Learning To Love You More - Alex

Alexandra Beall:

61) Describe Your Ideal Government  

I was never the type of person to want to deal with anything politically related. I wasn’t partial to it in one way or another and I did little more than listen and nod when people would discuss current events of interest. Yet, in 2005, something political caught my eye that, to me, didn’t revolve around politics: the banning of horse slaughter. Suddenly government and politics had a purpose to my uneducated and uncaring mind.  

As a result my ideal government would focus around many different points than most people. I would see a government that had higher penalties for the inhumane treatment of people and animals. There are too many people sitting cozy in cells that would be forced to lead worse lives outside whose only crime is substance abuse.  The economic crisis would be dealt with in a way that hasn’t been addressed in most fronts. Someone should need a license to breed animals of leisure (dogs, horses, etc.). There are simply too many animals and not enough resources to deal with them. Similarly the new idea to tax farmers for their cows is ridiculous. Start taxing the people who have more money than they know what to do with and not the people who are helping to support what little food the United States manages to make on its own accord. I know little about dealing with more, but think our resources are better spent not adding to the enormous amount of dept we’ve managed to get ourselves into. The United States will fall if we cannot get our own economy underway before we try to start influencing everyone else and resolutely bring them down with us. 

27) Take a picture of the sun

70) Say Goodbye

Goodbye childhood.  

Goodbye Skaneateles.  

Goodbye Pride. 

Goodbye Old Hickory Farm.  

Goodbye Flotren.  

Goodbye North Salem. 

Goodbye paralyzing fear of the unknown.  

Goodbye naiveté. 

Goodbye Sebastian. 

Goodbye high school drama.   

Goodbye high school.