*Sigh*

I know I promised this last night and class is in like 10 minutes but here's my paper.

Darrin Hume
Dr. James Hepworth
English-101-06
January 27, 2009

My Personal Beliefs

I find it odd that when one is presented with a challenge there are so few who are willing to step up and actually do the work. Yet I know that when presented with a challenge if the task seems to daunting or undesirable that I have he same instinct to push it off, save it for later. Until the moment it's due, those evil words. It fascinates me when a perfectly reasonable person is so willing to ignore common scene in blind devotion to an idea. Call it God, Allah, Zeus, Odin, the list goes on. When what are all these really? Supernatural beings or superficial ideas who control the population thru priests and priestesses, profits and martyrs, texts and whispered words. When they all should just come out and say it. They are the reasoning behind something they don't understand. They use these idols as their explanation to things they don't understand or don't know.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. Though it's not dictated by anything other than your own personal movements. While time flow as a straight line I believe that each person can dictate the rate of the time flow for themselves. When the conscious is submerged under the task at hand I believe that the flow of time bends towards the will of the subconscious mind. This also ties into my belief that the weather is a reflection of the mood we are in. The winds of our mind dictate which way the winds we feel push and pull us. The sunrise and sunset explain our own cycles of rise and rest. Though not always in the same clockwork manner.

I believe that everyone around us has a lesson to teach, though it's not always easy to learn. These lessons are not always of great impact or lifechanging, nor are they just trivial facts that we learn to forget. The swing of a pickax the groan of straining muscles under a hot sun, the sound of metal scraping on rock. A hearty pat on the back and the words "Tómese un descanso y obtener un poco de agua primo." Simple.

I belive that the rules have been laid out in order for exceptions to be made to them. In the perfect world that we always compare our own to, these arbatary rules wouldn't need to exist. But because we arn't living in a perfect world we need to have rules to base our ignoring of them on. Yes, most of us understand that murder is wrong and enslaving a fellow human being isn't cool. But there needs to be situations where these could be okay. If someone does something that is so unacceptable that the only punishment within reason is something like murder the rules must be sidestepped. Even on a day to day basis if your running late to class because you were typing your english paper, or doing your math homework and you speed in your car, you've broken a rule. But for good reason.