I ended up watching quite a few FunForLouis vlogs last night, because I just cannot get enough of the British crew in America. Also, Louis is really great at making vlogs-- he's just so bloody good at filming and editing. I woke up at 10:00 am today, which means I've had nine hours of sleep. Not bad. Ended up watching the Grand Designs episode whilst eating breakfast, instead of last night. I didn't do any packing last night either, so I ended up doing it today, and I'm sort of done. I say sort of, because I've most likely forgotten something even if I did write a list of what to bring. I also washed my make up brushes today, which I was supposed to do on Thursday, but I also forgot about that. I'm just hoping they'll dry quickly. I've also been to the post office for a short visit. And oh my god, when I got out from the mall (the post office is in our local mall) there was a lady on the ground on the other side of the road. She was basically rolling around a bit. Another man and I both noticed it at the same time, and we both went towards her. He helped her up, and I asked if she was okay. She said she was okay, and thanked for the concern. She looked okay and she was fine to walk, but it was on my mind for the rest of the walk home. And I was thinking about the Shaytards and that one time I was watching a vlog where Shay mentions the story about some girl that's being attacked, but no one helps her because everyone assumes that someone is going to help her, and then nobody ends up helping her. Yeah, I kept wondering if anyone else saw the lady fall, and if they just walked by. I didn't see her fall, I just saw her lying on the ground. Anyway, lesson is that you should help no matter what. I've been listening to Lucky Man by Hoodie Allen, and it's such a good tune! Makes me smile. Now I'm listening to Same Love by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, because I just love it so badly. Speaking of homosexuality-- In 2014 the Winter Olympics will be hosted in Russia. The president of Russia is Vladimir Putin, whom you've probably heard of before? Well, he recently signed a law "allowing the police to arrest tourists and foreigners suspected of being gay or pro-gay and detain them for up to 14 days. He also signed a bill classifying “homosexual” propaganda as pornography [...]". The quote is from an article called "Mr. Putin’s War on Gays", which you should read (as always, there's a link here). Basically, every attendant in the Winter Olympics 2014 that are suspected to be gay would run the chance of getting sent to jail. That's not the most important factor, it's the fact that Putin is trying to vaporize every trace of homosexuality. I just hope that the Winter Olympics will somehow give this problem more attention, because this shouldn't happen. Not today, not yesterday and not in a hundred years. A lot of people have made comparisons between Putin and Hitler-- and I can see why. Three days ago, Stephen Fry wrote an open letter to David Cameron and the IOC (International Olympic Committee), which I'll link to as well. I rarely invest time in politics, but I feel that homophobia is such a ridiculous problem. And it's something so fundamental for a human being-- their sexuality. Either they are homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, etc. I just don't understand how people can make a persons sexuality into a problem, when we've got so much more problems that are real. It just makes me infuriated, and it's something that I abhor about religion. I don't belong to any religion, but I am probably more religious than others. I do pray quite frequently, even if it's not any traditional way of praying. I've been praying for a couple that are friends with my eldest sisters. They've been trying to have kids, but because of biological reasons it's not been possible. Nevertheless I've been praying for them to get a child somehow, because there are some people in this world who truly deserves being parents-- and this couple is one of them. And guess what? They might have a child waiting for them in Africa now. I'm just so happy for them. Back to the point though, I'm a person that sort of chooses values and traits from each religion, rather than following just one. Because I can find a fault in every religion-- and that's not so odd, when it's human beings that have developed the religions. And likewise with everything else, there's always going to be faults in everything human develops. But that's why we learn from our mistakes and keep learning and developing. And we keep on going like that forever. But that's not really the case with religion. It's like we've paused everything, and doing the same mistakes over and over. And it just bothers me a lot, because I honestly believe religion ruins a lot in this world. I'm not going to say I wish religion didn't exist, because that's not it. I believe that religion helps a lot of people in search of finding purpose with life. And there are so many positive aspects with religion, so I would never want for religions to vanish. I just wish people could see the big picture. Anyway, wow, a lot of politics and personal opinions in this post. Sorry about that. I'm going to clean my room, jump in the shower and pack the last bits and whatnot. Tomorrow we're going to a really nice place according to my eldest sister. Admittedly she's not been there before, but she's heard a lot about it from her friends. And well, I do love nature. I guess you can expect to see a lot of pictures of nature-- I even deleted all the pictures on my camera. Now I just need to delete some in my "summer" folder and I'm ready to go.
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