I've been faced with a lot of frustrating situations recently. I don't let many of them get to me, most I just let roll off my back and happen. One of those is realizing that posting these from my phone has inadvertently caused a few words to be underlined. I have no idea how that happened, I thought something automatically hyperlinked them to a search engine or somewhat, but I honestly don't know, it doesn't matter. This blog isn't for you anyways, remember? And as much of a grammar nazi as I try to be, I'm just going to let my typos and mistakes go a little bit, because this whole thing isn't about being a perfect writer, it's about journaling and self-discovery. I am a writer, though I don't have any stories published, you could say I'm only a writer in the hobbyist sense of the term. So yeah, I see unintentionally underlined words and I cringe a bit.
There's a lot of talk in the news right now about the U.S. debt. For anyone reading this and it's been some time since the date of this posting, it's worth going back and doing a little political research onto what exactly is happening and why it is happening. From a lot of things I've read recently, the U.S. has always just raised the debt limit in the past (great way to solve stuff, by the by, just put it on future generations to solve and forget about the consequences), and the only reason it's a major issue right now seems to be because elections are right around the corner and they want to make drama to make one side or the other look bad so someone does well in the polls. Most if not all the politicians are doing it, especially the two major parties. Frankly, it makes me sick how these men would push us to the brink of economical collapse just to look good in the polls. It's a power struggle, plain and simple, and the nation is being caught up in it. Some people say the world is going to end in 2012, and if that's true, I have a feeling a large part of that is going to be a major collapse of U.S. infrastructure and economy. And it aggravates me to think about it, that a small group of men and women would play a large part in the downfall of our great nation over a pissing contest.
But enough doom and gloom. I mentioned I was a writer. I do write, and have written short stories and poems and the like before, never finished an actual novel. It seems like every time I get a good idea for a book or story that might be interesting and I start writing it, it turns to crap rather fast. At least, in my opinion it does. And while I understand when you write a book with the intention of selling it, you write it for your audience, but if the damn story doesn't meet my standards, like hell am I going to put it out there for others to cringe at. That being said, I have an idea for a new story, and a darn good one. The problem is I'm pretty much scared to start writing it, because in my head it's a good idea, but when I put pen to paper I'm afraid it too will turn to rubbish. Maybe I'll get over it sooner or later when I figure out a good plot. All in good time, I suppose.
I might as well explain the title of today's post as well, it's a lesser known song about insanity, the reason I chose it for the title is because I was listening to the song Kryptonite by Three Doors Down this morning, and it got me thinking a lot about what I had written above. What if our world goes crazy? What if everything we know as good and right suddenly turns on us or isn't there to support us anymore? What if those we relied upon let us down so badly...could we truly ever trust them anymore the way we once did? I have hope and faith, but more and more these days, it's all I have left. Sometimes you get dealt a good hand, sometimes the deck is stacked against you. You just have to keep a stony face and play the game.
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