Updates on my life

So I’ve been off for about a month… here are some things of interest.

1. Band.  God do I wish I was brave enough to say this in person.  It’s not going well at all… poor attitudes and brattiness prevail, and it’s not entirely freshmen.  It’s the seniors.  You know, after the whole fiasco that was the old band director getting fired to having to work with a fairly unpopular band director, I was hoping we could recover from this.  Apparently not.  Thanks a lot.

2. “White Girl.”  It’s a BBC movie about how a girl, Leah, moves from Leeds to Bradford.  Her family is Catholic and moves to a Muslim neighborhood.  At first Leah isn’t pleased about being surrounded by Muslims, her mother being absent and having to receive Muslim religious education and having her dad stalk her family.  Then she’s fascinated by Islam and eventually converts, leading to her parents’ violent reaction, her moving in next door, and her dad being an overall douche at the end but the family does  bond (albeit in a weird way).

3. School.  High school sucks.  This has been proven by generations and generations of people.  The faux college bullshit they’ve got going on in the 2000’s?  Sucks even worse.  No wonder teen suicide rates are up.

4. Other: Religion is a drug.  It’s addictive.  It’s like pot (being said by someone who has ever tried pot and doesn’t have any plans to do so… besides, pot isn’t addictive or really deadly anyway until you start mixing it with stuff… actually, this analogy works).  Pot isn’t addictive, but some people think they need pot to have fun (which I can say is not true, there are plenty of ways to have a good time sans pot).  Religion isn’t physically addictive in itself (I for one have suffered no physical ailments since leaving Christianity, actually I have but they are in no way related to leaving Christianity), but people can be addicted by thinking they need it.  Even as something as harmless as a little prayer puff, or going into a stoned-off-your-feet crusade for the faith, people feel they need to have a good life.  I’m not saying religion is bad, nor am I saying pot is bad.  (Both in fact to have benefits to some extent, and pot is not nearly as dangerous as people say it is).  Bah, I fail at this analogy thing.  Basically I’m saying, like an ex-stoner misses his pot, I miss my religion, dammit.  Even though I know I don’t need it, I know I should stay away.

More on this at 11 on Channel 16 News: Your blog, your news… your right to read the rambling.

~ by thinkingteen on October 12, 2008.