Treated the Fool

The world is almost ending,

Still we look away,

I cannot ignore a dying breed,

And so I await the last loss.

Checking the life signs away,

Making no money in hell,

Doesn't matter, death still comes,

In a blind set of light.

Treated the fool,

Been seen out of line,

Returning a death becomes,

Another of those in the wall.

Looking at our creation, 

Lost in rhapsody,

Misunderstood conspiracy,

Crushing and Crying.

You are the lost one,

Deluded in the stars,

You are with me,

So I don't care where I go.

Heaven is Hell

Why are we all here?

Existence creeps within,

Out of control inside,

Veined Deadlines out of range.

You are all fools,

Dead fascist fools,

But you are in the void,

But you are still alive.

What if we all didn't believe,

Heaven and Hell is the same,

No difference between bodies,

I feel dead on both sides of the coin.

Now we are hitting the dusk,

But why is it even there?

Out of reach once again,

With our dreams simply shot down.

You area all fools,

Dead Fascist Fools. 

Resolutions? Nonsense!

We can change any time we want...right?

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This is just to cover the aspect of making New Year’s Resolutions each year and to also just have a personal idea of why we even do it. New Year’s is known to be the event that triggers a change in someone’s life, almost like an excuse to have to change. But the question I wish to pose…is why do we need an excuse or a world event to make us change?

New Year’s Day is not like a once in a lifetime charity event, by the time we begin to think about resolutions we have already had probably several of these days saved up over the years. It’s not like suddenly the day appears out of nowhere, it has been around for a long period of time, but for some reason the mainstream world decides that we should all (and only then) reflect on our lives. But why do we wait so long for an excuse to change out lifestyles, and is it even realistic to simply ‘forget’ the bad things you’ve done in the past? Those things you wish to forgo and simply push away, but yet still exist no matter what you do.

I believe the answer comes in the area of the mental mind. We feel propelled to change only when we are comfortable because everyone else is thinking about it at the same time. Almost like we aren’t afraid to change our haunting lifestyles because others are doing the same thing, it’s the sheep follow sheep method that strikes again. It always pains me to see people being afraid of changing even though their lives are realistically and evidently going down a dark path. They are simply afraid to go against the dominant thought process that everyone else understands and breathes by. It’s almost like some terrible creed, a creed that says not to follow your own mind to change because nobody else is doing it.

Remind you of anything? Some sort of modern communist empire we fail to see maybe (I need to do more research…)? I believe it is why we choose this part of the year to change in comparison to a time in June, and I find it rather strange and bizarre. There’s no reason to make resolutions at all because most of the time they are known to fail unless they are life changing. So in fact, any sort of behaviour change we want to make might have an inevitable end of not actually being changed in the long run but the short.

From what I understand, Resolutions are made as an excuse to make us think we are improving as people but in fact it’s all in the mind as we can change any other day of the year. Terrible…but again subjective. Right?

A Quick Experience...#3

People have already seemed to have forgotten what has happened, and it’s rather scary. Recently I’ve put up a blog post about New Year’s Day and that whole festive period of celebration and entertainment. That post consisted of a bunch of stories about deaths or violence that occurred on the day due to a reaction to the festive period, drinking or just pure spite of wanting to hurt someone.

But already people seem to have completely ignored such large stories. I really wonder if at the end of 2012 will the same events happen, but of course they will. People will think they have become invincible and what happened to someone else won’t happen to them. It’s almost like basic human nature for us to think that we are better or more efficient than others. When in actual fact we are human, ‘just human’ as everyone else who has perished.

I have been trying to research for what sort of phenomena this is, just that feeling that things that happened to others will just ignore us completely. But I’ve come up with blanks every time, and I need to be able to explore the problem a bit further and hopefully answers will come. I just don’t understand why we avoid warnings for things like speeding, drinking and even the use of illegal firecrackers.

Why do people feel so sorry for those who perish in accidents that they should be completely aware of? For example, if you smoke even with the consistent barrage of advertisements and governmental media about its dangers then should that person really be complaining for whatever disease comes and attacks or illness? Same as should we really feel sorry for those injured in events they should never had gotten into? It’s a mind boggling question with debates on both sides.

How should we react? With sympathy or realism? It’s subjective in nature, isn’t it?

New Year's Death-Day

Deaths appear when least expected?

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New Year’s Day, a time known for celebration of the New Year, a time for change and revival…but also a time for death? The transition between 2011 to 2012 brought yet another round of drunken actions and activities that have led to violence and harm.

One of the largest talking points was the apparent murder of a 42-year old man in Luton, UK. Ryan Curtis, 18, had been charged guilty of murder after stabbing the 42 year-old Michael Geffken. Geffken was a German national who reportedly lived in the UK for a long period of time. It is unsure why the teenager acted in this way, but rumours have begun to point towards drinking and pure spited violence.

Horrific Family murders also hit the UK on New Year’s Day as well, with Michael Atherton blasting her partner, sister and also niece with a shotgun before firing the weapon at himself as well. Stepdaughter Laura managed to escape the scene of the crime by running for her life. Another incident occurred on the same day where Kristy Treloar was reported to be stabbed to death and shoved into a car in East London.

All of the events mentioned may have come just as coincidence on the stroke of the New Year, as similar events have occurred worldwide throughout the year of family members murdering others because of some sort of action. An example could be back in August, 2011, where an American man murdered his family upon the news that is wife had a lesbian affair.

Back here on Australian soil come the actions of a drunken maniac playing with illegal firecrackers in Melbourne. The 34 year old suffered critical injuries when the firecracker went off at a party nearby his face. Other injuries occurred when an 18 and 49 year old also faced injuries from firecrackers they held. Personally, the warnings are obvious, and fireworks and firecrackers are illegal around Australia for a reason. It is now being rumoured that the laws may start to become a pure reality in the light of the events on New Year’s Eve.

These are just a few events that have occurred spreading from pure murder to drunken accidents, but the death rate of major celebrations leads many to wonder why such events even occur so often. Do we need to rethink the meaning of the celebrations, and the amount of violence and threat that it may have within?

Tears of Forgiveness?

Rainclouds forming in my head,

I've let them down once again,

Pleading for Sunshine,

When evades me life to the death.

Light in the bright sky,

Fades in the night,

Glancing at myself again,

Is it them or is it I?

So I beg for Forgiveness

Seems so long to get,

This songs about Rainclouds,

Which just never seem to set.

As I reach the grave,

Wonder why all the strife,

But I realise that the knife,

Has just scarred me for life.

When do we forgive? Or should we ever forgive? 2012 is now upon us, but really has anything changed? Should the past be forgotten so simply and easily? Well guess what...realistically nothing has changed and what you did in 2011 is still there. It still exists. So before you go off thinking your off the hook for everything you've ever done in life, think again.

Think again. More on this later.

Benefits of Tourism: Australian Experience

What is it becoming?

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Community engagement beings domestically, but then improves with the international benefits. This is important for creating character and culture in a certain area and community. Creating history and tradition and giving people a sense of well-being in a place where they feel confident and safe.

                                            

However, tourism brings a different vein of light into a place. It creates employment opportunities mainly with tourism officers needed to host new arrivals into a country. Tourists will be likely to also spend more money than the average consumer of a country because they are visiting only for a short while, and cherished memories are placed into physical objects of such. Therefore financially it is incredibly rewarding for a variety of outlets such as national tourist shops and even retailers. The largest, and also most controversial, factor of new people visiting a country can be the new cultures joining original ones. A new flavour in a recipe and a chance to learn about how other people see the world and react to different actions.

In Australia, the acceptance of someone new coming into the country is 50/50. A big divide of patriots who don’t want new people coming to live in Australia, and another of people who accept the new cultures. Australia is now becoming built primarily on its multiculturalism and the acceptance and willing to learn from each other. That was my own understanding of Australia when I first arrived, a place with such a mix of culture it was interesting to see how people reacted.

Of course Australia never used to be multiculturalist and only a couple of decades ago as it only became Foreign Policy then, it were never something that sat comfortably with the country.  Journalist John Menadue described the diversity of Australian’s born overseas to be over 50% of the population now, meaning Australia has no choice but to engage in multiculturalist activities to suit more people coming from overseas. The Sydney Herald described the main way multiculturalism works is through mutual respect for each other’s ideas and perspectives.

From a personal perspective, I find the Australian people very rigid about bringing in people from overseas and allowing them to live here. Stereotypes rain down constantly, and other racial slurs are now being passed as being acceptable in society. Do we really accept new cultures with respect?