Sep 11, 2006 14:47
So today is September the 11th, 2006. It has been five years since the world trade center attacks and I ask myself: "where did the years go?"
In the last five years, I have changed beyond anyone could have foreseen. I have different values and beliefs. I am almost a completely different person. I like the person I have become very much, and disagree with many of the things I believed and felt five years ago. Going from 17 to 22 is a long time, and it has been a bumpy rode. There has been tragedy, praise, deaths, births, marrieges, divorses, gains, and loses within my family and friends. When I think about all the crazy crap that has happened to me over the last five years, it's really surreal. I can't believe all this happened to a person, and that this person was me.
I think back on the person I was and cringe a little. I remember when we were attacked and I was all for us going to war and bombing things. I didn't really know what was going on, I was just a pissed off 17-year-old kid and wanted us to bomb some shit. Now I am a little older and a little wiser and understand all that is at stake and realized that it's ludicrous that we are occupying that country still. It's been five years and we don't seem to be going anywhere. I think that we seriously need a regime change in our current administration. We need to be for the people again. It seems like all of the morals and beliefs that our country was founded on have gone by the wayside. We were born out of revolution and fought for the right to be different. Our forefathers were revolutionaries and wanted people to be equal and the government to be for the people.
"people should not fear their governments, governments should fear their people"
I'm sick of the United States being the bully of the world. Our country was started because we stood up to our bully, and now we have become our worst enemy. That it not right.
I guess I just don't get people anymore. I think people are crazy and a lot of people have just really gotten good at deceiving people.
Gophers,
Ben