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Today it snowed. and snowed. and snowed. and snowed.
Did I know it was going to snow and snow and snow? Nope. So I wore my Vans.
safe to say that my toes have frostbite.

Apart from the rudely intrusive weather, today wasn't half bad.
There was a substitute teacher at school which made it a pretty laid back day.



((could there really be something changing with me?))

With the stupid cold weather comes the flu. My nose has been running all day and I feel like a big, fat sack of yuck.


I never knew how ignorant I was until this year. I've been learning a lot more about the mysteries of the world and how, as a global community, we behave. Soldiers have been in Afghanistan for NINE YEARS! that's stretching across the boarder of a decade, Blogger. How crazy is that?
It frustrates me until I'm just about ready to explode. How can you keep troops there for so long, solving barely anything?
These are our family members who are losing their lives. Our citizens. Don't get me wrong; All the soldiers in our troops are brave, courageous human beings who's legacies wont be forgotten. What they do and what they prepare themselves to do is heroic and the determination they posses is inspiring.
However I can't shake the fact that these are lives that could be spent in a playground pushing a child on a swing. The hours spent training soldiers could be used educating nation leaders on how to co-exist and productively work together towards saving the Earth . Instead, we decide to send men out to fight unbeatable wars. What century are we living in here people?
And how could we let communities get so torn apart by sexism, homophobia and racism? World leaders still can't cope with the oh-so-horrific concept of same-sex couples swapping spit. Some homosexual couples express what looks to me as true love and the fact that people are still disgusted by the lgbt community.. well that disgusts me.
We need to stop teaching future generations of the behavior of our past and start teaching them how to live open minded and open hearted.
But maybe its not that I'm realizing all of this now.. it's that I'm finally mature enough to understand what it all means.






Could I ever be satisfied under a star-ridden sky if I can even ask "where's the rest"?