Goal #4: Find Something To Live For

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund BurkeIrish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 - 1797)


It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Arnold ToynbeeEnglish historian & historical philosopher (1889 - 1975)

I often ask myself where my love of the law comes from. To anyone who really knows me, they know that I walk on the right side of the law. I respect and enforce order, and believe that it is essential for our society to function, without order and law, chaos ensues.

But the law is my love not because of an desire to be complacent or avoid hostility, but because a long time ago I realized that in all of our lives their is something outside ourselves that needs to be served, something that's worth living for, and maybe even worth dying for.

6 years ago was the time when I think I really set myself straight. I screwed around sure, I played around with the fireworks, I drank at parties underage, I had fun, but a single moment online changed my entire view on the world.

I had always been a fan of unsolved mysteries and America's Most Wanted. The shows were a big influence on me, there where things that needed to be explained, figured out, and I so wanted to be the guy who would see a person's photo on TV and call in and say "hey I know who or where this dude is" this led me on a fateful day to the FBI's website.

the page is still up and active: http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/seekinfo/chiaw.htm

Charles and Jennifer Chia

Two children, people who hadn't had a chance to live, taken from the supposed safety of their neighborhood, subjected to god only knows what kind of horrors, and then murdered and left to rot in a ditch in rural California. I thought about all the things that they were never going to do or see, Jennifers mother would never see her daughters wedding day. Charles father would never see his son graduate college and become his own man. In brief moment one families destiny was forever altered by the actions of one unknown person. I woke up then and there.

there's a line. A clear line between what's right and what's wrong, and no matter how hard the person who did it will try, their will never be any justification. It was then and there that I knew the law and doing what was right was my purpose in life. I have been on the straight and narrow ever since. I look at these two children and I cry I can't help it. Every fiber of my being wants to be in Reno on the day their life ended and do something, anything to save them. I have come to realize that I cannot change what happened to them but I can prevent it from happening again.

It is for this reason that I study criminal psychology, it's this reason why I strive to learn everything I can about law enforcement, the thing I serve outside myself is the memory of the Chia children. If my actions can someone prevent something like this from ever happening again then I have no choice but to do all I can for other people.

These children have become my children in a sense. I keep a photo of them in my desk to remind why it's important to keep at it, to be a great investigator, to put child murders behind bars and god willing on death row where they will never harm a person again. It's sad that it takes the death of a child to show a man how to live, but their sacrifice has put the zeal in me to go as far as I can and be the best damned cop I can be.

Decide what it is that you live for and spend your life pursuing it!

Goal #3 : Understand And Find Love

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria RilkeGerman lyric poet (1875 - 1926)


I've said before that the simplest things are always the hardest things to say. They are this way because our mind often betrays us at moments when we need it most. Everyone one of us has had that moment, that brief instant in time when more than anything we want to tell someone how we feel about them, and at the last second we choke and the moment escapes us, sometimes never to return. Why does ths happen, what makes our mind betray our heart?

I think it's because more than the heart, the mind knows what we need. Hell it runs the body, why not our direction romantically? From time to time we all size people up, we try to mentally get a "feel" for a person before we strike up a conversation with them. That instant my friends is what allows us to seize the day. Our mind betrays us because the brain knows from time to time that the object of affection, isn't meant to be with us.

Kind of funny, that the people we think we want to be with, are the people we really shouldn't
recently, I made the mistake of getting myself involved with a woman who didn't share my love and attention, and because of this our relationship fell apart. A loving commited relationship only works when both parties make the effort to make it work. The lady in my situation had other priorities, ones that took priority over our relationship, and when the commitment I dedicated wasn't returned, I had to do what was right in my heart and end it.

To compound and make this situation worse, I was seriously involved with another woman when I began seeing the now Ex. I left the first woman, a lady with an amazing zeal for life, a passion for her work, and a heart of gold, for what my heart told me I wanted, a relationship with a woman that was undeserving of my love. I burned a bridge, I couldn't go back to the woman who loved me, and the one I was with was driving me up a metaphorical wall. Fortunately I remembered that in these situations you need to reach out and touch faith. On a whim and a chance, I called the original girl, one who openly admitted that she loved me, and BEGGED her to take me back. But as in all matters of need, god provides, and she recieved me back with open arms. Like the prodigal son in the bible I was allowed to live up to my mistakes and strive for a better future.

But in all of this, I got to thinking about the 1980's
More importantly, the British Singer, Songwriter, Poet Mark King
Mark during the 80's asked one of the most profound philosophical questions I have ever heard.

How Can It Be
That a Love Carved Out Of Caring
Fashioned By Faith
Could Suffer So Much
By Games Played Once To Often
But Isn't Making Mistakes Part Of Lifes Grand Imperfections?
But Is It So Wrong To Be Human?

and isn't that what this blog all about, being human?
I never really could understand what it meant without looking at love. Coming to love someone, I mean really have that love that makes or breaks our universe is one of the thing that only we humans do. If I have learned anything in this life, it's that somewhere out in the distance, thiers someone waiting for all of us, we just have to find them. More on this concept later.

Goal #2: Discover Your Personal Jesus

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert EinsteinUS (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)


EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We’re looking for something, though we’re not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, February 13, 2003Anonymous author of RealLivePreacher.com


Goal #2 "Discovering Your Personal Jesus Christ"

"Personal Jesus"

Your Own Personal Jesus
Someone Who Hears Your Prayers
Someone Who Cares

Your Own Personal Jesus
Someone To Here Your Prayers
Someone Who Cares

Feelings Unknown
And Your All Alone
Flesh And Bone
By The Telephone
Lift Up The Reciever
I'll Make You A Believer

Take Second Best
Put Me To The Test
Things On Your Chest
You Need To Confess
I Will Deliver
You Know I'm A Forgiver

Reach Out and Touch Faith

Lyrics By Depeche Mode

It's hard to believe that a song from the early 90's would be a inspiration to change my life and hopefully yours as well, but it is even harder to believe that a band like Depeche Mode could come to terms and deliver a honest to god truth. I was born and raised in the Catholic Church, my entire life I was studying my faith, living a tradition, and upholding my supposed faith, only when I reached maturity did I come to understand that my faith was hollow. I was practicing something I didn't believe in , and the tradition was empty and meaningless. Because of this I walked alone, until Paul Shin taught me about the Personal Jesus.

Jesus Christ is your lord and savior
I will repeat myself
Jesus Christ is YOUR Lord and Savior

He is their, he does care, and he is behind your actions. A organized religion isn't always the answer to lifes questions, and it's not the only way to reach an eternity of peace and love, a afterlife in heaven with him can bring. The only thing that matter when you die, is the relationship you shared with him on earth. He doesn't care about your wealth, your fame, your education, he only cares that you care about him. He's the pre-game prayer, the post test beg for success, and he IS watching you and everything that you do, you just merely have to look for him and seek his advice.

What everyone needs is to develop thier Personal Jesus, find him in your own way and begin developing a relationship with him, its a step in the right direction, one of the most powerful teachings I can pass along is the end of that song

REACH OUT AND TOUCH FAITH

Philosophy Of Boyle

The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.
Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Rosebud, 1993


Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Sir Winston ChurchillBritish politician (1874 - 1965)

The details of this Blog, have become a twist of it's purpose, I established this at first to begin describing the methods to which I live, and offer advice to those seeking it, but over the last year, it has been an unorganised system of dissent and rants. This year I made my New Years resolution to try to be a better man, really bring around Sam 2.0, so far academically I have, I've taken numerous courses on many subjects and have found myself becoming a font of knowledge. This is what I have always strived to be, and because I have reasonably achieved it, I need to begin focusing on these ideas of life, love, and friendship the meat behind the potatoes of life. I will begin to post some ideas, things that will provoke thought, understanding, and rationalization. The life of Samuel Boyle produces a philosophy that reads like a list, so I will build that list starting now.

1.) Understanding One's Self is The Completion of Becoming Truly Human

What does it mean to be human? is it just merely a species evolved from the primordial ooze, or is it something so much more, something that has a beginning, and ultimately an end with a lifetime of experiences that shape it's design?

I think that the Human is the part of our species that loves, that looses, that thinks, that understands, and most of all FEELS. Of the billions of people on this planet, only a small few choose to live for something so much larger than themselves. I'm not talking anything political or military in nature, because the very nature of the human being is to destroy itself, and those factors only perpetuate this nature. I'm talking flat out about living a life of service to humanity, one that reflects the principles of benevolence for all of mankind. It should be the actions of our heart and mind to seek a way to bring the most good will and overall happiness to as many people as we can. Mother Theresa lived her life bringing food, medicine, and shelter to the poor, she did it because god told her to, but she said even more than that, because she felt she HAD to do this. This is what I'm talking about.

The soon to be Saint Mother Theresa understood that her purpose in life was to serve others, it is this which we should strive to do, find, understand, and embrace our purpose in life, it's only when this is achieved that we start to understand truly what it means to be human. Coming to terms with your strengths and limitations is the start of this. We need to understand that everyone is unique, each person has their talents and excels at different areas, not everyone can be a doctor, but this is the beauty of lifes grand imperfection, the fact that we all are here to do something, when we figure out what this is, thats when we start being human, to be human is to begin to live up to the expectations of our divine inheritance, and it's the first step towards enlightenment.

Forgive Or Forget?

Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
Anonymous author of RealLivePreacher.com

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)


It often pains me to sit in a room of crowed people, especially people I don't know. Now it's not that I'm xenophobic or something, just something about strangers troubles and bothers me. I think it's the fact that they haven't proven themselves to me, and if I can't trust them, I have no desire to know them. Thursday night, I sat in the Denny's one of my least favorite places in the world, not so much because the place is filthy, reeks of BO and ass and the food is beyond shitty, but because I have to deal with people who I for one feel are just too screwed up to function. Everytime I go in there, I am sitting around stoners and goths, who for some reason feel compelled to have conversations across the room with each other while trying to pipe up a conversation with me, throw shit at each other and otherwise make total spectacles out of themselves. Now I'm used to juvenile bullshit behavior, I dealt with the biggest group of immature assholes ever put together on gods green earth, but it totally irritates my shit in the worst kind of way when I come all the way over there (because it's a good distance from my house) to see my friends, and I have to deal with everyone else in the rooms shit. Somewhere in the commericals for Denny's thier must have been a subliminal message that draws these assholes thier like muslims to mecca, because I can't walk in their without feeling like I should have just put a fucking gun to my head instead.

Now I found myself in this Denny's on Thursday because I have the rare privledge of seeing the guys altogether again. With Christmas break being here I have preciuous little time with the guys before they all head back for another 3 months of shit and misery. Now this time is wasted, when I have to sit and deal with nonsense, and I'm starting to feel the only reason I didn't get up and walk across the room and rip the ring out of the fucking kids lip who was throwing the creamer around, was because I was with the guys.

It's not an avoidable question or idea anymore, I have made these guys the most important thing in my life, and when I have them altogether I find that I am most at peace with myself. My greatest blessing in life was finding my friends, people who I can trust, people I can believe in, and people who manage to live thier lives with the best intrests of each other at heart.

Thorns and Kang are two of the closest people I have ever met, Matt I think, gets along with him better than his own family and why god made them friends instead of brothers I will never understand. Steve inspite of his shortcomings is one of the most simplistic and easy going people I have ever met, he seems to just be able to float through life and I admire that, thier are days I wish I could just drift, and not have to worry anymore, but for me thats a pipe dream, the man lives his life his way, and that is to be admired. Chris Cochrane is another story all of his own, I haven't known him nearly as long as the others but I wish I had. Things came between Chris and I becoming friends, and really suffered because I met him at a time when he was falling out with the guys, mostly through the influence of the now defunct Hai, who is no longer in the picture. Chris is this sort of quiet guy who is just a closet cult of personality. He knows what to say and when to say it, and he like the others is just a damned genius. It makes me feel alot better that he is back, because I find the man to be intresting and insightful, and it's a rare treat to able to converse with him. Finally we come to the only man who wasn't present but we felt the loss of, Stubbs. Stubbs is the biggest morale boost I think that this group has. I haven't had a bad experience with the man, and I really do honest think of him as a brother, he wise far beyond his years, he knows his strengths and limitations, and most importantly he never tries to be what he is not, and you HAVE to respect that.

When I'm with these guys I find that my problems just seem to melt away, I can forget about the rest of the world and just be myself and do my thing, and these guys are the reason I can. It's just something about all of us, it like a magnetism, somehow for some reason we were all drawn together and everyday I thank my lucky stars that we were, it's the direct hand of god at work.

But this is where I get to the point, what this is all about. When I'm not with these guys everything comes rushing back to me, and I feel anger,frustration, and most of all regret. I hate having to feel bad and others cause me to feel that way. I'm not perfect, my friends aren't perfect, but when were with each other, it's like were in our own perfect little universe, one I think shows the way that the world should live. I can and have forgiven these guys for things in the past, Matt's shunning of us because of his ex, Lies told,things said, I have and I will continue to forgive them for everything and anything, but why can't I do this for the rest of the world?

Why is it that our group can live, be almost selfless for each others benefit, and yet everyone else seems to be the opposite? and why doesn't anyone get that thier actions hurt each other?. I had stated earlier this year that everyday when I wake up, I see more and more, the rotten and evil things inside every person I meet. Maybe it's just me being facichious but I dont see that in these guys, I dont see in them what the rest of the world shows me, and I find myself asking why?

more important than that, I'm asking myself why I just simply can't forgive people for things anymore, why my family is trying my patience,why my co-workers are putting me at my wits end, and why I find the many simple inflictions on me to be terrible. I think it's because I spoiled my perception of the world with the balance I have with my friends. It's like coming off some kind of high when I return from an outing with the guys, and I come crashing back to this shit, and it pisses me off that those moments have to end.

but the consolation here is that these guys make me what to be a better person, hell I think we all cause each other to be a better person, and if I can learn to just be happy with life even by myself, I may just be okay. I often like to think of a simple Chinese proverb I heard once, one that sticks with me, and feels logical to me...

Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC)

sounds like a great plan to me, god bless us guys, your more special than each of you could ever know.

Changes in The Air

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
Paul Tournier

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Herbert Agar


Where to begin, it has been quite some time since I posted, perhaps because so much has happened. My sister kelly, the sane, rational, and determined part of my siblings, finally got married to her long term boyfriend Chuck. Chuck is a great guy, thiers really no denying it, he has been around and a part of my life for more than 7 years and now that he's my brother in law, it only cememts his place in my life. Thier wedding was a wonderful occassion, and in all honesty, I cried a little. I mean I felt like a pussy because of it, but thats okay because if two people can be that happy well god bless.

The reception was another wonderful occassion. I gathered with my family and my friends to wish kelly and chuck well,and sitting with several friends over cocktails and cigars I came to several powerful revelations over my life.

First off, I caught a glimpse of Candice, a blind date setup from several years ago. She was a sweet wonderful girl, and it pains me to think about possibilites that could have been but weren't. Now I contribute that to my distain for her concerning her prior friendship with Andy Czech, the man I blame for the breakup between Terri and I,that put me in the lowest place in my life.

Now Thorns (ho has in the past year, come off a terrible breakup himself, and kicked his drug problems, has become the most insightful and wise man I can think of)tells me that I have spent to much time tearing myself up about Terri, and I think that I can finally put her aside, she will always be my favorite mistake but the longer I dwell on her the harder it is going to be to get on with my life. I mean I dated her in 8th grade and through my freshman year of high school, to say at that age I know what I want out of life, or to say that I fully at that point in life knew what love was, is just a false notion. I think what led me to dwell so long on the issue is that she was TAKEN not so much that she left me directly.

Because I was young, because I was jelous, and because I was stupid, I ruined my friendship with her, I ruined my friendship with Andy and those who stood with him, and ruined several concrete and several potentially meaningful relationships with women who could have done much good in my life. I think I'm finally ready to get back in the game, and I will be sure to let everyone know what comes from here on in.

Next I'm proud to announce that Art one of my closest friends in life, has been accepted to the USAF. Now this alone deserves credit, they are the most demanding branch of the armed forces, having the highest entry requirements and standards of conduct and behavior. Now I have always admired these men and women, they utilize and design the most advanced weapons and technology ever created by mankind. I will admit that Im a want a be , I only wish that I could be accepted, but Art further proved his ambition by deciding that he wants to go into Para-Rescue, the highly elite combat medic unit. So basically Art will be jumping out of a plane and parachuting into enemy territory to treat wounded soliders and recover downed airmen.

This is a noble ambition, not only do you do it for the best of the best, but you do it for the right reason. Alot of people will knock the "Air Farce" for it's laid back style, it always arranges a bed for it's people, the meals are always hot, and it's employees enjoy the most downtime of any branch of service, but this is for a very important series of reasons. First, they employ the highest number of civilian consultants, analysts and technicians, in the whole of the armed forces. These civilians travel with the airforce maintaining thier high technology needs and facilitate thier training, because of this, you cannot treat a civilian the same way you treat a disciplined trained soldier and they must be provided for. Secondly they are responsibile for trillions of dollars in equipment that has strategic importance to both the armed forces, the private sector, and the world as a whole (they do run NASA) so I say if it is the issue that you hate them because thier "lazy" or "high maintanence" remember that if they crash a 20 million dollar jet fighter, it's their ass not yours!

Hats Off To You Art

But the reason I bring this up, is because Art is working out to prepare hismelf for basic, and is working hard at getting into shape, I think I need to as well. So I need to commit myself to getting my ass into the gym more often, I think the process for him will be easier if he has someone backing him up so to speak.

Regardless of the issues, I will be commiting myself to a major turn around next year, looks like this New Years resolution is to fully bring around Sam ver 2.0

The Burdens Of Being Upright

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, April 2, 1957US general & Republican President (1890 - 1969)


My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'
Helen HayesUS actress (1900 - 1993)


Mid-Terms have ended, and not only did I pass and save my grades, I did quite well, with this past me, I have a week or so to collect myself and my thoughts, and begin turning my attention to finals and next semester. It's becoming clear to me now, that I have survived the first half of college, two years down and now little more than a year and 1/2 to go. But I recently had to sit back and ask myself what I have accomplished in my time spent. It is easy for my to see that I have become wiser, I understand things that escaped me before, and have been able to apply the wisdom gained to all things in my life. Be it recounting my life experience in this blog, or pointing my friends in the direction of self enlightenment, I have come to fully understand the mystery of the self, but my place in the grand scheme of things elludes me. While educated I still wonder what I'm going to do when I leave. But worrying about the future only makes us age faster, at least for the time being, I will attempt to look at the present and reflect on my past.

I decided a long time ago that I would be better, that I would do whatever I felt I had to to make my world, my life, work for me; and because of this my career changes every two years, I remain constantly single, and I put myself at odds with my friends. But these things aside, I have proven to myself, a select few friends, and my professors, that I can deliver proof of my genius, that my plans well constructed and thought out, and that I have the willpower to succeed.

In my pursuit of knowledge, I have studied mathmatics, high sciences, psychology, sociology, law, anthropology, history, political science, theology, and philosophy, and art and it's history. I have become truly a man for all seasons, I understand and can relate to so many things, I have come to understand people of diffrent races, colors and creeds, and my indiffrence towards them in the past. I renewed my faith in god, and carry a Gideon in my backpack with me everyday, and I consider my politics to be more defined. In the 2000 election, I voted for who my parents voted for, I let others shape my opinion, and now as I sit on the lip of the next election, I can say that I will be voting for a canidate based on my thoughts, feelings, and ideas. Voting is a decision that occurs in the heart of all of us. I can't motivate myself by picking who guarantees lower taxes, or who is for or against a war, I learned that the canidate I vote for, I will vote for because I feel thier the best person for the job.

However while this is all a evident truth to me, some people close to me will consider it just another example of me being a pretensious snob. Snob it's a funny word, websters defines it as "One who affects an offensive air of self-satisfied superiority in matters of taste or intellect" basically one who points out his or her superiority over others. I don't think I have acted this way, I believe that my moral superiority comes from my upbringing, I went to the best private schools money could afford, I attended a men's college PREPRATORY school, and believe me I was prepared. I have years of self influence guiding my thoughts, feelings, and principles, guns I stick to even if thier not loaded. If proving that I have the talent, the ideas, and moral and social graces needed to succeed makes me a snob, oh well. I was raised to respect my parents, I was raised to treat women with respect and not as sex objects, I was raised with my parents desire to provide me with a better life than they had, and I have taken these and many other lessons with me thoroughout my 21 years, and will carry them to my grave. I am what I am because of what I choose to believe.

I choose to believe that morality is a constraint it's a benefit, I believe violence isn't always a solution, and shouldn't always be an option, and more importantly, I believe that violence and intollerance are the products of uneducated minds. I not some fucking hippie telling people to hug a tree or save a whale, but anyone will have to agree with me that the evils in this world are perpetuated with peoples carelessness and intollerance towards one another. If you defense for the actions of this country are, "fuck the world because we can kill everyone" well thats just being a dick, because we as a free, democratic society, shouldn't have the desire to kill everyone, we should encourage people to adopt the freedoms and ideals that were supposed to be upholding. Thier are many people in this world, who's only concievable crime is the living in the contry they live in. Not everyone in a foreign country supports the government they lived under. Fuck half the germany army thought hitler was a screw job, but they had no choice to support him, proof positive, his closest friends tried to kill him. I can't say that killing innocent people is alright in any case, collateral damage shouldn't be a statistic, it should be viewed as the fucking tragedy that it is.

Like everyone else, my world changed September 11, but I have to look at things from many angles. It was an american tragedy of a previously unheard of scale, thousands were dead because of the actions of a handful of people, I fully agree that going to war was nessecary, we were attacked and because of this we have a right to respond, but I feel that the response should have been total and immediate. In iraq dozens of people die every month because of car bombs, ambushes and insurgent armed engagements. These people aren't just American and coalition forces, thier innocent bystander, newly hired police men, and most importantly, children. I do not believe that under any circumstances children should be targets of aggression.

Children are innocents, they have just begun to live, and have yet to form the thoughts, feelings, and ideas, that make them the enemies of tommorow. Because they are the children of a nation that harbors terrorists, doesn't make them terrorists themselves, it doesn't mean that Palestinian terrorists can detonate themselves in a romper room, children are the future of a nation and all humanity, and nothing hurts me more, or brings me closer to tears than the death of a child. It's a tragedy that goes far beyond comprehension. These innocents including children are dying because people in washington decided to play police instead of soldier. The first gulf war was a display of american force, we were promised shock and awe, and instead of fighting off and killing these fucking insurgents when we started this war a year ago, we immediately began rebuilding the Iraqi infrastructure, giving these bastards a foothold in the region that has now allied itself with al-queda, and can only make a bad situation even worse.

I choose to be upright, I choose to point out the flaws in people in society, because only when these are addressed, is anything done about them, we all need to look at ourselves, and ask is being a snob that bad? is seeking to better ourselves a burden? , it is, it's the burden of being upright, but it is also the responsiblity of every young person around the world. If we as a society do not seek to correct the errors of our past, and build a better future, then this intollerance, war, aggression, lack of education and resources, will ultimately doom our society. I choose to be a snob, because someone has to, someone has to make people understand what they are doing wrong, and what they need to correct it, because as long as I have been alive I have been the snob, and as long as I live, I will continue to be, because I have a responsibilty within myself to make sure.