Gaaaaaah, don't you just frigging love life some times? [/sarcasm]

Writing Update

So NaNoWriMo was a big fat fail. I got a total of 1000 words in the end. That means I was 49000 words short.
What happened?
What always happens in my world. Life decided come out of his hole and keep me company for the duration of this month.
I did start a new story (not related to NaNoWriMo) and it's going to be my challenge for this year. It has to be a story longer than 10 (A4) pages and it has to be finished by 10 November, 2010 (my 21st birthday). I'd like it to be at least 20 pages, but I thought I'd give myself a reasonable challenge.

I also wrote some new poems which can be found on my DA and I'm writing for a news website for my school.

Announcement

I hereby announce that all my posts for November will be parts of the novel I'm writing for NationalNovemberWritingMonth

I hope you will enjoy it

Btw, it's probably gonna be a bunch shit. You try writing a novel in a month :P

All your tomorrows start here.

Dudes!

I just (about a month ago) started college. I'm doing journalism and it rocks my boat. I love it and I think I really found my thing.

It makes me think though. What is real? News gets picked by the papers and by the journalists. And then the media feeds it to the public. But when you compare papers, you can write so many different stories about one event. Which story should we believe? Which story is a total fake?

Like I suspected before, I think there is no one truth. People have many different views, so there's many different truths.

And I think that the media pick the truth that they think will please their public the most. So it's all about publicity basically.

Now you might ask me, why become a journalist?

For me, right now, it's about the things I learn. It doesn't help me understand the world, but it helps me see it differently. Especially since I started on a couple of books from different journalists and their experiences. Then you hear that the men who have the most frightening quotes, are actually very giggly and like to point out paradoxes. Or that they actually show a sign of humanity, while the newspapers suggest they are beasts.

I've always dreamed of meeting different people and see how they really are. It's not about the interviews, but the things the interviewee show through the cracks in their mask.

Because no matter how strong your mask is, you always show a little bit of how you really are.

The Light! My eyes!

We're through the tunnel and on the other side! Citizens rejoice and dance!

I'm so happy and glad!

Yay!

No emo post anymore, for a while :P (I can't make any lasting promises)

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Today I read an interview with 4 Christian adolescents. To be honest I couldn't even finish it.

It's not that I hate Christians, but the way they talk about their religion, with such faith, it makes my skin crawl. How can someone believe so steadily in something that maybe doesn't even exist? And why do they think it's the one, true religion?

Of course, there is something in the Bible for anyone. It has good morals and values. But what the people who follow it seem to forget is that there are other ways of living a good life. Hindu's, Buddhists and Wiccans also make their life more valuable, but in different ways. But for some reason they are heathens, because they don't believe in the 'One True God'.

Even non-believers can live a good life. I am a non-believer, more specifically an agnost and I try to have a good influence on my environment and the people in it. But for some reason I am a bad person, because besides it, I don't believe that there is a god in the way the Christians (and other monotheistic religions for that matter) do.

Why is this?

There are exceptions of course, but they don't get their stories printed in the news paper. The people who do want to 'spread their faith' regardless of others. It makes me feel a little sick.

So here are my questions to you:
Do you think I'm a heathen?
Is Christianty the best religion on this planet?
What do you think of Christianity and Christians in general?

The random

We're there! The end of the tunnel is one big light thing. I haven't stepped in it, because for that I have to wait 9 more days.

So, after school was finished, I started hanging out with new people. And it was so weird. I'm not very good with new people, I get all shy and silent and weird. But these new people are so easy to talk to. And everytime we talk we find something else we have in common.
I love it that this random stuff can happen.

Yay for randomness!