“It’s we who, with our exclusion and rejecting, push our brothers and sisters to find refuge in alcohol and become drunks. They drink to forget the deprivation of their lives.”
Earlier this week my good friend and I were talking and he told me this story he read somewhere. I won’t repeat it all because he tells it better, but here’s the jist of it.
The story was about a local newspaper asking for an answer to this question: “What is most wrong in the world?” / “What is the biggest problem in the world?” People wrote in with all kinds of answers, and then one guy replied by simply writting: “Dear Sirs, I am.”
We like to blame all the worlds’ problems on things like laziness, race, age, education or lack of, poor parenting, and the list goes on and on. But really, the problem is me.
blair Roberts Said:
on February 20, 2008 at 11:05 pm
you are right carly.
you are the problem. that much is obvious…
anyway, we are the change we are waiting for. i’ve always loved that quote. i don’t even know who said it. someone smarter than me.
dt Said:
on February 22, 2008 at 5:38 am
you guys are so liberal.
carlystraker Said:
on February 22, 2008 at 5:57 pm
tell me about it.
peytonalix Said:
on March 14, 2008 at 12:20 am
carly, i really like this. i think that if everyone had initiative and drive than maybe this place would change. it’s a shame that so few of us actually do, and shamefully i’m not one of them, but you are! i love you, sister.
xoxo, peyton.
PS, congrats! =)