Choose Life

Let me first outline my definition of drugs. If you are taking something to escape something else or are taking something that you know WILL harm you or your future or the future of your loved ones for being associated with the drug, then DON'T DO DRUGS. Fine, call me a nerd or a square or old and boring, I DON'T CARE.

In my past I have known of two people who have committed suicide as a result of drugs, I have known of one person who has truely beaten the habit of hard drugs (and you are a legend and rock this world), I have known of three people whose life has been completely changed because of drugs (police convictions, effects of drugs on learning and sporting capacity). I know know of one person who is in a world of hell because of heroin right now.

I don't have the answers as I have never been very close to drug situations, just known about them. I have researched quite extensively on the internet of late the effects of heroin on the user, the effects on the family, the effects on society and have formed the opinon that of all the evils of the world, this is right up there.

DON'T TAKE DRUGS.

Quite scarey really...

Pretty scared at the moment about the world economic position. When you start to hear about banks closing their doors and presidents start appearing on television and offering up billions of tax payers dollars to prop up the stuff ups of the greedy masses, you should be concerned. I don't pretend to understand all of the in's and out's or even the basic principals as to why this has happened, but I listen to the radio and read the reports and try to understand as much as I can.
One question that keeps popping up in my mind is.....Is this the start of the change of world power as we know it? I am not talking religion here, purely capitalistic focus. Out of all the dramas that are currently taking place (USA on top of the list, UK, Europe) the two entities that are just sitting in the background quietly listening on are the two countries that just happen to have the most population int he world...China and India. I know that China has trillions of dollars sitting in the USA, I know that China are now self sufficent in their own economy.....it has been said to me that if China wrote off the trillions of USA currency they have then USA are finished and it wouldn't even raise a blip on the China eccomony (makes you think hey?).
It also makes me wonder why the two encumbants are working so hard for the presidency (McCain and Obama)...you would think the campain would now be "DONT VOTE FOR ME, IM VOTING FOR THE OTHER GUY"....who would want to clen up the mess!!.
It is tough days ahead and I think we are only at the start of all this. Time to keep your head down and plant some veges I think. Good luck all.