Mediocrity is my greatest fear
it binds me
and winds me
till the explode
mediocrity is my greatest fear
to strive for it all
and fail
to just fall
stop short of it all
a noone
not someone
mediocrity is my greatest fear
to attempt it all
and yet appear
to fail and fall
mediocrity strikes fear
in here
in me.
That is what I fear
to always second guess
look through the tinted lens
Mediocrity
Fear
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Monday, December 21, 2009
The Olympic Torch, or rather the letdown of it.
The Olympic torch ran through the weary out of the way town I live in on Sunday. Should be the cause for celebration and excitement right? Wrong.
Instead of a weary tired out runner who ran through my town it was a seventeen year old girl, which honestly I wouldn't have had a problem with, that is if she was running.
Yes, she was caked in make-up as if she were about to attend prom, she didn't run, she jogged, she jogged (If you can call it that) for about 10 feet, then got back on a bus which promptly drove off. I honestly thought that it was called the "running of the torch" for a reason, because they were running the torch across Canada. Evidently not. Another letdown was the passing of the flame, rather than putting one torch to another it was a lantern box that the light with, oh and they used a........ barbecue lighter.
Although this was somewhat salvaged by the "noise makers" that were handed out to the crowd, presumably either to appeal to all the hockey fans as they were replicas of those seen at hockey games or to make up for the letdown that the organizers of the run knew it really was.
All in all my impression beforehand was that I would be attending a patriotic ceremony and experiencing Canada's "running" of the torch. Instead I experienced Canada's "Jogging for15 feet and driving in a luxury bus" of the torch. This stirring not one patriotic or prideful sentiment.
So don't go with expectations, because it will most likely just let you down. Rather enjoy the "running" of the torch and use it to your own advantage like the certain aboriginals who are "protesting the Olympics as a call to fair treatment of aboriginal people in Canada." (Canada.com)
Now that's patriotic.
-Joel
Instead of a weary tired out runner who ran through my town it was a seventeen year old girl, which honestly I wouldn't have had a problem with, that is if she was running.
Yes, she was caked in make-up as if she were about to attend prom, she didn't run, she jogged, she jogged (If you can call it that) for about 10 feet, then got back on a bus which promptly drove off. I honestly thought that it was called the "running of the torch" for a reason, because they were running the torch across Canada. Evidently not. Another letdown was the passing of the flame, rather than putting one torch to another it was a lantern box that the light with, oh and they used a........ barbecue lighter.
Although this was somewhat salvaged by the "noise makers" that were handed out to the crowd, presumably either to appeal to all the hockey fans as they were replicas of those seen at hockey games or to make up for the letdown that the organizers of the run knew it really was.
All in all my impression beforehand was that I would be attending a patriotic ceremony and experiencing Canada's "running" of the torch. Instead I experienced Canada's "Jogging for15 feet and driving in a luxury bus" of the torch. This stirring not one patriotic or prideful sentiment.
So don't go with expectations, because it will most likely just let you down. Rather enjoy the "running" of the torch and use it to your own advantage like the certain aboriginals who are "protesting the Olympics as a call to fair treatment of aboriginal people in Canada." (Canada.com)
Now that's patriotic.
-Joel
Friday, November 13, 2009
Darcy
eyes closed
lips shut
erased are your smiles
gone is your laugh
fake
unknown cold unkind
memories retained are those warm
not remember are the last
cold
cruel
hopeless
wake up its just a dream
wake up and come to me
wake up its just a dream
wake up and erase this scene
take the act back
make it new
make it you
still with
still here
alive
well and swell
it hits hard
as i see
cold
rubber skin
emotion gone
it dawns your gone
forever
lips shut
erased are your smiles
gone is your laugh
fake
unknown cold unkind
memories retained are those warm
not remember are the last
cold
cruel
hopeless
wake up its just a dream
wake up and come to me
wake up its just a dream
wake up and erase this scene
take the act back
make it new
make it you
still with
still here
alive
well and swell
it hits hard
as i see
cold
rubber skin
emotion gone
it dawns your gone
forever
Friday, October 30, 2009
the darkest rooms are full of the unknown monsoons
i want to know all about you
the different
singing the time
teeming with love
trying to break
to live
to breath
to scream
to cry
the chaos
ensues
infuses
and refuses to leave to contemplate to skate its way through history.
an undiscovered mystery.
love discovery of the new dark
the roman rule
a punishment merited by love and its cruel minions.
a new ordeal
a calvary charging to battle
something new as you.
believe its just a sign that this is a cry into the dark.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Life Is A Question Mark
Life is a question mark
a never ending dark
Yielding what we ought
and what we naught
The ocean at the footings
it keeps on pushing
Till the lying love is washed away
Life is a question mark
punctuation at grand central station
The train departs
like a leaving lark
To who knows when
and who knows where
Life is a question mark
posed and poised
To wreck havoc
upon the unsuspecting maverick
Life is a question mark
but what is the question
Life is the question
and the question mark
Its eternal companion
Life is a question mark
never leaving
never seizing
Life is a question mark
unexplainable confusion
A cerebral contusion
Life is an illusion
of perceived emotion
Distraught motion
Life is a question mark
never explained
unexplained
regained
but still maimed
Life is a question mark
impossible to figure out
-Joel
a never ending dark
Yielding what we ought
and what we naught
The ocean at the footings
it keeps on pushing
Till the lying love is washed away
Life is a question mark
punctuation at grand central station
The train departs
like a leaving lark
To who knows when
and who knows where
Life is a question mark
posed and poised
To wreck havoc
upon the unsuspecting maverick
Life is a question mark
but what is the question
Life is the question
and the question mark
Its eternal companion
Life is a question mark
never leaving
never seizing
Life is a question mark
unexplainable confusion
A cerebral contusion
Life is an illusion
of perceived emotion
Distraught motion
Life is a question mark
never explained
unexplained
regained
but still maimed
Life is a question mark
impossible to figure out
-Joel
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
I have no followers, is this due to the fact that I don't post often enough? Or because I have spent since September 17th writing a philosophical piece on knowledge?
let that be a reason to become a follower!
ohh... a philosophical piece on Knowledge? Whats better?
-Joel
A Philosophical piece on knowledge coming soon .. to a blog near you....
let that be a reason to become a follower!
ohh... a philosophical piece on Knowledge? Whats better?
-Joel
A Philosophical piece on knowledge coming soon .. to a blog near you....
The Education Questamation.
When did knowledge gain a price..?
A look at the current education systems reveals that knowledge is no longer priceless, in fact knowledge being priceless, or at least thought of as priceless has completely vanished. Up until the end of high school knowledge is free and in a sense mandatory. But when one chooses to pursue knowledge of their own accord in a field in which they have significant interest, this being university, it costs thousands. Now isn't knowledge something that should be passed on without a price? A professor is educated and gains knowledge and then is paid to pass it on while universities charge exorbitant amounts, in order to supplement what, a pristine campus and the athletic program? How is it that something that does not physically exist gains a price, a metaphysical object with a price. It makes sense to assume that at a certain point universities or groups which pass on knowledge needed or decided to fund a building or a needed to charge a price, most likely called a membership price, which only makes sense. But then human nature stepped in and greed took hold.
The reality is that it wasn't greed that created the price of knowledge but rather the need to keep a lower class of people. Universities began to charge tuition because free education combined with the higher living standard, present following the second world war, produced an enlarge middle class and education inflation. Apparently education of the masses isn't profitable to all. Which leads to the root cause of the absurd prices. Who decided that educated masses and an enlarged middle class wasn't a good thing? If an enlarged middle class existed then it follows that the said middle class would either mean less poverty stricken people or less absurdly rich folks. As people who are fed up with these prices (Assumption- I'm not the only one am I?) we need to openly question these preposterous prices. Boycott this tainting of knowledge is what needs to come about. Openly and publicly defying this is the appropriate response and is imperative.
Rise up and preserve knowledge's priceless nature!
Sadly this will never happen as society has fallen into the rut of unquestioning obedience. So for years students will go into debt for the sake of knowledge and the thirst to learn.
But that's the way its supposed to be creating a nation without an enlarged middle population,
educated public and full of debt stricken graduates.
Right?
Life as it should be is just so logical and straightforward.
-Joel
Musical Quote of the Day
My My My heart like a kick drum
My My My love like a voice
-Avett Brothers, Kick Drum Heart
A look at the current education systems reveals that knowledge is no longer priceless, in fact knowledge being priceless, or at least thought of as priceless has completely vanished. Up until the end of high school knowledge is free and in a sense mandatory. But when one chooses to pursue knowledge of their own accord in a field in which they have significant interest, this being university, it costs thousands. Now isn't knowledge something that should be passed on without a price? A professor is educated and gains knowledge and then is paid to pass it on while universities charge exorbitant amounts, in order to supplement what, a pristine campus and the athletic program? How is it that something that does not physically exist gains a price, a metaphysical object with a price. It makes sense to assume that at a certain point universities or groups which pass on knowledge needed or decided to fund a building or a needed to charge a price, most likely called a membership price, which only makes sense. But then human nature stepped in and greed took hold.
The reality is that it wasn't greed that created the price of knowledge but rather the need to keep a lower class of people. Universities began to charge tuition because free education combined with the higher living standard, present following the second world war, produced an enlarge middle class and education inflation. Apparently education of the masses isn't profitable to all. Which leads to the root cause of the absurd prices. Who decided that educated masses and an enlarged middle class wasn't a good thing? If an enlarged middle class existed then it follows that the said middle class would either mean less poverty stricken people or less absurdly rich folks. As people who are fed up with these prices (Assumption- I'm not the only one am I?) we need to openly question these preposterous prices. Boycott this tainting of knowledge is what needs to come about. Openly and publicly defying this is the appropriate response and is imperative.
Rise up and preserve knowledge's priceless nature!
Sadly this will never happen as society has fallen into the rut of unquestioning obedience. So for years students will go into debt for the sake of knowledge and the thirst to learn.
But that's the way its supposed to be creating a nation without an enlarged middle population,
educated public and full of debt stricken graduates.
Right?
Life as it should be is just so logical and straightforward.
-Joel
Musical Quote of the Day
My My My heart like a kick drum
My My My love like a voice
-Avett Brothers, Kick Drum Heart
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