Forced Beliefs

2nd EDIT: Gov. Perry has declared a 2nd special session to begin 2 p.m. Monday, July. It will be brought up again. What a waste of time and money to call another session.

EDIT: IT DIDN'T PASS. Along with Sen. Wendy Davis' 13 hour filibuster and others stalling here's what pushed them through the last 15 minutes.
“At what point must a female senator raise her hand or her voice to be recognized over her male colleagues?” she said, sparking a chorus of cheers and screams that swelled as protesters tried to run out the clock. The pandemonium drowned out a last-minute effort by Republicans to vote on the bill, but Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, after about three hours of confusion on the floor over whether the bill had been approved, announced that the vote had come too late.”- http://www.texastribune.org/2013/06/26/brief-top-texas-news-june-25-2013/

I can continue to live in Texas without going insane for now. I watched probably the last 2 1/2 hours of debate and those last 15 minutes of the gallery just yelling for all their worth because those Austin citizens didn't want the bill to pass was probably one of the coolest things. Before they all got shoved out one woman screamed, "We Are The People!" You could still hear them outside of the room too.


Old: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/06/texas-house-tentatively-passes-abortion-bill.html/

So the Texas legislators have decided to attempt to pass the bill on restricting abortion even further. I just... I don't care how wrong YOU think abortion is. I don't care what your RELIGION says about abortion. Someone else is living a life entirely separate from yours. They may or may not follow your religion. To think it is your duty to force your beliefs onto the ability of others to make their own choices in life is WRONG. A fetus cannot sustain basic life without the mother's body being alive, therefore it cannot be considered it's own serperate life. I do not care how wrong you think killing something that isn't even considered a person yet is. It is not YOUR BODY. It is not YOUR LIFE. It is not your consequence. People do not have the right to judge other people's decisions.

Not the same law, but along the same lines:

Inspire Me Instead

A lot of the time I look at the issues faced in the world and become extremely discouraged about the future. It seems bleak and not worth being a part of. I would let these things tear me down inside and spoil my spirit to a very harmful point. Then I heard three quotes, all by different but amazing and influential people, and strung them together. Instead of letting issues eat at my heart, maybe I should let them fuel the fire to break free.

"The greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. Be the change you wish to see in the world. "

Martin Luther King Jr.
Alice Walker
Mahatma Gandhi

Speak up against things. Write a letter, email, book. Tell a friend, a stranger, a congress member. Silent screams don't shake the eardrums of others. And if they're deaf become the listener for someone else.

Gross?

Let's talk about things that piss me off. This comment on Facebook is one of the things that piss me off. The only thing gross about this whole picture/link is his ignorant comment. First, it's just a flash drive. There's nothing gross about that. It's plastic and metal. Second, so it looks like a tampon? Tampons aren't gross, idiot. And that representation of one is white, meaning it's clean. In fact, tampons are probably cleaner than your hands considering it's classified as a medical device. They used to be used on bullet wounds too so guess they can't be all that gross. Why isn't unused toilet paper considered gross then? Get over what they're used for. It's natural, and if you can't be a little mature about it, then boy have I got some bad news for you in the love department. Until you have the ability to bleed for a week straight and live, you aren't allowed to talk or comment about anything in this department.

Washed Away

So the romance or whatever you want to call it that I thought was blooming between me and a person has been cut short, and not by my decision. This also means the friendship gets smacked around in the process. Oh well. Nice things don't last forever, and sooner is better on this one. I was hoping my trip to the beach would push me forward, but it didn't do exactly what I was thinking. It's weird how high my standards are now as a result of this person. Time to go use my mind as a shovel to dig into things that are bigger than this world. I'm not a risk taker as I've stated before, but I was with that relationship with that person and it turned out pretty awesome in lots of aspects. Maybe I should apply that approach to other areas of my life. Life keeps changing direction on me when I want it to relax a little so I would really like a constant. I can't seem to find that in people or activities so the answer must lie beyond all that. Or so I'm hoping. Man oh man, I was enjoying life and then someone throws a baseball at me while I'm on the soccer field. I trust I'll get wherever I need to be going though. All I can do in these situations is fight back a little, realize that's useless, throw my hands up in the air, and walk away. Call it giving up, but there's no use in forcing things. Too often I try to push for what I want and apparently my wants don't lead anywhere worthwhile (or so I've been conditioned to believe). So screw it. I'll go with the flow. Do what you want. I'll be over here doing my own thing if you need me. I care. I'll try to repress that for sake of my heart, but I'll be over here caring if you need some care. Time will hopefully cure the caring. That sounds terrible actually. Caring is a thousand times better than apathy, even if it means pain. So hopefully time will mean adaption. However that's supposed to happen. It's so hard to see the future unrelated to each storm when the current clouds block your view. I was feeling better before I typed this, so it's time to stop now.