We've got everything but time, love, in this world...

[sordid_noctuary]

I am currently sitting at a table with three four mentally challenged young folks. Their caretaker asked if it was fine if they sat at my table and I obliged. It's sad to see how people ostracize them and sort of ignore the fact that they are there. The young woman at the table had a copy of "Self" magazine. Now I know nothing of the magazine itself but it had a photo of an airbrushed white blond woman. I wonder what it's like for them to be subject to these images of "normal" people in the media and at basically every point of their lives. One of them sat stoically across from me and I watched him as he thought. I kept trying to make eye contact to give him a smile but every time I saw him look at me his eyes would dart away. It's as if it's a two-way wall that keeps them and us out of each others' worlds. It disappoints me how people keep themselves locked in circles of comfort and complacency. I understand a sense of community but we are all part of a human community because we're all sharing in this experience of life so why don't we just try to help one another?

This is the first semester in which I have been so horribly busy during the very first week. I can only imagine what's going to happen during the rest of the semester. Hopefully, I won't go crazy.

I have come to the realization that liberals and conservatives, Democrans and Republicrats all piss me off. I don't know where I belong in this one-party oligarchy, much less this world.

All our devotions blown away by the madness of the day...