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People are weird, don't you think?
Unique, but similar. Beautiful, but grotesque. Loving, but hating. Generous, but greedy. Friendly, but lonely. Enthralling, yet completely boring. Funny, but serious.
Our lives are complete contradictions of ourselves. Everything we say contradicts what was said yesterday, in one or another. We constantly change, but never change at all. People are insanely hard to figure out.
It's a dark and confusing world trying to figure just ONE person out. Trying to figure out what makes them tick, just that one person, could take you an entire lifetime. And even then, they can surprise you, throwing your whole life's work away.
But then again, why would a person try to figure out another? Passion, maybe? Boredom? Hatred? Emotions drive us to do everything we do, though we throw the blanket of logic over it to cover an unjustifiable motive or action. Selfishly, we try to ascertain what we want, while claiming to be paving the road for someone else. Is that truly whats going on? Most would say yes, other would say no. Then there are others who prefer to live in ignorance and bliss, not thinking about it.
It's a lot easier to live life just living life, than to go into depth with even just yourself. "Why did I do that? What really drove me to say such a thing?" These are things that one might question on a daily basis. Which would, in fact, completely efface everything one thinks about their self. It removes a foundation given to you since you were a baby that everything is done for a reason. That the world is absolute and unquestionable, yet to question everything.
Personal thoughts are invaluable to the intellectual mind that seeks the company of another. When passion is thrown into our lives, when we are given a passion to gain exactly what we want, we don't think. Logic is sprinkled on our mind, but it is one-sided. Giving us reason to do what we want, blanketing our understanding of ethic's "right or wrong." We simply try to do everything that is necessary to get what we want; even if, within one month, we end up hating that one thing with a completely different passion.
In order to satisfy that intellectual mind, in order to defeat that passion's craving, we must stop thinking about the desires of either of those. Desires have ripped and shredded the minds of every being out there. We have been risen to want, to need, to get. Imperfections are treated to be perfect. Our hate, our strives, our mistakes, our skin-deep genetic screw ups, everything. All treated as perfect BECAUSE it is imperfect. Does this make sense to you? Does this contradiction define what you believe? We are told that EVERYONE makes mistakes. This is true, but does that justify what we've done wrong? No. It doesn't. A life lived to try to be perfect is a wasted one, because it cannot be accomplished. Yet, in a similar state of mind, we are told to be, in fact, perfect, in the eyes our imperfect peers. Completely opinionated, but absolute.
Our society revolves us, and we revolve around our society. Yet another contradiction. Even that so-called independent "I don't what anyone else thinks" person does, in fact, strive to exist in a society where everyone cares what everyone thinks. That is how we run, that's how we roll. Every action is judged by at least one other in the human society, and affects every aspect of our future. Our contradictions; our perfect imperfections, our grotesque beauties; all define how we live our lives, though we claim to have them not.

Everything in this world has something to be thought about. Skin deep judgments does not completely satisfy even those of the most shallow motives. Everyone needs a thought, everyone needs a cerebration that helps them through daily life. These contradictions are what make our world what it is. These contradictions are what make life so amazing. From the lonely quiet kid in an isolated room, to the outgoing, shallow teenager. No matter how hard a person is to figure out, no matter how dark and confusing it gets, no matter how contradicting one is, thought is the basis of that foundation that every person has so desired, a foundation to fill that "hole in your heart." Everyone needs a thought. Everyone needs a contradiction.