Is Random Really Random?

My friends and I were talking a while back and we were trying to randomly say words has fast as we could, and don't gimme that face i didn't come up with it and we were bored anyways, after a while we began talking about how the words weren't really random since something would trigger the word in your brain, like a picture, a movie, a recent memory basically its not totally random since you thought of it as a result of something else.

After my friends left this got me thinking, if randomness means having no pattern then nothing in this world is really random, everything happens as a result of something else and after a series of events patterns form so in truth nothing is random. If you type 20 letters without thinking you unknowingly formed a pattern for picking the letters no matter how you try not to.

So in the end i guess the thoughts i post here are not random after all but I'll still keep the name though.

Lessons Learnt From A Suicide Story

I read on Linda Ikeji's Blog that a 14 year old British girl committed suicide, and why? Because she was bullied and stigmatized by her peers, she couldn’t even use the web as a safe haven because they bullied her online also. They told her she was ugly weird and unwanted by everyone, she was ridiculed at every attempt she made at being a part of a group or making new friends. Her mom always did the best she could to help her get above it all and have a positive mind-set but obviously her words became insufficient for the suffering girl, she felt she had no friend in the world and that she was unwanted everywhere, “what’s the point of living in a world where no one wants you” she probably thought. She even wrote a dying poem.

The Swear Jar

A while ago my roommate decided he wanted to stop calling people assholes so he came up with a control measure, anytime i and our other roommate hear him say asshole he would owe us 100 Naira. I was so happy to hear it since he calls me asshole a lot i thought i would probably squeeze a few meals  from him before he could restrain himself but surprisingly i didn't even catch him once (our other roommate caught him twice though). Later my other roommate decided to use the same measure to curb his own habit of bringing out sexual meanings from normal statements, I've caught him twice already.