"Turn on, tune in, drop out"

Sometimes I wish I could just let things go, be a different person, not feel that rolling boil in my gut when I see others being wasteful, hurtful, or just plain stupid. This is made worse by being surrounded by so many people who actively choose to be close-minded, ignorant, biased and so on AND raise their children to be the same way. Did you know the three biggest stressors in the life of 5th graders is BP, Obama, and homework? Yep.

I don't want to be powered by hate, but to that woman that almost ran into me while I was parked because she can't appear to maneuver her giant luxury SUV and her cell phone while putting on her make-up before going out shopping because she had to "escape the kids who just got home from school", I am the freaking energizer bunny. It does not help that the majority of women around here typify this. And I try to be patient, loving, open minded, true it is not the life for me but they seem happy. Except they don't, they are the meanest mean girls of them all. 

And while it isn't jealousy or envy, it is something somewhat in the same vein when I see the train wreck of people that bitch about things and then turn around and make choices feeding right back into the the things they are bitching about. I am just trying to figure out how much of it is endemic to here and how much is just Western culture. It certainly seems more magnified and worshiped here in SEC land. Like the waste, oh the waste. Consume, dispose, whine is the mantra of so many and that saddens me. I am not a paragon of green positive thought living, but I want better...not so much for myself but for the world.