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I had one of those soul bearing conversations that come out of nowhere on a Wednesday afternoon at work. It was with the parts and service manager. He’s a rather big and tall gentleman with a peculiar accent. At first I thought he was British or Polish but I really had no clue.

I knew there was something different about him because he always called me Mr. Hooshmandi and would take note of pronouncing my last name perfectly. The gentleman was from South Africa. One of those white colonial descendants like that actress from Monster or the Safari hunter guy in Jumanji.

Anyways, he told me his story and I told him my family’s; how we got here and what we went through. We discussed governments, religion, god, and varies ideologies and philosophies. Then he posed one question to me that I wasn’t ready to answer:

“Are you willing to die for this country?”

What? Canada? I never really thought of it. I mean, I wouldn’t die for Iran. I have never been there in my life and the government is whack. I was born in Canada. I went through the system here. They tried their best to educate me. I have been blessed with some really great teachers throughout elementary school and high school. But besides that I would really have to think.

I would fight for our freedoms but I haven’t made up my mind with the system. I don’t voice this opinion much because I honestly can’t suggest a replacement yet. There are far worse systems out there. However, the way we live our lives and strive for wealth doesn’t feel right.

I wouldn’t fight for someone else’s money. I would fight for my family and friends. I would want to make sure the people I love are safe. I would give my life to ensure this. I guess I love everyone since people are innocently a product of condition. I hate some people’s actions but I don’t really hate their individual being. They’re just people.

I would die for humanity but that would mean fighting ourselves. Fighting stupidity and ignorance. That would also mean having forgiveness so you don’t have to kill off everybody. People aren’t perfect.

Dying for humanity sounds familiar. Isn’t that what Jesus did? or any other prophet, messenger, enlightened person? Is that the intellectual burden?

In conclusion, people who realize they are god have to stop being lazy and help stupid people live their lives to the fullest without exploiting them and stupid people need to shut up and listen.

Fuck; I need to sleep.

My boss told me I had to write a small report to go along with my eBay year end results spread to send off to all the regional managers, CFO, VP, and GM so I typed some quick shit up while I was waiting to leave for my optometrist appointment. Check it out: Read the rest of this entry »

None of these holidays really pertain to me. I’m not Christian or Jewish or anything. I guess I am a consumer and get the time off to play my new video games. I’m fine with celebrating that and over eating.

Everyone is either super stressed or super drunk during this time of year. The only stress I had was from having to deal with my family all under one roof. I was the mediator this year and successfully kept the brown on brown crime to a minimum.

The best argument I had to watch between my folks was when they were claiming bragging rights on whose food bank gives the best holiday care package.

Baba was kept downstairs most of the time to prevent drama. I got the Wii working with the internet so he was content checking his hotmail and playing youtube videos while laying in bed. It kind of reminded me of Charlie’s family in Willy Wonka except Charlie works hard to provide internet access.

The golden ticket must be my dick.