When It All Boils Down, My Words Are Like A Raindrop To A River.

In elementary school, they told me that high school would be a place where temptation lurks in every hallway. Police officers and Federal judges came and barked horror stories at me. By the time I hit sixth grade, their stories were irrelevant to me, boring in fact. I had no intentions of smoking, or drinking, or having sex, I still don't. But maybe the person who sat next to me in sixth grade and listened to the same speech didn't hear what I did.
As I progress through this year, I am regularly amazed by the growing masses of children who participate in very grown-up things. It's frightening. When the same person who you trusted wouldn't become a statistic, becomes one, its like watching titanic. You wish that you could tell the captain to stay the course, and not swerve, but the ending is always the same, the ship sinks and all is lost.
Changes in the way people behave force me to question everything, and everyone, especially myself. I'm learning that I can only take care of me. I've no influence on anyone else's life, people are going to do what they want. YOLO right? But Drake said that YOLO was a motto, not an excuse justify reckless behavior and stupidity. Checkmate.

Life Is Like A Drop Of Water In A Frying Pan.

While I was riding over a bridge today, I looked over at all the little houses. Some of them had pools, some had little dogs, or cats, they all looked different. Then I recognized, that they all had something in common also. Each one of those little houses, are the setting for someone's life. In each house, someone has slept, eaten, learned, laughed, and cried. In every one of those houses, someone has been faced with a problem, and over come it. And I know that, when a problem was THE problem, it seemed impassable. But in all of those houses, at some point or another some person toiled and did the impossible. I could not help, or offer my shoulder to cry on, because I did not know them or their problem. the people in those houses don't matter to me.  No one matters, until they do.

In the moment, our lives, and problems, are huge. but prospectively, they are so small, so irrelevant to the rest of humanity. When I was on that bridge today, I realized that I need to relax, everyone dose.