Keeping it Real

I'm a huge fan of Ross Noble (absolute legend) and me and a friend were talking about one of his shows today. In it he says "Why keep it real? Why not keep it vaguely imaginative?" or words to that affect at least. And though it was intended in part as a joke I think why not.

I often think to myself the world is a much too serious place. I was thinking about that in my post Life's Questions when I said "Or is it rather the world struggles to convince me?". I suppose in a way I'm a renewed person. I went through a pretty kerraaazay emotional time and now I've come out the other side with a totally different outlook on life; Laugh at EVERYTHING. Ok I still have moments when I'm down but I'm trying more and more to cast it aside and laugh about it. Clearly I'm not the first person to have this view point because I know of loads of quotes that perhaps say what I want to say a bit of a better way. Here's a few:

"When a man can't laugh at himself it's time for others to start laughing at him."

"Life's far too important to ever talk seriously about." ~ Oscar Wilde

They go something along those lines at least. In my mind it's OK to laugh and make jokes about other people so long as if you were in that position you'd happily take it and laugh at yourself. If everyone took this stance it would be a great world to live in full of smiles and laughter. 

So to bring it back to the Ross Noble quote where this all began. Why keep it real when our imaginations can make it so much more fun. What's wrong with making a fool out of yourself if it'll make other people laugh. And even if it doesn't make them laugh you can still have fun doing it. 

Gareth x

To answer those questions...

Ok so in one of my earlier posts entitled Life's Questions I posed a few questions. The last two were "Why are we here?" and "What is the point?". However the answers I wrote for these were far from thought provoking and more just me getting stuff out of my head. All very well but I thought I'd give answering them another shot now I'm in a more upbeat mood. They're both pretty similar so I'll answer them as one...

Well during the summer I read Richard Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene that basically says that human beings only exist as machines to help our genes survive and be passed on to the next generation. We have been created by our genes to protect them for this generation and then they will be passed on to the next. (I recommend reading it it's interesting what ever your beliefs are.)

Someone else however may argue that we're here as a test to determine how we're going to spend the rest of eternity. If we live a good life then we will be rewarded when we die and if we lead a bad life then we face punishment in the afterlife. Whether this view is true or not I think if people lived their lives as though it was the world would be a better place.

Whichever of the above opinions you take at the centre of it is selfishness. In the first it is perhaps more blatant and though genes can't actually be selfish in the way we might say a person is they behave in a selfish manner. They want to survive and beat all the other genes no matter how they have to go about it. The second one may seem on the surface to be more altruistic. But if the good deeds people carry out are only a means of ensuring they get their place in "heaven" then surely it's self centered. 

Perhaps neither of the above is true and we're just here by chance. The right conditions at a point in time to cause a huge amount of pressure and heat so as to lead to an explosion in which the right protons, electrons and neutrons join together to from the right chemicals to build the right atmosphere for life to begin which through a series of chance events has lead us to the present day. The people who believe in this and still endeavor to do good are surely the best people at heart. Because they're doing it just to do good because they can and want to. They don't believe it's going to make them end up in heaven they just do it. To an extent this could also be said for the first view on life I mentioned but if you read the book you will see why this isn't necessarily the case. (Too complicated too explain here as this post is already quite long but just ask me if you want and I'll try to explain)

Gareth x

Wake up!

Dreams are good in fact they're great. They keep us going when life gets hard and often cheer us up. But how do we make these dreams come true?

WAKE UP!! You can't do anything whilst you sleep except dream. To realise them we need to wake up get out of bed and turn them into goals. Goals are something we can aim for something we can work to achieve where as a dream is just a fantasy an ideal. Simply by changing the way you define the thoughts that fill your head you can change the likely hood in them becoming reality. A dream makes you want to stay in bed, a goal makes you want to get out and go places.

In the words of T.E Lawerence "Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible."

Shortly after posting this I read this quote and thought I should add it...

"Live the life you've imagined"

Gareth x

Stream of Conciousness

I realised that I haven't wrote anything on here in aaaaaaaaaaaaaages so I thought I probably should but things just wouldn't come easy and it seemed forced. So I'm gunna do summit that I was asked to do by my year 9 english teacher back in school... A stream of conciousness. If you don't know what it is I'll explain at the end.

Beginnings that shoot stars and flowers walls not forgetting trees and randomness with showers and spaceships in prisons whit little tassles made of red satin as I'm sat beneath the hell of a polluted sky that rains down acid and lets in TURNIPS jokes mate jokes where am I going in life and in georaphical terms with friends and family and those ghosts that haunt us and others call memories although not all bad they often make me sad woo hoo a rhyme lemon and lime I'm a poet and I didn't know it well that's a lie because I did cause I write peoms therefore = poet yeah mate and we'll finish cause I paused.


So there was one it's quite short but I got things going on around me so I kinda lost it and paused which messes up the whole point really (Unless you just start a new paragraph everytime you pause)

Anyway the explanation as promised it's pretty self explanatory it's just your thoughts as they come to you and you just write them down. It's easier to do with pen and paper unless you're a good typist. You've just gotta let it flow and write everything down whatever it is and they can be quite funny at times or really deep others and the point is you never know until you've finished.

Gareth x