Lent

I am not religious and I do not believe in religion. Although for the first time ever i may take up this lent thing. Like i said i am not religious and do not know much about why we have lent, though i like the idea of it but i think i may adjust it a little for my sake. Instead of just giving up something why not take up something or focus on something in your life that needs changing and in my case that is being more productive. Like i have said in my previous blog i do need to work on my music more, so i felt that it's about time i just do it. Sometimes the main thing that distracts me from my music is PlayStation or Xbox. I'm not a massive gamer, nor do i want to be but every now and then i do get sucked into a game that takes up to much of my time and always in the back of my mind there is a voice saying "i don't really want to be playing this. I want to do something else. Why am i still playing? STOP PLAYING!" Five hours later i come off it and my whole day is wasted. What was the point in that?

It is true that in this life you just cannot win. For example i work full time so i can live in my own space to work on my music and fund my music. I don't have time to work on my music because I'm either at work or am too tired from work. It's a chicken egg situation. I hate that in this modern society you have to work, if you don't you'll have a tough time and society will make sure of that. Unless you have filthy rich parents and they've paid for you to just live your life without working, but then you’re just damn lucky! I am glad that at least i do a job that's rewarding and i have a sense of fulfilment from it. I feel sorry for these people that do jobs that at the end of the day aren't that important, they're just doing it to look after they're family or to just simply feed themselves, it makes me sad. At the end of the day we don't need society, society needs us. We've built up this concrete machine around us that constantly needs to spin and we're the fuel that makes that happen, and for this it takes our lives. One film i think everyone should watch is "Into the Wild" it’s a true story where this guy just burns his money, goes off and lives his life across America and just lives off the land and from this he is happy.

Everyone should try and realise that there are things that we don't really need, things that take up our time and shut us off from the rest of the world. So for lent maybe just try and give something up and in replace of that do something that will truly make you happy, it could be something you've never tried before. You don't need to be religious for this, all you need is faith.