Life is utterly too complicated. People take things and blow them way out of proportion and then everyone else gets upset or frustrated at the extra crap and drama and everything just explodes. Why is that? Why can't life be simple? Adam and Eve were simple. Hell, they didn't even wear clothing for a while until they realized that their hoo-dillies were all hanging out all over the place. I think life was supposed to be simple all along, and we "intelligent" humans have made it way too complicated with our quest to be all-knowing and super-intelligent. Why do we explore the surfaces of Jupiter and Mars? Is that really necessary? And why do we want to have communities on the moon? Why go through all that extra energy? There is so much beauty on the planet where we live, why should we spend all this needless money and time trying to habitate somewhere else? Why do we research things that are so insignificant and that will never affect our lives in the least? I just don't get it. I'm kind of glad that I don't, because I don't ever want to be like those people who are never satisfied and are always searching for answers to more and more questions that should never have been asked in the first place. Technology is going to be the death of us. Someone is going to uncover something that was never meant to be uncovered and that will be the demise of this planet. Then maybe someone will think, "Wow, maybe we should've left well enough alone all along". Unfortunately, I think that person will be living on the moon and will have no way to warn the rest of us earth-dwellers.

Why do we have this thirst and need for power? Why does success have to mean money and material things? There is a radio commercial where I live for a club downtown. The commercial goes something like, "come join (my city's) trendy elite. dress to impress or stay outside". So if I don't dress a certain way, I can't hobknob with these "better" people? I guess I have to go to Starbuck's every morning for an overpriced cup of coffee, go to the mall and buy Gucci and Vuitton to make sure I look expensive, drive a BMW or a Mercedes so I look cool on the road, and all the while be $50,000 in debt with student loans so I can have the most prestigious position at some corporation all at the same time? That is why people feel so overwhelmed and feel the need to commit suicide. Why can't people just be happy with who they are and what they have? Why do people feel that they aren't good enough if they don't have the latest and greatest of everything? Maybe it's because I have never had money, but I just don't see the point in all of these material things. I am happy with what I've got and I wouldn't trade my life for any of the "trendy elite's" lives for anything. What we need more of, as cliche as this may sound, is love. If everyone could just stop and look at their lives from the perspective of the people they're trying to impress, they would see that they were alike all along. Someone like me, for example, is not impressed by someone who tries to be everything to everyone. We think you look ignortant and stupid trying to be something you so obviously cannot be. The only people impresses by you are those people who are doing the same things to try to one-up you. Just think about this the next time you envy someone for what they've got or what they look like, because it's probably just a façade. Just look at them and shake your head, because you have something that they probably will never have. You are real.