"Honesty leads to understanding."
-Q

""Just because I don't look like you or act like you
doesn't make me any better or worse."
-The Suicide Machines

"For many things, organization leads to progression."
-Q

"I wanna thank you hard times in my life.
I wanna thank you good times in my life.
I wanna thank you bad times in my life.
Because I wouldn't be the same person today without you,
so thank you."
-Bloswick

"We should think about what we've got right now cause the good things are made up of time.
Smile to your problems. Leave the past behind. Never forget this.
Find the truth in your soul keeping you alive. Don't shade your future with that's all behind.
Live for today.
...
Don't shade your future with what you don't have. Keep your mind on what's here today.
Now and forever, build the future now. Keep this in mind.
Though you will take your time to get what you need, but you'll do it step after step.
Learn to live this moment. Live for today."
-Eiffel 65

"It's not about where we go.
Let's start living life before we die."
-Suburban Legends

"Progression's a process. Go with it, don't protest against.
Get what you will from what I rap, most of all thankfulness."
-Q

"We've been hit up, we've been spit on,
misunderstood, pirate it ain't done wrong.
Still we keep moving on, yeah."
-Kottonmouth Kings

"I get knocked down, but I get up again.
You're never gonna keep me down."
-Chumbawamba

The human race is no new thing, we have been walking the Earth for over 200,000 years. But much has changed. Humans today are (obviously) very different than humans thousands of years ago. Not only do we look, talk, and think differently, but we live differently. In biblical times, the average man could live to well over 900 years old. Today, the average individual in the United States only lives to 77 years. Our average lifespan has decreased dramatically, even to less than ten percent of what it was. So why such a change, especially one so extreme? I think this: Our lifestyle today compared to olden days is much different, much quicker, much more fast paced. Thus, because we are nowadays able to travel and communicate so much quicker than we use to, we have actually caused ourselves to not only live faster, but to die faster. Today, we can pick up a phone and be talking to someone on the completely other side of the planet within seconds. We can travel by driving anywhere at amazing speeds. Back then, you had to walk or ride your horse, extremely limiting where you can go in an amount of time. You can do in a matter of hours today what would sometimes have taken you years to do in olden times. It seems we are just digging ourselves into a never ending hole. Our advanced, lazy lifestyle that has helped make life so much easier is taking its toll methinks.