Swing Life Away.

So, Japans had earthquakes, and tsunamis and they're nuculear plants are malfunctioning and blowing up. And we're facing Radiation leaks. And by facing I mean that radiation leaks are happening.
Life is scarey. I just get here, to the Island, and things are supposed to be changing for the better. I make a choice that is good for me, and the world decides that its going to hell... Screw you world. Now is not the time to take a turn for the worst.
You can try to make me run and hide, But even if I go to visit, I'm still coming back here. I am still going to come back and live my life. You don't get to make this choice for me world. You don't get to do this to me.
I know this is coming accross as a woe is me entry. And guess what it is. I get here, japan pretty well sinks. VIU goes on strike, my EI is taking its sweet as time coming through, my Tax return isnt in yet either. The weather is shit. Theres a list of things ten fucking feet long and look at it world. Take a fucking look at it. I'm still here. I'm still trying.
Now heres a question to the rest of everyone else out there. What are you doing to change? I don't drive needlessly, I car pool when I can, I don't leave needless lights on, I try not to waste things, I make meals me sized, I recylce, I try not to buy wasteful products. I'm trying to do my part. I'm trying. And what is everyone else doing?
Where are we going?
You know why this is all happening don't you? Because unless things like this happen, no one seems to care. You think with all those crazy enviromental disaster movies out there like "the day after tomorrow", "2012" and even those crazy low budget ones that look cheesy, we'd be making more of an effort to do better than what we are now.
But no.

I guess we're just so appathetic to the world and how things are that we don't believe they'll ever change. Well guess what. WE ARE THAT CHANGE THE WORLD NEEDS.

This is not the world I oneday want to leave to my unborn children. Should there be a world left for me to have them in. I don't want to be a zombie invaded world when I should be having children. I'll be a mean old hag then, and then you fuckers can all watch out... Sammy will deffinatly have some anger issues then.

I'm so mad. Just when I think things should go good, and that things are going to pick up. I have to worry about how the major winds are prevailing and this nuclear fallout from Japans nuclear meltdown because should they release lots of nuclear matter into the air, it can carry accross the ocean to us, here on the island. And that news my friends, fucking sucks.

Doesn't matter where we go, in essance no one is safe then. If it gets in the air we're all pretty well screwed. So tell me my friends, Mr. Government & Your associates, Mr. Nuclear power lobbiest and such, How is this is benificial to the planet? Even if disasters like this are few and far between, The risk, how does the reward outway the risk? And I'm not going to even start in on all the nuclear waste that is produced from these facilities... You can't tell me that its all dealt with properly... How do you even deal with it properly?

I'm sure all this nuclear testing, and nuclear power and waste and things that we have created are the reason that things are getting so bad. Such as our thinning Ozone layer and global warming. You can't tell me that global warming is a joke either, when 100 years ago Niagra falls froze over....completely. And could you imagine that now? HA! Please.

I'm not some scientist, with a giant scientisty brain. I'm a 21 year old woman, who has watch the world infront of me crumble. And with the advanced technology we have, I have stayed updated on it. I have kept well informed.

And though my thoughts may not flow out of my finger tips in an organized and well put together way, it doesn't change what I'm saying. It doesn't change the fact that what I've said is true.

Eventually, we are going to end up like one of those bad horror flicks that we watch in a movie theatres, and everyones going to wonder why.

And I will still be here saying that we all, even me, had a part in it. But it should be up to our government to make a change for the better, and make a change for the world. We are that change. We have to be.

But so far, as far as I can see, we are being let down... and we are letting the world down. We need to assist yes, but we need to find new and innovate ways to power the world other than what we have. and we need to make a change to preserve what we have. Not let all these devastating events ruin us.

But after all is said and done. nothing will happen. After all, who would ever listen to a 21 year old woman with no scientific degree?

No one, and thats sad. Because I haven't lost sight of what its like to live in the real world.

-S

(Post Script: That real world by the way, is down here, where the average person lives.)