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Ok... I think I'm ready for a good rant. Heh....this goes right back to a variation of the theme on greed. I think if there is one unforgiveable sin, it should be greed. It comes along packing its own weight of selfishness and apathy. It ruins lives. It makes us indifferent because it 'doesn't affect us'.

Davey and I have been talking about what we want from our lives. What we hope and dream for. I want to help as many other people in this world as I can. An easy statement, but how do you do it? You do it by waking up to what is happening in your neighbourhood, your town, and your country.

I want to keep helping gay youth. Well, youth in general really. I hate seeing how adults treat their own children. They get treated as if they were possessions. Things to be used and discarded if the 'break'. (don't live up to expectations or they grow bored with them) To me, that's greed at work.

How many parents get it right? Give guidance and discipline with Love? Are able to chat to their children when they've grown enough to appreciate the life lessons their folks can pass down? From what I can see, not a hell of a lot.

I drive through town in the evenings and I see them, the kids who haven't anyone to care about them. They gather on doorsteps or walk down the street watching their feet. Sure, some have a home, but I've seen these same kids on a bench in front of the supermarket at one in the morning, smoking a cigarette.

I can't believe that they choose to be there on their own. Who would? What drove them from their homes is what I wonder. What made that bench better than their own place? These are the people that need to be helped most and get it least. If home isn't good, what happens? Division for youth? A foster home? What?

I say that by that point, it's too late for most of them. We need to step in much earlier and correct our behaviours before we ruin another generation of humans. We need to get off our asses, swallow the pride that tells us we are doing 'enough' and get out there and MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

And if you read this, and have kids of your own, ask yourself this.... am I doing all I can to raise a decent human being? For a lot of you, if you are truly honest, I bet you coouldn't say yes.

Just something to think about.

*Hugs Everyone*

Stuff

*Sighs* Sometimes the world just doesn't go the way you want. Have you ever played the game 'This is how I would make the world?' I do it sometimes. I wonder what I'd have the world be like if I could. *shakes head* Ah well...

I had a pretty decent day yesterday, I got to chat with a friend of Camerons named Matthew. Matt lives in the UK and is a Uni student studying geology. (wonders if he has been asked if this is how he 'get's his rocks off'?) ^_^ Probably has since it occured to me about 3 seconds after I heard 'geology'.

We got to chat for about an hour before I had to go to work. It made for a good afternoon and was a nice way to spend an afternoon. I hope I get to chat to him again.

I of course spent a part of last night chatting with Davey. Always worthwhile. ^_^ I think I like his solution to the parent thingee. He's going to have me into the house and a friend of his named Paul. We'll arrange ourselves comfortably in the living room and then call his mom in first to meet me. I'm game. I know this has weighed heavily on him and I'll try to do all I can to see him safe and happy.

After his mom he's expecting that the presence of both Paul and I will keep his dad from going off. I certainly hope so. But I also won't leave him there if I think he might be in danger from his dad. Personally, I don't trust his dad to keep his behaviour under control. We'll just have to see.

I had a dream last night, it involved fish, aquariums and plants. *blinks* o.O Dunno why I dreamt of it, just did. There were these HUGE aqua spiders that scared the shit out of me! Imagine a wolf spider that swam and was 100 times bigger than the original. *shudders*

I, of course, used them to tease my niece Kim, who is terrorized by spiders! *giggles*

*later folks*