Sangheilianima

Hey everyone who reads this!

I am in my final year of a BSc in Psychology and I am in desperate need of 100 people to spare 5 to 10 minutes to complete a questionnaire for my final year project (which is worth a lot of marks!)
I need as many people as I can get to do it and will be eternally grateful if you could take the time to fill this out and share it with your friends!

psy.swansea.ac.uk/questionnair…


Lots of love,

Charley 

xoxox

    Juliet is bleeding. Lost in the dark and it's lonely. Don't know which direction to take, patience wearing thin. Tears not drying quick, tension flying high, pain cutting deep. Worthless, useless, hopeless and all effortlessly. Tired of crying, tired of trying, tired of hurting, tired of fake smiling. She's me, and I am not okay. Drowning in water perceptively unimaginable, not able to swim, not able to float. Trying to stay up, keep falling down. Take me out of here, take me anywhere. I need to breathe, I need to smile, I need to feel love. Bring me back to life. Show me the way to happiness. Let me start over and live life again. Feeling paper thin.

What do you do when everything you do seems so pointless, so worthless? Every time you try to get on your feet, you plummet back to the earth, not with a fall but with a big, bad effing crash? Not just once, but multiple times over? Your every effort means shit because you always finish exactly where you started. When your life just seems to be heading nowhere and amounting to big, fat pile of nothing? It doesn't matter how hard you try, it doesn't matter how much feeling you put in to it, in the end, you end up defeated, again and once more.

Well here I am, on this late night/early morning (GMT) avoiding doing my menacing Biological Psychology essay and other things and thinking deeply about many a thing. I am currently re-watching a brilliant miniseries by Spielberg called Taken. It was on the TV years ago but I was too young to follow or understand the plot properly and after rediscovering it on FOX the other night I decided to further put off doing work and begin to re-watch the series from start to finish. There are so many recurring themes that come up and even though its fiction - the morality and realism of it isn't. Without giving spoilers or an indepth description of the Series, I shall give a brief summary so that my opinions are vaguely understood.

Taken revolves around a (5?) generation span of families who have somewhat been involved with extra terrestrial beings who have some sort of cognitive abilities and sometimes they are able to take the form of whatever they want to. I am next to watch episode 5 out of the 10 episodes and so far have been blown away by the themes within it.

Again, although Taken is purely fiction it has realism in the way it reflects humans. Some are good and empowered to do the right thing at any cost and then there are those who try to do good deeds but often they're plans backfire and end up on the wrong path for awhile before redirected back on the moral road. There are those who mean well but their decisions cause pain and hardship And of course..... the bad guys; who I like to call Bastards personally. If you will excuse my French. The bad guys who know matter what always seem to get away with the bad things they do before they eventually meet their end.

Within this series is great prejudice and racism and general acts of cruelty and crime. In one episode, two blackguys in the 1950s America try to get served in a coffee shop. They are almost gunned down because they black and previously they have their coffee spat in right infront of them. As a consequence, one of the (at the time) main characters has a fit and the black guys break out medical knowledge from they're current degree to help the man! All those who made comments and made the black guys experience a little hell (apart from the gun men who have long escaped) are astounded by their knowledge and taken aback. Enough to suggest that purely due to the colour of skin, they are infererior beings that posses knowledge and courage, which something they seem to have never thought to have existed or be possible before in such a person with that colour of skin. And although this was meant to be 1950s, where primitive human beings believed that white meant supremacy, it still sickens me to think that even today, in our supposedly civilized world, closed minded people go out of their way to make other people's lives infinitely more difficult on the bases of skin! Who made you God because you are white? Who decided you had the right to be devil like to those with darker skin than you're own?

This sickening theme of prejudice is also seen later on and throughout the series, whereby 2 alien/human hybrid twins are born and on the basis of the way they looked, due to severe disfigurement and the accidental ability upon eye contact to induce great fear and possible visions of ones own death, one was murdered and the other run away to live in a cabin in the woods. At this point, many villagers are coming to attack/kill the remaining twin because they feared that a little girl was killed or kidnapped by the being. Infact, he had found the girl and was taking care of her as he couldnt wander into the town without being potentially attacked or worse. Even though the girl was safely handed over to the villagers and she cried that he helped her, angry villagers still torched the house with him still inside and let him burn to death! What justifies this???? He looked strange yes and he was feared, but does that give you the right to kill or attack?

There were a serious of murders and horrible tortures committed throughout but what hit and home for me was the talk of a nuclear war with America and another nation. Well hang on, doesn't that sound familiar?! Why are people so intent on making the world burn? It's not like we have another place to go and live? It's not like people who lose their lives can pick up a controller and press retry! Why does everything have to end in death and violence. Make love, not war!

Rant over - for now (:

Eeeeeep!

Thank you to everyone who has actually viewed my page and favorited and such(:
I really, really, really appreciate it!
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Much love xx