Just some thoughts - shared like we sometimes do around here... A friend told me to stop watching the news and get off Facebook because I was getting so depressed by everything out there the past week or so. Wondering if I should. But I think Id still be sad - just sad and uninformed. When I was a kid - about 12 - a police car stopped to ask me and my friends for help finding a missing boy. We were eager to assist. The cop described him as a chigger. We didnt know what he meant. They drove off. It took years for me to realize that meant bi-racial; Asian and Black. The familys lawyer, who also represented Trayvon Martins family, said on CNN that hes been involved in over a hundred similar (unarmed kid shot) cases. Could this be true? I saw Robin Williams up close once, on the set of Awakenings. I was a day-playing PA in a set at Kings County Hospital. One of my first jobs. I was passing him in a hallway and didnt know if I should make eye contact. He almost jumped in front of me to say hello. Ive met many actors, but Ive always remembered that. One of my good friends from high school is a detective in NYC. I have a couple of other friends who are officers. Theres good and bad everywhere. There should be more good though. Obama is such a disappointment. And I dont even think he knows how much. I hate that we kill ourselves. And I mean that in all the ways that it can be meant. Im so sorry for that boys family. Hands up or down, Cigarillos or Fort Knox, nobody deserves that. Nobody. Iraq is heartbreaking. Afghanistan too. Lives lost for change is one thing. Lives lost for nothing - or when things become worse - is so hard to accept. And Im talking Lives. Ours and Theirs. Just lives. People should try for better. To do better. To be better. To present themselves better. To understand others better. To learn More. To figure out how to put themselves in others shoes. I realize I whine and complain about some relatively petty shit. Ive got to stop. Theres a lot of true hopelessness and pain and struggle in the world and in large segments of this country that most of us (including me) can never truly understand. And its our own making, really. Part of me wishes that we (my kids, family, friends...) were a couple of generations later... when all of this stuff has passed and has been resolved... but I realize maybe its better to happen now - maybe its just supposed to happen now - because maybe now is when were strong enough to deal with it; strong enough and smart enough and resolved enough to make it better... Because it has to get better... right?
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 01:12:09 +0000
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