What is your purpose, humanoid?

15-16/2/12
Music: La Dispute - Wildlife
Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere in the Between

If and when we're found by
Another race
From distant space
Will we confuse them?

Have they observed us already?
The fickle struggle for life
For true love
And to defy death

What do they think of our mindless repetition
Is history doomed to repeat?
Will one look at war damn our race in their eyes?
Or will star-crossed lovers entice them?

Will they laugh at our ill-placed faiths?
And the conflicts they stir
And our dwindling resources
And love of that we were

For we must wonder
Is this race
From distant space
Just like us?

Are they doomed to repeat their history,
And ruled by their emotions,
Conflicts of desire and morality
Defining them as they do us?

Do they seek peace in idolatry?
And refuse to change their ways?
And if all this is true,
Are they here to seek salvation?

Entangled lovers must unite
The past must be left to rust
Else the desperate spacefarers
Will most likely be us.
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Well, I haven't posted on here for a while. I've had an interesting past few days, and now my head hurts. I'm confused and overwhelmed. And the fact that I head off to Uni soon doesn't help.

I know someone's reading this. Whether I'm your friend, or colleague, or schoolmate, or something more, I thank you for your patience. I thank you for putting up with me, I thank you for support, I thank you for anything you've ever done for me. And a certain person in particular, I thank you for your understanding. I don't want to let you down.
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In less depressing and hormonal news, I'm going to see La Dispute on Sunday. I'm so excited I could break something. I've got a good weekend lined up, so, hopefully, I can relax and enjoy myself.

My awesome parents got me a guitar. So I've started trying to teach myself, and I can play a few chords now. I'm starting out trying to learn a few Neutral Milk Hotel songs, thanks to their simplicity. Hipster credibility +10.

I have to go to work in an hour... I love the fact that I'm making money and being productive, but that place makes me think. Sometimes it's a good place to reflect. Sometimes it turns my mind into a wretched hive of scum and villainy.