This is not NECESSARILY about the Casey Anthony trial ...

I have heard quite a bit of banter these days regarding injustice and the typical response I hear, "Well, they will get theirs" in a Karma-ish manner.


Hmmm.


It disturbs me to think that we have turned into a nation of avoidance. We are a frightened bunch of people ... we don't want to be the ones that actually hurt someone but we want to believe that justice will be served by someone else. NOT ME. I don't want to be the responsible person ... let someone ELSE do it.


But this is deeper than that ...


I also notice some extremely weak minded people that allow themselves to be manipulated by a stronger force ... or not necessarily stronger but more manipulative and instead of people standing up for themselves they allow themselves to be swept away by manipulation.


We have turned into a nation of wimps.


Several years ago I was attending graduate school for Elementary Education. I wanted to teach children ... imagine that. In one of my classes we were discussing the recent and over abundance of violence in the schools. The teacher advised us to do nothing if a child has a gun in the classroom. I thought to myself ... hmmm ... if a child between the ages of 6 thru 11 has a gun in my classroom and I am the teacher responsible for those students ... you better believe that I would DO something. First off, even if the child is large ... his aim probably won't be very good ... and instead of watching this child shot or threaten to shoot I would attempt to remove the gun from the childs hands. Kick a desk toward the child then lunge at his hand. It only requires a quick action and reaction. Maybe I'll get shot but chances are the shot won't kill me ... in the arm or in the leg.


But if you stand there and allow a child to shoot other children and you do nothing ... nothing at all ... how could you ever live with yourself?


I'm not a hero. I don't have a hero mindset but I do believe that we all must sometimes fight for what is right. We all must stand up to injustice and not believe that someone ELSE will do something about it. We can all have a bit of hero in us, it wouldn't take much ... a bit of self confidence, a dash of personal responsibility, a little less believing every single word you read or hear ... and a huge dose of knowing and understanding your own mind. Maybe that is what we are missing ... we watch TV and listen to the radio and absorb others opinions ... turn off the TV ... go live your own life by doing things and develop your own MIND with your own experiences. Build your own knowledge by reading books and some classic literature. Challenge yourself, read things and do things you know you will hate.


Don't push the responsibility on to others ... with the "they will get theirs in the end" type of attitude ... maybe YOU are the one that has been tasked with that responsibility.


Don't be so easily fooled ... if it doesn't feel like the right thing to do ... there is no reason to go along with the popular belief.


It may be a cliche but some of those have value ... if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it must be a duck.


Assume the obvious!