Of thinking, reflection and studying :)

As I'm preparing for my systems exam tomorrow, (cough cough..had something in my throat) I came across rights and democracy. According to my notes, and I'm not going to doubt them, democracy gives us a lifestyle which we are so used to nowadays we take so many things for granted; which is where my human rights notes began.
I think we really do take so many things for granted. I recieved this email, and it basically summed up all things we complain about and look at it positively. For example, (looks for email....ahaaa) be thankful for that sun shining directly in your eyes; it means you are alive. I don't know how many times I must have turned over, wishing I could sleep some more, probably right after I wish that my curtains were thicker so the sun won't get through.
Being alive is probably something a person would think of. Sometimes I am just amazed that I'm alive, especially when I hear of so many people dying around me, whether I know them or not. Sometimes I wonder if my hasty goodbye or my sarcastic comment will be the last memory of people of me. How sad.

Don't you ever get thinking, you're on a roll, you jump from one line of thought to another, and when you eventually share your final thought people think you've just lost it? I got thinking today

• Why does one day have 24 hours? Why couldn't one day have 25 hours?
• Isn't it just amazing how structures, paintings and sculptures have survived all those years, meaning they have survived earthquakes, rain, and other natural phenomenon; just so we can say, 'Oh my, we've got so much to learn in aesthetics'.
• We can't help but worry about the future. We might leave it all up to God, and it's good. But I still think that we can't help but get just a wee bit scared.

Strangely enough, this was not what I planned to bore you with in my new post. I was hearing some good christian music, and I just stopped trying to understand my systems notes and heard the lyrics. And they are so striking. Once you realise the full impact of them sometimes they send me reeling. Music is such a good way of getting a messgae across, especially nowadays. People, especially teenagers, are all the time listening to music. I, for one, feel like I can connect more with music and songs, then reading the Bible. Perhaps that's just me. And I still managed to talk about what I orignally planned to (congratulates self).

And now democracy calls.