Altruism

Feel free to skip this blog post, I'm pretty sure it accomplished nothing anywhere in my head or for anyone... My brain's kind of jumbled right now...

I think I'm having priority/perspective issues right now.  Pretty much ridiculously.  This morning I woke up after not getting quite enough sleep and could hear birds chirping outside my window, which immediately coupled with the warm weather put me in summer mode.  Went to calc where my teacher was ecstatic because the average was a 77... after he took the 11 lowest grades out of the mix... not sure how that works but ok, I've yet to get my grade.  Psych class was weird.  Its a bizarre cloudy day where it looks like the sky is thinking about raining but hasn't made up its mind yet.  Other stuff, and psych discussion and here I am.

Either way, today's been weird.  School work seems so damn unimportant when I compare it to other things and it frustrates me.  I just want to get past all these requirements and get to the point where I am learning things that will actually allow me to do something with my life, maybe something that could help people or the world.  I think I need to figure out what I want to do with my life.

Today in psychology discussion we talked about altruism and egoism and whether there truly are selfless acts.  We talked about a bunch of different things in this world that need anyone's help, and how the United States is donating money to a bunch of areas hit by natural disasters before anyone's fixed everything in Louisiana or the homelessness and poverty in the US.

I don't understand why anything has to be all about us.  ((Or US depending on how you look at it...))  There is just far too much that is wrong with the world, and I can gather that without even watching the news.  And I honestly wish there was a way I could fix it all.  But I'm only one person.  We talked about how big celebrities with so much money barely donate any of it to anything.  And all I could really think about is how Jack Johnson has been putting all of his music/concert profits to his Ohana (sp?) charity.  He's content to do what he loves and give the rest away.  Why can't more people be like that?  I feel like that would make the world a better place.  I want to live like that.  Doing just enough to survive and giving the rest away.  I don't know how to though.  I donated blood yesterday.  At this point I've gone so many times I've lost track...  I remember the 7th time I went, and then just not caring how many more after that because 6 or 7 was the 1 year mark.  Now I'm just pro.  I've also switched to using http://www.goodsearch.com/ because god knows google does not need whatever money they gain through me using their search engine.  This way every time I search a penny goes to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

That's another messed up thing.  Celebrities with so much money that they use for who even knows what could personally fund an entire research team to find a cure for some devastating disease.  Yet most of them don't unless it affects themselves or is connected to them in some way.  I don't understand why people who have so much will do so little.

It also baffles me why people spend the time going to get a manicure or pedicure for $50, when that money could go towards something good or useful... I don't know, I'm sure I waste money like that too on other things...

Why does everything have to be run by money?

Either way... if everyone did a little bit, things could be fixed so easily.  Yet everyone seems to lose sight of big issues due to the issues they are dealing with the time.  And I'm no exception to this, I definitely have lost sight of important things...

I think its time to do a little reprioritizing...

And I want to know my fate.  If I keep up this way.  And its hard to want to stay awake when everyone you meet, they all seem to be asleep.  And you wonder if you're missing your dream.  You can't see your dream.  - Death Cab for Cutie