The Phantom of Liberty

Eventful few month going on here… Many books read, many people met, many posts not written. It seems I have moved yet again, but at least it’s for the better this time. My writing has been a bit awful. I cannot get a story in my mind and keep it there long enough. It’s not the sort of thing that one gets from writer’s block, I’d say it’s more Writers ADD. Heh.

As for my life these past months, it has been eventful. I got a job, my mother got arrested twice and went to rehab, I had to repeat a year of school… the list goes on. As for now, I’ll just talk about moving schools.

Did you ever read a book where someone starts out some place, leaves to a far off land that’s much worse than the place he was before and retains the hope that the starting place will be much better and a nice place to return to, and then returns to the starting place only to find the place has been overrun with the same amount of idiots as the other place? That’s how I feel. I’m not saying I’m unhappy about moving, I’m very glad it happened… but the school sort of devovled. Degenerated? Dejiggered? Whatever the word is, that’s what happened.

At least it’s retained the loving teachers I had. Sadly, this whole “soda” dilima is making me angry. It’s the worst idea in the world: removing soda from high schools will make kids less fat. Really? Is that the state’s answer to obesity? Banning soda? Don’t make me laugh. That’s like saying if they stopped making twinkies, no one in the world would be fat. Fat chance. People will be fat no matter what they eat or drink, giving them a fattening choice for a drink might actually help in the long run. Think about it: removing a fattening choice makes someone buy it when it is a choice, by leaving it there, it will help people learn to keep away from those urges. In that sense, they can eventually stay healthy rather than get healthy and then gain back all the weigt due to never learning how to decide what’s best.

I’m just ranting of course, I want my freaking soda. I’m fat and happy with it, there’s no chance that I’ll lose as much weigt as some athelete, but I’m fine with that.

Oh well. As for my new catch phrase, I’ll take a page from Watchmen…

“We’re all puppets, I’m just a puppet who can see the strings.”

~ by mastercyclon on April 8, 2009. Tagged: Hope, Learning, Me, Return!