Roller Coaster

Roller coaster rides- a part of the ever so popular family theme parks. They are as common as chewing gum nowadays, and their massive and complicated ‘bodies’ hold no wonder for even the most ordinary of people in the developed countries. We have learned to accept them and in many cases, ‘love’ them. Some might connect “roller coaster” with the word “fun”, some with the word “terrifying”. One thing that does not change however is the fact that we all find them exhilarating. That makes the seemingly ‘ordinary’ roller coaster rides a contradiction, like many human creations are.

Why have we built something so violent in its intensity? To develop the money producing amusement industry perhaps? Or to satisfy our primal need for excitement, our need to feel the rush of adrenalin, the feel of our hearts beating so fast that they are at their limit? Are we again looking for the prospect of dying while having ‘fun’, as our ancestors did? Those individuals who lived centuries before our modern world came into existence, feeding their adrenalin hungry hearts with battles, hunting and fighting. Feeding on the ever present prospect of death... Were those their own personal roller coaster rides? Is the human nature such, that the majority of us that do not face any other danger but the one that comes with everyday life, ‘amuse’ ourselves with those ‘metal  giants’, which like everything that has been built by human hands can collapse in a second, becoming Death’s faithful apprentice. If that is so, have we built ‘amusement’ parks with such a dark intention behind them? Does human nature dictate that the chance of perishing forever is nothing as long as we can feel the wonderful sensation of our pulse, the prove that we are alive... the prove that we can die.  

Roller coasters: Recreation or Risk? http://home.comcast.net/~ldfrostbite/controversy.html

Simply That

How come the sky is empty?

How come we see the stars,

but we can never touch them

with our hands?

How come the flowers weep

with the tears of the morning dew?

The questions asked are nothing

but illusions. For the answer is-

we are simply humans...

 Here is a simple drawing of a girl, colored in with Adobe Photoshop!

I decided to post a thought that I have always found to be of immense beauty and personal truth.

“Embrace nothing:
If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha.
If you meet your father, kill your father.
Only live your life as it is,
Not bound to anything.”

By Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.

I must say that the Buddhist teachings are one of my favourite ones. They often seem to match my inner thoughts.

Here is a poem I wrote, dedicated to the manga Vampire Juuji Kai. This is the first time I've written anything of a fanfiction nature...

Thy Blessed Moon

Oh, gentle Mother Moon

Tell me with your wisdom,

and your pale smiling face

why The Kingdom of The Night

is in ruin and despair.

This story is so ancient, but continues

even to this day.

A battle where nothing is as seen,

but twists and intervenes

where Light and Dark meet and kiss.

The Children of the Night,

forever damned to dwell in Darkness,

already victims of their fate-

are faced with someone to whom

the Sun is a dear, gruesome friend.

Fear drives Them to destroy

the lonely Red-Rose King and his convoy.

Drowned in pain and tragic,

He sees no way but to oblige,

for his only love and unborn child,

are but a quite whisper of the wind.

What happened after that is a mystery to all,

but those involved.

The Queen corrodes the souls of men,

with a power no one knew was there.

Her love and rage melt together… 

Humans and the half-blood children fight united

to seal the pure, white Queen that has gone

berserk in her strive to save the King.

From then it’s all just forgotten history.

Oh, hateful Mother Moon

Tell me with your all-seeing eyes

and soft, pale hands that reach towards the Earth

why is it that this story is so sad

and Death embraces everything that stands.

This is also the LONGEST poem I've ever written.