In a recent comment, a friend asked why I would choose to simply complain about the issues I blog about, instead of going to the lawmakers and telling them how I feel.
A few reasons, actually. When I try to form thoughts into words, and words into intelligible sentences, I freak out a little and make no sense. That's why speech class is good for me…college in general really. Helps me get over my social anxiety and fear of people. :)
I've written to lawmakers before (and actually got a response other than an auto-responder a couple of times) concerning issues that I feel deserve more involvement than just pushing an idea in my own little circle on the web. I know that just putting the information out there doesn't do much, but it IS out there. If the right people read the comments and posts and thoughts I push on the many websites I visit, then maybe, just maybe, someone with more influence than me will be able to influence what happens in this country. My involvement, my ideas and thoughts, are not limited to what I write here. I try to make my voice heard, no matter how small a crowd is listening.
I look at my involvement, and so many others on the web, as being a bucket brigade of sorts. I might not be the one getting the water out of the river, and I might not be the one putting the fire out. In fact, my bucket is tiny, rusty and full of holes. However, it is a bucket in a long line of buckets big and small.
I like to think that my bucket counts. :)
Sure it counts.
But still…..back to the initial point…..
…..Dont quit.
I can attest that this is indeed the best country on the planet. Ive been to many, and none as of yet hold true to what Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness really means.
Sometimes we must do things we dont like. We cant always have things the way we would like them to be.
As humans,
We MUST do things that we do not want to….
We MUST place ourselves in difficult situations…..
We MUST live at the edge of Chaos…..
Else…..what would we have?
If we had everything the way we wanted it….if we had everything we wanted…..
My god….it would suck
we may as well die….because there would be nothing else.
So…… Dont Quit.
The grass ALWAYS looks greener….its part of want drives us to live and not just die as a species.
But in reality, its just greener in SOME places….other places its just as drab, or even dead.
Even Heaven has its fault….why else would their be a Hell?
Its all Yin/Yang girl.
its the law, it MUST be that way or it would suck.