jump!!!!!!

To put it in honest terms.. the world needs more good. There are good things that happen every day. To me, it just seems anymore that the bad outweighs the good. Turn on your television to the first news channel you can find, and within 5 minutes you will hear about a tragedy, read about a tragedy as it casually scrolls at the bottom, and see how that tragedy is affecting the stock market. Simple answer.... turn off the television. Anymore, television is that cigarette you always crave, it's a temptation to see the world, live in action... blood, guts, war, the whole nine yards. Quitting is easy..... right?!

I don't know where I stand on all this.. I'm pretty much holding onto the fence like the rest of America, putting our fate into our government. I honestly don't know if the government is doing anything bad towards me personally... but I have no clue if it's actually doing anything good either. I mean, look what happened on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 ........................ Anyway. All that we know is that our government is the beating heart of this entire nation. We might have a good heart, but the brain controlling it makes us all nervous.

Do we look away and pretend it's not happening? Do we attach ourselves to every last drop of information and act concerned? What the hell is the answer?!?!?! Where do we part this sea of shit that we float in? How do we say just enough to make a point, but not too much as to lose the point entirely?

I could just keep my mouth shut, ignore all of this, go through my daily life as if I'm happy that we're all surrounded by this culture of fear. Or I could put my pen to the paper and let you all know how I feel. This is more than just frustration about an election.. this is frustration about this whole world. It's a beautiful world, and all we can do is detroy IT, and ITS PEOPLE.... was that really God's plan?

World Peace is a grand concept.... but even the most elaborate schemes in my head won't ever matter in the now. Skepticism: my thoughts and opinions cannot affect the government at large..... Optimism: my thoughts and opions can affect myself and the people around me. We must strive for World Peace. Only in a society like today's, would there be a battle for World Peace. I wish I could talk to Mr. Bin Laden.... I would sit and listen to every reason he had for ordering the attacks. I would ask him if doing all of that has helped or hurt his people become free. Then I would ask him what we could do to live in peace with eachother. I want to ask him what his vision of World Peace would look like. I bet I'd be suprised.

Today I spent my afternoon outside, the weather was great....