The Nonchalant Ramblings of a Madman
Tommy Sands

Early today it occurred to me that there is a dire situation becoming active in the world surrounding the college university scenery. This first occurred to me after reading an intriguing piece of art in our very own art gallery.

Have you ever visited it?

Did you know that exists?

This article discussed and pointed out how people used to care and were not so full-heartedly apathetic towards life and education. We need to wake up. If you are one who has already woken up then please continue to remain conscious. If one stops to look at the situation around us, it does not have to be like this. We do not have to dread going to classrooms and dread midterms, finals, and all of the various tests that we are continuously plagued with.

You enjoy the fluffed grades that you receive; one should know that America is one of the lowest ranked countries in the world right now in education. The mass of people today are apathetically sleeping. Does it occur to you why there are so many diseases and obesity in this country?

The body reflects the thoughts and substance of the mind.

We have become weak and lost our lust for life. When is the last time you picked up a book for leisure? The greatest people in history, the very authors you are reading in classrooms daily, were minds that were strong and went against the mold. Find people to talk to that have contingencies with the world around them. Since when is a mid-life crisis something that occurs in a human’s life. Remember the vigor and imaginative passion that one had as a child. The wonderment and inspiration one found from gazing and encountering the world. Look around you at the garbage, the depression, the overall “muck” of the human essence. Man is great but we have seriously in the post-modern world pumped him full of chemicals and efficiency. As the result follows, our balance in this world and apart from our natural human essence has created a crisis of the most paramount grade.

Did you decide your major in college or were you influenced by others to choose a path in life. It is yours isn’t it. I shudder to say so, but again what one has learned in these past four years about the human crisis. When one goes to bars, what does one talk about, simple pleasures of the flesh, do you really think that was all we were designed for? Read a book, it will help you to cultivate your ideas and thoughts about the world around you.

When sleeping, does one follow a regimented schedule in which every morning awakening is met by the dread of sleeping in or resting a few more minutes? Why is it you think that you are too exhausted and drained every morning to greet it. My biggest concern is that when you look back at these years, will you see nothing but drunken nights and random hook-ups or a well-built education with which to engage the society around you.

There are two people that one can become.

A person who is shaped by the world around you or one who shapes this world into something new. Look at what you see around you, what do you see. I am interested if one could tell me that the education they receive is a quality education. What purpose is there in taking an online class, there is no interaction and the class is simply easy? But hey if that’s the solipsistic community in which you wish to exist then by all means put blinders and ear plugs back in and continue living as a limp starfish.

Please don’t think that I am badgering you all as morons, but simply calling into hindsight the value placed upon your education. Better yet, if one was to rank oneself as a human being with regards to your education, how would you feel? Like a human or a lab rat who is nibbling on a rotten piece of cheese. It is easy to accept watching television and playing video games all day. That is the lifestyle that is dominating our younger brothers and sisters. That will be the lifestyle of your children as well if such malpractice continues.

Too much traffic, not enough time to do what one wants to do. There is only one life for you sirs and madams and that is a free one. One in which there is the opportunity to do what one wants. Is your life so horrid and languish that one must continuously take spring breaks and vacations.

From what, life?

Listen to how those words echo upon your mind’s walls. Reading has become an obsolete fashion for some. For the past 2,000 years reading has been a way to liberate people. The first slaves learned how to read and became aware of the things around them. Do you even know which Amendment abolished slavery in America? If not then I feel sorry for you because you are already a slave, both in the physical sense and also psychologically. Perhaps a shame has come over you like our dear governor of Albany.

Life is meant to be enjoyed and embraced not wasted and left as a festering fruit in the glimmer of the moon. This world has rotation in it and so do our thoughts, but if these thoughts become obsolete then who is going to guide your life. The standards of society, perhaps one can look at them as well. But these are only the mere thoughts of an insane madman as I sit in my tower above the world and glance down and watch as the ants below me fight over pieces of a cake that we aren’t even sure exist or not.

What was I? Who am I? Am I not me?

Am I a mass of flesh melting under the barren sun?

Have I walked my mind in too many circles?

Have I stabbed out my own minds eye in apathy over my own mind?

Previous Page    Back to Horizons Spring 2008 Vol. 25    Next Page