Sometimes … really late at night, when the rest of the house is quiet and my entire week has gone to shit, I curl into bed and start watching Sex and the City. Before I realize it, it’s 7 am and I’ve watched an entire season. It makes me miss my friends and encourages me to start writing more, but I never tell my friends I miss them and I never end up writing anything. Weird how things work.
King has decided to come back from China early when he heard that I was in Victoria with no one around. Some people you can just count on to be by your side no matter how ridiculous you are to them. He should be back to this area in about 8 more hours.
I’m sure all my readers know that Saddam was killed yesterday. I don’t follow politics nearly as much as I should. Partly because I don’t have the time, but mostly because… generally speaking, I don’t care. I know that’s fairly ignorant of me - however, I am still certain that despite my best efforts to ignore politcal news, I still know more than the average person floating around.
Having said that, I usually don’t publically form opinions around political stories. Not because I’m lacking the knowledge, but because political debates are never something I want to get into that badly. Alas …I don’t think Saddam should have been executed. Killing someone in order to bring any form of justice is pointless. More than that - the first news article I read about it today (sorry, I don’t have the link.) spoke of how his two daughters watched his execution on the television.
I watched my dad die, he wasn’t executed and he didn’t lead a life which caused harm to others. However - even if he had led a life that caused harm and death to other it would have made it no easier for me to watch him be killed by a state. The execution of Saddam has not made the world any sort of a better place. In fact, I believe it has shown a far more horrible side of the world, we’re not killing just for religion and territory but also for revenge and justice.
I didn’t plan for my personal update post to turn into a political rant of sorts, but that’s just been bothering me a lot. The idea that "evening the score" with people will make things better, especially through death, is highly overrated and does nothing in the long run. In a game of shot for shot both members end up with sore shoulders. (I have 2 brothers - trust me, I know how bad shot for shot can get. And actually, my favorite ex-boyfriend, Reid and I used to play it all the time too.)
But really, in a world of fights, wars, crimes and punishments when on any level can the score be evened? Will now open sores with friends ever fully be mended with some negotiations and talks? Will the people in the east ever really be satisfied with the world enough to stop killing and fighting?
I’m not even sure what I need to give right now in order to rebridge the gap with at least 3 friends that basically hate me right now - all for different reasons. What is Isreal supposed to do to become on any sort of good terms with those that they fight with?
It’s a dog-eat-dog world, eh?
Too bad there aren’t simple answers and simple solutions that don’t require more pain, more hurt, and more suffering to occur. However it doesn’t seem as though solutions like this exist for anything anymore.
