Lafe Smith

I just read an article stating that U.S. sales for sleeping pills hit $3.7 billion last year. Amazing how people are so quick to take a pill. Do you what is actually in it? Do you know who produced it? Do you know what it is doing to your body? We have become a society that relies on the pill to much. We don't challenge ourselves to do things naturally anymore. Don't you think there are reasons why your body is struggling to sleep? Don't you think its some sort of messages? Are you just going to swallow these pills for the rest of your life? All this is actually quite embarrassing. One second, be right back, let me finish reading this article.

"His theory is that during sleep, the brain evaluates recently learned information and decides what to do with it." -Very interesting, something I think I can agree with.

"Sleep is not an optional enterprise. All mammals do it. So do birds, reptiles, and even fruit flies. Rats deprived of sleep apparently die faster than those deprived of food." -We understand that it is not optional, yet we don't fully understand it. Why don't we put some focus into this instead of what we should do about Iraq. Oh right, no one cares about what it means to be human.

Cool article.

Something that kind of relates and is on my mind, again, is Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. How does everyone have this disease? I read that it affects 3-5% of our population and that 3-5% must be located in the northwest suburbs of Minneapolis. I don't remember meeting any one in Minneapolis with ADD, only after I moved to Plymouth. I think the whole idea of ADD is fake, and excuse. It doesn't exist, its a medical excuse excusing people to act stupid. Another excuse to take dugs. Here is a list of symptoms I found: hyperactivity, forgetfulness, poor impulse control, and distractibility. Basically, people that aren't in touch with them selves as human beings. I agree we aren't created equally, but there is no reason you can't sit still, unless you have some physical defect where you ass cheeks are weird. Its sad that western medicine excuses these people. I also read that there is no cure for ADD, probably because you can't cure what isn't there. I was trying to find a stat comparing the U.S to other countries trying to see if ADD was a U.S dominated "disease" but couldn't. Either way, sounds like a bunch of B.S to me. But I shouldn't be to harsh, I'm a person who stays calm even in the most intense pressure situations, maybe I'm being unfair. Nah!

I have another mission/project on top of my RPG mission and blog mission. After I organize my laptop and hard drive, I am planning on making hard copies of all my music files. I enjoy the digital world and I don't think I could last long without it, but it scares me. Things can disappear to quickly and I would be devastated if I lost my music collection, one of my most cherished possessions. Might take me a couple of cds or dvds but it'll be well worth it.

There is this Chinese girl sitting next to me and just her breath is effecting me. What is it about these people? Not that its a horrible thing, there are so many worse things a human being could do, but how does this always happen?

Again, I've found so many things and so many things have found me during a hard time to keep me up. I talked about a couple of times already in the past blogs, but I have a note here telling me to write about it again. It lets me know that there is still some good in this world, even if it is only a little bit. Good is scattered in small pieces all around, sometimes it comes to you, sometimes you have to find it. Its cool to see how people can affect your life and not even know it, its cool to see how unexpected people come out to help you, its cool to see how amazing timing is, its cool to see how people can sense your pain when they haven't even seen you for an extended period of time. Simply amazing. A couple of people I should thank are:
Ving - He was the first to offer condolence, even though we haven't seen each other for probably over a month. He just senses these things. We just recently met, and I don't know much about him, but from what I can see, he seems like a great person.
Peter - Has pretty much been there each step. Manages to keep my chin up every time it starts to dip.
Lysie - Just weird timing. We hadn't seen each other for a couple of years and she just happened to call me up during this phase of my life. Had an awesome chat with her while she was in town for her spring break.
Meg&Dia - haha, I don't even know them personally, but their writings sure touch me.
Anonymous blog commenter - haha, I'm glad you wrote one un-anonymous. Thank you again for all your kind words.

One last thing before I end this blog. We are studying world war 2 and the Civil Right movement right now in U.S history and I find both topics to be of interest. Something that really confuses me is how people say the Pearl Harbor attack was cheap because the U.S didn't know it was coming. I'm sure if the roles were flipped, the U.S would have done the exact same thing. What did they want Japan to do, call them, letting them know that they are going to bomb them? "Hey whats up man? We the Japanese military are planning to bomb Pearl Harbor on Dec 7th 1941, so you might want to watch out. We just saw that you guys have a lot of supplies sitting around that area and thought it would be to our advantage to blow that shit up. Thanks, I hope you guys are ready to fight" Why would anyone do that!? It always the loser that brings the winners honor into question. The same thing always happened to me when I used to play Halo2 online. I am going to use everything the game developers put in the game to my advantage. How can anything be cheap if you can do the same thing? Hacking is a different story, but even most glitches I can put up with since they are a part of the game. It always upsets me when people say the "noob combo" in Halo is cheap or when they say frag tagging in Gears of War is cheap. No its not, its in the game, use it. But I guess these are the same kids were taught that the Pearl Harbor attack was cheap. Its baffling to me. And what are all these war rules? How could there be rules to war? "All is fair in love and war," lets just stick to that. I understand people are trying to protect human morals, but I don't see how all of that can mix.

Alright, enough bitching.