EPIPHANY

I have come to the rather unexpected conclusion that life is good.

And no, I did not get laid, sadly.

I had this epiphany while reading one of the many MySpace bulletins/chain-emails/anything of that sort that was complaining of the state of the world.

As I am rather tired, and do most of my best thinking while rather tiredor rather drunk, I realised that life actually isn't as bad as people make it out to be.

It has its ups and its down. And at times it may appear that there are far to many downs and not nearly enough ups, but it's not all bad.

Firstly, people complain about the state of the world today and (this one applies to the older generations particularly) how much better things used to be. THEY WEREN'T BETTER. There were world wars and vast sicknesses and plagues and slavery and a global recession and MUCH more discrimination and many, many more things wrong in the world. Therefore, there aren't more problems these days, there are simply different problems.

Then, there's all this talk about how computers and internet are meaning that there is much less communication (I apologise for the appalling grammar). But, and I can see that this is a very "internet-generation" point of view, I talk to my friends, who i know all of outside of the internet, on MySpace and Msn and via email etc.

I'm not religious, so I don't believe there is a reason for life or a divine plan or anything like that. Life is just a coincidence. Life is just chaos. Nowdays, people might be attempting to organise the chaos, but all you end up with is vaguely organised chaos.

I figure you may aswell just go along for the ride, enjoy it while you can, because, ultimately, you only get one shot at it.

Life's a game, so why not play it? Of course your going to bend, and even break the rules every now and then, but that's most of the fun.

So, basically, what I'm trying to say, in my own, cynical way, is that life's not as bad as people seem to think. People are either stuck in the past or stressing about the future.

All you really have is now, so make the most of now.

Run.

Jump.

Dance.

Sing.

Scream.

Fall.

Get back up and do it all again.