And I forgot...

So I completely forgot about the blog again... Apparently I'm not as into therapy as I thought I was.

So last night I got into a heavy discussion with my grandmother. Even though she got angry, I found it extremely amusing. My grandmother, a working woman born in Cuba has seen a lot of messed up things and how the American government has saved her from the clutches of communism. She struggled a lot to get out of that piece of rock. So she defends the United States at all costs...Even if she doesn't make any sense. I love the freedoms we (used to) have and all the wonderful things that come from this country... I love it...And because I love it, it saddens me how it's all crumbling down. How greed has taken over and people don't have the power any more...IF we ever had the power in the first place anyway.

We were talking also about the war and she was saying how she would love to have a son that would enlist in the army to fight for his ideals and die with honor. While I'm all up for people dying with honor, where's the honor in fighting a war while your leader is cowardly shying away in his white house surrounded by guards? Shouldn't an honorable leader step into the war with his troops? Nah, not the president, he's far too important to be replaced, even though he will be in a couple of years just so higher powers can give us a fresh face every now and then. Of course, my grandmother said all that about people dying with honor and going to the war, but she argues with my 28 year old aunt whenever she stays out past 10.

I understand my grandmother, she lived through hard times where the only glimmer of hope was the intervention of the United States army in Cuba, but a lot of people born and raised in american soil have this blind ideal of pride in this mass of land that just doesn't give anything anymore. What happened to the world of opportunity? The land of the free? The home of the brave? The U.S looks like a bunch of bullies, pushing everyone around because we can. And while it sounds kind of funny to some, it makes us look bad...No wonder people don't respect us.

On another note, my mother finally lost her faith in organized religion which has given me a small glimmer of hope that she has opened her eyes and finally started doing something for herself instead of leaving it in the hands of some god. It's nice to see people grow, analyze and come to a logical resolve to things....Now if only a mass logical hysteria would happen (People running around in circles, left to right, screaming mathematical equations, quantum physics and deep philosophy while clutching tightly on their heads as the trip and squirm in the ground into the fetal position.) maybe a better world wouldn't be too far off....Yeah, that's my kind of world.