I haven't written in a while. I don't know if it is because I have been extremely busy or just because everytime I get behind this keyboard my mind goes blank. Sometimes I have something that I really want to say, but then I forget it or it just doesn't seem important anymore when no one hears and you are the only person to know.
If you knew me when I was in the Marine Corps after my deployment you would know that I couldn't wait to get out, but for some reason I have this longing to be back in a war zone. Over in the war you have a completely different view of life. While I was in Iraq the handful of important things were your brothers in arms, killing the enemy, and hoping you make it back alive, but when you get home you start to wonder if this life is something to celebrate.
I have seen many things in my time as a child and as a Marine, but as a student in college I can't help but wonder why we are so happy with meaningless lives. I walk through grocery stores and see endless boxes of food items to choose from, all with different names and different colors, but even with so many things available I still feel like I am missing something.
The more I talk to people in this country the more I realize why other countries don't like americans and the more I don't ever want to leave my house. We spend more time trying to be the next american idol, jersey shore fist pumper, singer, dancer, racer, and athlete then we do making a difference in this world. It is sad to look around and see such a wealthy nation of citizens allowing individuals to starve and die on our streets. Capitalism breeds greedy individuals who push to keep the seperation of class citizens so that the upper half can live like a kings, even though the high class individuals make up 1 percent of the population. The middle class make up 19 percent of the population, and poverty consists of 80 percent.
Is this the point to our life? Is it so important to indulge in hollow substances? Our life can't possibly be about working everyday in a government that allows pornography to corrupt individuals and families, that takes away employer health care, that brainwashes children to grow up wanting to be some pop star, and attacks a country and discriminates their beliefs over oil pipelines.
All the while we are all blind to the truth.....it sickens me how many people are so ignorant. Americans live their lives going to the gym to look like supermodels in advertisements, eat food that gives them serious health problems, and we work everyday stressing the whole time about money while our economy slips through the cracks. Does anyone open a book anymore or do we just not have time because we fill our lives with empty happiness like disneyland, movies, fights, races, sporting events, parties, raves, drinking, and several other things?
I tried calling into a news stations the other day to see if they were going to play the story about how a SWAT team in Tucson Arizona killed a combat veteran in front of his 4 year old son. Come to find out they wouldn't even consider playing the story here in Kansas City because it happened in Arizona. I tried radio shows and newspapers, but no one delivers the real news. All the news we are given is carefully reviewed and placed on television for ignorant individuals to be brainwashed into believing whatever they want. For those of you who think the televison is just an entertaining box, here is an example to help you understand the concept of an individuals envirnonment affects them. Imagine yourself sitting in a sauna and the person on the outside cranks it all the way up. Suddenly you start sweating, breathing heavy, and your body become dehydrated and exhausted. This example just goes to show that your environment can and will affect your body as well as your mind.
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