Tuesday, July 3, 2012 7:07 PM
Best Friends for never + Carbon Tax?
These days, I've been having some sort of life epiphany or something. It's like BAM, and I have some sort of life changing moment (Lol for English).
It feels like a lot has been happening in my life lately. In the midst of drama and homework and studying and family and friends and shopping and dancing and late night talking to friends, one would wonder how I have the time to have these epiphanies. Well, I can't explain it to you either. Explaining that would be like explaining why the world exists.
Before I get onto my rant topic, I was watching something interesting with my brother yesterday. The Q&A segment. What is basically is are ministers coming to answer questions about a particular topic. Yesterday we had the Minister for Environment vs. The Shadow Minister as well as Political journalist and strategists. The topic of debate was on the Carbon Tax, which officially began 3 days ago. It was actually pretty interesting seeing people trying to argue their cases, but in all honesty, the carbon tax is a bunch of crap. Heres a low down of how it would work:
# Government charges factories and/or businesses for emitting too much Carbon
- Businesses and factories would have to pay
# In order for them to gain what they have lost, businesses would up their prices of the products
- Consumers would still buy them regardless
The Carbon Tax essentially is proposed so that companies will lower their emission because of the price rise. But because they can just hike the prices up, and consumers will STILL buy their products, that doesn't really do a difference for the environment. How would the extra money that the government get even help global warming anyway? And so what if businesses start to lower their emissions? We would still be buying our products from China and India, them being two of the main emitters in the world.
The Government hardly does things for the good of people. The Government is a business; with 100 trillion dollars to look after. Everything that the government does, is because by doing them, they will secure votes. Look at Julia Gillard. She passed the Carbon Tax because the majority of Australia supported it. Thus, she gets more votes. Tony Abbott. "If you vote me I will repeal the Carbon Tax" Not repealing because it doesn't do any difference, but repealing because people will vote him for it. Look at Gay Marriage. Julia Gillard is reluctant to legalise Gay Marriage because she WILL LOSE VOTES. Love is a human experience and not a political statement. There is a significant uprise for the support of gay marriage but YET, she is so reluctant, making excuses that she does not believe in it. I thought that the government was supposed to do things for the good of people? Ministers are meant to run our country, not run THEIR country.
When I hear the term Best Friend; my mind pretty much goes blank. I've been searching for the past 16 years of what a definition of a best friend truly is, but so far I've been unsuccessful. I mean, we say that word all the time, but do we even stop and wonder what that word truly means?
I remember in Kindegarten I had this friend called Rachel Dang. And I used to love her so much. We would hang out at lunch and recess, and share food and play hopscotch and stuff. We called each other best friends. 3 years later, we weren't that close anymore, and fast forward until now, we don't even speak to each other because she's at a different school. We pretty much lead different lives now.
And it bothers me to no end. Does the term best friend even exist? Or was it just something that was planted into our minds to make us feel better?
And those people that you consider to be your best friend. Do they even consider YOU to be theirs? My definition of a best friend is a person that would drop anything and everything to be there for you. A person that would dodge not 1, not 2, but possibly a billion bullets for you. A person that you can relate to, 24 hours a day. A person that always finds you when something is wrong because you make them feel at ease. A person that you care for wholeheartedly. And a person that loves you, regardless of what you've done in the past.
And whilst there are very few people who I would do everything above for them, I doubt that they would do that for me. And it sucks when you realise this.
It sucks even more when you don't even care anymore. You treat them so much like a best friend, that it doesn't even matter if they treat you like theirs. I'm not making much sense now am I...
But I guess I can only say one thing.
Best friends don't exist. Even as much as I thought they did, they don't. Maybe I'll find a best friend in the future, someone who treats me like a best friend as much as I would like to treat them as a best friend.
Labels: friends, personal, rant
