Okay so this week, I'm going to paint you a picture of my inhibition, but right now what I wanted to do was address the nature of this week's discussion. I hope that I don't sound facetious, but shouldn't we already know by now that material possessions don't make you happy, and that your worldview is vastly different depending on where you come from? I hope those concepts are very clear to people, and if they are, then why discuss them? A conversation like that doesn't really push anyone's mind to their limits of thinking, it just holds them in place over the things they already know.

Osama's point about nature was interesting however. I always feel more comfortable barefoot, or in the forest, and I bet most people would if they slowed their lives down and paid more real attention to Earth. This planet is our mother, and being close to nature is the most natural thing a person can do; for millions (billions?) of years of evolution, every creature has lived in nature. Now we have separated ourselves from it and our worlds are on fire. Of course you function better in nature, it's in your blood, it's in your subconscious, your instincts will cause you to feel peaceful and at ease if you allow them to.

Osama also made a good point about being connected to the universe. Isn't it weird to think how everything is essentially made up of the same stuff? I mean, (pretty much) everything is just made of protons and neutrons and electrons reacting in different ways and arranged in different orders. That's why when you die, your body returns to Earth and you become assimilated and there is no trace of you ever having been anywhere. That's beautiful to me.