An Introduction

Okay, so. In finding this page I assume you are either a friend of mine or a complete stranger. Pretty vague assumption, right? Most people call me Sky but you can refer to me as you please. The purpose for this blog is still in the works as far as i'm concerned. I'm not a politics enthusiast, sports jocky, or movie critic. However, if it's one thing I do, it's observe. The people around me, in particular my school, provide me with plenty of interesting prospects for blogging posts. I will not give any light to a subject to this first post, for as you can see it doesn't have one other than the fact that it's the first.

Today, rather, yesterday I heard of a video going viral exceedingly fast. Something about a man named Joesph Kony. Now, let's be honest, I only watched about half of the 30-minute video and I don't feel the least bit deprived of its contents. It describes a young man who spent time in Africa and met a young boy named Jacob, whose brother was killed by rebels. Sad story right? Let's continue. The video constantly weaves in and out of this facebook talk. As if it holds any relevance to this african child that seems like the meat of the video. Call me misinformed, ignorant or even stupid but this doesn't seem like the sort of thing that should be sparking our attention as much as it is. Just a few years ago I remember people wearing shirts in support of Darfur, which is an African country, state, province fuck if I know. Now I doubt there is a person in my class who care/remember this event at all. Africa has some problems, we all know it does. Perhaps it doesn't really need the intervention of big countries. Some people forget that we have problems of our own back here, the trillions of dollars of debt, and we shouldn't be wasting resources on problems we already knew were there. The fact of the matter is, people are using events such as this to think they are "hip" or "caring" and then looking down on people like me who don't give two shits when in reality they're no better. A highschool student is not going to give money to a random charity for people in a different country, as much as they say they support it. Again, this is just a thought and I do not intend to offend anyone. I understand that what is happening over there is some gruesome shit. But look at it this way, it ain't happening to us. Everything in this world is only as big a deal as you make it.