Say What?

To start off, I just wanted to mention briefly the chaos going on in Iran’s post-election protest right now. After I woke up today and got some coffee, I found myself staring into a big photo on the New York Times in which hundreds of thousands of people were filling the streets of Iran in massive blots of heads and hands. Election candidate and supposed winner, Ahmadinejad, flew to Russia to “discuss issues on International Security” with the leaders there, leaving the country in a state turmoil. In the photo I was looking at, there was a sea of people, and in the middle of this vast ocean was the opposition leader standing with a group of people on a car. “Wow”, I thought to myself. “That’s oddly reminiscent of Mario Savio standing on a car on Berkeley’s Sproul Palaza gathering during the 60s Free Speech Movement”. Given the spirit of activism of the Iranian people, shouldn’t I also be out there protesting for some cause I believe in here in the US? After all, there are many things I could be fighting for right now, such as health care reform. What am I doing here!!?

Anyways, I have to say I’ve been beating around the bush for quite a while now.  The pursuit of happiness has become a joker’s rollercoaster, taking me on journeys that are sometimes closer, but oftentimes further from the destination I was intent on reaching. In trying to relax, I have been finding it difficult to relax. In trying to learn much, I have been finding it difficult to learn anything substantial. In trying to write this blog, to force it out like stale ketchup in a musty bottle, I have not been able to write anything worth reading about. I think I will let it go, and say nothing more.