Technology...our best friend. -sarcasm-

Technology...look what it's done to us. no one gets hand written letters anymore (who still writes them?), we won't bother to hand the phone to our family when they get a call...just press a button and forward it to the phone they're closest to. Sure, these new inventions can be helpful and fun, but they make us lazy, and fat. (-.- ugh.)

tonight, i went to a graduation party, and i saw this guy talking on his cellphone and listening to his iPod at the same time. and i was like...wow. 'cmon, dude. you're celebrating your family/friend's graduation, and all you can think about is talking to someone on the phone while listening to music you could otherwise listen to some other time? and in the process, cut yourself off from mingling or being talked to?

and car trips, for example. now we can play handhelds, call people, listen to music and such. what ever happened to actually talking to your family? or maybe actually enjoying the view? the simplest things in nature are often overlooked. the sky. the trees. the mountains that form the valley. it's all so beautiful and precious, yet here we are, consumed within ourselves; our lazy, self-centered selves.

ergh. it sometimes sickens me. but hey, i'm not one to talk. i do it myself. i'll be watching a pokemon movie while we're driving through the desert, up the mountains, past the canyons, whatever. we all do it. but just think. anytime you could die, and if you could look back on your life, what would you see? would you see a screen, glowing before you, iluminating chats and emails? or would you see a canyon, with a river flowing through it, the sun setting behind the pink and orange clouds, a bird soaring overhead?

when you die, will you have regrets? of course. all of us will. but that doesn't mean it's ok.

agh, people these days. humanity, society. we're all so self conscious, so self consumed, so selfish. just worrying about ourselves.

but. that's not what Jesus did. he was willing to lay down his life for us. even though we mocked him, made fun of him, he died for us. Us, the people who killed him, the people who didn't believe in him, the sinners. the "i'm living for myself" people. He was the exact opposite. He died for allll of us. even if we've been to jail, have killed someone, have sold drugs... he died for people like them, the most selfless thing anyone could do. he even died for those of us who seem to be good people, just living ordinary lives, unaware of the price he paid to save us.

God loves us just that much.

...but. too bad we can't be like that. too bad we have to be so idiotic and blind, just living for ourselves. we are living in such conceitedness...