roxmyworld said on May 20, 2003 14:42:

recently ,news have been really bad.for example,the war started,someone died somewhere,
sars,i am tired of sad news......
even for roxette fans,because of marie´s ‘problem and all those things.
on the radio,i just listen to sad songs!!!what happened to the classic love songs???
this world has turned black.

xuxa said on May 20, 2003 15:13:

@Tinybubbles: i heard that Shinnead O’connor has finished her carrer. she is not going to sing anynore... she wants to have a “normal” life... that’s sad also:((

DaminehGessle said on May 20, 2003 16:23:

I was telling my friend yesterday what my world was like when I was younger and how sad I’ve been feeling during the past couple of years.
My Earth was green with a blue river running through and red flowers all over. My sky was blue, yellow sun shining on one side and rainbow on the other side. That was my world. And believe it or now, the pain I was feeling then was oh why can I not have Per. I’d listen to Spending My Time and Listen to Your Heart thinking oh Per oh Per! That was my world.

I’ve been feeling sad and lonely for 6 years now and it seems to be getting worse. I couldn’t possibly ask for more in life as I have a great family and good friends. But all in all, I feel empty deep down inside.

People have changed. The world surrounding us has changed. Maybe I have changed. I don’t know. I haven’t found the answer to it yet. There were cruel people ruling over the poor and oppressed at all times. How come I am feeling the cruelty in the world now then??

I’ve come to terms with myself that the older I get, the more I realize what’s going on around me on my planet. There have been wars year after year as long as history’s been written. Racism and sexism have always been there. Rich and poor have always been different. It’s been there forever. They all have been there forever.

Once I thought I could save the world discovering a planet far far away and take the oppressed to my planet to have a great life ever after. That even built the foundation of my education path and future career. Now I realize I won’t be able to save the planet as long as there are stupid people surrounding me. But I can make a difference in people’s lives by giving as much as I can to the world. Now I am a member of Engineers Without Borders, a non-profit Canadian organization founded by students who love to make a difference. That keeps me going for now.

What I wanted to say was that:
- Yes. There is war out there and thinking about it, watching it on tv and reading about it depresses me. Let’s hope for peace.
- Yes. There is hunger out there. And it destroys me even imagining what it is like to be hungry. I don’t take my 10-minute break and my stomach goes blah.
- Yes. There is cruelty, death, and ………. But death is needed. Although I hate it and the biggest changes in my life have been caused by deaths.
But hey, why not looking at the full portion of the glass? I know it’s just a small portion and you might think I am a heartless,optimistic, rich kid who sleeps on a full stomach and lives in one of the safest places on Earth. But trust me, it keeps you going and you NEED to keep going in order to make that difference. Sitting there thinking oh it’s sad people dying out there and oh someone died and…. would just make you weaker and weaker. Get up, put a smile on your face, go out there and make that difference to bring smile to someone else’s face. You might think I am too optimistic. Trust me been there done that.

When the whole Afghanistan crisis happened, I went to my doctor crying telling her I couldn’t take it anymore. That my friends laughed at me when tears were running down my eyes while watching CNN. She told me that I wasn’t alone and talked to me on that matter.

I went to the Engineers Without Borders conference last January having butterflies in my stomach the entire 3 days of conference watching slides on hunger in Africa and Death in Here and There. That’s me. I am neither heartless nor optimistic. I don’t think peace can be achieved when there are people seeking for power. And by peace I mean PEACE!

I wish I could still live on my green Earth filled with red flowers with that beautiful river running through, the blue sky above, rainbow on my left and the yellow shining sun on my right. And I wish I could share that beautiful world with others. I wish we could all live in a world free of war and illness. I wish there were no good and bad, no rich and poor, no black and white, no Muslim, Christian or Jew, and no Me and You. I wish we could all be one, one for all, and all for one. I will keep on wishing and I hope someone will keep the wish going when I’m gone. It’s better to wish than not care at all saying it couldn’t and wouldn’t happen.

TinyBubbles said on May 20, 2003 18:56:

I found my Sinead O’Connor cd’s! They were under my bed. Pheewee. So now i’m happy again.

(But yes, the world is a very sad sad place...)

Ah, come on you guys. You’re depressing me :(

No more sad stories.

DaminehGessle said on May 21, 2003 15:30:

Yeah Majdy it is! Any SARS in Indonesia? I heard they killed it over there.

harriej said on May 21, 2003 19:00:

Of course there is a lot of bad things happening in the world: shit happens!
But if you take a good look around you, it must be possible to find some positive news too.
Don’t carry the Weight Of The World with you!!

Jackie_Radiorox said on May 24, 2003 00:28:

Well if it’s about losing our lives, figure this, you are dying from the day that you are born.

“Life is the slowest form of suicide.”

The best thing you can do to counter all of the crap that is going on, do what you like to do, have fun when you can and realize that media (sorry for anyone that works or wants to work in the business) is basicaly a means for those that want to hurt us to get to our psyche. Example, USA wouldn’t be so frightened about terrorist if the news wasn’t reporting unnessesary information about it 24/7.