The Dirty Jerz.

So my visit home wasn't exactly what I had hoped it to be. It was gloomy, overcast, and I didn't have a car to really get around. I was planning on renting one but the laws in New Jersey make it nearly triple the price to do so for a person under the age of 25. I was able to see the people I really wanted to see and the ones who complained about not seeing me did nothing to actually come see me. They did a fantastic job at complaining though. Perhaps they should have put the energy into coming to see me (knowing I didn't have a car) instead of putting it into complaining, the outcome of my trip would have been a little better. Its sad to think that my 'friends' won't even come see while I'm home for a visit but that I'd have to go see them had I been able to do so. Anyway, the trip was good I suppose. It was great to see the friends I did see. Being in Jersey was different though. Seeing everything reminded me of why I left in the first place. As much as I wanted to go home for a visit, I wanted to come right back to Arizona to Peaches and my new life. I missed the palm trees, the warm weather, and my car. It was a little difficult adjusting, even only for a week, to being back home. All-in-all it was an okay visit but I will surely have a car the next time I'm home. In other news, I've been reading my friend James' blog that he used to write in because he suggested that I do so to get to know him a little better. While reading it I came across the most interesting piece of writing, which he had posted that he had found, and it was truly a brilliant piece of writing that I think we all need to absorb.

"In our culture today we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways but narrower viewpoints. We spend more but have less. We buy more but enjoy less. We have bigger homes but smaller families, more conveniences but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge but less judgement, more experts but yet more problems, more medicine but less wellness. See we drink too much, smoke too much, spend too wrecklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, and watch too much tv, and pray too seldomly… We have multiplied our possesions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, hate too often. We learn how to make a living, but not a life. We’ve added years to life, but not life to years. We’ve been all the way to the moon and back but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquored outer space but not inner space. See we’ve done larger things, but not better things. We’ve cleaned up the air but polluted the soul. We conquored the atom but not our prejudice. We write more but learn less, accomplish less. We learn to rush but not to wait. We build more computers to store more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less. See these are the times of fast food and slow digestion, big men but smaller character. Steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce. Fancier houses but broken homes. These are the days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw away morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. See this is the time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom… Yes this is the state of our current culture…"

I'd love to hear people's comments on this. It's time to do a little bit more living and a little less complaining. And to those friends who I know still care, please try and come visiting me in Arizona. I know you all complain about not having money, but all you need to do to come visit me is buy a plane ticket. It's not rocket science people. Less complaining, more living.