land, but one equally derives one’s roots, culture and values from those that came before. Such label is undeniable because it is present everyday in the skin, the language, the food, the holiday celebrations, the people, and the surroundings. Positive or negative. That is the label one cannot ever escape. It embodies who one is; and as such, it must be embraced. Otherwise, it becomes a torture tool for identity.
Then, there are other labels that perhaps carry a bigger weight because one chooses to appropriate them. Such are the labels of organizations one joins, or causes one supports or the views and beliefs one has. These are perhaps the labels one most easily acknowledges because one freely chooses them, but one must be careful not to let a single label be the source of empowerment. If such was the case, then the rest of the labels one has proudly attained are unimportant, and one becomes only that one thing which the overpowering label represents. One becomes the label itself rather than one who advocates that label, which should be the goal.
There are also some seemingly dreadful labels one seeks to avoid at all costs, in some cases without success because they seem to evolve over time. One might think that a certain label is suitable. But as soon as that label acquires a negative connotation, one finds a way to sever all ties with it in order to maintain a reputation. Those labels vary in kind. A masquerade does not cover all the imperfections one desires to hide. There are some that one cannot avoid due to the way one carries oneself.
Finally, clothing lines are at the root of the power of labels. As young children, one notices what kind of clothes or shoes the other children at school are wearing and innocently criticizes them or demands to obtain the same items. This problem only grows with time as one has access to more expensive items whether such items are garments, shoes, accessories, attending a certain school, a car, a house, etc. The list simply grows because such items carry in their label a status. Those labels carry with them the promise of a better quality of life. It starts with clothes but it quickly moves on to other items. As time progresses, those labels are as deeply embedded through an unconscious attainment as those that one consciously appropriates or those one is born with. But labels should be the center of one’s universe. Yet they are inescapable because it is through labels that one is accepted or identified by the rest of society. Unfortunately, the labels one is able to afford in the financial world are the labels society considers important. Hence, the struggle to surround oneself with said labels.
There are thousands of people in the world that are labeled by others without those labeled knowing or understanding what the labels they have mean but who also do not care about the labels that they are known through since their primal worry is whether there will be food on the table that afternoon or whether they will wake up the next day. It is nearly impossible to evade the reality one represents because one labels oneself with every action, every word, and every step. Whether positive or negative, one must learn to live in a labeled society.
xoxo,
Poison Drops
©Copyrighted 2008
Human beings are born with a label of which they cannot dispose. That label is the one that connects one with the ancestors that inhabited the land in which one is born hundreds of years before. In other circumstances it was a different land, but one equally derives one’s roots, culture and values from those that came before. Such label is undeniable because it is present everyday in the skin, the language, the food, the holiday celebrations, the people, and the surroundings. Positive or negative. That is the label one cannot ever escape. It embodies who one is; and as such, it must be embraced. Otherwise, it becomes a torture tool for identity.
Then, there are other labels that perhaps carry a bigger weight because one chooses to appropriate them. Such are the labels of organizations one joins, or causes one supports or the views and beliefs one has. These are perhaps the labels one most easily acknowledges because one freely chooses them, but one must be careful not to let a single label be the source of empowerment. If such was the case, then the rest of the labels one has proudly attained are unimportant, and one becomes only that one thing which the overpowering label represents. One becomes the label itself rather than one who advocates that label, which should be the goal.
There are also some seemingly dreadful labels one seeks to avoid at all costs, in some cases without success because they seem to evolve over time. One might think that a certain label is suitable. But as soon as that label acquires a negative connotation, one finds a way to sever all ties with it in order to maintain a reputation. Those labels vary in kind. A masquerade does not cover all the imperfections one desires to hide. There are some that one cannot avoid due to the way one carries oneself.
Finally, clothing lines are at the root of the power of labels. As young children, one notices what kind of clothes or shoes the other children at school are wearing and innocently criticizes them or demands to obtain the same items. This problem only grows with time as one has access to more expensive items whether such items are garments, shoes, accessories, attending a certain school, a car, a house, etc. The list simply grows because such items carry in their label a status. Those labels carry with them the promise of a better quality of life. It starts with clothes but it quickly moves on to other items. As time progresses, those labels are as deeply embedded through an unconscious attainment as those that one consciously appropriates or those one is born with. But labels should be the center of one’s universe. Yet they are inescapable because it is through labels that one is accepted or identified by the rest of society. Unfortunately, the labels one is able to afford in the financial world are the labels society considers important. Hence, the struggle to surround oneself with said labels.
There are thousands of people in the world that are labeled by others without those labeled knowing or understanding what the labels they have mean but who also do not care about the labels that they are known through since their primal worry is whether there will be food on the table that afternoon or whether they will wake up the next day. It is nearly impossible to evade the reality one represents because one labels oneself with every action, every word, and every step. Whether positive or negative, one must learn to live in a labeled society.
xoxo,
Poison Drops
©Copyrighted 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
Birth Mark
Throughout history, many attempts have been made to render every human being in the planet as equal. Despite major efforts and changes, such goal has not yet being achieved. There are still many ways in which discrimination manages to constantly appear in the every day life. As it is well know, the victors write history. It also seems as though those who lose must endure in order to have another battle. But after power has been in someone’s hands for so long, the battles are simply a farce theatrical presentation in order to justify power holdings. There are barriers that are acceptable to be crossed so long as those at the base of the discrimination pyramid remain at the bottom. Special attention should be placed in that pillar because it would be the most difficult to destroy in the quest for equality. Women are that basis because the patriarchal society, which we inhabit, prevents women from being treated as equal from the moment of birth.
Barriers have been crossed in order to attain equality. Humanity appears to have come a long way since the days of slavery from the first recorded slavery shipment to America in 1619 to November 4, 2008 when a half African and half stereotypical American man was elected president of the United States. But that is not the only inequality that affects people. Racism is, of course, one of the biggest problems to affect the world. It still remains even though it hides in the shadows of what seems to be equality. Yet, there are other types of inequality that still have a very strong hold in the across borders. Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote about natural inequalities, which were to be age, intellect, and health, while he also spoke of unnatural inequalities, which are contrived and come from acquiring property and enhanced by said equal inequalities. Poverty levels rather than decrease seem to increase as days pass by. The world is not the world of the merchantilist. As a result, the amount of wealth is not believed to be fixed anymore; yet the attempts to alleviate poverty fail. Perhaps it is simply because the correct ways to lessen the problem are not the ones used. Rousseau’s writing might be taken as a blue print for how to solve the problem through the healthy, intellectually capable and who are an appropriate age to rigorously work on a solution. This should not be taken to mean that Thomas Malthus’ idea of letting the poor die should be implemented because poverty does not justify death.
The separation of classes is taken as the most common or well-recognized form of inequality. Then, there is the division of the races, which is extremely prominent in the matters of discrimination. It was thought to be the biggest obstacle to surpass in order to achieve equality. It is also irrational since we are all one race: human. But most people pretend to have amnesia when it comes to recognizing sexism. The preference for the men in the world as opposed to the women is strictly evident in the double standards in which society is ran. It becomes clear that fear is what triggers such detrimental treatment of one of the halves that ensures the continual existence of the human race. Patriarchal society allows for men to step over women as they please even though women strive to end such violation of their rights on an every day basis. It is true that measures have been taken in order to address the problem and put an end to it. Nevertheless, those are baby steps compared to the equality that is to be reached because women still remain second hand citizens in any county around the globe. Women’s accomplishments have been so great that many countries have already been lead by women. But there is the key of the problem: it is an accomplishment. It should not be so. Since we are all supposed to be all equal, then the opportunity for one sex or the other to become the head of state should be, redundantly, equal. But such is not the case: for men, leading a country is the norm; for women, is a triumph that must be marked in history.
The difference that must be recognized and overcome is the one that marks a newborn girl as someone whose achievements would be out of the ordinary and unexpected, and a newborn boy as destined to be successful.
xoxo,
Poison Drops
©Copyrighted 2008
Barriers have been crossed in order to attain equality. Humanity appears to have come a long way since the days of slavery from the first recorded slavery shipment to America in 1619 to November 4, 2008 when a half African and half stereotypical American man was elected president of the United States. But that is not the only inequality that affects people. Racism is, of course, one of the biggest problems to affect the world. It still remains even though it hides in the shadows of what seems to be equality. Yet, there are other types of inequality that still have a very strong hold in the across borders. Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote about natural inequalities, which were to be age, intellect, and health, while he also spoke of unnatural inequalities, which are contrived and come from acquiring property and enhanced by said equal inequalities. Poverty levels rather than decrease seem to increase as days pass by. The world is not the world of the merchantilist. As a result, the amount of wealth is not believed to be fixed anymore; yet the attempts to alleviate poverty fail. Perhaps it is simply because the correct ways to lessen the problem are not the ones used. Rousseau’s writing might be taken as a blue print for how to solve the problem through the healthy, intellectually capable and who are an appropriate age to rigorously work on a solution. This should not be taken to mean that Thomas Malthus’ idea of letting the poor die should be implemented because poverty does not justify death.
The separation of classes is taken as the most common or well-recognized form of inequality. Then, there is the division of the races, which is extremely prominent in the matters of discrimination. It was thought to be the biggest obstacle to surpass in order to achieve equality. It is also irrational since we are all one race: human. But most people pretend to have amnesia when it comes to recognizing sexism. The preference for the men in the world as opposed to the women is strictly evident in the double standards in which society is ran. It becomes clear that fear is what triggers such detrimental treatment of one of the halves that ensures the continual existence of the human race. Patriarchal society allows for men to step over women as they please even though women strive to end such violation of their rights on an every day basis. It is true that measures have been taken in order to address the problem and put an end to it. Nevertheless, those are baby steps compared to the equality that is to be reached because women still remain second hand citizens in any county around the globe. Women’s accomplishments have been so great that many countries have already been lead by women. But there is the key of the problem: it is an accomplishment. It should not be so. Since we are all supposed to be all equal, then the opportunity for one sex or the other to become the head of state should be, redundantly, equal. But such is not the case: for men, leading a country is the norm; for women, is a triumph that must be marked in history.
The difference that must be recognized and overcome is the one that marks a newborn girl as someone whose achievements would be out of the ordinary and unexpected, and a newborn boy as destined to be successful.
xoxo,
Poison Drops
©Copyrighted 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
Preventing Chaos
There are, indeed, many material ways to prevent society to fall into a complete and irreversible chaos. The most common publicly recognized is the prison system. It is widely believed that the prison system, used around the world in different manners, prevents people from committing certain actions that would lead the world into a worse state than the one it currently finds itself in. It is also true, that at times people seem to forget the consequences of their actions and certain terrible situations are brought about. The prison system does not then appear to be enough as a punishment for human wrongdoings. In those cases, there is the need for something with a bigger power to controls people more often than not in order to prevent world mayhem. There is a secret key holder to the chest that holds pandemonium to its maximal potential: religion. Even though many believe that religion is simply the hope of a better after life, religion plays an important role in society as a stability safeguard. People seem to be more scared to go to hell than to go to prison since there are known ways to escape prison but that cannot yet be said about hell.
The prison system is known to have plenty imperfections even though it has evolved through time. Those defects begin at the work it takes to find someone worthy of spending some quality time in one of its locations, to what happens once that person is inside. In simple terms, first of all, a criminal must undergo a trial during which said person must be found guilty. If that is not the case, then that means one less inmate. However, if after what sometimes takes months or years, the conclusion is reached that the person in trial has been found guilty as charged, then a sentence is given and the person is sent to prison. There are ways to work with the system to play with the sentence, whether that means a reduction of the time that is to be spent behind bars or changing a death sentence to simply spending a lifetime in jail, or even setting a time and date to leave the prison. This, of course, it the person in question is able to go through the trouble. Once inside, however, there are privileges for those who can afford to pay for them. For some, it could be as though they had never left the outside world. The other option, as difficult as it could be, is escaping and there are several individuals known to have escaped whether by their own physical or monetary abilities.
Hence, religion’s existence is somehow necessary, but also fails its attempts to keep the world as a harmonious place since disturbances occur everyday. Yet, people seem to fear hell more than they do prison. The main reason for such terror is that hell is a place people speculate about, but there is not any concrete knowledge of what it is like. Since people tend to fear the unknown, whatever that might be, hell represents a bigger horror than prison. People then will stop themselves short of committing a crime or acting in what is considered the incorrect way as minimal as such action might be.
Hell is the place that everyone in his or her right mind should not want to spend at. Yet, that is that is known about it. There is absolutely not any knowledge of what it is actually like. That is not to say that people would actually like to find out. It is religion perfect tool the way it is. If any knowledge, provided of course that this place is real, was to be known to human kind, the thrill would be lost. People would immediately device a way to manipulate their way within its confines or escape it, as is the case with prison. It is very fictional, but precisely because of the horror charged mystery that accompanies it, hell is the best way to prevent chaos in the world. Independently, of which religion is presenting it or in what way as well as regardless of the name it is given. It is a place of eternal suffering.
There is much work to be done in order to materialize a flawless system that would prevent complete disorder. In the mean time, humans will continue to recur to their imagination as means to keep the world from self-destruction. The essential: innovation not indoctrination.
xoxo,
Poison Drops
©Copyrighted 2008
The prison system is known to have plenty imperfections even though it has evolved through time. Those defects begin at the work it takes to find someone worthy of spending some quality time in one of its locations, to what happens once that person is inside. In simple terms, first of all, a criminal must undergo a trial during which said person must be found guilty. If that is not the case, then that means one less inmate. However, if after what sometimes takes months or years, the conclusion is reached that the person in trial has been found guilty as charged, then a sentence is given and the person is sent to prison. There are ways to work with the system to play with the sentence, whether that means a reduction of the time that is to be spent behind bars or changing a death sentence to simply spending a lifetime in jail, or even setting a time and date to leave the prison. This, of course, it the person in question is able to go through the trouble. Once inside, however, there are privileges for those who can afford to pay for them. For some, it could be as though they had never left the outside world. The other option, as difficult as it could be, is escaping and there are several individuals known to have escaped whether by their own physical or monetary abilities.
Hence, religion’s existence is somehow necessary, but also fails its attempts to keep the world as a harmonious place since disturbances occur everyday. Yet, people seem to fear hell more than they do prison. The main reason for such terror is that hell is a place people speculate about, but there is not any concrete knowledge of what it is like. Since people tend to fear the unknown, whatever that might be, hell represents a bigger horror than prison. People then will stop themselves short of committing a crime or acting in what is considered the incorrect way as minimal as such action might be.
Hell is the place that everyone in his or her right mind should not want to spend at. Yet, that is that is known about it. There is absolutely not any knowledge of what it is actually like. That is not to say that people would actually like to find out. It is religion perfect tool the way it is. If any knowledge, provided of course that this place is real, was to be known to human kind, the thrill would be lost. People would immediately device a way to manipulate their way within its confines or escape it, as is the case with prison. It is very fictional, but precisely because of the horror charged mystery that accompanies it, hell is the best way to prevent chaos in the world. Independently, of which religion is presenting it or in what way as well as regardless of the name it is given. It is a place of eternal suffering.
There is much work to be done in order to materialize a flawless system that would prevent complete disorder. In the mean time, humans will continue to recur to their imagination as means to keep the world from self-destruction. The essential: innovation not indoctrination.
xoxo,
Poison Drops
©Copyrighted 2008
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