Death and All His Friends

"No I don't want to battle from beginning to end, I don't want to cycle or recycle revenge, I don't want to follow Death and all of His friends"

I don't know what it is about that line, but I love it. It's from a song called Death and All His Friends by a little band that has more name recognition then I care to mention. It sucks that all of their most amazing work like this song don't receive the kind of recognition their more pop-ish song do.. They really have an amazing collection of work..

But I digress. That one line from that song was so profound, it tugged at some deeper sense of self and understanding in me. That line has stuck with me since I first heard it, becoming a sort of tacit motto of mine.

In the end, I feel it says 'Live and let live'. It's a rejection of the never ending cycle of violence, of contempt, of rejection, and of misunderstanding. It is sympathy and empathy for your fellow man. It's bare-bone humanity, pure, uncorrupted, and true.

And its all just idealism. There's nothing practical in it. I'm not very old, I haven't seen very much, and I understand very little. But I understand the world isn't black and white. There aren't always simple wrong and right choices, and you cannot trust people to make the right choices, because in the end, what is right is only relative to you and your interests.

Still, it doesn't hurt to cling to an ideal, it gives us something to strive for. But I talk non-sense. Utter non-sense.
Again, I'm barely even of voting age yet.