On Yesterday.
I read many people reminiscing about 9/11, now that we are at the 5 year mark.
I stand by what I said four years ago.
I remember, but it's not going to rule my life. I feel no safer because of the actions of the government.. I moved CLOSER to Washington DC. If something blows up DC, I'll likely be in the thick of the aftermath. Does this bother me? Yes.
Would I reverse my descision?
HELL. NO.
The past two years and change that I have been right where I am have been the best two years and change that I have had in my ENTIRE LIFE. I'm free. I do what I like to do, talk to who I want to talk to, see who I want to see, hang out with who I want to hang out with, and I am independant on many levels.
And I LOVE this life.
I love the people who make this life good for me (yes, that includes all of you).
But I am off track. I actually feel LESS safe after what the government has been doing. I fear because I am openly bi-sexual. I fear, because I keep reading about how healthcare is being denied in some places, how it changes the relationship between patient and doctor, how it might threaten my job, how it might threaten my home, etc. None of this is solidly in place, but ... there is so much potential, and so much segregation going on that it drives me insane. So what if I DO decide, after all is said and done down the line, to settle down with a female instead of the male that my heart is currently dead-set on? Is this something that is going to be an issue? How much is it going to affect things? What if it doesn't matter? I still am attracted to both genders, despite which one I'm currently with or not with.
WHY does it matter so much about GENDER?
And why does the government deem it so important? Didn't they learn the lesson with the civil war over the slaves and the "Black Segregation" that followed? What about Hitler? Why is one culture better than another? Why is one religion better than another? Why is one skin color better than another? Why is one preference better than another? (Mind you, not all heterosexual couples have children, so don't go there ^_^) There are better things to debate, like the employment rate, the financial health, poverty in this country, the tax breaks rich people get that we middle-class people do not, this war that is really NOT helping things at all (when I left NJ, gas was $.99 per gallon to about $1.09 a gallon... the last time I filled my tank in 2004, it was $1.59... it is now ABOVE $3.00... this is a MAJOR ISSUE!) but making things WORSE for this country, in my opinion, and other such things that are actually, I don't know ... IMPORTANT?
At least those things are more important to ME than some of the gay debates or horse slaughter morality, or abortion debates, debates on who's going to attack US next to keep us all under the government's thumb, or debates on who has the bigger penis in the run for president.
I remember 9/11/01, people.
I also remember the days before it, the days during it, and the days after it.
... And I still think we could have handled it better.
I stand by what I said four years ago.
I remember, but it's not going to rule my life. I feel no safer because of the actions of the government.. I moved CLOSER to Washington DC. If something blows up DC, I'll likely be in the thick of the aftermath. Does this bother me? Yes.
Would I reverse my descision?
HELL. NO.
The past two years and change that I have been right where I am have been the best two years and change that I have had in my ENTIRE LIFE. I'm free. I do what I like to do, talk to who I want to talk to, see who I want to see, hang out with who I want to hang out with, and I am independant on many levels.
And I LOVE this life.
I love the people who make this life good for me (yes, that includes all of you).
But I am off track. I actually feel LESS safe after what the government has been doing. I fear because I am openly bi-sexual. I fear, because I keep reading about how healthcare is being denied in some places, how it changes the relationship between patient and doctor, how it might threaten my job, how it might threaten my home, etc. None of this is solidly in place, but ... there is so much potential, and so much segregation going on that it drives me insane. So what if I DO decide, after all is said and done down the line, to settle down with a female instead of the male that my heart is currently dead-set on? Is this something that is going to be an issue? How much is it going to affect things? What if it doesn't matter? I still am attracted to both genders, despite which one I'm currently with or not with.
WHY does it matter so much about GENDER?
And why does the government deem it so important? Didn't they learn the lesson with the civil war over the slaves and the "Black Segregation" that followed? What about Hitler? Why is one culture better than another? Why is one religion better than another? Why is one skin color better than another? Why is one preference better than another? (Mind you, not all heterosexual couples have children, so don't go there ^_^) There are better things to debate, like the employment rate, the financial health, poverty in this country, the tax breaks rich people get that we middle-class people do not, this war that is really NOT helping things at all (when I left NJ, gas was $.99 per gallon to about $1.09 a gallon... the last time I filled my tank in 2004, it was $1.59... it is now ABOVE $3.00... this is a MAJOR ISSUE!) but making things WORSE for this country, in my opinion, and other such things that are actually, I don't know ... IMPORTANT?
At least those things are more important to ME than some of the gay debates or horse slaughter morality, or abortion debates, debates on who's going to attack US next to keep us all under the government's thumb, or debates on who has the bigger penis in the run for president.
I remember 9/11/01, people.
I also remember the days before it, the days during it, and the days after it.
... And I still think we could have handled it better.