Society and Wars

I am currently in The Netherlands watching a debate about human privacy. The question is whether we want maximum privacy or maximum safety and whether we have to give up privacy to receive safety. It made me start thinking about the new rules in airports in England at the moment:

1. Laptops and phones need to be fully charged when travelling.
2. You need to be able to switch electronic devices on when asked to.

For someone like me who travels a lot I know this at times is impossible. For example,
I have been in school all day and leave at 3 pm to immediately go to the airport. My phone might be almost out of battery by the time I am going through checks as I have had no time to charge it. These new rules to me show that slowly we are becoming a distrusting society where because of mistakes made by others everyone suffers. War is slowly coming again. Russia is becoming more violent towards the Ukraine and is stretching the boundaries. And no one is really intervening as no one wants to deal with Russia and all of its problems. The Israelian army is bombing Gaza while they are also firing rockets towards Israel both ,now, also killing innocent civilians. A fifth of all casualties is children. A fifth. War is slowly coming again.

I personally believe society is falling apart. We do not trust and are constantly tip-toeing around trying not to provoke anyone. Our traumatised past containing WW1, WW2 and the cold war is still now restricting us from intervening from current issues, as we do not want another war. Society is falling apart and the worst part...there is nothing I can do to help.

Society and Wars

I am currently in The Netherlands watching a debate about human privacy. The question is whether we want maximum privacy or maximum safety and whether we have to give up privacy to receive safety. It made me start thinking about the new rules in airports in England at the moment:

1. Laptops and phones need to be fully charged when travelling.
2. You need to be able to switch electronic devices on when asked to.

For someone like me who travels a lot I know this at times is impossible. For example,
I have been in school all day and leave at 3 pm to immediately go to the airport. My phone might be almost out of battery by the time I am going through checks as I have had no time to charge it. These new rules to me show that slowly we are becoming a distrusting society where because of mistakes made by others everyone suffers. War is slowly coming again. Russia is becoming more violent towards the Ukraine and is stretching the boundaries. And no one is really intervening as no one wants to deal with Russia and all of its problems. The Israelian army is bombing Gaza while they are also firing rockets towards Israel both ,now, also killing innocent civilians. A fifth of all casualties is children. A fifth. War is slowly coming again.

I personally believe society is falling apart. We do not trust and are constantly tip-toeing around trying not to provoke anyone. Our traumatised past containing WW1, WW2 and the cold war is still now restricting us from intervening from current issues, as we do not want another war. Society is falling apart and the worst part...there is nothing I can do to help.

"Depression"

Hi everyone...
A lot of people seem to be, as they like to say, "depressed" nowadays. It kind of seems as if no one can really be happy now. Which seems weird to me since we are entering the festive season of Christmas. However I can also in a way relate as the past few weeks have been hard. If any of my friends are reading this: I am sorry I'm being distant....blame LIFE!. But seriously a lot of people seem to be either completely stressed out, suffering from a mental or emotional breakdown or are just "depressed". I personally think you have to be a little bit careful with the word depressed since there are people that say they are "depressed" but really are just attention seekers and then there are the ones who actually suffer from depression. I keep on wondering why everyone seems to be so upset all around me when really we have so many opportunities and friends and love and ..stuff. But I wonder:

"Are so many opportunities too much? Do they put extra pressure on us to do well/better?"

Is it possible that we are put down more inside if we fail while having had opportunities? Let me explain because I feel like that sentence does not do my idea justice. In my school us (students) are provided with many opportunities to get work experience, to do volunteering or to take part in challenges etc. However what if we take some of those but they do not improve our grades? Could it then be that we feel like we are bad at everything because: "even though I get so many opportunities I still do not seem to be able to do as well as some who don't even have these opportunities?!". I hope this kind of explained it a bit. However to link this back to "depression". It could be that our self confidence just decreases due to more pressure causing us to all just feel as if we are failing at everything. I have had a rough couple of weeks and have decided to not talk about it to people because I feel like it would bother them and it is so different to the usual bubbly Leonie (or Lemonface as people like to call me ;) ). However I have noticed that if I withhold all of this information about myself to people they start to feel as if I do not take them serious as friends. This is not true. So to be able to get out of this self destructing cycle the best thing you can do is to just talk about it. Obviously not to everyone, that would be a bit weird, but talk to your friends or your parents etc. It does help.

Gossip gossip gossip

Gossip...
Its something that i think we have all done during our time at school. I also think we all know there has been gossip at a time about ourselves. The funny thing with gossip is that we all hate it when its about us but L-O-V-E to be part of it. Only a small amount of people can resist the urge to quickly tell a friend something about someone. However what I wonder is why is it so appealing? We all know why gossip hurts already. Its the fact that people know or think they know something about you but you dont know what it is. But what makes gossip the main topic during sleepovers? Is it the fact that due to peer pressure we have to be "perfect" during school and so let all that annoys us out at other times. Or is it that we feel like we have to talk about others to fit in? My conclusion:
" we talk about others to feel better about ourselves"
I believe that due to social pressures we always think about how we look, what we say and who we hang out with. This however just causes many to be perfect at pointing out their own flaws. I keep thinking that we are just so jealous of so many that gossiping brings us inner joy as we forget about our own flaws and can point out others's. What we can do about it? Personally i would like to say its as easy as just accepting our flaws and stop finding joy in analyzing others's. I and many others know how it feels to be gossiped about especially if the gossip is untrue. However it is not that easy. It will take time and more than just a few people to co-operate. How long this will take? I have no bloody idea.

judged or judge?

Trying to write a song can be easy and hard. Just like life really. But finding a topic that will not only please yourself but also your audience...now that is a talent. Wandering through the streets of London I do often find some inspiration. But sitting down and just starting to write then again proves to be a challenge. Somehow the thought of people seeing me with my guitar just scares me. Aren't we all incredibly judgmental? But also at the same time aren't we all incredibly scared of being judged? Even the ones who say they don't somewhere still will feel insecure when they are all by themselves and a group (often girls) starts laughing and to look at you. It just makes me wonder:

"Are we all so scared of being judged that we become the judges?"

I knew I had to somehow find a way to be more self confident seeing how I am now slowly entering sixth form where (In England) we are now allowed to wear our own clothes, giving the bullies a new chance to pick on you. And in fact the challenge is not not to care but to not do the same to others in a moment of fear or jealousy. And while we all say that we are not the bullies and that we are not the judges when we think about we all are. Even in the tiniest of situations we somehow always seem to find something to say about someone. And then somehow I just knew what to do. I had to just change. Not because I was scared that people would not like me because of how I was now. But because when I change now and am confident in what I do now I know that no one will be able to take that away. Whilst when I do the same that I have been doing for many years now and something that I am not a 100% sure about...I know that the bullies and the judges will get to me. I am not saying we should all do this I just somehow have the confidence that for me it might work. 

XOXO