"All alone!
Whether you like it or not,
Alone will be something
you'll be quite a lot"
That quote from Dr. Seuss's Oh! The Places You'll Go! has been on my phone's main screen since I got it (the phone, that is). Being away from everyone at home has led me to believe that everyone at home lacks judgment in a lot of areas. Well, judgment and the initiative to research an opinion before they spout it and then stake every claim on it.
Gun control, Syrian refugees, presidential candidates (Trump, Carson, Clinton, Sanders), shootings, vaccines, climate change... some of these have clear answers. Not all, admittedly, but enough of them do have clear answers that it is frustrating to see the public view as it is. Like, I care about a lot of these issues, even though it goes against my upbringing, at least geographically. I'm supposed to be a republican 'cause I'm from Texas. But every republican candidate (and republican opinion, it seems) appears to be foolish or simply upsetting. I'm pro-life at least to the extent that I don't think abortion should be viewed as a contraceptive, but I don't really know about the rest. But I do think that it would be healthy to debate it.
I don't know. I get frustrated. Have I become one of the fools who always thinks he's right? I mean, in my mind at least, I'd rather be educated than right. Hope I don't turn into someone I don't like. My trick is usually to look back on my 12-year-old self, because he was the smartest and wisest. Whatever he would do, because he (like me on this island), was not nearly so exposed to the cruel things of this world.
