A Cabin In The Woods

A cabin in the woods, yes, for me, the wife and our baby boy please. Because I truly don't know how much longer I can live in this society. Where we kill people because we are bored, we kill 80 something year old men, veterans at that (although I'm sure the killers did not know he was a veteran, but still), we believe that people are better than others simply by virtue of their race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, social standing, etc, we stop people from passing out sandwiches on a Sunday morning to hungry people, we don't take care of our mentally ill, we begrudge people who cannot afford insurance finally having insurance (why do they need insurance? just let them live sick or die, that will work), we don't want abortions, and if we overturn Roe V. Wade that will stop abortions. Sense my sarcasm there? It won't stop abortions it will bring us back to back alley abortions where many, many women were killed. A society where we don't want to kill fetus' but once they are born screw them, because we sure as hell don't want to give their parents food stamps, so they can starve. Or housing, so they can live in their cars with their parents, that is if they are lucky enough to have cars to sleep in. When they grow up God forbid we help them get an education so they can possibly do what every parent wants for their child, for them to do better than they did. When will we start sticking together??? When will we start helping each other???? When will we stop begrudging people getting the help they need???? When will we start doing right by our homeless, our mentally ill, our children, our elderly, our veterans, OURSELVES??? When will we stop judging people by their race, sexuality, gender or how much money we have, etc???? When will we become a UNITED United States??? That is what I want to know. And if we can't come together, I think I just want to leave society all together, go someplace in the woods, just me my wife and our fur baby. I'm tired of the hate. I'm tired of the fighting. I'm tired of hearing about another murder in my city, my state, other cities in other states. I'm so, so tired of the senseless life taking that happens and no on cares. No, I should not say no one cares, I have a lot of friends that care. I should say NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE CARE!!! We need to stop being selfish and start caring about what happens to our neighbors. To their families. We don't live in a bubble, we live in a society. How about we step outside of our insulated bubbles and start acting like it??

Janet Lee Smith
8/27/2013