Let's protest everything!

In recent years, I've been paying more and more attention to the different protests held around the nation and even the rest of the world.

You can protest just about anything as long as you can get a small group of supporters together. The enthusiasm is bound to spread.

My mom just told me about a teachers' protest down in So Cal. Interesting. Many teachers have been laid off, and so they are protesting. Yep.

I don't get it. What's it gonna do? All this protesting. Yeah, it gets people's attention. Though, I think everyone already knew about the financial problems and their effects on schools, communities and such. I know. I've noticed. You can't really protest against the people who stopped paying you to make them start paying you when they have no money. Not like they're going to give you imaginary money or IOUs. But I think I did hear about the state government handing out IOUs to their employees. Something about taxes. I didn't really clear that up when I heard about it.

Anyway, 2009, everything seems like it's gonna go to hell this year. My mom thinks so. Predictions have it that there's going to be a lot of death and pain. Not that prior years haven't had enough death and pain already. This year, it will be more noticeable and painful.

Whatever happens happens. We do what we can and will. The outcomes will come when they come. We can't pretend to be lucky or unlucky. Things will just happen, and we have to try to take them in stride.


Hm, so I believe in chance, not luck. Chance, everyone has an "equal" chance. Anything can happen. If it happens to someone, then it just so happens to be then and there. It's not because he or she is a certain person. Luck has become so subjective. People think that a person gets all the good stuff just because he is who he is. I don't believe it. Anyone and everyone has the same chances to have or get something.

Yeah, we can talk probability. But probability is just numbers, maybes and mostlys. I tell you that 1 out of 500 people have a certain disease. So, what are your chances of having this certain disease? 0.2%? Really? How do we know it's only 1 out of 500? What if you do have it? What are your chances now? Do you still think it's 0.2%?

I feel like percentages and probabilities help people delude themselves sometimes. Either you become a statistic or you nearly miss becoming a statistic. And that just sucks.

No matter the probability, if you have that disease, you have that disease. What does probability change?

All it does is make you tense and surprised or shocked or happy or whatever, depending on what you're trying to be probable about. And I know, incorrect usage of the word "probable," but I'm trying to make a point.

Probability doesn't tell you what is or isn't; it only shows you what might or might not be. No, I like probability. I do. I just don't like how we try to depend on numbers to determine our worth, our life, our time, or anything. Probability doesn't change facts.

And for all we know, all these numbers we have could be completely skewed, and we just missed the true numbers of people afflicted or not by whatever. I mean, 1 out of 500 people doesn't represent the 500 or more that we miss.


Ok, so I don't think my reasoning really makes sense in this entry. I stopped trying haha. But I'm just trying to say that we shouldn't attribute our successes or failures to just one thing or another. Luck, for sure, is not a proven idea, but people treat it like it is. And that aggravates me because the people with "good luck" take their good fortune for granted and the people with "bad luck" just give up and blame something or someone. With chance, I feel like things just happen to people.

Of course, you could say I'm only arguing semantics.


Hmm, I wish I had a catchphrase :P