Everything is theory. Nothing we know or believe in truly IS.


From the moment we are born we are conditioned. We are told stories, and fed beliefs and ideals and customs. Things we hear about religion, society, the universe all become what we know. What we think is real. We are subliminally boxed in, yet we think that the ideas and thoughts and actions we have are our own. We only push the limits when we try to think free. We have learned growing up that there is a realism that nothing can exist outside of.


The ones of us who see no limits to possibility are usually classed as crazy. But why? Why is everything we know today the only possibility? For example, why is it either God or the Big Bang that created us? Why is it only possible that our planet has living beings? Why is it unacceptable to weigh a certain amount? Why do we need a governing body? Why is money our only currency and source of wealth? Why is the education system so crucial? Why do we need technology? Why can't monster, mutants, superpowers and superheroes be hiding amongst us? Why can't there be alternate dimensions where our souls live on past our bodies expiration date?


Everything we know is a theory, created by our ancestors and the people who lived before us. When society consisted of very few people, and one person shared their ideals of anything, the rest followed. They then passed that on to their successors, their kin, their friends and the theories became reality. 


We could be living in a Utopian world, where reality has no limits, where society has no restrictions. If the world were reborn, without government, without wealth; a place where society sustains by it's own hands, we would be so much happier and free.

More than this, we could discover so much more if we didn't cancel out possibilities that stand outside the box of the modern "norm". We could advance so much more quickly as intellectual beings and as a living race. We are just ignorant to anything other than what has existed as "real", "logical", "possible" and "within reason".


If you can break from the box, break from the conditioning you've been given, you can see that reality is infinite and limitless. Everything is a possibility, because nothing is actually known.

Why do we always turn to comic books and fictional film to see people with extraordinary powers, when most of our idolized "heroes" can be compared to many "normal" people in today's society?

There are people in the world that can do things outside of the norm. People that can fall under the category of "super-beings" or "subhuman" that we simply overlook and don't recognize. What makes me think about this is the show Heroes - which my boyfriend and I have been watching way too much of on Netflix recently. Some of the superpowers on the show exist in reality, yet because they aren't thrown at us on screen and told they are extraordinary and surreal, we just gaze past them and classify them as normal. (Spoiler alert if you haven't seen and want to watch Heroes)

For example, Nikki, who has the most realistic power in the show, simply suffers from MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder). After her sisters death, she forms an alter who takes on her traits - however, with an intensified idea of how to protect Nikki. Not only is MPD a very real disorder, but it is such a abnormal and unique "power".

Charlie, who Hiro falls in love with mid-season one, has the capability to absorb and retain knowledge better than anyone. Anything she reads, hears, sees, smells, touches... she remembers forever, with vivid detail. She's basically a human encyclopaedia. If you watch this video, you will discover a set of twins with a mental incapability develop a phenomenal sense of memory similar to this. Here you can read the article.

Other than Heroes, let's think about iconic, costume-wearing characters like DareDevil (my personal favourite hero). When blinded by a toxic chemical spill that splashed into his eyes, he develops a heightened sense of hearing which allows him to "regain sight" by using sounds and vibrations. Like a bat. (Why isn't he Batman, again? If anything, the mortal Bruce Wayne is more daring, and Daredevil is more batty). Many people who lose one of their five senses also gain a sixth to make up for it, or their other four kick it in to overdrive.

These are just a few examples. Countless people raise the bar of the humanly possible every day, even in small ways. In the end, magic and superbness is all around us, we just have to learn to recognize it for the truly amazing phenomenon it is. 

I was on the bus the other day and received some pretty strong criticism from an elderly woman about my piercings.

She mentioned how unnatural it was of me to be sticking needles and metal into my skin for the purpose of vanity, and how both piercings AND vanity itself were sins. The thing I found amazing about her critique was that she delivered it both respectfully and calmly. She wasn't outraged about it, she didn't cause a scene, but very simply laid out her opinion. She was just mislead; as most people are when it comes to body modifications. She was wearing lipstick and had her ears pierced, herself. Had it have been a different tone of conversation, I would have replied to her "I suppose you were naturally born wearing earrings, then?".

(My piercings: angelbites, and a septum)

It made me start to really wonder why it is that tattoos, piercings and all things related have become so taboo in today's society? We either have to search back into primitive times or seek hope in the far future to see body modifications as an accepted part of our cultures. Unfortunately, we've created a stereotype for people who fall under the category of "modified" in society. Most people see piercings and tattoos as "dirty", "trashy" or "unprofessional". It's a shame that this is what we have turned something that derived from a cultured tradition into this sort of image (maybe a concept I'll go into in another blog). It's hard to break the mould of a stereotype once it's been hardened in to the minds of the public. 

I long for the day where all body art can be considered accepted, and appearance comes second to persona.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/video?id=8508917

Absolutely love this. Look what parenthood can do to a guy. Becoming a father turns boys in to men - for the most part.

Inspired by his new baby girl and hoping to create a good example for her, this guy resolved to do one random act of kindness everyday since New Years 2012. These include things as small as writing a poem of appreciation to his mother, cleaning snow off of all the cars on his street, and giving free hugs on a cold day, to things as big and impacting as treating a soldier and his family to a game, becoming an organ donor, and buying lunch for a group of firemen. It's truly heart-warming to follow his day-to-day blog documenting what he is doing each day and why. 

Get your heart warmed and follow it ! 

Modify Personal Review

While cruising Netflix, my boyfriend and I came across this documentary. Both being huge fans of body modifications, we decided to see if it was worth a watch. Two hours later, we realized we had just sat through a whole documentary barely saying a word. Whaaaaat? 

When you think "documentary", you probably think of David Attenborough and giggling over the mating scenes when you caught the animal planet specials on television as a kid. I can't say I've never sat through a documentary in my life - visited the IMax a many times to watch "the Nile River", "Dinosaurs", or "Creatures of the Deep Sea". But typically, when they don't include a British narrator or exotic animals, they are NOTHING to sit through and enjoy watching. Modify kept my attention the whole time.

It really is an eye-opening film to the world of body modification and art. One that I myself have a huge interest in (if you're actually reading me, you can expect lots of entries on this sort of topic). With an open mind, and two hours to blow, you can see in to this fascinating world too, and I guarantee that many stereotypes, prejudgements and fears about people who modify themselves or modification itself will disappear in your mind. It really helps many people thicken their dividing line between "modification" and "mutilation".

Whether it be as dramatic as tattooing, branding, cosmetic surgery, and piercing to as simple as wearing cosmetics, contacts, cross-dressing and hair-dying, it is all modification, and all in attempt to make the body more beautiful and personal to ourselves.

The human body is unfinished, and while we are here, we take our canvas, and we make ART out of it.