Posting this early, just had a thought.

With everything that's been going on in my life, I don't have much time to reflect on things. The little time I DO reflect on them I end up wasting on stupid games. I should never have to feel like I should be afraid to try a new game for the fear it could consume my life, but this is the kind of world we live in, where everyone's overconnected and we can't slow down. It's the new rat race.

I just want to take a moment to say this... Never make assumptions about people you don't know. There was this old woman in my Drawing II class that had this really clever way of putting it, too, "it makes an 'ass' of 'u' and 'me'." and she's right. A lot of the labels we put on people aren't earned, rather they're sweeping generalizations we make based on their life choices. At the end of the day we don't know what their circumstances are. In my line of work I have to deal with a lot of entitled people. "Karens" if you would. But even if they are, sometimes it's hard to be mad when corporations can't help them, you can't help but feel sorry for those types of people even when they start becoming abusive.

This comes at a time where I was revisitng memories of a long deceased friend, how she could have easily been branded a druggie, and while the sad truth is a lot of those types of people can fall into that stereotype, there's also several who don't, and in any case the whole drug war was founded on a mountain of lies. The truth must be known, but who would listen? People are convinced they're right and are unwilling to see both sides of the story, only the version they get fed back to them in their echo chamber, perhaps even their safe space. Those are the people that need a serious wake-up call. This doesn't apply to even just SJWs, but there's a lot of people that can't think for themselves, they just regurgitate the same drivel that gets spoonfed to them, whether it be from the news media or from superstitious groups. What we ought to do is open our eyes and our minds, really think critically about what we experience firsthand, and learn from it. Draw your own conclusions and don't let others tell you what you should believe.

That said... On the other side of that fence, there is a person who is manipulating my sister. He has cheated on her, stolen her money, and he's using his kids in his selfish game to get back into her life. He's also a user. Just remember that not all people who belong in a group are cut from the same cloth, there's good and bad in all groups. What matters more than anything is the contents of a person's character. That will be all for this post after the massive text dumps from the previous two.