Saturday, January 23, 2010

Stupid.

So, I was thinking. (as I always am)

I've thought this thought before, but only until now has it really dawned on me.

Most of the time, when people don't understand things, they automatically label it as stupid.

And I had this thought, as I was looking at a book that I had just bought from the thrift store. This book is called, "A Sense of Honor" by James Webb. It's kind of like an old, random, war book dealing with the Marines. (I've been reading and collecting weird, random, and different books lately) I had thought about a war book that I had read before (called Solider X) and loved to death. I realized that the reason why I never read war novels or storys was because I had never understood them. The words, I never had any clue what they meant, the feelings the soldiers went through, I had no understanding of, I knew nothing of guns, code names of the battlefield, therefore, causing me to not understand the books of war. And therefore, causing me to dislike and have an uninterest with war novels.

When I have met like die hard war-stuff fans, or people that had been in the wars, army, marines, navy or something of the sort, I tended to look upon their passion towards those things as stupid. I mean, I would think, "They go out to war, kill people with their silly guns, and die. Whats so special about that?!" And now I see I found it stupid, for the simple reason of not understanding it.

My advice to you: If anything to learn in life, learn to understand.

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