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- Where have you been all my life? - In the gift shop.

#164: Word #2: Democracy

It says, in the dictionary, that Democracy is the belief in freedom and equality between people. And to believe is to be certain that something is true. So, democratic people are people who are sure that freedom and equality are essential together. Period. Now, that's generally deep. Freedom and Equality. Two words that would take decades to study or even understand. No wonder why people have different thoughts about what democracy is all about. But taking things to its simplest forms, as I see it, freedom is to do anything that comes onto your mind, and equality is that all people have the right to practice freedom equally, that is to say that no one is more free than the other, and no one will take more rights than the other. Then there must be rules, I'm thinking. There must be constraints to this freedom, or else there wouldn't be any equality, or justice. For example, a very fictional one, if I'm free to eat all the chocolate in the house, and my broth...

#162: On the new year I'd say...

Now that it's only three days left for this year to end and a new year begins, I can tell that it has been a rapid year. It has been exactly how I predicted it. A year full of events, a very busy one. It has passed too quickly that I honestly can't remember what had I exactly done. I know I did a lot, I know I've been through a lot. I know I have had many random and conflicting feelings and thoughts about myself, my life, and my surrounding. And I'm sure I have learned a lot, or so I hope. I'm still learning though. See, I don’t actually consider this restart of the days counter as a stop and replay of life. Life goes on. That's a fact no one can change. Life is playing live and I have to pace with it. I can't stop now. So I don’t know what to tell you. Because all days have been the same, and all the coming days will also be the same. Yet I know I have achieved. Indeed I've witnessed a new beginning for my life; a kind of. I've grown up a year, I h...