[Doctor]

The subject on wisdom really hits me hard, because I know what it's like to be one of the wise...at least, I think I do. After all, I've been what one would consider to be "poor" my whole life--but you know, after a while, I stopped caring about material posessions. I only care about some of the things that allow me to create; my guitar, which allows me to play music; my drawing utensils, because I want to b an artist; and books, for all of the enjoyment and information and beautiful words that taught me almots everything I know.

The rest pretty much just comes from being in a position in which, I know what it's like to suffer. I have suffered financially, physically, and most of all mentally, and since I've grown up in a household where, unlike some of my friends when I was a child, I was always at a financial and personal disadvantage, suffering has taught me to see most things that other people my age, and even older now, would not even be able to recognize.

I don't really feel like divulging my life story, but even if you're wondering, "If you're so poor, Doctor, then why the hell are you typing on an expensive computer?" I'm willing to answer. I've always been given a lot of my things by other family members, and people with a lot more money. This also taught me how to be generous over the years, and to appreciate whatever I've got, no matter how pissed off I get when a new console I can't get right away comes out, or something.

I've been through many things...I have had anorexia, which, in a way, taught me what it's like to have to go hungry every day...I have to deal with, and comfort friends who sometimes just want to give up, because either they can't take the life that they are living anymore, they can't take themselves, or they can't stand the world that they are in..this cruel, twisted place we call planet Earth is sometimes nothing but pure torture, but by suffering and surviving anything that comes our way, we end up getting something, if anything out of it.

I always see what is wrong with the world, the way that people are living and thinking...what Reason has said proves a really good insight as to how most people think nowadays...people are so blinded by the temorary pleasures of material posessions, they just keep on wanting more and more, and they never come to appreciate anything else in their lives. I've known kids whose parents would treat them like, things, just things, tools to use in order to get the housework done, or just something to yell at when they get upset (that they couldn't buy that new digital TV, or that 50,000 car...) It was hard to watch for me, because I've been lucky...I have kind parents, who would only get upset if I was doing anything that endangered my own life, or someone else's. I just plain got lucky.

But besides only a fraction on how I've obtained MY sense of, maybe, "wisdom", I need to completely agree with you, Reason. People are generally consumed by greed and desires! As one of my most favorite songs goes:

Why do we never get an answer,
when we're knockin' at the door?
With a thousand-million questions,
about hate and death and war?
because the truth is all around us,
and there is nothing that we need,
in a world of persecution,
that is burning in it's greed

Just why don't we ever get an answer? What has happened that makes people act this way? I've watched it go on long enough, and I'm sick of seeing the greed the consumes the human race...

Sorry I had to go on this rant, but this is, very, very important to me..