First things First

Okay so first of all the title of my blog came from a song by Lupe Fiasco but I cannot at this moment remember which one it was, nor do I want to look it up and tell you, so i will in a later post. You will just have to trust me that it is a good song, and an album worth listening to.


I am going to apologize ahead of time- I am a terrible speller, I tend to have a lot of typos, and I don't always capitalize my "i"s, or the first letter of a sentence, or use good grammer. which is slightly ironic because i am considering a major in English literature.


So our conversation last night really kind of stuck with me. Secrecy. What if everything and everyone was really transparent? I knew everything about you and you knew everything about me? how intense would that be? What if you could know everything about someone- their bathroom habits, how and what and where they eat, their deodorant, toothpaste, shampoo they use, or how often they wash their sheets. You could know if they use drug, or have a drinking problem, how they treat their spouse, or spend their money. Personally i do not really care to know everything about everyone, nor do i think i would have the time to care. Honestly i do not really want everyone else knowing everything about me. someone said in my group "everyone does something bad" and that is true- no one is perfect. But if people's secrets were exposed then would everyone strive to be a better person- to avoid being judged or becoming an outcast. if every one's guilty pleasures were exposed to the world would they be guilty pleasures anymore?I think secrets are important to keep boundaries, lives personal, thoughts private.


On Tuesday night i went to Campus Outreach and the guy there talked about how we live in a "postmodern" world- meaning that the common thought is "whats right for you may not be right for me, so don't tell me what is right." So basically everyone can just do what they want because it is right for them. He compared this to a book in the bible called Judges- in judges the people's king died and all order was lost people murdered people, stole things, raped women and children, and any other bad thing you can think of. All this is because people just did what they wanted-- sounds kind of familiar right. People had secrets, and walls- no order, no conception of right and wrong. I found this really interesting people do what they want and have no real conception of what the absolute truth is yet they claim to be Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, or Muslim- all of which i am assume (i cant really speak for any religion except Christianity) that all have some sort of standards to live by, how to treat other people, to be a good person- yet there are few people in the world who truly humble themselves and follow these standards to the best of their abilities. People are still selfish, killers, rapers, manipulators, substance abusers- all because they say "this is right for me, and whats right for you may be different- so don't tell me what to do." I guess what i am trying to get at is if people just lived the way they want to then there is no true right or wrong, and they will continue to do wrong- most of which will be in secret. Therefore, if every one's secrets were exposed then would people lead better lives, would the problems of the world be solved?