Personal Narrative: My Personal Morality

"If you dont have anything nice to say, then dont say anything at all." One of the few

morals I personally disagree with. There are alot of good morals to go by, then again, there are

also alot of bad ones. I am very picky when it comes to these things, because this is what makes

up me; my personality, and how I should act around everyone and everything. Everyone has

atleast one moral that they're devoted to and stand by because thats what they believe in, though

everyone follows on delusion that haunts humanity.

Im going to start this off with a recent experience I had not too long ago. I went to

Stonehenge, I'm not sure what I expected to find when I went there. Its been so long that since

mankind tampered with it, that this place
Well, what I've

taken from it is, is that rocks appear to be permanent. I mean I know that they arent. Mountains

are constantly eroding and in places the crust is melting back into the mantle. Rock obviously isn't

permanent, but on the scale of a human life, it is and people have recognized that face ­ rocks are

permanent ­ for thousands of years and, I think that's what makes so, very important to us, as the

quote goes, "a diamond is forever". We as humans build monuments out of rock because they will

outlast us and virtually every other material we can think of. What about our modern structures

you say? The metal and glass are just rock refines by our inginuity. Rocks are both practical and

symbolic. We seek to indetify ourselves with rocks. We carve our heroes, forefathers, emporers,

king in stone because, we want them to last forever, and there is a way in which we want that kind

of permanence for ourselves. I think it is at the core of the human heart to scratch our name into

stone, or put your initials in wet cement, really just, man­made rock; or fasten a padlock to a

bridge. In this way, we try to push our imperanence from our minds. The monuments, statues
But the same delusion I would argue is also debilitating. It lulls you into a false sense of

security, inaction, like a due date a long time in the future. There is always tomorrow so we

procrastinate living the life we truly desire and we live, in more fear. The sense that your soul is

eternal makes you cowardly because failure forever; for really, ever. Shame, embarassment,

disappointment, they would never, ever leave you. A distant horizon encourages you to play it

safe, to fight on and live to see another day; for after all, there is always, another day. And this is

why I find nihilism to be so liberating and emboldening! If you can really picture the true

nothingness that awaits you, then what is there to be afraid of? Nothing! Erros and humiliations

will be forgotten but great achievements may not. We may have no meaning in the comsic,

universal context of the universe, but we make our own daily with eachother; and this is the

thought that leads to action: your days are numbered, you do not know what that number is but it

is very finite, so get busy with what it is you want to do. Time is running