***Insight***

First of all let me say that I really should be doing this daily, I'm not very good about it though.

What to say, there have bee so many things on my mind...

Well, this year has been different and far more, shall we say, developmental (if that's a word) for me. So the things that have happend this far, has been more than the past couple of years combined. I'm starting to get a better feel of who I truly am, and, though I'm not happy with some of the things that I see, I'm still thankful that I now know that which I did not before.

One of the things that has changed me is something that I recently read:

"...Is there one among you that doth make a mock of his brother, or that heapeth upon him persecutions? Wo unto such an one, for he is not prepared, and the time is at hand that he must repent..." It's got some power behind it huh? Its truth, I think, really applies to some of the people that I know, and myself. I will now give an explanation as to why this struck me so powerfully.

*Note: These names that I shall use are not the peoples' real names, if you would like the peoples' real names you will have to talk to me.*

The Fields family has worked with my mom, in the dental field, in the past and are sort of like friends. The Fields' son, Dennis, goes to our school and is not, by the general student body's view, "popular". He's rather strange and annoying at times but, all in all, he's really not that bad. Dennis's friends, if any, I have never seen.

He spends his time secluded and detached from everybody, but I know he is truly lonely. I have talked to him on occasion and when I do he talks as if there is no tommorrow! Telling me things like his interests, asking what mine are, who he likes and hates (skaters apparently) all from me asking how he was doing.

As I mentioned before, he is not liked by many, from what I can see but in particular, it seems the skaters hate him the most.
They make his life a living you-know-what in gym class and he gives it right back. I think now it's so easy for him to annoy and hate others, that he doesn't bother to do otherwise.
I can't help but think that if people, even just some of the people in school, started living the above quote (which I now try to) then we wouldn't create people like Dennis. Molding what was once a unique and kind boy into what he is today.

It's not by fate and choice that there are "Dennises" in the world, we made them. No baby is born prejudice, annoying, decietful, malicious, sadistic, homocidal, lazy, conceited, illmannered, or aloof, WE as a whole have scuplted these people into what they are. In effect, WE did this to ourselves.

With that I leave you with this; we must be careful with what we do and say to other people because with each action we mold them more and more into our enemies or, in extreme cases, our soon to be suicide victims.

There is NOTHING to lose by treating everyone as a brother and treating them with respect, none at all.