As I struggle to make sense of the year that has passed, one thing keeps ticking away at me. As a people we have become so concerned about political correctness that we have lost what it means to be individual. Take a second before the clock ticks down, and feel. Don't try to make reason of any of your thoughts, other than to be sure of your true feelings. Don't focus on why, just feel. If we all take a second and breathe before our mouths open, if we all look at the person next to us and try to picture the world through their eyes, then maybe for just a second this year we can all see eye to eye, without the silly fucking fear of offending each other. I've said it before many times, so many that my tongue dries in it's socket. If my words offend you enough to make you think, to make you look at things just a slight angle away from the norm, then maybe for once we can all see things without the veil of correctness and make a damn difference. Instead of bitching and moaning that my words don't agree with the rated fucking G, watered down version of ourselves that we feed each other every day, why not throw all caution to the wind and speak our minds. Reach out to someone in a worse spot in life than ourselves. Take a second and help someone without expecting something back. The one thing I've taken away from the recent Duckshit is that we as a society analyze everything we see each day, looking for any little thing that offends, so we can pluck it out. And as we pick away at these dirty scabs, we inch by inch lose what it means to be truly alive. To take so much time focusing on the negative, that we tick away days and months from the calendar with the most important thing we discuss being whether or not the whole world turns around someone we will never even meet. Come on, people. Surprise me this year. Step away from the selfish, violent beasts we have become for just one minute, and accept the differences and one of a kind joys that each person has to offer, so we can be one big happy mutt of a world, living together like one big ball of peace. Or something like that. Happy New Year everyone.
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