My Virtual Soap Box
I Know Someone
I know someone.
I know this gal.
She is a special person.
She is hard to describe. I’ve known her a while. I see something in her.
She is smart, she is funny, she is attractive, well adjusted, personable, intriguing. But that’s not it.
She has a spark.
I have tendencies towards the grim and depressing. I don’t feel this way for the most part, but what I project to the world definitely has its dark side.
Can you blame me? The 90’s is definitely not the time to be introspective and thoughtful (has there ever been a good time for it?). Forests being logged and burnt to the ground. Water being polluted, used as a dumping ground. Species going extinct. Cars and industry belching smoke. The world population is spiraling out of control. Democrats telling us everything will be better if we help each other, the republicans if we only learn to help ourselves. Children running amok, parents refusing to take responsibility. And all the justifications that made this appear all right during the 80’s seems to have disappeared.
But the hardest one to stomach is that there seems to be an ignorance and hopelessness propagating through humanity. Its not the problems so much as the fact that no one seems to care. Rather then deal with the difficulties, most people would rather turn a blind eye, chase you up the nearest tree and set fire to it. Always the easy way out. And its even more depressing because I know despite efforts to the contrary, I’m no different.
But she is different.
In her I see hope. I see the bright shining future. The brass ring. I see us pulling ourselves back from the abyss. The moon and the stars.
I see her on the way to greatness. Taking the rest of us along with her.
I watch in awe and admiration.
I almost feel jealous; wishing that I was along for the ride.
I take comfort though, because I know someone is there. And knowing that there is someone capable of surmounting the insurmountable gives me a bit of motivation myself. If she can make it, then maybe I can too.
The future is bright, and I know we can make it. Just because I happen to know someone.
