I was up in the mountains for a couple of days, hidden from the world surrounded by family. I was without the computer and even out of cell-phone range, being on the wrong side of the mountain.
It's tough to read the paper after that. I see that people are still very involved in blowing each other up.
I spend hour after hour trying to move people, one at a time, slowly in a direction that will improve their lives. But the tide is always running against them. And then we have a leader who makes jokes about how the economy is going through kind of a rough patch, and the future of the war is kind of hazy, and he giggles and dances as if he has done nothing that could upset anyone.
We have the reformist governor who spends $4200 for some kind of sex. Led slightly astray by a bit of lust. What kind of people are running the show here?
But at least we don't have suicide bombers. I'm sure we do suicide missions, and assassinations, and torture.
I have a client who whines because everything has been done to him, which may be true, but that's no excuse. Everything is being done to all of us. We live in the best time there every has been to be alive. You just have to ignore that 40% of the world lives in extreme poverty and several groups are still intent on slaughtering several others.
That's just the way it is.
3 comments:
Once we lose all hope we, too, will have the suicide bombers.
depressing.
true.
pathetic.
dn, well said. Maybe we just have to remember that one thing, to never lose hope.
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