New Thoughts Taking Over

Indoctrination. The lost hour of sleep. Obesity. Homophobia. The KKK. World War II. Hate. Love. The church. All of these things have been on my mind lately and have consumed my thought process. I feel like one of the middle school kids I work with: a wandering mind, easily distracted by thoughts of problems at home or with life in general.

Problems. That is what all of these things are. Or perhaps they have problems with them. Either way, they bug me, simply put.

Is there any way to prioritize the problems of society? Certainly we cannot deal with all of them at once, can we? We are all too busy to care about racism, discrimination, sexism, and all of the things in between, right? We should only have to worry about our life and how we plan on getting from point 'a' to point 'b'. After all, the earth has only heated up .6 degrees in the last 50 years, right? That isn't even a whole degree. Why the hell should we care about it? We'll be long gone before that reaches 2 or 3 degrees.

So many things wrong. So many. Things. Wrong.

Isn't it about time that we re-member? Re - Again. Member - A part of a whole.

Take the parts of this world, the good and the bad, the successes and the problems, and re-member. Isn't it time to say that we cannot only focus one problem at one time? Isn't it time that we stop 'saying' and start 'doing'?

Out with the apathy.

Re-member: our self, our community, our prejudices, our hatred, our passions, our dreams.

Re-member the connectedness of this world.