First I was numb.

Then I was enraged.

Now I am simply resigned to my role in life.

I will constantly be fighting. Nothing will ever be easy. I don't know why I ever expected anything to be different. I'm not the type of person who can just devote their life to only a family, kids, and a desk job. No, I have to go where I feel that I am most needed. I will be spending my life fighting for what I feel is right. I have the fire and it's time to light some torches. I refuse to be as ignorant and complacent and many around me are. I will leave the proverbial cave and walk into the light of truth!

It surprises me to no end that my peers seem to have grown up in a completely different world than I have. Sigh.

Alright, I am off to research a prose piece for the speech tournament in December. Wish me luck.

Huggles...