I believe in magic and miracles.

Okay, so I have to take a bit of time out from trying to grasp the concept of video games to discuss a few things. Recently, I've come to notice that people simply don't care anymore. It's a truly sad thing to come to understand, but I have finally grasped this. After working over three years in retail, I always knew that people were mean and often times cruel. But after visiting a local restaurant tonight, I realized, people really don't care anymore...about anything and definitely anyone. Well let me clarify - the majority of people out there don't care. It's like I can work all day and never come across a genuinely nice person. There's not a day that I work in my retail store and I don't have at least one rude customer. This is not one of those glass half empty theories. This is fact. I have never gone a whole day mingling with the public and not come across a mean person. It's truly sad. I would argue that it's an epidemic. Apathy, meanness, rudeness, smugness, all of these things and so much more are truly, truly an epidemic. Honestly, if we all just tried a tiny bit harder, things would, no doubt, be so much better. If we were just a little bit nicer to each other things would be monumentally better. I think that when big changes occur drastically and fast, it never lasts; it's only temporary. However, I firmly believe that if we just tried a little harder, and if we were just a little nicer, and if we smiled to each other and ourselves just a little bit more, magic would surely happen. I believe in magic. I believe we can have sympathy and empathy for our neighbors. Apathy is a disease.

Everyone has baggage. Everyone has hurt and fear and anger in them. We all have meanness and greed and hatred. But we all have goodness and kindness too. We all have the ability to love someone. We all have the ability to experience life altering love that you can only feel once in your life. We all have the ability to laugh and to make someone else laugh. I think people forget these good things sometimes. I think people forget that they have the ability to love and accept people wholeheartedly. I think we all need to focus on that more. Everyone has a bad day. Everyone has a day where they think "nothing could feel worse than I do right now in this moment", but if someone were there to smile at them and offer them hope...man...I can't imagine the gratitude I would feel. Sometimes it's hard to ask for help, but I know that it's often better to offer help without anyone asking. It's easy to ignore a person in need, but I'm willing to bet that the feeling of helping someone in need is pretty beautiful. I think that if we all just stopped assuming that everyone was okay, things could change. We never know how much or how heavy someone's baggage could be. We need to try harder to be better for ourselves and everyone else.

Acceptance, love, and laughter are magical things. And I believe in magic.