The Struggle's is Real....

True, each day is a brand-new day with tremendous possibilities. 

But I know each day is a blessing, so why don't I feel it? 

They say: appearances are deceiving. 

I was once a happy-go-lucky child, loving anime (Sailor Moon) and books (Sweet Valley High & Fear Street), 

but ppl know how to put me down, not build me up. 

Traitors all of them are. 

I don't trust them. Who needs trust when everyone is Public Enemy #1? 

I hate ppl and vice versa. 

Each day my soul is dying. 

My heart is breaking. 

I am damaged goods all around. 

No happy pill can cure me of this death spell. 

Madness abounds my heart, broken inside, dancing wretchedness. 

Heartbreak Hotel. 

Day in and day out --

life is a merry-go-round 

never ending, never ceasing

This ceaseless, endless pain

Let's end this pain--

once and for all time sake!

Life's cruel 

Let's not be cruel back to it

Senseless Violence

Question of the Moment: 

What is the solution to this senseless violence?

Let's start at homebase: We fight over meaningless, trivial things like parking, road rage, stuff that doesn't even matter in the bigger scheme of things. But let's not even start with most recently when people start fighting with not just words but with any ole weapons they had on them such as knives, guns, even broken bottles. Why can't we solve our problems rationally and with our words, not violence? Violence leads to death. We don't want death on our hands.

Maybe it is the gov't's fault for condoning death: eye for an eye as in the death penalty. Murder will get you put to death. Maybe it is the mass media's fault for condoning death. We have so much violence in our media, whether it is in TV, movies, videos, even on the internet that we are desensitize by violence. It is in the media so often that we prob'ly think it is okay to be violent towards others. We modeled ourselves after our fave action hero celebrities stars or anime/manga stars, which mostly portray violence. Name one manga/anime that doesn't portray violence, and I will be a happy camper. Prob'ly the manga/anime that has the most violence outweighs the ones without violence.

One of our amendments in the Bill of Rights says we are allowed to bear arms. Yea, maybe for protection. But people need to redefine protection. They could have alarms, panic rooms or a guard dog for protection, not guns because what if their kids get into their guns and endanger themselves and others? Young lives might be shorten; they had so much to live for. The kids that were involved in the school shootings had easy access to guns because their parents had guns readily available to them in their house. They were prob'ly normal kids, but their parents most prob'ly taught them how to use guns to hunt and stuff, which was a big mistake since they didn't know what kind of mental capacity their young ones had. Temptation to use the guns  on their classmates and teachers who've wronged them was too great until they couldn't take it anymore. 

As for the recent mass shooting, who knows what went on in the gunman's mind? I know one thing: gun control isn't the answer--we should just melt all the guns and ammo to make a huge plague commemorating all the people who had been killed in mass shootings both in schools and other places around the world. The NRA should be abolished as well. 

Our Issues of the World

Federal & state doesn't care about the nitty-gritty issues: homelessness, drug trafficking, even prostitution; the only ones who care about these issues are the nonprofits. Why doesn't the state and the federal gov'ts care about these issues? Too busy giving tax cuts to the rich and cutting Medicaid for the low-income citizens? These are real issues that people deal with each and everyday of our lives.

If they really want to make a change, start with the real issues that we, common folks, face each day. You may not like it, but it's a fact. We have problems like homelessness, drug trafficking and prostitution everyday. Federal and state gov'ts should ask 'why' people are facing these issues instead of jailing them. They may be homeless because they have no job to pay rent or resources to hold down a job. They may have issues like health problems or no real address to send their paychecks to. People may go into drug trafficking because that is the only way for them to make income. Women sell themselves on the street because they think it is they only way they'll ever survive on the streets. Jail is not the answer to our problems. Rehabilitation is our answer. 

We should listen to those people who are down on their luck, not ostracize them. We should help them, be kind to them. We shouldn't turn away people who need help. We should be understanding of their situation, not lock them up for being poor, misguided homeless and low-income. 

Hope is always around every corner.