Don't normally disclose more personal thoughts but, anyway, thoughts for the past year. Hmm. Most important thing learnt: I am my own worst enemy. Resolutions. Be a better person, really try to do something constructive and useful and don't be another rotting leech. I know it's hard, but that's why we have words like "try".
Also learnt the profound greed and evil of mankind. Crude oil, it just really seem to boil down to this - who has it, who doesn't, and what we do with it. Climate change, destruction of the environment, wide-scale extinction of other species, corruption and poverty. The next time you go to the gas station, ponder where it comes from. Go google 'Nigeria delta human rights abuse' and see what a wonderful job Shell is doing in that area. Basically, they are just dumping the posionous residues into the waterways, leaving behind huge stinking tarry scars across the land, and killing the native people there because they have no other water to drink but from the tainted sources. And all this is done in the name of cutting costs. Go google 'Ken Saro-wiwa'. A man died for speaking out against Shell. They may as well have murdered him. And it is still going on today, right this very moment. Think about that.
Sometimes, it is all so despairing. It does seem that the very nature of man is evil and base.
And then, youtube brings up something that is slightly...different. I know this is old, but I only recently came upon this.
Paul Potts. A man with no belief in himself, who showed up in a cheap suit, world-weary and beaten, to...sing opera.
And sing, he does. He is no Pavarotti, but still, it gives me the shivers to hear him sing.
And even though it may not seem like much, it gives me hope that maybe there is something good and beautiful in us after all.
Good bye 2007. Hello 2008.
Happy new year. ^^
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