-Is there enough water?
So everyone keeps warning me about the earth and how it is destined to explode one of these days, I don’t pay much attention to them. I acknowledge that things are getting more intense, summers hotter and winters colder, but maybe the weather is just trying to keep up with us. We seem awfully concerned with the polar caps while we pay no attention to our own limits as humans. The ice is melting! The sun is exploding! The koala bears are revolting! How’s abouts we focus on our fellow man, hmmmm? How come no one is paying attention to the fact that we are becoming more and more of an isolated society? We are quickly on our way to becoming a bunch of islands, and I do not mean geographically. Even if all the sea levels are rising and the oceans are closing in, who cares? Who doesn’t enjoy time on the beach? What I mean is that we are all becoming soloists, we are all building are own private island with very elite guest lists.
It is not so much that man has given up caring or trying to do well to one another, the demographics are just becoming smaller. It used to be that everyone helped everyone and everybody cared for everybody. Today everyone is looking out for their own kind; no one seems to want to branch out. Is everyone becoming a one-genre type of person? This pass weekend I was on a bus more often then a freshmen checking their Facebook account; and what I noticed was unsettling. There were no acts of violence or menacing persons, each route was filled with caring people, to people such as themselves. It is sad to say that once someone figures out their place they tend to only care for people on the same step of the social ladder they are on. This whole thing sounds like high school. There is that old saying “you are who you were in sixth grade”; well that seems to be broken because “we are who we were in sophomore year”. Does high school have such a lasting effect on us, does it mess us up that much to the point that we really never leave it?
If on the rare chance that the clouds are becoming giant gas bombs or that the sea animals are growing legs or that there is cancer in the coffee I’m drinking, I’m thinking we should all learn to play nice. What are the benefits of being an island, or being surrounded by people who are from the same coasts as you are? Remember how all those explorers went out and left their islands to find new ones, bigger ones, better ones? There is a lot to be said for exploring, for going on out uncharted territory. There are great big bunches of waters to explore and learn to navigate. We’ve have been swimming socially since we were in kindergarten, so why the sudden urge to be land lubbers? Everyone walking around with their matching people, forming unannounced gangs and posses. The groups wearing clothes all found in the same store, shoes bought from the same website and ipods branding in pockets like switchblade knifes. If ever there was dispute it would look like a modern version of the Jets and the Sharks; instead of blades it would be RZRS, instead of chains it would be ipod buds.
There is more than enough water and apparently everything is melting so there is more coming; so flush the toilet every time you use it, buy it bottled if you so chose and most importantly get out there and swim in it. Come on, the waters fine.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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