I've been having a family situation that has really opened up my eyes to what's really going on. I see and feel the consequences of people's actions, both good and bad. And the bad ones, they make me sooo sad. When something bad happens, there is pain and suffering on both sides, no one wins. Given the situation I'm in, I try not to judge others, I try to take what I visually and audibly consume and process it, but try not to analyze it. I try to let be what is and try to move on to something that leads to positivity * yea I think I just made up a new word, but it makes sense right?* And while I should be doing homework, homework is what brought me here, and my current situation is what fuels me for everything. So I'm not sure if I unknowingly manipulated things to fit into a way for me to relate or catch my interest or if it just happened to be here, a friend says it was always there, I just never had a need to look into it or see it because I didn't know it. Anyway here I am making a mental connection between my current situation and homework. But I guess that's how you learn right? Take what you learn in class and apply it to real life.
My homework assignment is to find 3 current events each week and develop a simple objective question to them and give a truthful factual answer to it. I try to find stories more so in print, but more importantly I try to find stories that wouldn't be on the front page. I try to find the stories I think my fellow classmates would not have even looked at in their google searches. So today I came across a story about how the U.S. prison system will be taking away, inmates who are sentenced to lethal injection, request to have a final meal. I'm not sure what reasons gave away to this decision, I'm sure it boils down to one individual who, for lack of better words, fucked it up for everyone else. But thats not the main point. After reading that article, I googled lethal injections, and I read Wiki's articles on it. I then read about recent "hot topic" cases that involved lethal injection. I read about their last meal requests, their convictions and the affects their cases had on other people. I was just in an awe at lethal injections and the fact that we put soooo must trust in our legal system when everything seems biased, AND IM AMAZED AT THE FACT THAT according to the media, it seems like some people just "click" the wrong way, and BOOM we have a rapist, a terrorist, a murderer, a robber, a no good to society. Thinking about it made me feel incredibly sad, so I went back to my homework. However, sadness wasn't done with me yet. I was looking for a local headlining story when I came across a story of a young man, who was a gang banger looking for another rival gang. This gang member was with a couple of other members just cursing around the neighborhood when they found this one kid who was walking from his girlfriend's house. One gang member shouted out to this kid what he repped, and when he got no reply, the gang member came out with a metal bat and beat the kid senseless. The gang member then took the kid's phone, called the kid's girlfriend and told her what he had just done proudly, then left the kid on the side of the street. The gang member is now in county with no bail and the kid is still in a coma. BUT ITS LIKE WTF!? Do we really have this many people out there who just have nothing else to do but to be stupid? Do we really have this many lawyers and judges who could careless? Do we really have jail and prison systems overcrowding just so someone can get paid? Is there no hope?
All of this just makes me sick! I really hope that the things I'm doing now will better my future and make people happy. I hope that the kids that I teach will learn something positive and FEEL it! I hope that what I can teach them keeps them off the streets, out of harm's way so that we can live in a society where we aren't hurting others because of their skin color, what they wear, because we are mad or lonely. What I ultimately want is for no one to go through the pain of losing someone to jail, drugs, diseases, sex, and violence. If someone is meant to go, let the man upstairs take care of it, don't take it into your hands to play God.
I think this song sums up perfectly how I feel....AMEN
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