My Thoughts on a Typical Saturday

"I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight, 

Because my conscience leaves me no other choice. 

A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: 

This way of settling difference is not just. 

This business of burning human beings with napalm, 

Filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, 

Of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane. 

Of sending men home from the dark and bloody battlefields 

physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, 

Cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love." 

---Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Today, I heard this quote for the first time. For some reason, it touched me. I have no idea why, but I sorta felt as if...I knew exactly what he was trying to say. It's a weird feeling, I guess you would have to hear it as well to understand what I felt when I heard it. Why I wanted to post this quote is for this reason; What do you think it means? I have my ideas, but I want to hear what you guys think. But this is just a side note. 

Today, I woke up at 7:44, having to be at work at 8:30. When I got there, just in time, I took my spot at the life gurd tower and did my job. I was told that I had to guard fom 9:00 to 1:00, because the Fayetteville swim team will be getting lessons from a professional swimmer who participated in the Olympics. No, not Miachel Phelps, one of the other American swimmers. Anyway, I got to eave work early today. Why? Well, this man was evidently paid $5000 to come down to NC to do Swimming lessons for a day, but he decided that he only wanted to stay for an hour. The kids didn't mind too much, they were happy for the fact that they had met someone famous, but still, I thought that was a sort of crappy thing to do. This man is looked up towards, and not only was he given the chance to share his knowledge with younger people, he was getting paid for it. And basically, he took the money and barely did anything, except made them swim for an hour and give them a few tips. Sure, it was an alright lesson, but don't you think he could've taken a little more pride in his opertunity to inspire younger people who want to be like him? I don't know, I guess I may be over thinking it a little too much. 

On the way home, my mom brought up the subject about a girl that she knew I liked. I told her that we were barley talking anymore because she doesn't get the chance to get online anymore because she is grounded. It was at that point my mother told me that I should maybe keep my distance from her, make her come to me. This was interesting to me, since I'm not known for keeping my distance at all. Sometimes it gets me in trouble, but when it comes to people I care about, I don't give up on them. I guess that's just another one of my perspectives on how I should be towards people I care about. But, thinking about it, I guess my mother is right, I know that I can trust her advice, she's never steered me wrong before. 

After getting home I got a text from one of my best friends, whome I havn't hung out with in a while. He wanted to know if I could stay over, so of course I said yes and eventually got there. Right now as I'm typing this I am on his couch while he is talking to his girlfriend. I remember how every Saturday I used to come here and stay over. Every time I come here, even to this day, we walk up to the Wal-Mart 3 miles up the street. While I was there I bought the new Linkin Park CD, "A Thousand Suns." We stopped at McDonalds and then walked all the way back. On the way back, for some reason we had come onto the subject of drugs. My friend and I have the same sort of high tolerance against drugs, and we both talked about how pointless it is to smoke something to make yourself feel happy when you can just cheer up and be positive instead. He told me that out of all his friends that he knows I am the only one who hasn't smoked. For some reason that didn't suprise me. I know only a handful of people who doesn't, and honestly if I found out any of my friends did start I would probably punch them really hard and make them start. I'm not saying that I don't have friends who do, I know plenty of people who smoke and that I consider friends, just not as much as my other friends who don't. I shared my feelings about this topic with someone a few months ago, and she called me "judgemental." She told me "It's their body, they have the right to do what they want with it." And I completely agree with her on that part. I guess I do get a little judgemental about these sort of things, and I understand how some people would get offended by that. Let me make my point clear; I guess what I'm trying to say is, if you smoke weed, I don't hate you, but it kind of makes me upset that someone who has the same opertunities at life that I do just open themselves up to something pointless and unnecessary. But I'm not saying I'm like some sort of pure "Don't do drugs" kind of person, not at all. I mean, I'm not going to pretend that I have never thought about it, and the countless opportunities that have sprung up for me to try it. But I guess I have that sort of mindset that just completely blocks out all thoughts about it, and it's very easy for me to say no. Again, I think  it's just the wy I was raised. Thank you mom. 

So, in conclusion, I just had a normal Saturday. Again, tell me what you think about that quote, or anything that I have brought up in partiular, because I'm not doing this for my own entertainment, I'm doing for anyone who wants to listen. This would all be for nothing if no one puts thier own opinion out the way I am.