As a kid, I was taught to use my head and common sense, not to openingly trust a stranger, but not to fear him. I was allowed to fail and succeed. I was taught that I have choices, to do drugs or not to do drugs, to let other people bully m

e to do something that I didn’t want to, or stand up for myself.

   So what has happened? Are we so busy worrying about whether or not we have our cable, or internet, our little perks that save us so much time, and yet we have no time no anything, other than getting up and getting back into the routine.   We have become a fast food society where conveinence, no matter what the cost is the highest priority.

     This little incident of a law that makes it near impossible for a kid to go out and raise money for his school, unless he gets his parents to buy things and those few friends that he might be able to network through the grapevine, keeping everything inhouse shows me how much we as a people have deteriated into clicks and bleeps that are just waiting to wiped out as Walmart Giants consciously consume us as a whole.

      The world is not nice and it isn’t fair.  It never will be! It’s life! But we have to make the best of it what we can, and try to make a difference where we can.  Reality bites and that’s a fact Jack, but when laws, in that intention to protect one from the world and the possibility of misfortune, come to limit us and shadow us in fear, then it is no longer a law. It is an mechanism that offers a means of control that enables another the abiity and the power to  stifle the prospect of human endeavors where the human spirit and its hope comes to blossom and the promise of a man may come to be known and realized. 

       When a law is created in fear, seldom is it of rational and just in nature.

       “It takes a community to raise a child… not laws and not fear!” and lately the laws concerning child welfare in a social standpoint have been too heavy handed. Their intentions are noble enough, but in the end they come to sacrifice the possibilities of experiences that will all too soon be lost as the world comes to sweep them away into the busy rat race that consumes us as adult, while we just try to survive it.

    Gavion E. Chandler~