"CAUTION HANDLE WITH CARE. I'M HOT"

Sorry about the bad image quality. I used my webcam to take this picture.

Or so says the container of my apple pie. It came from McDonalds, the greasy burger joint that America just loves. You never really look for the problems in your life until someone points them out to you. I have a friend who used to live in the USA. When he was twelve or thirteen, he moved out and went to Panama, Mexico, and Columbia. It's been four to five years, he's seventeen now, and he points out all of the flaws in America.

1. Man! Look at that bulldozer! Oh, wait. Never-mind. That's just your fat neighbor, Nick. My bad.

2. Oh right. I forgot we can just walk up to the counter, say what we want to eat, and then have people hand it to us. Pre-made food! Yum. My favorite.

3. All of us Americans like to spend an excessive amount of time on the computer. Then, when finally going out:

Woman: "Does this dress make my butt look big?"
Man: *thinking to himself* It ain't the dress... "No. You look fine."

Okay. So America has its problems. But so does every other country in the world. In Mexico, they cut off a persons head, pull down their pants, and place a sign on the persons lap, stating why it is they killed the person. I think that's kind of worse than people dying of their own free will by eating too much McDonalds. In Somalia there isn't any government at all and people are being killed by pirates every single day. That says something in itself.

I think this post kind of fits into the smaller world as well. We, as individual persons, have our problems too. Some of us are too fat, too lazy, too skinny, too honest, too dishonest, too careful, too careless...the list goes on and on. Each of us have our own problems. The only difference between people and a country is that as people we can fix our mistakes and problems in our own way. We don't have to wait for government and legislature and all of this other stuff to be made in order to fix the problems we're facing. We're free to fix things and to ruin things by using our minds. By attempting to do what WE think is right and seeing if it works out in the end. Trial and Error. A country cannot afford to make a mistake like that. And yet sometimes they attempt it anyway.

Note to the reader: I do NOT spend an excessive amount of time on the computer. I just do my schoolwork and write this blog. Sometimes facebooking. But really. I spend a lot of time outside. Boat people are not computer nerds.