A birthday and a funeral

First of all let me wish Happy New Year and all the best for the future to our reader(s). We haven't abandoned this site but the Xmas vacation gave us an awesome opportunity to have a break from many things including blogging and thinking about the stupidity around us. Of course, the latter was not that easy because even if I wanted to relax with a nice cup of coffee (or frape) under the Greek sun overlooking the Parthenon, stupidity and bigotry were surrounding me. After all, these traits are universal and they know no boundaries.

Anyway, as you have probably realized by the above paragraph, I spent my Xmas vacations in Athens (that is the real Athens. Not the one in Georgia, US or Ontario, Canada). I had a great time doing the things I enjoy most: Spending time with my family and friends, going out for coffees around Plaka and Paralia.

The Xmas period is when I have my birthday. It is actually kinda nice. My bday is squeezed in between Xmas and Boxing Day. That means that within a period of a week I receive three gifts from people. So, this time I organized a small get together at my parents' place. Many people did come to see me and I thanked them for that. It felt nice to see people that I only see every few years since I now live somewhere in the New World.

However, there was one friend missing. In the old days, whenever I decided to organize a get-together at my parents' place, she used to arrive with a big bday chocolate cake and a huge smile. This time she had something else to do. She was escorting her brother's coffin from another country where they went a few weeks prior to that hoping to fight his rare case of cancer.

So, the next day of my bday, I had to attend the funeral. Needless to say that that was very difficult. At those moments, people go through a myriad thoughts and feelings: Sadness, despair, fear for our mortality. Some people use the opportunity to hate God; others strengthen their fate on God.

I cannot do either because I do not believe in God. How can I hate something/someone who does not exist? How can I believe in an imaginary entity which has been created by man in order to explain life, provide reason to our existence and give hope for our ultimate fear? No, I did not use that opportunity to either hate or believe in God. ( I am not going to talk about the existence of God. I have already done that elsewhere in this site.)

I did use the opportunity to do something else instead: To re-iterate my disgust for all religious establishments and the stupidity of people. Just look around you and use your faking brain. If you do that, you will realize several things. Firstly, we are not that different from any other primate, mammal or living thing on this planet. We are born like the rest of the animal kingdom, we breath, we eat, we FAK and eventually we seize to exist. Humans want to survive and exist like any other living thing. Nature through evolution gave us the chance to survive by developing one single organ within us. It is called the brain. Other animals have an advantage in survival by having better eyes, bigger legs, etc etc. Homo Sapiens has one major organ which offers a competitive advantage for survival.