Daily routine

I know I missed two posts, so I worked out that I'll have to write one post every day till Friday to make it up. Though, to be honest, I have no idea what shall I write about, my daily routine is killing me and I'm sure no one is interested in my sharing it with them, and even if one is, I'm not. Nothing special. I'm in Kętrzyn now and maybe tomorrow, after visiting our cemetery I'll have some more universal reflections to share.

The Nobel Prize Laureates video

I really liked the two interviews with the Nobel Peace Prize Laureats, John Hume and Mairead Corrigan, especially the second one - it forced me to overthink some primary issues we are used to think about much less than we should.

Of course, I do absolutely agree with everything that Mairead Corrigan says, for her arguments should be obvious and appealing to everyone. But what really stroke me was the notion, that no one touches such important issues like international policy, human rights and legalised violence in everyday life. Media are getting excited about accidents like the Roman Polański's case (about which I'm going to write another time), the gambling affair, etc, which are matters of a second-rate importance. Oh, I know that the 'fourth power' makes its own rules but why do people agree for that? Why people, having such a powerfull device like the Internet use it for such trivial purposes as they do? Why they do not care about their governments performing immoral and inhuman deeds to other nations?

"Well, there's nothing WE can do" - will say most of us. Maybe I'm an idealist, but I believe that something has to be done. And I prefer do be called a driver rather than an idealist, according to a very wise joke (I'll write it here, as if may be not known: a pessimist, an optimist and a realist are standing on rails. The pessimist sees a dark tunnel. The optimist sees a light in the tunnel. The realist sees a train coming and a driver sees three idiots on the rails).

So I exhort: let's be the drivers and drive the world into more human, peacful direction! Let's put into everyday discussion really important issuses, let's get engaged and don't waste our time putting our photos in the next new dress with the next new boyfriend on "Nasza klasa"! Let's stop pouring out our anger on respected people who've made mistakes in their past and let's start asking question: why? Why this world is getting so unhuman and unsocial, when the newest technologies should give the exactly opposite effect?
For your consideration.

I don't believe in blogging...

... well, unfortunately it's true. I cannot understand the need of exposing one's life in public. And I cannot see why some stranger should be interested in my private opinions and vice versa. But as it seems that I have no choice, I'll do my best to make this blog interesting. Yet, please, consider that I've written 'interesting', that means not: nice, flattering, conformistic, objective, playing to the gallery, etc. Actually, I'm afraid it might be a complete opposition.

Although I have the Facebook I didn't want it to be my project as it serves me rather as a communicator than a 'diary'. And I'm afraid that if my friends from clinical psychology see me starting writing on the table anything appart from stuff like this: 'my party beggins at 20.00, please, call me' or 'I got "Columbia" result in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show character quiz", can you believe?!', they'll order me an instant therapy.

Maybe I should explain why I don't believe in blogging and any forms of 'second life'. Well, one doesn't need to be a psychologist to be to be aware of the fact, that if we spend most of our life, as far as its social and other aspects are concerned, on the Internet, then we'll loose more than we'll gain. The Internet is a useful device but why, for god's sake, we should do everything on net?

Reading? Very well, but you can't touch the paper, smell it and hear its rustling. Watching films? But where is the atmosphere of the real cinema? Similar arguments I can find for shopping, having conversation, etc. Fortunately, it's not an essay on "Internet: pros and cons" so I'll skip them, they're obvious for a thinking man. On the Internet we get instant and soulless version of everything. I'm really sorry that I don't value the power of the Internet enough, but I just don't buy living in a virtual world. I prefer the real one. I prefer less but better. I prefer real imperfections to the artificial ideals. I know this may sound like cheap rhetoric, but I always get a bit emotional while defencing my vision of life, even if it's more suitable for a dinosaur than a young girl in her twenties. Howgh.

P.S. This post is probably longer than anyone can possibly stand. I am truly sorry.