November 8, 2003

• I was supposed to take a mock LSAT this morning, but I woke up and just didn’t feel like it today. I did some practice problems last night, and I just got tired because it was late and I didn’t really feel like doing any critical thinking. I really should sit down one of these days and just take a diagnostic test so I can familiarize myself with the structure of it all. I hate tests, but then again, who doesn’t?!

  This is the first weekend in a long time where I’ve actually been able to “sleep in”. The film festival is today, and I intentionally took the weekend off so that I could actually enjoy it, not to mention treat myself to some much needed rest. Life’s been a little hectic as of late–more so than usual. There are lots of times when I just want to retreat into the darkness of my subconscious, free from the stress and pressures of life and society, but alas, life just isn’t that easy.

  It seems that every time I look at the world, it’s getting uglier and uglier. From wars to poverty, from hate to violence–my eyes have been raped by reality and there’s absolutely no fleeing from it. I could cover my eyes with a band-aid, but we all know that won’t solve the problem. What to do then, what to do?

  Only A Child

  When peace subsides
  And war resides
  Only a child will know
  If society will grow

  When nightmares are real
  And we cease to feel
  Only a child will see
  If we can be free

  When hope ceases to exist
  And people fail to resist
  Only a child will hear
  The drop of courage’s tear

  When love loses
  And emotions are scarred by bruises
  Only a child can smell
  The pain rotting in the soul’s well

  And when morning finally dawns
  We find we’re all merely pawns
  In a game that only a child can play
  When survival means our very decay…

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