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Sigh, I wish it hadn't come to this.
It's hard to look at the world and feel optimistic anymore. I'm graduating in two months and I'm trying to keep a positive outlook on life while going through a fruitless job search. I am trying so hard to keep an optimistic outlook on life after graduation but then I turn on the news and the economy isn't getting better and the terrorist risk is elevated. It's hard to feel positive when the world around you is falling apart piece by piece, country by country.
I don't have any grand solutions to this problem. I major in international studies but this conflict is so muddy that it's hard to look at with any coherance. Should Iraq disarm? Most definatly, but maybe we shouldn't have supported Iraq in the 80s when they were fighting Iran. Of course if we didn't support Iraq in the 80s maybe Islamic fundamentalism from Iran would have spread even further in the Middle East and caused a different set of problems. American foreign policy is incredibly complicated and it is never as clear as "I'm good/you're bad, end of story."
Now that war is inevitable, I hope it's the right solution. I have alot of respect for the men and women in uniform who are out there fighting, they are doing a job that I would never be able to do. Many, if not all of us, knows someone or knows someone who knows someone who is fighting out there and we all hope they come back safe and sound. I hope that at the end of the day, justice will prevail.
I hope above all else that when I graduate into the real world in May I can say that I am entering a good and decent world. I remember finishing high school/finishing college in the late nineties when everything seemed alright and a college degree was the promise of a good life. That reality is very different now and I wish it wasn't.
</end babbling of a scared soon-to-be college graduate>
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