Can We Change Our Fate?

A boy named Crow said, "...fate is like a small sandstorm. You change directions, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn." Choices are illusions. I believe everything that you will and can ever choose has been chosen. It comes from my other belief of parallel universes. There is a Jeremiah who did not get into Whitney Young. There is a Jeremiah who never migrated to the United States. There is a universe where I never existed. There is a Jeremiah who does his 2nd Semester Senior work diligently. I feel as though I am following the path the universes assigned to me. Is this saddening? Nope. Do I wish this wasn't true to me? Yes. Would I try to revolt in this fixed path? That's a trick question because it's futile. If I try to revolt, I was supposed to revolt. If I don't, I was meant to not. Come what may. I don't use this belief as an excuse though. I will take responsibility for the "choices" I've made, which absolutely makes no sense. Maybe like 10% of believes that I make my own choices. I don't know.

King Still King

Martin Luther King is still King. The thought of the person, MLK, himself may not be as strong anymore, but his words and deeds pervades in our nation. You can see this in the schools throughout Chicago's city where barely anyone is actively persecuted for their ethnicity. One of the most greatest indicators that our country's racism has faded extensively is that our President is black. Our country has taken significant economic steps to combat racism like affirmative action, scholarships for diversity, etc. All around people's lives; there is evidence that Martin Luther King's dream is alive. As long as we don't regress, he will always be king.

Music: The O'My's !!!

If you are like me and love 60's soul music, you are going to enjoy The O'My's. It is a real chill R&B base sound infused with broader musical influence.  You can say it's a modern day Motown type of music.  Their cover of Al Green's Simply Beautiful is out of this world. If you compare the original to the cover, you will not be able to figure which is better. I don't think I can explain it any further. Just Listen:


The O'My's - April 29th:
https://soundcloud.com/the-omys/april-29th

The O'My's - Tryin':
https://soundcloud.com/the-omys/tryin

The O'My's - Simply Beautiful (Al Green Cover):
https://soundcloud.com/the-omys/simply-beautiful

Alone

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
"In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount."

These two quotes by Haruki Murakami define the two categories of "alone" for me. All humans, I would think, feel loneliness in sense of the first quote. The lack of being whole or complete is the base feeling of loneliness. It is the sensation of feeling that something is supposed to be there but is not. The next stage is the lost and nostalgic feel. It was a book or poem I read in world literature that describes this feeling pretty. It is the feeling of how roots expand to accomodate for the soil but having the soil be washed away only leaving emptiness. I call it the "once was." Another feeling of loneliness is the outcast or the "no one knows how you feel" thing. That is the feeling of falling down a well but no one going down with you. Yes, people on the surface may care deeply about you and want to get you out, but they have no idea what it is like. It is a separation; a distance.
The other meaning is simple. It is the need to be in solitude. Time where you need to be separate from the interaction to breathe, face inner demons, binge on netflix, etc. No one wants to be smothered.