I just spent some time with my amazing and wonderful girlfriend, we'll call her Fantasmical, because she simply is fantastically magical to me. We have an awesome relationship, and I believe we share a unique and wonderful connection together. We both go to the same school which is awesome and we are the same major. WHOO!

One of the many things that makes Fantasmical so fantasmical is her outlook on literally everything. The way she thinks, the way she goes about living each day, her opinions and beliefs of this life and the rest; it simply amazes me. Another grave understatement. Every time we converse, whether it be me speaking to her and she listens or the other way around, I always learn something new and take something from each conversation or discussion. Something that I can apply to my own life and understand to make what life I live even better than it was before, almost unlocking a happiness level (gamer logic I suppose.)

One thing we spoke about today was the idea that one day we, individually, can love and care for everyone in our life and world equally. This means family, friends, people we just met, people we may have hated in the past, murders, saints, everyone.

It is, and I will agree initially, a strange way to go about one's living. I think such is the way it is because we have been so thoroughly trained about good and evil and that we should have people or individuals in our life, like family and close friends, who we should care more for than the average Joe so to speak.

To better explain this method of thinking and conscious, she gave the example of having to choose between two individuals, one someone you know and the other someone you don't, and whoever you chose would live and the other would die. Instinctively, most likely, you'd choose the person you knew. Because you've been raised to think that you would save the person you care most about. That, essentially, is a problem. Because in that moment you place more value in one life than the next, and what gives us the right to decide whose life is worth more than the next persons?

She would do her best to save both, and to myself I thought similar. I would do my best to save both lives, or perhaps even martyr my own for their lives to be sparred. If for instance I saw Fantasmical being mugged on the street, I would instantaneously rush to save her from harm and probably beat the ever living shit out of the mugger. I would do the same for a stranger screaming for help when  nobody is around or willing to do anything about it.

We live in a strange, violent, peculiar world that expects us to do as we're told, and when there are those who stand up against that authority they are shut down or proclaimed insane and not well. Free thought and questioning what you've been told is important, at least it has been in my own life. I urge you to do the same.