Everyone talks about the good old days like they were the best times. Maybe they were but we can't go back in time! Nowadays, everyone is more interested in stopping the end of the world than believing that it doesn't have to end!!
World peace is probaby never going to happen because politicians and other people in power are all so convinced they have the answers and try to force them on everyone else with other views!
One option for the world end is for aliens from another planet to come and take over the world. If there are aliens and they ever do come to take over earth, they would find it pretty easy because the world is so busy fighting with each other that we would probably not notice until it was too late!
Another option for the world end is World War III. This definitely seems the most probable way because the West think they can use brute force and ignorance to solve the world's problems which is stupid! All that war does is kill thousands of innocent people. Soldiers are admirable to fight for their country and that is their choice but so many people forget the innocent lives wiped out by war. Defenseless people that are just in the wrong place at the wrong time! Everyone is defenseless in a way. Nobody knows what the future holds, we can all speculate but there really is nobody living that can say for certain what will happen! The only certainty in life is that we will die but who has the right to tell someone how or when that will be? We need to stop searching for the fame and fortune that everyone seems to be wanting these days! Scientific people want to find cures for illnesses or discover new illnesses to name after themselves so their legacy lives on forever! Creative people want to become rich from doing what they love. They are all allowed to live in their own little bubble. What about the rest of the world's population? Ones that maybe never had the best start in life, have a degenerative illness that stops them being able to physically do much or even ones that had children young and now feel their life has to revolve around their chidren.
I have always lived in a bubble but it burst 5 years ago when I was diagnosed with Devic's Disease! I fought for a second opinion from a specialist who said I had an unusual form of MS. This was obviously still devastating but not as bad as the original diagnosis. I was fine with that. I tried going back to uni to finish my Psychology degree, determined that an illness wouldn't stop me fulfilling my dream of being a primary school teacher. After a year and a bit, I had to give up. My legs were getting bad and I couldn't always make it to class which was making it hard to keep up. I started to get very depressed and seen the rest of my life being left by myself and alone. I never thought anyone would want me because I had an illness that made my future so unpredictable! Then I met a girl who also had the same thing. I was happy-ish or so I thought. She opened my eyes to the world of spirituality which I had never really thought about before. I was brought up as a Christian but always believed in Karma too. She made me look forward for the first time in my life. I looked forward to old age because I wouldn't be alone. I realised that I had always been so focused on my dream of being a primary teacher that I had neglected to put all the knowledge I had accumulated over the years to good use. I had always just gone with the flow in life, letting my head rule my heart, always searching for answers to things I didn't understand.
I was blessed with intelligence from a young age. I was always top in my class for most things. In high school, I was never the greatest at English. I still passed all my tests and exams, ended up with a C for higher. I was happy just to pass the exam. To me, maths was always my favourite subject. I found it really easy and had an awesome teacher for standard grade, higher and advanced higher. I loved passing exams and got a good feeling at succeeding academically. I was, and still am, a very practically minded person. Numbers and science made sense to me. I was also very creative. I loved drawing and making things with my hands. At school, I done Graphic Communication and Craft and Design which were my fun subjects but still very practical and methodical. I loved the balance I had at school. After I left school, and got rejected from University to do teaching, I started working in a bank. It was ok, I loved serving customers and being given responsibility but I hated the sales targets. I never understood why customers should be bombarded with questions about where they had their mortgage/home insurance/inverstments etc when all they wanted to do was get their money out or pay something in! People aren't stupid, if they wanted advice on services, they would ask! My manager was a bitch too, always picking on me for not meeting my targets but not taking into account all the administrative work I done that others weren't expected to. It was annoying. Anyway, to get out of leaving my 'proper' job, I applied to go and do Psychology at Uni as I knew this could lead to teaching. Longer path to my dream job but I knew it would be worth it in the end. I got accepted and was so happy.
I had to choose another 2 modules as Psychology only covered one and the Uni I was at required you to do 3 per semester. I took Maths, because it was easy to me, and Philosophy. I only took Philosophy bacause it was only 3 hours of classes a week and I reckoned it would make my 1st year a little easier. Lazy approach to choosing modules I know! I was the only one doing that combination of modules, bit of a random one I know but I've always been a bit weird! :)
Anyway, after 1st year, I had good grades, passed all my modules with As or Bs (A for maths, B for other two). I decided to move to the same town as my Uni to make going to class easier in 2nd year because Maths was at 9 every morning. I moved in with a classmate from my maths class which was great fun. We had an epic summer. By the end of it I wasn't feeling well, had numb arm and leg. The numbness got worse and worse until I eventually collapsed in the shower one day and ended up in hospital for 5 weeks learning to walk again. It was a hard 5 weeks but I got through it and got home, even if it was on crutches and having other problems. Few months later it happened again. Although I wasn't in hospital as long this time round. Then my consultant diagnosed Devic's Disease. It was a huge blow and I didn't really know what to do any more. I think at this point I gave up. I turned in to a complete hypocondriac, was at the doctors a LOT and ended up at one point taking 40 odd pills a day! I know I'm complaining but I also know there are a lot of people out there on similar amounts but to me, someone who had never really been one for going to the doctor, I hated it. The only type I refused to take were anti depressants. I grew up watching my mum on them and always vowed never to take them!
Anyway, after a couple of pretty tough years, I met my ex. She was on lots of pills too and we, to start with, were good for each other. Looking back, I know I only liked the fact that she lived 600 miles away and it meant I got to run away from the stresses of life for a few weeks at a time and do as little as possible. At home, I just sat and thought about my illness too much and how it was getting in the way of me living my dreams! She moved up to live with me about 8 months after we got together and it was then that I started to regret having rushed things. I felt responsible for her, more like her mum than her partner. I knew ALL her issues because she relived and retold them almost every day. I felt sorry for her and wanted to try and help her be happy and enjoy her life. It came to the point that I had said I would move back down to her hometown to make her happy but I had a lot of things to put right in my head first.
My nana has alzheimers and is 87 so I told her I wouldn't move before she passed away because I couldn't bear the thought of leaving my mum to cope with all of that by herself. Her brother is pretty useless with caring for my nana. Hardly visits and would probably have a fit if asked to help physically care for her! However, my ex was too impatient and kept pushing me to up sticks and leave and she pushed me in to making a choice between my family and friends, and her. In the end I couldn't choose but she made it easy for me and left. She messed with my head a lot because of her spiritual beliefs. She thought she had all the answers but she never! She would overdose on most of her medication which is not healthy and wouldn't listen to me when I said she needed to try and stop. It definitely made me feel like her mum. The fact that we rarely had sex kind of reinforced my view that she saw me as an easy option, rather than actually loving me in the right ways. I know sex isn't everything in a relationship but it is important.
I went through a bit of a breakdown and realised that my heart was always in the right place with whatever I did and it took meeting my new girlfriend for me to realise that my ex leaving wasn't my fault and that heartbreak doesn't mean the end of the world.
My life journey so far has taught me a lot; physically, academically and emotionally. It has also shown me that there is more to life than education, although education is important and shouldn't be wasted. Now, I see clearly for the first time ever and can see exactly what is wrong with the world. Nobody believes in the happily ever after fantasy any more, mainly because the people at the top of the power pyramid have too much power and feel like they have the right to dictate to people at the bottom how they should lead their lives.
I have always treated people how I want to be treated, as a result I have lots of awesome friends but knew something was missing which I searched for in education but, now I know what it is...someone who loves me despite my physical problems and LISTENS to me!
I have always had faith in the system in this country as it got me to where I am now but a 'system' is just a way to control everyone and make them all carbon copies of one another. I have never followed the crowd and always been a bit backwards, I'm left handed so I have literally been backwards to all of my friends and immediate family. The government could easily ammend the system and some laws in order to make people feel a bit more free and able to determine what their life will lead to rather than making people that are not academic feel like failures from a young age!
Two laws that I think should be revised are cannabis and euthanasia being illegal. Cannabis is about the only drug type thing that helps me relax, trust me I've tried a LOT! It is only psychologically addictive because life is psychologically addictive but it helps ease frustrations people face every day and helps people be a bit more laid back! I believe that if it was legal, people who do not work would be more likely to try and work because they would then be paying tax off of their wages to support a country that actually cares rather than one that tries to control the way they live their life! I know a lot of 'stoners' and none of them are arrogant, aggressive or lazy, unlike the alcoholics I know (my dad being one of the latter group) so I really cannot see why it cannot be legalised.
Another thing that should be legalised is euthanasia. I had never really thought about it much until I got ill with a long term degenerative illness. I am only in my mid 20's and have been through a lot of treatments for it but I hope that if it gets to the point where I am in too much pain and have other problems that make life too hard any more then I could choose to end my life instead of being forced to stay alive when I don't want to. I could die at home instead of having to go to a foreign country like Switzerland and risk a family member being arrested for taking me upon their return. No child asks to be born but surely it should be up to each individual person to decide if they have had enough of this life and want the ultimate escape from reality and die. I understand that legalising this would be a hard thing to do as a lot of religious groups would argue that it is a sin to kill yourself and should let nature take it's course but what about the large portion of the population that have no religious belief? Or think that the world doesn't make sense any more? Surely they have the right to die with dignity in the way they choose? Everybody dies, does it really matter if it's natural or not? The only thing people seem to feel like they have control over is their own life, which is true. Young people that are badly bullied at school are finding it harder to cope and we have all seen the increase in teenage suicides because talking about problems isn't done any more. I'm hopeless at talking about my problems and have been very close to suicide many times throughout my life, more so since getting ill but have never done it because I always pictured my mum at my funeral and could never put her through that when she doesn't have to. I can honestly say I haven't felt suicidal since I have been with my new girlfriend though. The more I think about it though, if euthanasia was legal then old people could choose when to die instead of just giving up and sitting waiting for it; people with terminal cancer could decide when they wanted to die instead of having to go through horrible treatment that won't cure it and have their families watch them get worse and worse, knowing all along that they could die any minute; people with illnesses like MS wouldn't see it as a death sentence as I did because they know that if it gets to the point where every day life is too hard and they can't physically or mentally carry on then they can end their life without any consequences for family members who want to help them. It makes sense. Obviously people would have to be counselled before it to make sure they really wanted to die and there wasn't something they could try first to give them a new lease of life, obviously in the case of cancer that probably woudn't be an option but they would still need to be counselled, talk them through the process and make sure their funeral and ashes/grave wishes were noted and shared with family so that nobody was in any doubt that they were the final wishes of the person and not what someone else decided for them. Nobody can live forever, death happens every day but life goes on and we can all make it to old age in one piece with our faculties in full working order if we look after ourselves without neglecting the other people that we care for and who made us who we are.
I will always be eternally grateful to my new girlfriend, she has brought me back to life after my ex. She jokes that she is just my rebound girl but I think differently, she saved me from myself and I can see a happy future with her rather than a self destructive one, dominated by someone who is in a hurry to die.
I have discussed my opinion on euthanasia with several friends. Most of the female ones can understand my reasoning as they know I'm not stupid and have been through a lot with my MS and I'm still young. A male friend seems to think that war helps reduce the population of the world so that will help global warming anyway but that's not a fair enough way for the world to run! Give people the CHOICE to leave this world, not decide for them!
I just wish someone with the power to change the law listened to me and stopped treating me like an idiot! I have faith in some sort of God type figure but whether it is the Christian, Muslim or Buddhist one is something I don't know and I'm not yet ready to find out.
I have always joked that the world will end in 2012 as many theorists seem to speculate it will but, in my opinion, the world as we know it might but it can be something as simple as the Queen dying or abdicating. I genuinely believe my nana will die next year as her heart is now randomly stopping for a few seconds at a time and she is having falls in the nursing home but I hope the actual world doesn't end because then all the children in my family won't have the chance to live their lives and reach their potential. I also hope that I don't die because I want to help all the kids see that there is an alternative to being paranoid and worry about everything that happens in the world! I guess we will all just have to wait and see and I hope that my theory is right!
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