Insomnia!

I believe a quote from the film Fight Club reflects my life very well at the moment, "When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep... and you're never really awake."

I cannot sleep. Haven't been sleeping well for a couple of months. And at the moment, my brother is visiting and trying to sleep on the floor in my room. Not sure if I'm keeping him awake, but I hope not!

Lately, I don't feel fully awake and like I said I'm not sleeping. So, my world is kind of strange right now!

Fun times lie ahead...

A Controversial Issue for the Return Of Matt's Blog

It has been a while since my last blog post. Many things have happened to me over the past few months. Bad things and good things. I’m back to write more posts, and hopefully create some kind of place where debate and discussions can be held.

Last night I went to a Physical Theatre dance performance at the University Theatre in which reactions to political and global events were explored. I enjoyed the performance, the friend I went with was a dancer and wasn’t as impressed as I was. This was probably because she was looking at the actual dance side of things, while I was simply taking in the subject matter and enjoying everything that was being performed.

The performance made me think. This is what the performance was designed to do. It was designed to make you enjoy, but also making you think about issues. Well one issue that got to me was their portrayal of what goes on at Guantanamo Bay and the issue of whether terrorist suspects should be tortured.

It is my opinion that everything should be done to stop acts of terrorism. Suspects who have been taken to Guantanamo Bay without a trial are not simply taken off the street after a police officer has driven by. The suspects have been watched and investigated for a long time. The suspects are suspected to be dangerous and to be knowledgeable of attacks against innocent lives. Taking them to trial would only delay the information we could get from them and has a serious risk of putting innocent lives in danger. Terrorists do not obey laws, they do not obey people’s civil rights, to catch them, to stop them, we must play by their rules. Some people may say this makes us no better than them, but I’m not talking about strapping bombs to ourselves and going to blow up innocent people. I’m talking about taking suspects to somewhere they cannot escape from and using every means necessary to find out what they know and stop attacks on innocent lives.

I’m probably going to get a lot of criticism for this opinion, and I don’t mind that. I would love to debate with people about this matter, or any other matter that they want to talk to me about. We all have different views on matters, and it is by listening to each other that we learn from each other.

Thanks for reading.