just some thoughts.

I am shocked by the number of people I know who give enough of a shit about Kanye West and/or Taylor Swift to write about it on their facebook status. I never would have guessed it. My first inclination was to delete everyone who posted something about it but then I realized that I wouldn't have any friends left. Then I wondered if there was something wrong with me for not giving enough of a shit to feel anything, let alone update my facebook status. And then I got all conspiracy theorist and decided that MTV knew he was going to do that and didn't stop him because holy ratings, batman! Genius. And then I decided I had already spent too much time thinking about this and I went to bed.

I am not a particularly religious person. If I cared about sounding cool I would say I am a spiritual person, but I think that might be pushing it. Keeping all that in mind, I do send out prayers once in a while. I'm not sure who/what/where I'm sending them, just somewhere. This morning I sent out two. The first one was for an old friend who was shot this weekend. I think he will be okay but I can't even imagine the physical and emotional pain he had to and will continue to have to endure. The second one was for the 3 little kids who crossed the street in front of me and my green light and almost got flattened by my granny Camry. They were clearly too young to be walking to school by themselves, two little girls in their school uniforms holding the hands of their barely older brother, also in school uniform. I was stopped at the light but when it turned green, I gunned it to beat the car next to me to the next light so I could turn right. I saw the kiddos at the last second and stood on the brakes and they saw me too and stood on the brakes. I almost rolled my window down to yell at them to be careful but I could see they were already terrified. Instead, I sent out a prayer for their safety today and the rest of the days they have to walk to school without adult supervision. Please don't think I'm judging the adults in their lives for not walking them to school. Maybe if they stayed home from work to walk the kids to school, the kids wouldn't have food or clothes or a place to live.

I guess I just like to try to believe we are all, even Kanye West, doing the best we can.

And when that doesn't work, conspiracy theories are always fun(ny).