So I've been thinking a lot lately...big suprise huh? Just about life in general and what it's meant for and what it's all about...perhaps I watch entirely too much Metalocalypse, but the things I've been thinking about that have been sparked by that show were validated last night at the Machine Head/Arch Enemy concert. In the end, we all die. We all end up in the same place, with the same fate. You can't escape it, and you have no idea when it's going to happen. No matter what you do with your life, it's a crapshoot because in the end it doesn't even matter.

Your life isn't going to add up to anything special or substantial, unless you happen to be part of the 0.001% of the population that has both the talent and luck combined with sheer chance that does something significant with their life. Other than those select few, we're all just a bunch of people running around without a purpose or making a difference in the world or in other people. Perhaps people these days, as a whole being very simple minded, can find happiness and pleasure in the trivial aspects of life - TV, food, sleep, partying, etc. My problem is that I am not simple minded, far from it. I am always thinking and always analyzing, and those simple pleasures that people have aren't enough for me. I need something more substantial, deeper, and meaningful. I need something that goes beyond satisfying my crude and shallow desires, something that is suffice for me to feel that I'm making a damn difference in the world.

Most people out there will go to there 9-5 jobs, slave away there, go home and eat shitty food and watch tv or movies. Sleep, and repeat. Perhaps socialize and drink on the weekends, whatever. My point is...is that all that we want? Is that all we require to feel sufficient in our role in society? Don't we want something BETTER, something BIGGER? Right now people are content to just survive each day until the next day of slaving away. Aren't we better than this, aren't we meant for more important, better things? This approach to life that people take seems so animalistic and crude to me.

Back to what I was saying - in the end, we're all dead. The moment you're born, you're dying. Nothing we do is worth a damn. I just don't understand this...we only get one life, one shot, one chance...so why do we just sit on our asses and recycle the same shit every day for the rest of our lives!? I don't want to die and not be remembered and not have made an impact in the world, I want to change the world for the better and be a part of great things. If I only have one life, I'm going to take my chances and live like there is no tomorrow. I don't want to end up like everyone else, if I let myself follow the herd then what's the point of me even being here?

Chase your dreams. Take chances, make mistakes. Risk your life for greatness. Don't be a sheep amongst the herd, do something with your life that changes the world. Do something that makes a difference in people's lifes and your own. Do something that satisfies more than your shallow earthly desires. Fulfill your destiny.

Because in the end, we all die.