R.I.P. Isshi

Isshi, former vocalist of Kagrra, passed away last night. It was such a shock to wake up to such devastating news of this sudden death. And what's more is that no one is saying how he died, which makes it all the more surreal. We can only send our love to the other members of Kagrra and to Isshi's family in this tragic time.

It's hard to think of people passing away, especially when it is so unexpected like this. In the Japanese rock world, everyone is still relativity young, and we haven't experienced much tragedy in loosing beloved rockers. However, death is a part of life, and we have to accept whatever happens. We all just have to make the best of the time we have here and live our lives to the fullest.

Rest in peace dear Isshi. ♥

Why the Gays?

Ok all this talk about the Michelle Bachman and her husband's "gay therapy" has me thinking.

First of all, why try to change someone? Being gay is a part of who someone is and it's stupid to try to change that. It would be like trying to change someone's ethnicity...it can't be done. And those people who say that you can successfully be "un-gay" are just kidding themselves and everyone around them. If a person being gay bothers you that much, then just leave them alone and don't have anything to do with them. Why can't people just be adult about it rather than trying to change the fundamentals of who a person is? Or even worse are the people who have so much hate that they go around targeting gay people and beat them up. It just baffles my mind that people have that much time and energy to devote to something they hate. Why not channel that energy into doing something you love or something more productive? To me, that seems like a much better use for someone's time rather than make another human being's life miserable.

Second, why the gays? Have you noticed lately that groups are targeting gays and using gays as a scapegoat for the world's problems? It seems like people just want someone to pin their problems on so lift the blame off themselves. It's happened throughout history with Jews, blacks, and almost any other group that is different from the majority, or what is considered "normal." In reality, people would get a lot more accomplished if we all banded together as one human race and tried to solve our problems together. Maybe that is the point of having all these different types of groups on this planet: to offer different points of view and different ideas on how to make the world better. But instead of trying to make the world better, we all fight amongst each other and create more problems for ourselves.

But sadly, this hate will always exist. I don't think it's being pessimistic to say that. I think that as long as there are different beliefs and different points of view, there will always be conflict and hate. I'm not saying that we all need to join hands and sing hippie songs about friendship, but I'm saying we need to put our differences aside a little bit so we can coexist on this planet...because this is all we have so might as well try to make the best of it. However, we are a long, long way away from that.

And this post went way off from where I originally wanted it to go, but I think it still gets my point across, so I'm leaving it the way it is. :)

What's the Point?

So, we're all into blogging nowadays. Posting our thoughts and inner monologues for the entire internet to read. Obviously I include myself in this group. But still, you have to sit back for a minute and think, "why?" Why does the world want to know what I'm thinking? Why would I put my business out there for others to see?

I guess it's because we all want to be recgonized or remembered. We want people to know what we've accomplished in our lives, and we want people to think of us after we're gone. Putting a blog out there is the easiest way to do that. With a click of a mouse, whatever we choose to put out there is published and ready for users to find it. It's a way for each person to leave his or her own mark in the world, even if it just ends up a speck on the internet. Still, it's there.

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Testing the new blog :)