Facebook is an interesting place. It is a crock pot of peoples lives and opinions. You can find a group for literally any topic you wish and connect within moments to people that are searching for and experiencing the exact same thing as you. Yes, Facebook is nothing new so why am I Just now bringing this up? Well I should state that this entry has nothing to do with Facebook or even really social media. It is simply the medium that brought todays topic to my attention.
So, I was scrolling through my feed (typical summer boredom) and there was video posted of two boys on a boat, dragging along a live shark. My friends above comment being "Who gives a fuck?! It's a shark". This hit me relatively hard. First, because I have always been fascinated by the ocean and have a deep love for sharks and all ocean organisms. Watching the boys laughing while pointing at the struggling and hurting shark, broke my heart and I wanted nothing more then to jump through the video and put a stop to it. Second, was my friends comment. He honestly didn't care about the pain the creature was going through. This furthered my own heartbreak because I realized that he wasn't the only one like this. Yes, in the comments several people voiced my same concern but there are other people (as shown clearly in the video) that think that stuff like this is alright. It's just a shark? Right?.... WRONG! Just because it can't voice its agony and beg you to just let it go doesn't mean that it doesn't experience that fear and pain. Animal have the same instincts that we share and we are ignorant to think otherwise! I have nothing against hunting, let me just put that out there right now. I get that to an extent, we need to eat too and that we have to kill some animals in order to survive. However, in this post I am talking about the killing that happens on our planet just for mere entertainment. Over time humanity has gained this mentality that we are superior to all other creatures on this planet. That the life of a insect, a bird, a deer, a mouse, and yes even a shark is somehow ours for the taking. We couldn't be more wrong. I know I sound like an environmentalist hippie but we are all one. You see, Earth has these things called Ecosystems. All of which intertwine and build off of one another. Each and every creature plays into these ecosystems. If one is destroyed another feels those affects. WE feel those affects. Since sharks inspired this post let me just give you a bit of an example of how we are affected by the lives of creatures that apparently have no value. Sharks are the alpha predators at the top of the ocean food chain. They maintain the oceans species that are below them in the food chain. They keep the oceans populations healthy and well proportioned for their ecosystem. Sound familiar? They also serve as our indicators are to the overall health of the ocean. According of an article found at sharksavers.org, sharks are "often considered by scientists to be "Keystone" species, meaning that removing them cause the whole structure to collapse." Wow! Imagine that for a second. The entire ocean failing because we were ignorant in thinking that we are so much better then everyone and everything else. When the truth is we are all one in the same. All connected and working together to survive. We need them to survive just as much as they need us. I think that it is time that we step down from our pedestals and start actually caring about the world around us. To start showing the creatures that support our lives a bit more respect and compassion. Original Video http://www.fox35orlando.com/news/local-news/270068078-story Shark Savers http://www.sharksavers.org/en/education/the-value-of-sharks/sharks-role-in-the-ocean/
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Writing, reading, painting, play music, writing music, musicals, singing, performing.
These are all things that I love to do but I am having such a hard time with doing it all. Everyone seems to say that you have to chose one and you must chose carefully because that will be your career and you have to succeed. There is no room for error and failure. At the young age of 18 you're supposed to have everything figured out. What school you want to go to, what career field you will be majoring in, where you want to live out your days, what company you will be working for. A life game plan, bulletproofed before you walk across that stage graduation day. Oh and God forbid your plan be anything like a musician, author, writer, photographer, journalist, creator of any kind... I have always just wanted to write stories and play music. For as long as I can remember, I have scribbled stories down in my notebooks and had my nose stuck in a book hidden under my desk just out of the sight of my teacher. I wanted to paint pictures that described the countless images floating aimlessly through my mind. I wanted to write songs and share them with the world. I wanted to travel that very world and capture its secrets through the lens of a camera. I wanted to live, experience, and flat out enjoy the one life that I have been given. Who am I kidding I still do.... I realize that you need money in this world to live, to eat. I just don't see the point of wasting your life away behind a desk, stuck in some office that slowly suffocates you. Slaving away at job that you don't give a crap about, just to fit into a world that experiences very little. Time is precious and we are only given so much of it. I want to live. I want to spend this life doing the things that I love. I want to connect with other people and learn things I would have never known in some office chair. I want to paint and write and sing and read every book I can get my hands on. I believe there is a way to be me without have to resort to a job that does nothing but hold me back. I just want to finish by saying that I don't have anything against anyone who enjoys their 9-5 office job. That is wonderful and I wish you all the happiness in the world in doing what makes you happy. What about you? What makes you, you? What is it that you honestly want do and what is holding you back from doing it? |
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