I am so tired of things not mattering. August 21, 2007
Posted by Anya in : I won't keep things purposely vague , 3commentsTonight our sign language group did the song God Bless the USA. It was directly followed by Imagine by John Lennon and that song made me want to DIE. And then the evening was wrapped up with God Bless America.
Imagine
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
Mom, knowing what my thought process would be, looked over at me. First I made a nice, subtle little “gag me” sign. Then I thought the better of it, picked up my spoon, and repeated the gesture. Mom says that I’m too well versed in 80’s slang. ^_^
Anyway. Obviously that was just one thing, but I am so sick of the idea that nothing matters. It doesn’t matter to sing songs with completely contradictory meanings. It doesn’t matter if you sing God Bless the USA (”…and I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me…”) and then immediately start critizing Bush for the war in Iraq.Â
It doesn’t?
And it’s not just political things. Everything around us screams that what you believe doesn’t matter, that it doesn’t affect how you live.
If what you believe doesn’t affect how you live, why do you believe it?
If there is nothing worth dying for, why do we live?
