In response to Tyler

I am so overwhelmed at the indifference that surrounds me. Sometimes I think it will drown me. That is one of the reasons I can't wait to get out of this town, and I why I know you had to leave. So many people so absorbed in their own delusional bullshit, who can't seem to see anything beyond themselves and their own petty dramas in their shit-hole little backward towns. It is suffocating me. There are others, Tyler, who think like us. You've met a few, I know, and they are so important in encouraging and supporting that light within us, that spark of compassion that lives deep within us. There are others like us. Some days it seems not so, especially being here in this godforsaken town, but there are others. I have faith in humankind, in human dignity and love and compassion. I have more faith than I ever would have let myself believe I have, and while it doesn't live in some high-in-the-sky deity, it does live within every person I meet.

I see god in the face of every man, woman, and child I see. I'd sacrifice the whole of my happiness, my very life, for my faith in humanity. I'd die to save humankind, even for all the fucked up shit we've done to this world, I'd die to save us all. That is faith in something grand, something bigger than myself. But I don't think it's unfounded. I see that love in the eyes of lovers, in the eyes of a father with his baby girl, in the hearts of mankind, so courageous and quick to band together in an emergency, at times of crisis. Call me an idealist. I'll thank you for it. I'll be damned if I lose my idealism before the age of 21. I'll be damned if I ever lose it. "Idealists are the salt of the earth--without them, human life would become a stagnant pool of degredation." We are the dreamers. We are the earth movers, the soul-raisers, the spirit-lifters. We are the progress-makers and the changers of human history. We are the saviors. The utopians. The idealists. Without us, without a dream of what could be, why would life be worth living?

Indifference is just like any other foe. It need only be conquered by love and hope. I have faith in this war, and I believe with everything in my that my faith will carry us through the advent of civilization and save us all. Love will save us all.

The Indomitable Human Spirit

I have great love for all humankind. But there are those few dear people that I bond myself to irrevocably. To those people, my soul is forever joined in a way that makes them as much a part of me as the very heart that beats life through my veins. To each of those people I give myself wholly and unconditionally, and I will love them every day for the rest of my life and into whatever great beyond lies ahead. This is the sort of thing that makes life exponentially more beautiful. First and foremost, it is my belief that the beauty and joy of life cannot be fully experienced unless it is shared with another, and it is that bonding of our souls to one another that grants us the most fulfilling sort of peace and the most elated joy that humankind can possibly know. This is who I am, and no matter how I grow and change, this one thing about me will always remain my strong hold. It is only through our indomitable compassion for humankind and our deep human bonds that we can experience the meaning of being human, of being alive.