The Corrupting Power of Ambition...

Power

It's a perplexing word. While we know that power often leads to corruption, at the same time it's the thing we strive for most as a human being. Perfection, for some reason means power, money, luxury...but sometimes the things we strive for the most, become our undoing. In order to gain something humans will go to great lengths in order to do so. Often falling into a trap of lying, cheating, manipulating, and, in extreme cases, resorting to murder in order to satisfy our voracious hunger for power.

There is no better example of this than the play Macbeth. Like in most of Shakespeare's Tragedy/Histories, we see the main characters, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, become so engrossed in the trap that they are willing to commit treason, heresy, and murder to quench their insatiable thirst for power. Which ultimately leads to their demise.

After their brutal betrayal of King Duncan, Macbeth's surreptitious murder of Banquo, and the ruthless slaughter of Macduff's family; it seemed that there wasn't anything that was going to stand in their way of the throne. One little betrayal here, five murders there and BAM the throne is free for the taking. It sounds good right?

Wrong. The problem is that once you use violence to feed your hunger for power, it's hard to stop. As the play progresses, and the bloodshed continues you witness both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth slip further into madness: Lady Macbeth, out of guilt, Macbeth, out of a drive to prove that his actions had merit. He was possessed by greed, corrupted by his ambition for power, and driven mad by his tyranical actions.

This play begs the question...Do the ends really justify the means? Was self jusification for their actions really worth it in the end? Or was their relentless ambition inevitably another path to Hell?

Thank you...

Thank you for everything.

There is no one way to sit down and thank everyone for everything that they've done for me...there is no one way to tell all of you how much I appreciate each and every one of you, so I'm just sending out a blanket 'thank you' to all of you.

Thank you for everything.

Something Applicable...

Oookkkayy this started out as a comment on Emily's blog, but it became so big that I just decided to make it a blog of it's own...


I hate when people get invovled in other people's love lives and stuff it's frustrating...and relationships are private man! I might make a lot of enemies by saying this, but frankly, right now I don't care. What in God's name gives people the right to speculate and gossip about what might or might not be going on between you and someone else? Honestly, if that person WANTED you to know, they would tell you, and even then it doesn't give you the right to go spread the word. If I wanted to tell someone something it would be like one really good friend who I know will keep my secret and NOT spread it around, but all of a sudden I'm not sure who I can trust anymore...

But what really frustrates me is when people gather in small groups and SPECULATE about everything...I mean (okay I realize that I'm getting on my soap box here, but it needs to be said) Look at the freakin' tabloids at the store, and magazines covered with the latest gossip about celebs and their personal lives, would YOU like it if all of a sudden everyone knew EVERYTHING about you, and most of the time the information is incorrect? I don't know about you, but that would really piss me off.

So why do people do it?

This is sort of blowing things out of proportion, but like...that's exactly what's been going on lately, but on a smaller high school level...

FOURTEEN. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk...

You have to be willing to lose something in order to gain something...

That's how it always is isn't it? You have to be willing to lay your pride out on the line when you go up on strip. You have to accept defeat in order to gain glory. You have to be willing to suffer great heartache and loss when you give someone your heart...EVERY decision we make has a lasting consequence, whether the consequence is positive or negative we have to learn to live with it.

What if you don't want to suffer? What if you don't want to have to deal with heartache? What if you don't want to have to lose? All you want is for things to go your way?...Wouldn't we all just love to have life go our way? Well Life isn't perfect. If you want to learn something, ANYTHING from this life you have to risk something.

And this, my friends, is why I am such a coward...and there really is no way to...I guess, articulate what I'm trying to say... I have set myself up for so much pain, and awkwardness...and I'm wondering if it's worth it, this is such a pessimistic view on this but I can't help but wonder in the end, when it's all over, when I look back...Will it be worth it?

uuuggghh....

I'm going on a date in an hour and I bought a shirt to wear....

it's hideous...I mean it looked good at the store, but now....uuggghhh


I have a bad feeling about this shirt.

HAHAHAHA....!!!

Brian.. yes i know theres a typo...


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So long and thanks for all the fish...

I went and saw Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Sunday evening (bloddy awesome movie by the way) and there was this one line that just sort of like...popped up and bit me in the ass..."If I had said yes to you, we wouldn't be here right now...just thought that might mean something..."

Everthing is so interconnected...If my mother hadn't taken fencing in High School, I wouldn't be fencing now. If I hadn't decided to take a chance on theatre in Junior High I would have never met You guys, If I hadn't met you guys I wouldn't have learned everything I have from you...I wouldn't be the person I am today...and because of that, because of your influence on me I have influenced someone else...sort of passed the torch..for want of a better phrase..onto others who then go out and influence more and so on and so forth...

There really is no such thing as a coincidence...

Complete...Something-or-Other...

So everyone knows that I am retarded when it comes to identifying my own emotions, but I realised something last night...(oh by the way sorry for ditching you guys again lol)

This feeling I've had in the pit of my stomach since Nationals...I thought was nervousness because, chh that would make sense, but then...it didn't make sense because it felt so different from the times I KNEW that I was nervous...this feeling was more like a soaring sensation...

So I was hanging out with some of my fencing friends last night and one of them said something really funny and I just laughed, a genuine, uninhibited, hearty laugh...it was awesome! and I realised that the feeling I've had was happiness, complete contentment, joy...

Life Is Good :D