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Eh, I was going to post the edited version of Sorrow, but I'm at college and that's saved at home. Instead, I'm gonna ramble on subjectivity.

Lately I've seen a lot of people embracing "tolerance" and "having an open-mind". This can be a really good thing. When you don't let someone's skin color, culture, whatever get in the way of your loving them, than this is great. Embracing other cultures can be excellent, and sometimes there's a lot to be learned from a people you aren't familiar with. Subjectivity can be a great in the arts too, where everyone should have their own opinion and be comfortable with it. With that settled, I'm gonna get on to my real pet peeve: moral subjectivity. I've seen a lot of people say that truth is subjective, and that people should believe what works for them. I've heard people say they shouldn't raise their kids to believe any one religion, but teach them about all of them, and give them a choice, or raise them in a religious void (If you're Christian and planning on doing that, read your Bible. It says raise your children in the way they should go, so you're especially wrong). All I can say to that is, "Really?" First thing: truth is not subjective. Whatever you believe, there's one way the world works, and you can't change it just because it fits your view better. Truth isn't about being comfortable, it's about what's true. That should really be obvious to everyone, and the only reason I can see for why it's not is because we now have a lot of people encouraging the American public to become a religious void. Why? Because no one wants to offend anyone else. We basically wiped out the moral foundation of our society, because guess what? As much as people say atheists can be more moral than deists, from what I've seen and read, people (iucluding those kids raised without a religion) are far more selfish without a moral foundation. Christianity did provide the foundation, until people started getting paranoid about Separation of Church and State. Since we're moving in a secular direction, you know who our new god will probably be? Science. Logic. Reason. All hail it, crafter of our technologies, savoir of our sick person, educator of our children...Yeah, great. Wake up! Those are tools. They're handy. They have their place. But is that where we should look to find the answers? Some people are saying so. And now that we're raising the next generation that way, we're either going to have a bunch of even more jaded, selfish, and cynical people, or we're going to have a nation so sick of hopelessness and selfishness, we give up and go back to the Lord. I'm hoping for the latter, I really am, but I'm not counting on it. >.<

Potential

I am that child.
You know the one.
Quiet, unnoticed;
Except when the report card goes home.
A few B's, some C's
Maybe a D.
The comments all read
"A pleasure to have in class".
At the parent-teacher conferences
I'm the one
"Not living up to my potential."
I'm apathetic
And you allowed me to be.
That did me no favors.

School, you never outright failed me;
But the half-a** job I did for you?
You did for me too.
Here's hoping someday you'll
"Live up to your potential."

Yeah...right.