Dear Diary,My hatred for this "Irish" day of drinking, fighting, and rape is not very easy to hide... in fact, I become more and more transparent about it with each passing year. Going out and drinking, surrounding one's self by strangers is never a particularly intelligent thing to do... but it can only be trumped when nearly everyone feels obligated to be stupid all at the same time; on the same night. My feeling on keeping a respectable and admirable set of morals and values is quite well known, and funny as it might be (coming from a catchphrase by a wrestler), I DO pride myself on living by three I's: Intensity, INTEGRITY, and INTELLIGENCE. I could go on and on and on about how much I despise people's stupidity or their complete and total apathy towards anything that's difficult to think about... where it's easier to be a lemming and go along with society than to save your neck and use your brain. It's absolutely deplorable the way people continue to run their lives... and the way it has become a trend for society to gradually accept its own downfall... just for the sake of fitting in.
I may have said before exactly what philosophy kept me from ever making the classic, MORONIC, and despicable mistakes in life, but I'll re-iterate for the uninformed. When it came to PEER PRESSURE... God I'm sick of that term... but anyhow, when it came to peer pressure growing up, I was always under the assumption that PEER meant "equal". How could ANYONE be my equal if they're engaging in acts of blatent stupidity and trying to drag me down with them? My peers throughout school always treated me with the same respect that I afforded them... because they thought before they acted, and when we got together, we would rarely talk about trendy TV shows or the juicy gossip at school. There's an old saying that I think all of these peers of mine would agree to: "Great minds talk about ideas... average minds talk about events... small minds talk about people."
This is turning into a rant, which is usually the case when I get riled up about something that is completely nonsensical about society... but that's pretty much all this great "culture" of ours has to offer. So instead of rambling on by myself about all of this, and how I think people should focus their efforts more on leading respectable lives, I will turn to a quote from a book I am reading; BROKEN HARTS, about one amazing person's belief structure while growing up, which continues to the present day. (yes, HARTS)
"My belief was that everyone should be responsible for the choices they make and be brave enough to own their decisions, good or bad. I just figured that even if you can fool the whole world you can't fool yourself. You know who you are and what you've done, and you have to look in the mirror every day and live with the person you see. I always wanted to be proud of that reflection and didn't want to disappoint myself."
My sentiments exactly.
Ryan J.
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