What is the point in living if we all just die in the end? What is the point in trying if we just rot away in our graves, glorified if we're heroes, forgotten if we didn't alter the world in this way or that way? What is the point in my sitting in front of this computer, typing, cursing, thinking, if all that happens is forgotten or lost?

We were given this Earth. If we weren't given it, then, let's just say we were 'born' on this Earth. If not for this Earth, we probably wouldn't even be here. If not for this Earth, I wouldn't be here bugging you with my thoughts and asking for your opinions. If not for this Earth, civilisation probably wouldn't have started. Maybe it would have. Maybe. On some other planet, some other galaxy.

What do we do on this Earth then? Hmm? I'll tell you. We wage wars on it. We fight on it. Men, women and children shed blood on it. We throw bombs on it. We tear it wide open. We cut down the rainforests. We hunt the beasts who have lived here longer than us to extinction. We tear it apart then rebuild it. Better than before, we say, gloat, boast. Oh really? Then why have these problems begun cropping up? Since when did we have First and Third World countries? When did these new diseases start cropping up? These new organisations? What about all the rules and regulations? And the talk of another arms race? What about North Korea? When did countries and oceans get names? Why does each country have to have its own 'airspace'?

Well. What is the WHO for? It's supposed to help and alert the rest of the world about new diseases, true? Ah, indeed. Now we are in danger of a pandemic of Sars. All because one very large country did not inform WHO when it first discovered the virus.

Why are there wars in the first place? If you think about it very simply, a war is simply two groups of men who have, no, correction, two men who have dissimiliar views on one issue. I'm convinced that if everyone sat down and chatted as friends, and only friends, not leaders, past enemies, or anything with rank, the world would have fewer problems.

Since when did a majority of blacks dislike whites and vice versa? I'm sure no one is born hating someone of a particular skin colour! No. This hatred is cultivated in a person, probably from a very young age. Why? Another wounderful human issue, probably originating from the time when whites invaded and took farmland away from the native blacks. To this day, in story books, novels, most blacks are portrayed as people who cannot speak good English, cannot spell properly, living in backward places. I wonder why? It must be the age old myth that all blacks are stupid. Started by whom? You think about it. If the English, French, American people hadn't been given a chance to prove themselves, if the blacks had been the ones dominating over them instead, who would have turned out better? Who now would be the ones who are pictured as ill-spoken, ill-mannered people?

We are, in my mind, all extremely stupid people who will result in our own deaths if we aren't more careful.

Whoopee. I'm so happy. Now there is talk of India and Pakistan joining in the new arms race. What'll we have next, if the situation sprialls out of control? What if the nations have a little disgreement and America can't take it? Let's lob bombs at each other! Of course, this is only if America has lost all sense of diplomacy. I said, only if.

The atomic bomb was invented because the Americans feared an attack from Hitler. They used it on the sixth and ninth of August, 1945 on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively, causing thousands of people to die, and Japan to surrender. It's only because we weren't careful in the past, and used up all the resources, and invented objects without thinking about how much danger they would cause. Now, scientists have to increase think of ways to reclaim land, increase arable land, fill up mining holes, create artificial rain, plant more trees, save the ozone layer from disappearing completely, stop the global warming. All because we didn't think before using plastic bags, aerosol sprays, litter, over-farm the land and so on. Of course, I'm not saying that we must know about every danger and every pro and con before using an item, but still, we're destroying the Earth in some little way with every building we build, every car we start, hell, everytime we buy something!

We build places of glory, and carve statues of our forefathers and founders, but do we ever thank the Earth for being there in the first place? Or is it just another road, just another site to make money on, just another tree? Just another whale, just another war? Is it?

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