School starts in exactly a week. This is bad. I haven't done my summer reading.
I have a strange fascination/obsession with seasons. They each come around the same time every year, without fail. I mean, give or take a couple of weeks, they are always constant, unchanging. It's almost like the one thing in this world you can count on other than death. It's the one good thing you can count on. I guess I don't know enough about science and the way nature works yet to understand, that's why it seems so mystical to me. But then again, everything in science has some note of mysticality to it, in my opinion.
That's why I believe that there must be some higher spirit. Not necessarily an all-knowing, all-controlling god defined by any one religion, but just some spiritual being that like, breathes life to the world. I mean, wind. A flow of particles in one direction? That's so boring. Maybe that's why people believe in god, to spice things up. Honestly though, I believe that there is probably something. I think the Native Americans (shout out to mah fellow Cherokee) had the right idea. Sun god, rain god, wind god, etc. I mean, they seemed to do pretty well for themselves. Same with the ancient Greek gods. If there is one group of people who has the correct idea about religion and gods and what not, I hope it's the Greeks. Especially because I really like their theory about why people fall in love, and why we are on a never-ending quest to find it. Or, it's never ending if you don't find it. Some people do.
"Long ago, humans were composed of two people stuck back-to-back, with two faces and eight limbs. Male-male humans came from the Sun, female-female humans from the Earth, and male-female humans from the Moon. The gods, out of jealousy, split them in half. Now, throughout our lives, we are always trying to find our "other half", and sex is the only means we have to put the two halves back together; this desire to be one person again is what we call 'love'. However, it is impossible to fully rejoin two people because it is our souls and not our bodies that most desire to be reunited."
You Belong To Me by Dean Martin
All I Know by Art Garfunkel
I have a strange fascination/obsession with seasons. They each come around the same time every year, without fail. I mean, give or take a couple of weeks, they are always constant, unchanging. It's almost like the one thing in this world you can count on other than death. It's the one good thing you can count on. I guess I don't know enough about science and the way nature works yet to understand, that's why it seems so mystical to me. But then again, everything in science has some note of mysticality to it, in my opinion.
That's why I believe that there must be some higher spirit. Not necessarily an all-knowing, all-controlling god defined by any one religion, but just some spiritual being that like, breathes life to the world. I mean, wind. A flow of particles in one direction? That's so boring. Maybe that's why people believe in god, to spice things up. Honestly though, I believe that there is probably something. I think the Native Americans (shout out to mah fellow Cherokee) had the right idea. Sun god, rain god, wind god, etc. I mean, they seemed to do pretty well for themselves. Same with the ancient Greek gods. If there is one group of people who has the correct idea about religion and gods and what not, I hope it's the Greeks. Especially because I really like their theory about why people fall in love, and why we are on a never-ending quest to find it. Or, it's never ending if you don't find it. Some people do.
"Long ago, humans were composed of two people stuck back-to-back, with two faces and eight limbs. Male-male humans came from the Sun, female-female humans from the Earth, and male-female humans from the Moon. The gods, out of jealousy, split them in half. Now, throughout our lives, we are always trying to find our "other half", and sex is the only means we have to put the two halves back together; this desire to be one person again is what we call 'love'. However, it is impossible to fully rejoin two people because it is our souls and not our bodies that most desire to be reunited."
You Belong To Me by Dean Martin
All I Know by Art Garfunkel