Finally…

 

So after much neglect to my blog and my writing, I am back in full force with some much anticipated pictures of my pretty much completed apartment. My weekend was spend glossing my floors, a process much trickier than it would seem especially since the polyurethane gives off an odor comparable to bus fumes. Certainly more than a couple brain cells were sentenced to death after three days spend shellacking. But hey, a good night out probably has the same effect. Let’s just hope I still have a few brain cells leftover to throw a party and produce little baby brain cells.

Anyways, it being 37 degrees outside and raining, I thought I would finally take some pictures. They turned out a little grainy because of the lack of light, so sorry. Come a bright sunny day, I might take some replacements, but until then, these will just have to make due.

I hope everyone’s Thanksgiving day was good, and that Black Friday was better than the poor dude’s who got trampled to death at a Walmart at 5AM. True story!!! He was pushed down and trampled by the swarm of angry shoppers who had lined up since 9PM on Thanksgiving night. I guess all of the tryptophan wasn’t enough to stop the mob from forming. Doesn’t this seem more like a South Park episode than real life. “Kenny, working for Walmart to make some extra cash, goes to open the door and the angry mob of South Park citizens trample him as they rush to do their holiday shopping.” I am seriously in shock. When did shopping result in death? and not by someone shooting someone over a blouse, but by running someone over without the aid of a motor vehicle? What is the world coming too? Please someone tell me I am not overreacting? But out of all of the crime out there, this one seems to be the worse. Women acting like raging bulls or sheep and plowing over this poor employee who was trying to open the doors for them so they could buy Christmas presents for their family. Will this be shock enough to force people to think like humans now? We have brains, can we be civilized human beings and not behave like animals? Are we up to this task?

Truthfully, I don’t think we are, and I don’t know if that is the pessimist in me, but I feel like the world is turning gray. As humans, we are more of a parisite to this earth than the animals we share it with. While they only take what they need, we take far more than our share and then expect everything else to go without. Not only are we living a disposible lifestyle where everything has a lifespan of about 1 year in our home, but we our waste is the most toxic of all. The crap that we produce is no longer organic. It fills these holes in the earth called dumps, which are just giant toilets, and we think its ok. “Don’t litter.” “Throw it in the trash.” But that is no better than just throwing it on the streets. Every trash can fills our earth with more and more of our toxic waste. Yet, we wonder why animals are becoming extinct, why the ice is slowly melting, why polar bears are loosing their homes? We watch shows like Planet Earth and think “wow the world is beautiful.” We don’t realize that we are ruining it. We are taking our planet and literally crapping all over it. Do we not understand that this is our only home. When earth dissappears so do we, and yes most of us now will probably be dead by then, but the future will not be and that little polar bear, we watched wrestle with his brother on Planet Earth will not even have grand kids, because they will have no place to live. I am afraid of our future. I am afraid of the mess that we have brought upon the earth. Instead of mutualism, we are the best example of parasitism in this twisted symbiosis. God created us to love earth and respect its beauty. He had no intention of having us strip the earth for everything that we could, only to leave a wasteland for him to clean up. I am sorry for the religious/environmental rant, but this has always bothered me, and it kills me that we don’t do anything. We just sit back and watch, and yes, I am guilty of that too. True I recycle and I don’t use plastic or use gas (my two legs can get me everywhere) and I try my hardest to do my part, but 1 out of 6 billion or even the 3 million in NYC. That percentage is too small to even make a difference. I won’t stop doing my part, but please start doing your part. Start helping the world. Lets not allow our world to come to the last leg of this irreversible path. Lets work together to stop this deadly progression, and actually give the greatest gift of all to our children, a cleaner, better, more aware world.

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