you can call me nancy...

as i've mentioned in previous posts, i try not to be so negative. i think i do this mainly because i know all of my blogger friends and i don't want you to think that i absolutely hate life. however, since most of you do know me, you probably already know that i'm sarcastic and sometimes bitchy, but "mostly upbeat". it's just my personality and my sense of humor. that being said, i'm just going to throw it out there...i think the world is completely going to shit!

now i know that's harsh, but the times we live in aren't good. we've got a lot on our plate. national debt, individual debt, healthcare, education, war and that's just in our country. we often forget about the rest of the world. just here in america, the economy is crap. the government is crap. the morals of society as a whole are crap. i think it's that last one that really gets me. noone trusts anyone anymore. how do we expect to band together and fix the mess we've gotten ourselves into when people think the way they do? selfishness and greed that passed down through the generations. that's what got us here in the first place. it's morphed into this hideous monster that controls the world. how can things get better when kids grow up thinking nobody loves them? when they're worried about being too fat or ugly in the first grade? when a 12 year old thinks the best way to get attention is having sex? when people start off what should be a life-long commitment by referring to it as their "first" marriage? when the majority of the population picks quantity over quality?

it's people that matter most, not things. period. if we hadn't allowed ourselves to lose sight of that, i think we would be in a much better place right now. well, duh! that's pretty obvious. however, i think we need to remind ourselves of that in our own lives. daily. i'm guilty of letting greed and material things take over sometimes too. i have actually been plagued over the last two weeks with an uncontrollable urge to shop. it's bad. for real. anyway, back to the subject at hand, seeing as how i personally know each of you and where you come from (for the most part), i know you value family and friends and hopefully just others in general. we're raised with that understanding. coming from this background, i think we take these things for granted. we think that everyone grew up as loved as we were. that everyone was blessed with the unbelievable bonds of friendship that we have experienced over the years. we don't really look at the options of changing the whole world from smalltown, usa. we don't have to. we have zeb for that ;) seriously though, i'm not saying give all your money to the shoeless kid in africa or even st. judes hospital. although both of those commercials almost always bring tears to my eyes. i just think we need to realize what we all have that others don't and be willing to show that to them. i believe there is good in everybody. some people just require someone who cares enough to work through all the bad before everyone else can see the good and before they can develop a new way of thinking. fortunately for us, we haven't needed that as much as other people might.

i'm laughing out loud now as i realize that my post has come full circle. what started as a rant about the shitty world we live in has now turned into a feeling of warmth and comfort in how lucky i am. i know each of you probably feel the same way. so i guess that's our answer. we may not be able to change the views of the world or our sadly corrupt nation. we can't pay off those trillions of dollars or make sure everyone has healthcare and freedom without insanely high taxes, but we can remind ourselves of how lucky we are to have the morals we have. we can do something to make ourselves realize how much we love the people in our lives. we can do something to let them know that everyday. we can pray that we get the opportunity to show it to someone who doesn't know that that exists. even if it's just one person, maybe that will come full circle too. maybe the morals of society will stop going down the tube one person at a time. maybe i'm not-so-negative nancy...