The war in Iraq and the history of USA

[Beorn]

Girl: Hey baby I want to show you...

 

Boy: (Cutting her off) Ugh I'm so sad.

 

Girl: Why? What's wrong?

 

Boy: Ugh everything...

 

Girl: Explain baby.

 

Boy: Just lost a champianship game, parents flipped out on me for no reason, and im catching a cold...

 

Girl: Well hey there will always be other games, you know I will take care of you when your sick, and what did your parents flip out about?

 

Boy: They are makeing me pay car repair.

 

Girl: Is it alot of money?

 

Boy: No it just sucks

 

Boy: But hey I dont feel well I'm going to go lay down.

 

Boy: Bye

 

Girl: Wait I want to give you...

 

Boy: Can't it wait 'till tomorrow?

 

Girl: Yeah sure...

 

Girl: Bye

 

Boy: Bye

 

***

 

Two hours later a friend of hers asked her to go for a drive. She decides and go and during the drive her friend swerved to avoid a truck, hitting a tree. Her friend was killed instantly and she is in critical condition.

 

(This is the conversation between her sister and her boyfriend.)

 

Sister: Oh my god.. (crying)

 

Boy: What? What's wrong?

 

Sister: My sister, your girlfriend was involved in a major car wreck.

 

Boy: Is she ok?

 

Sister: She's in critical condition.

 

Boy: I'll be there in 10 minutes.

 

***

 

He arrives at the hospital room. Standing outside the door he was going over the the last conversation in his mind over and over as heard the machines beep and beep and the breathing tubes pump.

 

Boy: She wanted to give me somthing or tell me something...

 

Girl's mother: Yeah..this...

 

It was an envelope smelling like she always did. Sealed with a kiss in lipstick. He opened it and it said "You're everything to me...I love you with everything I am and everthing I have...I want to spend the rest of my life with you." Sealed in it was a ripped movie ticket from the first movie they seen together and the first picture they took together. He kissed the picture as a tear fell off of he face on the the picture. It looked as if she were crying. Then she flatlined and three minutes later she was pronounced dead.

[kat]

it's real upsetting to hear these stories, but the truth be told, it happens every day :/

The message that i believe this is putting forth is to not let the little things in life pass you by, and to think of others before yourself. it's almost amazing how things can change in all just a single heart beat...

 

 

 

-kat

[MagpieLee]

Looks like one of those typical email forwards that I get all the time. Its not really sad, its annoying - and I delete them before I read the end.

[sora_barzahd]

I agree with magpie. They all are annoying and they're all the same

[kat]

i have to agree with ya. getting emails like that are REAL annoying...especially the ones that are like "If you don't send this to 10 people in the next 5min. bloody mary will come and kill you while you're sleeping"

[MagpieLee]

i have to agree with ya. getting emails like that are REAL annoying...especially the ones that are like "If you don't send this to 10 people in the next 5min. bloody mary will come and kill you while you're sleeping"

 

Thats exactly what I was gonna say!

I'd rather not forward them, delete them and wait for bloody to come and 'get me'. I deserve it after all for being a heartless asshole.

[Arnieman]

Yeah, the forwards are annoying... I remember one time I wrote an email, made it look like a forward, and then sent it to a few of my friends. It had all kinds of stories of mayhem than happened to people that forwarded it, and told people not to forward it...

 

Sadly enough, a few friends forwarded it back to me...

[Beorn]

I found it on the speachless writer website...not throught e-mail so um yeah call it annoying if you want but I stil think it is sad.

[RolandR1]

that's a really sad story

[Infamous]

Girl: Is it alot of money?

 

Boy: No it just sucks

 

lol

[sora_barzahd]

Wow, his girlfriend was an attention hore

Edited January 20, 2006 by sora_barzahd

[Vanyel]

Bah, it sounds like Brasilian Soap Opera (yeah, now you can start throwing stones at me).

[Samanex]

Nah... definitley a Bolivian soap opera....

 

Reminds me of a story about a girl I'd met who was in an accident like that.

Four small-town teenagers in a car, speeding and playing around. They hit a concrete pillar and three of them died. She was the only survivor, and also the driver. That's got to be hard to deal with!

[WoodeH]

i have to agree with ya. getting emails like that are REAL annoying...especially the ones that are like "If you don't send this to 10 people in the next 5min. bloody mary will come and kill you while you're sleeping"

 

God there bloody anoying..

[sparhawk]

Thats life. Ending at any moment and going to whereever you go. (Ei:heaven or the other one...) Which means you arent really dead but still alive. So really one could say that no one died in the story and we should all be happy that she found a better place.

[Vanyel]

i have to agree with ya. getting emails like that are REAL annoying...especially the ones that are like "If you don't send this to 10 people in the next 5min. bloody mary will come and kill you while you're sleeping"

 

God there bloody anoying..

 

Worse are chains that are playing on your feelings.

"This poor puppies will be drown if we don't find them a good house. Please, if you can take on of them call 0-700-14m-f001 and, please, send this message to as many your friends as possible! Look at them how cute they are!"

 

Who of you wouldn't send something like this forward? Bah... and all of it is just a adv of f.ing sex-line. This IS annoying.

[Entropy]

I am resonably sure this is BS, not a real story.

I have some 'intelectually challanged' people sending me similar e-mails, written by teenagers with mental problems.

I mean, WTF, if you want to read something sad just read about how many people are 'liberated' every day in Iraq.

[Beorn]

Well, now that my EL social status has been degraded. I thought I would post some of my poetry.

 

Mirror

When I look into the mirror

My reflection is all I see

Just a flat surface with no emotion

Looking back at me

Where once there was an illusion

That made the tension flare

Now it's weakened and distant

Just me on the surface there

 

Tales of stolen moments along a crisp, water's edge

Dappled sunlight beneath the broad branched trees

I still envision the smile that I don't think I'll ever see

Oh, what could have been

Could have been magic that blistered the sun

Could have built a bridge to Heaven

But it's all gone, all gone

 

So the dreams that lived inside my head

The ones that I'd shared with you

Became the words of a fairytale

And you know those don't come true

 

Untitled

I've fallen in this fragile life

Only shattered pieces remain

You held me in your arms before

Please help me back up again

 

I lie here dead and broken

Cos you were the one that held me together

Everything is falling apart

Now that we are severed

 

I must learn to walk on my own now

The next step is the one from here

I'm afraid to be alone

But it's time I faced my fear

 

So blind your eyes to what you see

This is not meant for you

You never did and never will

Understand my point of view

[dragburn]

I am resonably sure this is BS, not a real story.

I have some 'intelectually challanged' people sending me similar e-mails, written by teenagers with mental problems.

I mean, WTF, if you want to read something sad just read about how many people are 'liberated' every day in Iraq.

have you ever toyed with the teenagers with mental problems (not the seriously f.ed up from being crack babies or the like but the incredibly stupid ones)? if not you really should. it is a lot of fun! especially the kind that you can look at their eyes and see that there is absolutely nothing going on behind their forehead.

[Arnieman]

I mean, WTF, if you want to read something sad just read about how many people are 'liberated' every day in Iraq.

Y'know, that is sad...

 

So's the thousands dyind daily in Africa from diseases, famine, war, etc...

So's the many dying every year in the "gang violence" in the ghettos of America.

So's a lot of other deaths that pass, that no one seems to care about, just because there isn't a political statement to be made in those deaths.

 

People live; people die. Making too much more of it than that, and still forgetting to take the time for what really matters, and dying before you took the chance to live, now THAT's sad.

 

Now lay offa me, I'm gonna go play video games! (joke here)

 

EDIT: Typo - even I'm not immune.

Edited January 23, 2006 by Arnieman

[kat]

Well, now that my EL social status has been degraded. I thought I would post some of my poetry.

 

beorn, don't let it get to ya, i've made topics and such in which i wouldn't get some so nice comments, and felt like a fool. so, you aren't the only one, don't worry about it

 

-kat

 

btw, nice poetry

[Entropy]

Y'know, that is sad...

 

So's the thousands dyind daily in Africa from diseases, famine, war, etc...

So's the many dying every year in the "gang violence" in the ghettos of America.

So's a lot of other deaths that pass, that no one seems to care about, just because there isn't a political statement to be made in those deaths.

 

People live; people die. Making too much more of it than that, and still forgetting to take the time for what really matters, and dying before you took the chance to live, now THAT's sad.

 

Now lay offa me, I'm gonna go play video games! (joke here)

 

EDIT: Typo - even I'm not immune.

 

I think you fail to understand the point here.

The point is that it is in our power to stop the slaughtering of the people in Iraq (or, at the very least, prevent similar slaughtering in the future) by fucking going out and vote properly.

On the other hand, not only that it is not in our power to 'prevent' stupid deaths like the one described in this article, but it is rather irrelevant to most of us, as we are not responsible for it.

Most of us also had our share of personal tragedy in our lives, no reason to read about the tragedy of others that we do not even know, unless, of course, we can do something about it.

 

As for Mr. Beorn, I don't really care when someone post that in a forum, so long as they do not e-mail it to me.

Which means I do not think you are in the same category with the retards that mass e-mail people such stories (or send it to their whole IM lists).

 

 

Now let me post some poetry too (which is actually the lyrics of a great Offspring song)

 

Maybe in another life

I could find you there

Pulled away before your time

I can’t deal it’s so unfair

 

 

And it feels

And it feels like

Heaven’s so far away

And it feels

Yeah it feels like

The world has grown cold

Now that you’ve gone away

 

 

Leaving flowers on your grave

Show that I still care

But black roses and hail mary’s

Can’t bring back what’s taken from me

I reach to the sky

And call out your name

And if I could trade

I would

 

 

And it feels

And it feels like

Heaven’s so far away

And it stings

Yeah it stings now

The world is so cold

Now that you’ve gone away

Edited January 24, 2006 by Entropy

[Vanyel]

I am resonably sure this is BS, not a real story.

I have some 'intelectually challanged' people sending me similar e-mails, written by teenagers with mental problems.

I mean, WTF, if you want to read something sad just read about how many people are 'liberated' every day in Iraq.

have you ever toyed with the teenagers with mental problems (not the seriously f.ed up from being crack babies or the like but the incredibly stupid ones)? if not you really should. it is a lot of fun! especially the kind that you can look at their eyes and see that there is absolutely nothing going on behind their forehead.

 

What gives your rights to toy with anybody? Wanna toy - buy Barbie. I don't know why, but this post pissed me off quite a lot.

No regards

Vanyel

 

@ Beorn

I love your poems, is there place there is more of them to read?

 

@Entropy

Very good and forcing to slow down and to think song. Not many people knows Offspring from this side - some see then only as 'ex-punk-group-that-goes-now-only-for-money'.

Edited January 24, 2006 by vanyel

[Arnieman]

I think you fail to understand the point here.

The point is that it is in our power to stop the slaughtering of the people in Iraq (or, at the very least, prevent similar slaughtering in the future) by fucking going out and vote properly.

On the other hand, not only that it is not in our power to 'prevent' stupid deaths like the one described in this article, but it is rather irrelevant to most of us, as we are not responsible for it.

Most of us also had our share of personal tragedy in our lives, no reason to read about the tragedy of others that we do not even know, unless, of course, we can do something about it.

Actually, I think I fully understood the point.

 

I understand that what's going on in Iraq is a mess - really, no one can say any different, and can you tell me it would save us anything if we did something different (like, walk out tomorrow and not look back)?

 

At the same time, a hundred times a hundred other deaths are happening every day, and many could be prevented if people made their decisions - I mean, if you think about it, we all have these weird "votes" in our lives. Maybe the heart attack patient could have enjoyed one less cheeseburger, or the pack-a-day lung cancer victim could have enjoyed one less cigarette. Maybe the drunk driver could have enjoyed one less beer. Maybe if the soldier wasn't in the battle. Maybe if the famine-stricken had food, or the diseased medicine. Maybe if the anxious person had worried a little less...

 

My point - I personally feel all life is sacred, and it's not pleasant to hear that anyone has to die. You can't save everyone; you just have to weigh whatever you have in front of you and do the best you can. I mean, what if all that "intelligence" from Iraq had been right and we did nothing? Or, what if we decided to pack up and leave tomorrow? Would it be any better with or without us?

 

Wars kill - should the soldier never enter the field? Automobile accidents kill - maybe we shouldn't drive! People drown - maybe water should be forbidden under severe penalty... Futility.

 

While we spout poems and such - here's another:

 

To everything there is a season,

a time for every purpose under the sun.

A time to be born and a time to die;

a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

a time to kill and a time to heal ...

a time to weep and a time to laugh;

a time to mourn and a time to dance ...

a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing;

a time to lose and a time to seek;

a time to rend and a time to sew;

a time to keep silent and a time to speak;

a time to love and a time to hate;

a time for war and a time for peace.

 

A cookie to anyone who knows the song (or the source).

 

I do have to say, I liked that song before when I heard it (used to be an Offspring fan several years back).

 

@Beorn - not a bad poen there - thoughtful.

Edited January 24, 2006 by Arnieman

[sora_barzahd]

The poems in the bible. I'm not sure if it's in ephisians I beleive. (I think I spelled it right)