Who needs please when we've got guns?

For some people there is the notion as 'right opinion'.
How can an opinion be right or wrong? Aren't we all entitled to our own opinions? Oh, dear me, I must have been dreaming that. Mine are obviously terribly wrong.

To err is human. Errare humanum est as the Romans would say.
And yet again, I've been living in illusions. Because obviously some people are not allowed to make mistakes. And when they do, you must definitely point them out and roll your eyes. Yes, it's a must.

You better hope you're not alone.

It's been a long time since I've actually written something on my own over here. You can seek reasons for that in my extremely limited free time; and secondly, nothing interesting has actually happen except for my health failing every now and then...

Some time ago, one of my favourite lecturers said something that really made me think. It was the lecture on the 1960s in the United States: hope, rebellion and disappointment; hippies and student activists etc. She said:

"The 1960s were the last time that the young believed they could actually change the world."

The scary part of it is that it's actually true. When I look around in the world that I live in today, I see so many things that have gone and are going terribly, terribly wrong: the wars are dragging on, there's poverty and hunger, our environment becomes more and more dangerous for us to live in, maniacs and crazy people killing and torturing their 'brethren'... shall I go on?

As much as I'd like to change it, I don't believe that I can change it. I try to live up to my own standards, and I hope that people around me respect them and have similar ones. This is as much as I'm able to do for the world.

"An individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change"

It is a statement, or should I say, a slogan, from Jack Johnson's homepage. He has, of course, focused on the 'global warming'. (I put it between inverted commas because of what I believe; I do care about the environment but I don't agree with everything that is fed to us.) It is true, of course, but in this self-centered world we live in, is it possible? Or more importantly: do we believe it's possible?

People who know me are aware that I tend to get very much involved in "making the world a better place" but I must admit, I have but little belief in it. I just don't often display it because I have an image to keep.

I think we all have learnt from the history, (and after all, this is what history is for) because the youth in the 1960s did not see the world changing for a better place. Vice versa, the 1970s turned out to be rather miserable. No wonder we've lost all hope.

But as long as we don't turn our backs completely to what is going on in the world, I think we'll survive. Let's just keep our hearts warm and our minds sharp, and maybe, just maybe, we can once again believe in the mankind.