Picture this scene: it’s a gorgeous day outside, the sunniest it’s been for a while, and your flatmates are going down the park. You, on the other hand, tell them you can’t go, you would rather stay in and catch up on some work. Except that’s a lie: when they leave the house, you just sit there and do nothing. Literally do nothing. You just stare at the wall and an hour later not much has changed. There are flashes of happy thoughts in that time, but you are not happy about them. All the thoughts do is act as a vicious, stabbing pain and remind you that you’re not the person you once were. They remind you that you are getting further and further away from that person. And it is simply horrible on every single level.
Don’t beat yourself up about it if you can’t get help, but do try and set goals…
Since I am not in a position to spend a lot of time out in the open and since I have to spend bulk of my time in my room, I try to find different ways to keep myself occupied. Of course, you are completely justified in asking me why I must be so interested in staying in my room when it is not so attractive. Well, I must politely refuse to answer this question because that, apart from all other things, is completely besides the point.
The biggest difference between human beings and other living beings on the planet is that the humans are not at ease with nature. We are constantly trying to fight nature and overcome it. We believe that it is just unfair that we are at the mercy of nature at all times. This is the reason our focus has been on overcoming our weaknesses vis-à-vis nature. We started living in the cave so that we could avoid the freezing cold. We fashioned her clothes so that we can escape the burning sun.
Of all the debates that rage in the art world, one of these debates straddles the art world and places a firm foot in the consciousness of anyone with a pair of eyes and the ability to form an opinion: that of whether or not graffiti is a problem or a helping hand to the dull grey mundane nature of much of modern society. Where to begin? Well, how about with what art is…
Art, we’re now told, has no real definition. It can be anything we want it to be, at any time and any place. It can be a thought process, or a cardboard box. A dead bird or an unmade bed. It can be perspex signs covered in bird poo, or ancient Egyptian mummy vomit in wine glasses being served up at an elaborate meal function for posh people. OK, so I made that last bit up, but so what? The point is, if you can imagine it, it can be considered art and nobody has the right to argue against you.
…signs and billboards were their canvases, before they graduated to canvases and pure white walls…
People say that racism doesn’t exist anymore. That it’s something we used to deal with, back when black people – anyone who wasn’t white, in fact – were forced to travel on a different bus to white people.
I say: RUBBISH.
I say: racism is more prevalent and powerful than ever.
I say: wake up. This isn’t over, you’re dreaming, where do you live and what, really, do you see?
I see a world where we all pretend. A world where you open a novel up and assume – and I know it’s like this for many people as they have told me – that the main protagonist is white unless stated otherwise. To me this is the biggest give-away of all that we have a long way to go. It’s just another marker that we think we’re better than we actually are, and that we’re all still obsessed with colour and class and what you do and who you appear to be.
You just can’t get rid of that in a few hundred years is the point, really.
We need a thousand, or ten thousand. And even by then racism will still exist.
multiculturalism can only aid us in getting rid of negative stereotypes
Bottom line? There IS no bottom line. If you think there is, you’re dreaming, my friend. Either that or you’re wide awake but with your head very much buried in the ground.
One thing which has improved, I suppose, is peoples willingness to be open to accepting their flaws. Some of us, unless we work for one of the big national newspapers. Hopefully, in time, more and more people will recognise that skin colour has been a thing of more importance to them in the past than they had liked to admit.
Another great thing is ethnic diversity: it’s all around us, and this kind of multiculturalism can only aid us in getting rid of negative stereotypes. The more interaction there is between different races and cultures the better. The more we realise that we are all as one, the less power minority-hating groups will have and the less they will be able to affect the opinions of the greater population.
It’ll take a while, sure, but one day people will realise – Jim from it support in london included – that we’re all on the same planet, and inside we’re all the same. And when that day comes it’ll be an amazing, incredible, fantastic time to be a human being, I’m sure.
As every young man, my inspiration comes not only from work and entertainment, but also from things I would definitely like to have or buy. And what motivates me to work and makes me wanna get all my salaries for the year in advance in the new Alfa Romeo Brera – the 2009 edition. It is a car like no other and it is an attraction that some people might well say it is even more than a woman. I More
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As I pondered over some suit fabrics to make something nice to wear to work, I noticed that in the store I was in that many women had some form of Sedu hairstyle going on. I thought that this was so dronish of them that I went to my hairstylist to find out what’s up with that.
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