Tuesday, August 30, 2005
I've realized Legally Blonde 2 is a load of rubbish. It's completely inconceivable that a blonde sorority girl can present herself in front of congress and start speaking about a hair dressing experience she had and they actually listened. Then she launches into a patriotic…….yes, I do call that patriotic when she starts saying ‘the American people’ …….speech to stand up and speak up. Nice speech…..never gonna happen.
Nowadays…..or actually I think it has always been this way that it is who you know and not what you know that gets you what you want. When has a heartrending speech ever reach anyone? Change their minds, show them the wrong that has occurred? Pictures of the abuse at Abu Graib and the pleas of the people could not even affect the presidential elections in America, because evidently people were more concerned about gay marriages to care that halfway across the world, their own sons and daughters were torturing people.
It’s sickening. As I sit here eating my coco puffs at 8 am, I’m thinking there are thousands of children who has no food. In Africa, in Asia, children are starving, without homes, with big bellies empty and filled with acids. As I type in every word, and use up my internet credit, there are children trapped within the invisible grasps of poverty, who can’t even afford one dollar to pay for rice and instead spend their days gathering rubbish for pennies. There must be even deprived individuals on the street adjacent to us, or next door a woman being abused, or upstairs a child crying, or someone has died, or is dying or in pain, poor, dead, deprived, suffering around us, in so many countries and we don’t know. We don’t hear, we don’t see, we don’t know, do we care? Do we give them a single thought as we laugh with our friends, as we go shopping, as we watch a movie or learn to drive, chat on the net, as we sit in our cars and give passing glances to the world outside………………if we do not see, do we care?
And if we do see………………………………do we care?
When have I become so cynical……………………………………………….when did I lose that innocence, that trust in better things, the belief that there is fairness and beauty around. When I would use to look up and wonder at the stars………………………or see my first snowflake and thought I wanted to see more……………………………when I used to dream of flying and soaring through the clouds……………….watch a bird hop around on a branch…………………………………………….when did I lose my interest, and no longer see what is so fascinating about the blue sky………………………………………………………………………………..
While there is a child laughing, there are those lying with sores and burns in hospital beds, crying for their mothers. There are non profit workers administering polio prevention drugs to babies, and governments creating biological warfare in spick and span labs. Friends holding hands and men shaking hands while in their hearts they think of bloodshed.
I grew up, taught to be critical and cynical, never believing and trusting the first thing I know, but to question and analyze, find the truth for myself.
I grew up……….and saw besides the brutality in the world, the simple joys of laughing with a friend, and still it is not enough.
I grew up………………………….and wondered why we would hurt ourselves like this.
I grew up………………………………..silent.
Mused by Sukunami Taka around 4:01 AM
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