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Taking control.

There is a certain freedom that lies within our minds that needs to be satisfied from time to time. We all have our ways, our methods to finding this freedom and for finding this satisfaction that our mind requires. In a complex variation of points, everything connects, and suddenly, it all makes sense. I don't know why I wrote that really, but my mind seems to want to write words to no reason, it seems to desire to speak.

We are ready to go. The world is. We have reached endless amounts of opportunities and goals, and have quickly decided that in our time, everything would be possible. We went to the moon before we actually had personal computers, and now we're in the 21st century, and I stop and think, what is there to do?

And it is then that I realize, we are failing. As the brilliant scholars that we are, we have yet to figure out the very system that will keep each and every human being at peace. We have yet to understand how to properly feed those who don't have a home or a family to care for them. I simply fail to understand how with such intellect, we have failed at being successful in taking care of the human race.

Let us not say that we hope for things to be different, because there is no point in such actions. We must not hope for change, we must eliminate such hopes, and remaining true to ourselves by being the change.

I do not hope for change, I am the change.

-Daniel.

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