Originally Posted by
gimmethesimplelife
Ay Carumba! As one of the more cynically realistic long term posters here, my advice is to find a way to care somehow. Seriously. I have a hard time waking up and dealing with this country every day as I saw it for what it truly is many, many, many years ago - still I get up, I make an effort, I protest, I light candles, I send off letters to the editor of Borderland newspapers, I try to encourage young people in the 85006 to immigrate to Canada - I do what I can. To not try or to not care is to admit defeat and to let powers that don't care about human life or human dignity to win. I can't do that - human life and human dignity mean more than that to me.
My advice? Find something that soothes and fills your soul. For me it would be the love I have managed to find with my partner and my renewed faith - for you it could very well be something else. Get your soul filled - and then find something you find absolutely repulsive - in modern day America this is not hard at all - and fight and fight and fight and fight. At least you know you tried and didn't roll over and play a victim for corporate profit and you know you did some independent thinking of your own - how many people can truly say that these days? Rob