Whatever happened to? 2nd edition

ok, lemme get deep right quick... Another edition of:

Whatever happened to?
... to love at first sight?
... to wedlock?
I gotta explain that one, remember the days when a girl would tell her parents, "I'm pregnant" and before she could finish the word pregnant her father had done already drove to the boy's house with a shotgun, brought him back and basically forced a marriage to happen right then and there. I mean back in the day, for better or for worse meant, for better or for worse. People stood married, even if they hated the situation... most of the time because it was out of wedlock, lol. But, can we even use the term Wedlock anymore?!? Doesn't seem to me like there's much of a use for that word... if there was, don't think you'd see so many baby mama's and the like. Not saying wedlock is good, but hey it would also make you think before you act and put yourself in that situation. America is gettin too lax. Society in general is too lax... it's like soceity is gettin old. Does anyone remember when the word Sex was like a word that ppl wouldn't say out loud. Birth control was considered wrong, the word family = Father+ Mother + plus kids+ community... I mean yea, some things were a little too unaccepted, but with the acceptance of 1 came the snowball effect of the rest. ooo sociecty can be pursuaded, if you bagger it enough anything can be accepted... Tobacco and Alcohol used to be banned... remember that? I don't lol, but it's clear in movies like Life where they had underground bars that u had to know the secret password to and stuff like that.... Now society has to beg ppl to quit smoking and has finally gotten a ban on smoking on indoors. Here lately we're talkin about legalizing marijuana and even dropping the drinking age... ??? We're even allowing same sex marriages these days... The new movement, Gay Rights.... everyone has there swing at soceity these days... Just form a group and make some noise!!! you'll get Whatever you like, like T.I. say.... Just to clarify, my views on Gays are based upon my religious beliefs, just plain wrong... however, I do no judge anyone... that isn't my job, that's for God himself to decide. I really don't know if a person is born that way or if it's a choice they've made.... ??? don't know, and that's a whole nother' blog.... back to soceity... It's falling ppl! but that's enough explaining.....

to .99 cent gas? Remember when 1.09 was too high? It's like a game... let's raise gas to 4 dollars and then bring it back to 3.58 and keep it there. That'll seem better than 4 and ppl will be content. We attack society so much, but as a society we accept too much. I don't understand how a small portion of society can bully the greater, collective society, but on the flip side, the society as a whole cannot stop a smaller segment of itself.... that baffles me! Kinda like how those idiots in the Child's Play movies let that damn Chucky doll kill them!! It's a freakin little toy kick the shit out of it!! A little doll with a knife ain't gon' stab me to death, i'm sorry.... lol that's funny... anyhow

to for better or for worse?
I had to come back to this... I think they should drop the for worse part because a 50% divorce rate is telling me that half of the American population I guess didn't hear or doesn't listen to that part of the marriage vows. Let's just drop it... Drop it like it's hot!! Let's just say to have and to hold for better or if not get divorced.... may as well. Don't like your job... quit. Don't like your weight... have surgery. Don't wanna be pregnant... abort. Don't wanna be a man anymore... get a sex change. Don't want your kid to be short... select the genes u want. Don't wanna be bald.... hair club for men/women. Everything has to be for better.... I mean don't get me wrong, some of these things are good to have... but the things we should be focused on making better we're far from doing and the things that only require a little work and effort to turn from bad to good we've just found another quick fix. I.e. instead of therapy/ get a divorce... instead of workin out and dieting correctly/get lipo...

I had planned on just making a list of questions, but I ended up having an opinion for each of em, lol so I'll save the rest for the next edition of Whatever happened to?

Do a few apples really spoil the bunch?

You know what they say, 1 bad apple spoils the bunch... Well can we really translate that to anything? Well I just finished watching a conversation between Tavis Smiley and Evan Bayh, Senator from Indiana who was considered by Obama as a possible running mate. A couple of things that the Sen. spoke about kind of got me thinking. Well i guess enough to make me hop on the site and write on it... lol. Well we all know that there is an issue of race when it comes to the Presidental race. So Tavis asked the Sen. how much of an impact did he think the issue of race would have in Indiana, which is known to be a Red state ( or Republican). Currently, Obama is actually leading in the polls in Indiana and has a chance of acutally winning that state, which is about a 21% increase from the last presidental election.

Well the Senator explained that while it would be naive to say that race isn't an issue, it shouldn't be much of an impact. There's a small group of ppl, in his opinion that still "think like that".... and furthermore those ppl wouldn't vote for a Democrat anyhow. I kinda felt where he was coming from on that, I mean if you're racist you're racist. You gonna hate who you hate and anyone who may seem like they helping who you hate. But they're still the "bad apples" and with history being the way it is, it's hard to overcome that stigma as a race. it's so easy to blame a difference of opinion, or personality, or even dislike of someone on being racist. I mean ppl of the same race have these differences.

It's just too hard to tell, and especially coming from a race that has been oppressed in the past, the extreme excuse is going to be taken... it's just a natural defensive mechanism... If u have a group of 5 ppl, and the group always picked on this one person i'll name Joe. Naturally Joe isn't gonna like that group too much... However, 4 members of that group realize the error of there ways and have genuinely changed and would never pick on Joe the way they did before. I bet if the 4 were together and happen to run into Joe... even knowing that information... Joe isn't gonna really trust them fully. Trust issues... see that trust pops up in everything that is associated with the word "problem"....

We've come along way, but there are just too many bad apples, maybe the analogy is transferable...
But hey, that's just me... Speak on it,

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I'm Back!

I'm back!

Hey, that works on 2 levels....

The first being my return to Louisiana.... there's no place like home.... nah really there isn't. Especially the N.O.

The second is creatively. The past couple of weeks I don't think there was a creative bone in my body. I just felt so disoriented. I've only been back 2 weeks, but one small hurdle I had to get over was the fact that I'm not just visiting. Whenever I returned to N.O. in the past, my time was limited. Nowadays, I have no place to return to. That is a strange feeling, and you gotta feel it to understand it. Meanwhile, I just haven't been very creative. My creativeness is what sparks alot of my actions. The more creative i can be, the better I perform... pretty much. I think we got seperated somewhere between here and florida, but it has finally found its way back to me. I see alot of obstacles ahead of me, but with my creativeness back I can face anything thrown at me.

I'm Back!!