GO

At the end of the game, in the epilogue, it states that to be the best you need to practice, practice, and practice some more. How cliche is that? This is what everyone tells us for every single thing that we are trying to accomplish. Sad thing is, it is exactly the key to success. Its good to see how people finally agree on a subject for once. Practice only gives us experience, it makes us wiser. However, when human laziness kicks in perfection is almost an unreachable goal. I guess we wish that we had a matrix computer program that would upload all that we need to know about the subject that we want to know, and we immediately call ourselves masters. But the world and life would then be perfect, however. Where´s the fun in that? I rather not know everything that spend my life like a perfect robot...would you?

NIGHT

Its amazing how priorities change during war. At the beginning, Elieser, his family and the rest of the Jewish community kept on practicing their traditional ceremonies and had respect for their special day, Saturday. However, a couple of months into the war, after suffering pains that they could not have imagined before and witnessing gruesome events those kinds of things do not matter. All he could think about was getting through the day, just living one more day. At this point, he didn´t care for his own life as much as he cared about being there for his own father. We are very dependent on all sorts of electronic devices, tools and gadgets that we think are fundamental for our every day lives, but im fact are completely extra. They are useful, sure, but not necessary. Hopefully humanity will one day recieve a smack in the head, a reality check, and we will all come to realize that survival is possible without so many...stuff...

Confucius Analects-Closing Entry

After finishing Confucius´s Analects I sat down to think. After all, this is a book that leaves you in a pensive sort of mood, wondering about the right and wrong way to lead your own life. Sure, if everyone followed Confucius´s teachings the world would be a much better place, a perfect place. Then again, where would all the fun be? If people don´t mess up ocassionally or make mistakes or things like that life´s exitment would be gone. Of course I´m not saying that the world is fine as it is today, that people should be mean and heartless just for entertainment, but I also don´t want the "ideal" world. It´s all about finding the happy or healthy medium, just like everything else in life.