...Just thought id let the world know that my 7th graders balled their asses off and won the tourney. The way i was given the trophy was a bit crappy, but hey, rival coaches arent supposed to be buddies, are they?
I imagine if i had made 100k dollars today for bought a new car, more people would give a shit.
Oh well, maybe that is why i cant tolerate shallow chics, my family doesnt bother calling for the "holidays", and i can count my real friends on one (maybe two) hands.
The problem with us is that it is easy to say that kids are important. To say that you put family first. To say that you love to give. But when it comes to the actual sacrifice, people just go back to their cars, concerts, tv shows, playstations, ipods, clothes, and bling. Maybe being born as a short black man of rather high intelligence and a desire to live out some of those lessons learned in sunday school, gives me a unique perspective.
People live in bubbles where they wont acknowledge a problem until it happens. Then it goes to who is at fault.
Hey, you can wake up one day at 400 pounds and decide that you need to overhaul your life, or you could just eat one more serving of raw veggies and one less serving of fried garbage today, then do it again tommorrow.
You can save 50 bucks a week. Spend and hour a week with a kid. Turn off your tv. Read a book. Meet someone different than you and try to be friends. Try something different. Do something you feel is beneath you. Attack your stereotypes.
Say hello to someone you dont know.
When people wake up in a year and find a world worse than the one they remember, they will wake up and say how did we get here.
They wont ask themselves why they themselves werent outraged at the Iraq war. They wont ask themselves why i look for the cheapest instead of researching where all that stuff in wal mart comes from. They wont ask themselves why I didnt eat dinner with my kids everyday before they ran off and did something rash. They wont ask why they didnt talk to the homeless man outside the store before he loses hope and robs it as a last resort.
Sometimes we cant look at the end problem and just put a band-aid on it. The band aid is the american way to fix everything. Obama cant create 25 million jobs in 4 years, at least not the kind of jobs that most americans want. We cant fix these superlarge problems with a bandaid. So what makes us think we can solve any problems with one.
How about sometimes with just do something for some other fucking reason than making a dollar off of it. Or at least make sure for every dollar we make, we are helping people improve the quality of their lives.
Im getting tired of watching people milk others of their faith in good for profit. Do it because its right.
If you do something to make the world better, there is a better chance that your kids can live in a world where they dont need a gun.
...now back to life.
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