Change

What is change? Obama keeps talking about making change but he does not really say what that is. All he says is that he wants change and to make that change, but what change is he making? The only one thing he can really say he wants to do for sure is to change the health care to be government run. But what would this change do? Think about all things that are government run, such as the DMV. People hate going there because it takes so long and the people there are not very pleasant. Well this would be what the health care would be like, long lines and not very good service because the doctors would not have to worry if you like them or not for they get paid no matter what. Privatized health care works for many reason, there is always compition in the field so costumers can get the best work for the cheapest price. Although our health care system is not perfect, it provides extremely good service to most people.
Other than health care what has Obama said? NOTHING substantive. His only comments are about spreading the wealth around which is a socialist concept. That would mean the government decides who gets what and how much, which will not be alot. Is that the change you want?

Myself.

We have been talking alot this week about the "self" and if you can really know who you are? Well thats a very tough question because we do change so much and anything could happen to change what we though to be ourselves. In a way I believe that you can only describe yourself as changing. Some people like to say well I know who I am and what I stand for. Such as people saying they have strong faith or say that they are optimistic. Well things could happen to them and change that really fast. Such as if ones husband died. They could lose the faith they have in God and turn away from him blaming him for what happened. Many examples could be given of this change. Just like we learn more about life as we get older so our perceptions change. And yes essentially you are the same person having had many experience but what if you did not have these experiences or different ones. Would you still be the same person?

I dont believe anyone truely knows themselves because soo much could happen to make what you thought of yourself to be untrue. Even though this is not a good way to describe yourself I have no doubt that anyone could describe themselves in a way but to say they are changing.

Tomorrow.

I feel that too many people take things for granted, and I am one of them. People will be in little fights over nothing with the people they love most. But these fights are pointless. You never now whether or not you will see the person again and how will you feel if you treated them badly and never saw them again. Once the person is gone then they wish they could take the things back that they did, but why do they have to do it in the first place. People know that anyone could die at any moment, its a fact. So why would they let little things get between them when they know that there is a chance that they wont see them again. It because they think that it will not happen to them. But one day it will, it does to everyone, and then they will be saying what other people have said. How could I have let something so minute come between us?



I duno, I was just thinking about life and how everyone takes it for granted. I wish things were different and people realized how lucky they were for every second of it that they have and not let another day pass of the pointless fights and arguments. LIFE should be more than what it is today, it needs to be cherished.

Dodging Cones

So everday when Im driving down my street I always see cones put out blocking the road. Parents do it to make drivers slow down so their children wont get hit. I deal with these everday. I am not against safety, but I do get very annoyed when I am dodge cones driving down my street.

When I was a child, all the children on my block would look out for cars. Whenever we would see a car we would yell "CAR!" and everyone would run to the sidewalk. Nowadays, children could care less if there is a car in the street. Ill be drving waiting for them to move, and the keep riding their bike or playing in the middle of the street, as if I have all day to wait for them.

Safety is very important to me, but parents cannot just block the road so thier kids can play without telling them to get out of the road when there are cars. Its a two way effort and it gets old dodging cones when kids dont even care if your in the road or not.

I came across this cartoon and it helped me to realize something. Alot of people say that George Bush should have known about 9/11. But with all the threats that America gets how are they supposed to know which is true or which is just some kids playing a prank. And now that George Bush is trying to protect us, by ways that do invade privacy people are getting mad. Yes, people deserve privacy, but what it comes down to alot of the time is privacy or protection.

Say George Bush could have figured out that the attacks of 9/11 were to happen, in order for him to have gotten that information would be by invading americans privacy. Dont get me wrong, I dont agree with everything that Bush has done while in presidency but I feel that some people are way too rediculous in what they expect. They want safety, but in order to have complete safety one would have to give up their privacy.

I just wish people were more realistic in the world we live in.