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domokun I think the underpants gnomes got to him a bit too soon. sweatdrop

at school,literally everyone was talking about it! first thing i hear when i walk into first period is ''OMG Keith Ledger is died!!''

krissy+shoes=happiness

Yea, kids sure are changing nowadays (though I really shouldn't be talking).

It doesn't snow over here so I don't really know what that feels like. But I think little kids are able to access certain more mature things nowadays with like the internet and whatnot and it takes away from them being a kid. I mean, I saw a bunch of maybe 7-8 year olds at a bus stop a while ago swearing like mad and talking about sex like they really knew what it was. Stuff like that really pisses me off. And them video games. I love em to death, but they really don't do much for you at the end of the day. Its like you sit in your room with a copy of your favorite video game and you play for weeks on end and at the end of those weeks, you look back and its like "What the hell have I actually accomplished?"

Also, it's like Conor Oberst from Bright Eyes said once at a show: "There's a lot of advances etc. with modern living. I think a lot of things like technology just isolates people and makes it so you don't have to actually comminucate. Its nice that a bunch of people can be out here, see each other, face to face and its not like ******** Friendster or something..." (this was before the whole mypsace craze) Kids have sex with their PS10's and their X-Box 450's too much. xD I BLAME YOU TECHNOLOGY! (But we still love you)

I wish I could be love,
Then I could be
All over the world.

Seriously, first topic of the day when I got back from school, "OH MY GOSH! Heath LEDGER IS DEAD!" I'm like, 'who?'
I don't really pay too much attention to actors, unless they're commedians.
I heard it was overdose on sleeping pills too... At Marykate Olson's house?

Childhood is getting shorter nowadays. Society is on a constant revolution. A lot of the common stuff we know will be changing, and we'll need to adopt to it. Ex: If Abraham Lincoln took an I.Q. test of today, he'd be considered retarded.
So it doesn't matter if kids aren't outside playing in the snow or not. Scientists of today or tomorow will make technology that will create a way that we won't have to go outside anymore, we can just stay indoors. In the future, everything will become automated.

To sum it all up: We're all gonna die.

I'll remember to love,
You taught me how.

Thank you for that ray of hope. stare Just when I thought we might make it....

I abosolutely agree with you. My childhood was mostly consisted of playing outside. I did have homework, but it was only short studies. Homework was rare. School is a place to enrich our knowledge. Period. The End. Shotgun. Nothing else. But don't come and leech our life as if school was more important.

My friend once told me this. "All you need in life is four walls and a roof. One wall being your family, one being friends, another being your children and the last one is your lover. All that is covered by your roof, God. Everything else as in problems, conflicts, sickness, guys/girls, etc. is considered carpets. You walk on them, you can kick them, drop food/drink on it, anything. You're independant of them."

So moral of the story, they are things that you don't ABSOLUTELY need in life. They may be a priority at times, but they are only filling the wholes that the main priorities have left.


Now back with parents not letting their children outside. I don't like overprotective parents. They are life leechers. Yes, there are dangerous and tragic things outside, I do understand that, but it is part of life. "You have to experience it in way to know the real meaning of learning. You can't learn life through books. They are only interpretations.", like I would always say. So, the job of parents is to guide their children to the right path.