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Notes: * Summary Of Post Is At The Bottom * Didn’t proofread or write artistically forgive spelling/grammatical errors. * Shout out to Pypes and Bdog for creating a platform to express ideas. * These are genuine ideas conceived after an accident this week. Feel free to critique or voice an opposing opinion. @josh Before the rise of the industrial age, people were forced to fend for themselves. They were forced to focus on survival and the process of building community in a world full of risk. Risk of disease, uncertainty of supplies or necessities as basic as food and water. They were forced to come together to accomplish the ultimate goal of survival. I believe that the world falls apart as the human race becomes increasingly comfortable. Comfort distracts us from the true beauty of reality, and the preciousness of life. You see, humans instinctively and subconsciously crave risk, they crave to lose control, they crave to live in uncertainty, all without knowing it. This is definitive through the way world has found its own methods to indulge in unnatural risk. The loss of control through alcohol, the risk inherent in gambling, and the uncertainty of experimentation with drugs — all of these activities bring us back to our instinctual past, and satisfy our longing for uncertainty with an insatiable addiction to the unknown. The void we all feel in our lives is filled by these unnatural forms of uncertainty. The alcohol, the sex, the violence, the gambling. The only difference between the unhealthy experiences of uncertainty and our natural ones is that in the latter, fear and anguish come first. The world rewards us for persevering through our trials, whereas the unhealthy forms reward us first, and punish us later. Comfort skews our perception of the precious nature of life itself. We become apathetic and docile — Causing us to fight fights and begin wars – which, through their violence, fill our need for uncertainty, and thus the vicious cycle of comfort and unnatural submission to our desires begins. Empires rise and fall. They rise as humans indulge in natural risk, and fall as humans indulge in unnatural risk – first caused by their comfort. The most frightening thing is that our generation is certainly most vulnerable to this theory. Our grandparents were close enough to struggle that they could effectively engrain within their children (our parents) childhood stories about the risks and the hard work of their ancestors. Now though, we are so distant from our uncomfortable past that we don’t even believe it exists. Thus creating the couch potato Generation Y. Us millennials between the ages of 15-35. So how do we avoid this problem? Living through risks and uncertainty and near death incidents inspire us to be grateful. It inspires us to be thankful, to spend time with family, to live in community. It inspires us to use love, it gives us joy, in the aftermath it fills us with peace, it allows for us to have patience. Our experiences show us that the best way to compose yourself is through kindness. It fills us with goodness and faithfulness, gentleness and most importantly self control. By stepping out of our personal comfort boundaries, we improve the world through improving our character. Summary Of Thought: • Life was more meaningful before we became obsessed with being comfortable. • Comfort may in fact be the root of all evil. • Being uncomfortable more often inspires us to value what is truly meaningful in life. • Our Generation has no concept of what our forefathers went through, and this have no respect for the preciousness of life. • Take More Risks. It will create better entrepreneurs, better businesses, better people. And who knows … Even government may become relevant.

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Today, my best friend and I went out for dinner. She’s obviously a lesbian. I am bisexual. For the first time, we got stared at by a specific family in the restaurant once we walked in. We sat next to a window. When it was their time to leave, the walked past and just glared at us and made disgusting faces and talked. What I cannot stand is arrogant people like that. If you are against homosexuals, I don’t are but don’t be disrespectful. It disgusts me how people are. It felt like I was back in the 21st century. I love my best friend. And everyone in my life who are homosexual. Let us live our life happily and our way. Worry about yourself. And love your own life.

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