What I did tonight (or where did all the hippies go) [View All]

[The Straight Story]

My in-laws came and picked up our daughter for the day/night - not just to spend time with her (which they enjoy) but also because my wife has been rather ill of late. I have barely slept in a week, neither has the wife, so we both welcomed this break from trying to take care of a 7 year old who needs a lot of attention and such.

As sick as she is, we spent the last few hours being 'adults' if you will. Doing things couples do. Even though she can barely talk and is weak as hell we had a damned good time.

And that is what got me to thinking, as she lays now on the couch with her vibrating and heating pillow, her blankies, and several tivoed Hockey playoff games.

We made love. Not War. We did not care who owned what, how much we owned, whether or not we had a Lexus or a BMW, we didn't focus on oil or taking other peoples' land for growing crops, etc and so on.

We just did what most people like to do. We spent fun time together. We didn't need all that other stuff, although it would be nice to have I must say.

Does life really need to be more complicated than that? Do we really need wars and complicated political strategies all the time? Most people want just a simple life - a little booze, a little sex, health care, go to work, pay the bills, buy some shit when you have a little extra.

Whether you are in China, Egypt, Pakistan, Iraq, I think that most people are really like the folks we used to call hippies here - make love, not war.

We are all tied together as humans in the most basic of ways, yet there are some in power who corrupt all of that and use our money in ways that are pretty damned screwed up.

The Chinese, the Soviets, et al are not my enemies - their governments are, just like ours is to them.

At some point I hope we people rise up and tell em to fuck off. We don't want to be at war with each other, we don't want to hate each other, we just want to be able to have our little lives and do those little things that we so enjoy.

we want to make love, to be entertained, to laugh, to see our kids grow up.

We don't want war, we want love.

The people get that, when will our leaders?

Now excuse me while I go and warm up some great left overs and watch some TV with the wife as she drifts off to sleep. Hopefully she won't have nightmares about not being able to go to the Dr. on a regular basis, or how if my daughter gets hurt at school how we will be able to afford to get her health care and whether or not people will blame us and see as abusers and such because we don't have the money to get her fixed up.

Last night she dreamed she slit her own wrists to end this pain she is in, and even had the forethought in her dream to put a towel down so I would not have a bloody mess to clean up.

I don't think most humans on this planet want to go to war or kill each other over shit. It is the few who do, and why we let them do it is beyond me.

Most of us on this planet just want to get along and have a good time. And yet here we sit with the few making it hell for the many.

Shame on us for letting them.