=( I don't like procrastination.

Something is incredibly wrong with this picture. Someone. Please tell me we have some kind of major grade due tomorrow.

In the end, I'm still terrible at time management.

So apparently I can use my iPod for Xanga. This just opens up a pool of wonderful possibilities...

Either way.. I'll be back later.

It's always the last day that inspires the best ideas in me.

I've had plenty of interesting thoughts lately. Yesterday, I finished reading this psychological manhwa about a relationship between a brother and his sister. Excellent novel, I must say. I can't say I was disturbed though, some of the readers thought it was disturbing.

The premise of the novel is basically: To succumb to society or follow your heart. Set upon the question: If you had to choose between being loved by many and being loved by one, what would you choose?

The battling issue was--Incest.

The sister suffered from a brother complex to the point where she was afraid of everyone else and was incredibly attached to her brother. While he enjoyed such a relationship, after being exposed that his sister was in love with him, he started to detach himself from her. Even going as far as to getting a girlfriend and sleeping with her. His sister, hurt, becomes friends with another person. The next few chapters go on about their distancing apart and how the brother was actually jealous that she has found someone else to depend on. It is later found that many of those who she comes in contact with were hurt by him, such as the guy who was pushed down the stairs and the girl who was stabbed in the eye. Yes, disturbing? I found it strangely... ironic. That he would push her away when she wanted to be close to him, and yet, he would do all these things to be close to her again after doing such a thing. In the end, after they slept together, he went into confession. Despite that the words "Are you sick man? You're in love with your sister? Don't kid with me" sound like normal tunes to the ears of society, I found it strangely ignorant.

They soon ran away, and then she died. The way that the brother perceived this event made me feel like the author was saying that incestous relationships never work. You can go all the way, but in the end, it'll end badly. Well, after all, it was a tragic manhwa. Beautiful plot, beautiful drawing.

It's called Flowers of Evil, if anyone wants to read it or dares to read it.

And that's my first issue:

The one question that has never been given an absolute answer, mainly because either personal opinions or foolish anthropological (I suppose it still is reasonable to an extent) try to overshadow this lack of answer. What is wrong with incest?

I, personally, have no problem with the issue. It's not as though I will go and engage in a romantic relationship with some of my family, simply because I've never thought of them that way. That is what one calls an individual's belief. However, when the entire society is in on it. You wonder how it starts. I'll tell you how it started. When one individual tells everyone why they think it's wrong to be in a relationship with your kin, and that eventually spreads to someone with power and believes so too. And then, we have a law.

In Germany, apparently, there's a law that makes it illegal for two brothers and sisters/ or family members in general, to be together. While they say that there's a health consequence about being disabled, there's also a social consequences. That the two people and their children would be shunned from the society for creating such a forbidden relationship. I, for one, don't see anything wrong with this. Because, it's simply two people in love with each other. What a coincidence it is for them to share the same blood and parents.

I'm not saying I support the relationship between that father and his daughter--the one where he locked his daughter in the restroom and fathered some kids with her. That's not consensual. I'm saying, if two people love each other enough to want to marry and have kids, why stop them?

Unfortunately, if I was in the place of a friend who knows that two siblings are in love or something, I would tell them to think really hard on it before going through with anything. Because of today's stance on this taboo, the children will grow up being picked on, and thus future family problems. And of course, possible disabilities. There is even an anthropological theory saying that marriage is the act of bonding two men together, because one man gives up his sister to another, and thus, they become friends, binded with a commonality: the woman. Before I scream sexist, I would like to say that it's probably the same for women, giving up their brothers so they can be with their best friend or something. That theory was a basis as to why an incestous relationship isn't recommended or wanted. Ironic, huh?

"Love is between a man and a woman (and/or man and man and/or woman and woman for those who support those)."

And yet, they condemn them because of something they can't control.

I don't know if this kind of openness is considered gullibility. Frankly, if there weren't social consequences, I wouldn't hesitate to say: "Go for it. Break a leg." Hypocrites we are to say that we accept all kinds of love yet scorn when family members share an expression of affection.

So perhaps we're on the brink of overcoming this shunning of homosexuality... where are we going next?

On second thought, I have suddenly rejected the theory of disabilities. Now that I think about it, it's like a natural selection thing. When the unhealthy ones die off, the healthy ones will reproduce and eventually, they'll be healthy. Well, ignore me on that one. I sound weird. But that's my thought. Anything I say up there regarding the health issue, consider it erased. I'm too lazy to go back and edit.