for the better?

i know about all the 'love' shit. Of brotherhood and and friendship. Of (as quoted by sunil) 'World Peace'

Seriously. Does it ever bother us that the world isn't all happily holding hands (while praying 'Our Father'?) Does it ever bother us that not all of us can see eye to eye and actually smile?

Racism
Religion extremists
... and Oil

These are just three of the big pile of shit that's going on around now. We fight for Oil. We hate another for the colour of his/her skin. We despise other 'confining' religions.

The above doesn't bother me one bit. Why cry for the world when i don't even wanna play a big part in it? i just wanna settle down, have my own business, maintain my links of friendship, play pool, drink, smoke (trying to quit), and eat all the PORK in RibLee's Hartamas. i don't care.

i have uber-cool muslim friends, nearly-fanatical protestant friends, holy buddhist friends, and the 'don't give two shits about anything and everything' friends. and i like them.

The rest of the world can be as racist as they are, scream obscenities at other religions and kill each other over oil. i'm just living my life here.

However.. if any (and i mean any) arseholes, bastards and the likes, touch ONE hair of my friends (based on their race or religion) then they will have to face my wrath. i'm not pretty when i get angry.

To end the note.. here's a pretty song i like from Indigo Girls, called Deconstruction. Pretty much sums up the whole 'we should love each other' thing.

Deconstruction - Indigo Girls
We talked up all night and came to no conclusion
We started a fight that ended in silent confusion
And as we sat stuck, we could hear the trash truck
Making its way through the neighborhood
Picking up the thrown out, different from house to house
We get to decide what we think is no good

We're sculpted from youth, the chipping away makes me weary
And as for the truth it seems like we just pick a theory
It's the one that justifies our daily lives
And backs us with quiver and arrows
To protect openings cause when the warring begins
How quickly the wide open narrows

Into the smallness of our deconstruction of love
We thought it was changing, but it never was
It's just the same as it ever was

A family of foxes came to my yard and dug in
I looked in a book to see what this could possibly mean
Cause there is fate in the breeze and signs in the trees
And possible tragic events

When forces collide, with the damage strewn wide
And holes blasted straight through the fence
The sky starts to crash the rain on the roof starts to drumming
And laid out like cash you tick on my list of shortcomings

The show starts to close, I know how this goes
The plot's a predictable showing
And though it seems grand we're just one speck of sand
And back to the hourglass we're going

Back to the smallness of our deconstruction of love
We thought it was changing, but it never was
Our deconstruction of love...

At the end of the day, we decide what affects us, and what motivates our heart. i'm not going to allow other people's hatred to be my undoing. i just wanna live my life. the way i like it to be.. =)

postcript: Dammit, isn't that DAMNN new receptionist from BluInc ever going to pick up the DAMN phone? Dammit!