I was thinking alot about how everyone else around me has a favorite author or poet or someone who's written some sort of literature considered "great," and how I don't have one, or thought I didn't anyways. I spent a good amount of time thinking of what I've read, and nothing was really impressing me, but then it hit me. I've always loved reading Edgar Allan Poe's work. It amazes me.
Of course that got me thinking to what hobby intrests me, and what I could possibly want to do with my life. Two things came to mind. Writing, and photography, and now that my grandfather gave me his 35mm film camera, I can start on that. Whatever you take a picture of will never be exactaly like it was that moment you took it, that's the beauty of a photograph, you stopped time, and I guess that's what I love about it.
I feel like I have a little more self-worth and did a little self discovery, which was definately needed.
Now onto a different topic. Watching exiled and actually paying attention to the news has made me notice how lucky we are, living in the United States. In some countries, people live in mud huts, shacks made out of branches, or even a hole in the ground, literally. They don't have cars, tv's, computers, cell phones, or any other electronic "necessities" we have. They go out and hunt for their food, only worrying about what they're going to eat that day. They sleep on dirt floors, and have to make up games for entertainment.
Us on the other hand, we have huge gass guzzling hummers and trucks, huge houses with electricity and running water, we have every electronic product you could imagine, we have comfy beds to sleep in, we have something to do everyday.
And we don't have to worry about starving to death, or being another number in a genocide. No, we living the life over here.
But yet we still complain. Come on people. It's time to take that big American ego of always wanting the latest and greatest and put it aside. Believe it or not, getting the newest, greatest whatever it is out there is making life harder for those people who aren't privilaged like us. Maybe it's time to stop buying new shit you think you need and possibly giving the money to someone who could really use it. It's time to think of someone other than yourself.
