April 30, 2008
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Gas prices are ridiculous, yet I am still driving the 1.5 miles to campus. Shoot me. Seriously.
/// To take it to a deeper level (buckle your seatbelt Guzi/Prono), I am getting really upset with how things are “run” around here. I mean, we import oil when we have all kinds of it, and we export our own. So I’ve been told. Now, I realize a lot of this backward thinking has been going on in our gov’t systems since before I was born, but it made me wonder: Why didn’t anyone do anything about this earlier? From that question, I jumped to an answer: Well, Congress (or whoever really decides this crap) just did their best and called it good for that day. Probably thought to himself (pretty sure it wasn’t a her for various reasons) that “you win some and you lose some” and why “burn bridges” or “burn the candle out at both ends” or what-have-you. I’m sure people have “meant well” all along. To a certain extent. I mean, the big-wig-oil dudes just want to make money. I guess I can’t blame them, but they’re almost in the big-wig-smoker company category. Making too much money off of everyone’s vice (driving, traveling, moving) when they are choking the environment (instead of someone’s lungs) dry.
/// But before I bash them with my “big words” and “catchy phrases” in quotation marks, I have to ask myself what I am doing to make things better. Am I just doing the bare minimum (in my job, in my social life, in my personal life, etc) to get by day to day? I’m I making too much ___ off of someone else? I’m told yes – because students really don’t need English classes. Because I only work 9 months of the year. Because blahblahblah. Mostly, I should probably just focus in on that first question – Later on in life, am I going to ask myself: “Why didn’t I do anything about this sooner?” I just might, and due to that possibility, I should rethink things. JUST LIKE OUR GOV’T. Errrrg.
