Changing the World
I was a very idealistic kid: I wanted to the change the world. Unfortunately I’ve grown up. Yet I still want to change the world. On the other hand I have no skills to stop/prevent: Crime Face-eating zombies Young boys from drowning Young girls from falling Climate change Greece from defaulting America from imminent collapse Face it—there is so much bad news out there that I can do nothing about, except read/hear/watch it on the news. AND there is more bad news about the news: Newspapers are dying! http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-06-12/times-picayune-cutting-half-of-newsroom-staff There is no such thing as fair and unbiased! Media frenzy/hysteria/overload! I can do nothing about the above either. Even the stuff I think I have control over is a fiction. My fiction is fiction—so too is a lot of my non-fiction. Just getting up each morning is a leap of faith. There is one skill I do have and which I frequently employ—my ability to write. ...