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Private in a public world

I recently experienced something that many people would be uncomfortable with, things about me got exposed online by another person. It wasn't anything particularly bad and there was actually no proof it was about me except for the fact that I knew it was. This made me uncomfortable for several reasons, one was I wasn't expecting to see it and it was a bit of a surprise since I didn't believe it was that person's right to share that with the world but to be honest, it wasn't something I couldn't cope with. After all, no one could actually trace it back to me. The thing that struck me harder was the things people post online without realising that it will have consequences. I am not going to write what was posted or what other people have posted on the same space because that is not up to me to tell the world but I feel the need to inform my readers and hopefully people around the world what internet does to the private. One thing people seem to forget when the

Society failing...again.

Yesterday the news of Philip Seymour Hoffman dying because of drug overdose hit the media. A 46 year old man, with probably half his life left to live, died because of the same reason as Amy Winehouse, Cory Monteith and many other talented people have before him. As sad as it is, him dying is not what upsets me the most. What upsets me is the fact that this seem to happen over and over again but no one seems to try to change it. There are clearly something wrong with the society if we let this happen and instead of educating people of how bad drugs are, we write about how sad it is that this great actor has died. Don't get me wrong, it is sad but we don't seem to be told that he died because he was doing something he wasn't suppose to do. We've seen it so many times before in the entertainment industry, (I can't say this is what happened this time but I am going to speculate anyways) people can't handle the pressure of fame, working and handling their personal