Ok so I was just about to write an angry facebook status, when I remembered that I had a blog.
Here's what I'm angry about... The constant whining about gas prices. Yep, they're high. Gotcha. I drive several hundred miles a week to go to school. And then I hear it reflecting back on our economy, and how our government, this and that, and blahditty, blah, blah, blah.

This is normally when steam starts coming out of my ears, and I so kindly want to offer some perspective to the Debby Downers of our cush American lifestyle.
First of all... your complaining about the price it costs to drive your car, wherever the heck you want to go. You have a car! And the freedom to go places! Hurray number one!
Secondly... The gas prices began creeping up because of civil war in the Middle East. Countries that have been ruled for centuries, are rising up and demanding democracy. There's a social revolution going on (which would be hurray number two)! And these people are risking life and limb to get it! Hundreds if not thousands have been slaughtered so that these people (yep, people just like you and me) can have representation in their government. Wow! That's some heavy stuff. Are we so short sighted that we forget the pains its taken our country to get to where it is. You do not have the freedoms you enjoy just because you were born here. It is on the backs of some one else's sacrifice that you have the opportunity to complain as you do. What sickens me the most, is thinking that hundreds are giving up their lives for freedom, and our gas prices raise $.20-$.40 and WE think its the end of the world. Sheesh. And its so easy to pretend that there's this war going on "over there".. and we forget that "over there" is made up of people: of moms, dads, babies, college students, etc. People, with stories, like you and me.
And last of all, our government... its seems to be the thing people like to blame and complain about most as of late. And here's what I'd like to say. If you don't like it, do something about it. Do not sit on your hands and grumble and complain. Write a letter, make some noise, make a phone call. We live in a democracy. Which means, its our government and they should be representative of the people (hurray numero tres). Its your voice that needs to be heard, and that doesn't end at the polls once some one has been voted into office. You'd be surprised how very few letters it takes to get a legislator's attention. Accountability is something we are always under our quota on it seems. And its easiest to blame the government, acting like they're some imaginary source out there that we do not have any say in. And use the cop out "well, you can't complain if you didn't vote". I'm sorry, but if you think that we vote and then we get to turn our backs for the term that the individual is in office, you are part of the problem.

Ok, so now I'm getting a little carried away. My point is, right now, you could be in Japan (who at the time of writing this was just rocked with that massive earthquake and tsunami), you could be in Libya. But you're not, you're here and you're safe.. so safe, that you're reading this from a computer screen. Put it into perspective. You have choice, you can adjust, you can act, so do it.