¤ Mood: Sick As A Dog
¤ Music: Save The Last Dance For Me

I think as time goes on people understand less and less about what the word dedication means and how it should fit into a relationship, at least one where the two members "love" one another. Just as much as dedication decays, the word love turns into a description of who can make the person feel the best about themselves at any given moment in time. I was thinking earlier, trying to compare and contrast the differences between two people that go to geographically close, but still different schools and how they easily separate even when they see each other multiple times a week and that that isn't enough in comparison to seeing someone everyday, such as fellow classmates. Students compared with two people that could either be dating or engaged but not living together and are in the work force they see nice people everyday at work but only see their "significant" other a few times a week. It seems as though if people, regardless of life situation (working or in school), tend to take what they would call a relationship in which they love the other and let it fall apart just because they see other nice people more frequently, there is a problem. It seems as though this problem can be defined by the fact that dedication, the ability to realize that yes, there are other nice friendly people in the world but that you are in a relationship with someone else and therefore these other nice people are just friends and will remain that way, is a dying attribute in relationships.

This desire for instant happiness can be seen as a branch from our current consumer driven market. The lust to buy now, receive now, through credit cards and over the phone purchases, instant internet business with next day delivery, drive through and pay for it later. This need to have the best, now, without thinking about the future cost. This drive that is only furthered and pushed through capitalism and the spread of the infectious idea that the dollar rules all, that those who have now are the most satisfied.

But I ask you, when was the last time that money truly bought you happiness? When was the last time that you received material items and didn't then feel the burn for more?

This attitude that has been spreading like wild fire, required instant gratification, which is the obvious development from capitalism, can be seen spreading into other parts of our life and being the downfall to the long term relationship. This hardship and bane to marriage and commitment, can easily be seen as the death of the classic American dream. A suicide of sorts, the evolutionary death of our dreams caused by our materialistic upbringing.

-Sean   Posted: 12:56 pm

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¤ Mood: Content
¤ Music: ATB

Suddenly, the Paranoids Don't Seem So Paranoid Anymore

As Google progresses, the lines between them and competing companies, that they originally were trying to be unlike, seem to blur. As the company becomes just that, a group acting for the good of the pocketbook and not much more.

Hopefully Google will get their act together and go back to the way the were when they started. But more likely I'm just waiting for the next "Google" as the current becomes what it used to stand against.

-Sean   Posted: 11:59 am

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¤ Music: None

Today at 3pm local time in Seoul, South Korea it was finally announced.

Starcraft II

Get the gameplay videos here.

Time to rejoice, and hope it comes out before 2010.

-Sean   Posted: 06:06 pm

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¤ Music: Ride

I feel this wonderful photo by gilad of deviantArt is of worthy notion and without further adu,

Tel Aviv Dance

-Sean   Posted: 04:25 pm

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¤ Music: Infected Mushrooms - Special Place

20 year old man.
Raised by a single mother.
First in my family to go to college.
Parents worked for years on a fishing boat.
They traveled the country for a year in their VW Van.
I'm trying to feel happiness with my life.
I'm not materialistic, but I don't want to be so free from it that I am unmotivated to be able to provide for myself and, one day, my family.
I'm diabletic.
I can't be so free without worry that I don't take care of myself or can't aford medication otherwise, I'll die.
I need to find the right balance between fun and work so that I'm happy.
Without happiness one can't be motivated.
I just don't know where I'm going or how I should get there.
Sometimes I work too much.
Sometimes I play too much.
Sometimes I care too much.
But, I always persevere.

-Sean   Posted: 08:17 pm

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