This was originally a journal entry written during my 1st period English class. As I sit next to Matt, Cassie, and Denise, and I am regularly deprived of sleep (by my own devices), I tend to be in a rather interesting mood at 7:30 in the morning.
This is the result.
There is a disturbance in the wash. It is the disturbance that makes the earlier statement "If it doesn't breathe, it's not important," seem the silliest thing I have ever heard.(quoted from Mrs.(?) Potter, before we began writing. The subject was my immediate response, which I made to Cassie at the time)After all, the Earth doesn't breathe. Technically plants don't breathe, even though they need air to live (or at least to grow). The stars don't breathe, since they aren't alive, but without the sun, everything that does would die away. The fish don't breathe, but they play a vital role in our ecosystem by feeding some of those who do. The ocean itself does not breathe. Is the ocean unimportant? Books don't breathe. Are they unimportant as well (Mrs. English teacher lady O.o)? Is reading unimportant? (If so, YOU ARE WASTING YOUR LIFE RIGHT NOW!!!) Our words don't breathe, though they often require breathe (especially after these recent discoveries about reading...). My dreams don't breathe, so should I ignore them? Our technology doesn't breathe, our medicines don't breathe, our social relationships are intangible objects and aren't alive, so they certainly can't breathe either.
And yet, without these things, how would we breathe? Does that mean we are unimportant as well?
...It's just a thought...
But it makes sense,
doesn't it?
But it makes sense,
doesn't it?
Oh, and this all started because Mrs.(?) Potter said that one of her favorite quotes was "If it doesn't breathe, it's not important" I think she's a nutcase. Obviously.
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