Haven't posted in a while.

And I see that not many people besides Ava herself have either.

I finished an opinion piece yesterday and I hope that all of you like it. If not, then please, share your criticisms so that I may improve.

This is an interesting feeling, delving like I am. I never thought that I could do things like I’m doing this young, and I can understand why most kids my age feel so detached; by the news, the world, what happens in said world. It's easy to feel disenfranchised, but at the same time we've become very patient- too familiar with the phrases 'when you're older' or 'when I grow up'. As if we have to wait to do anything, but we all age at the same rate, so we will always be younger than the preceding generation... too young to do what needs to be done. Eventually, typically (I would say around the age 22), we realize that we now have to fend for ourselves- paying our own bills, buying our own food. Though this may have been going on for a while now, but with this also with this comes the realization that we could become involved in the process that influences these things. And we become engrossed, even to the point of possibly watching C-SPAN, but most likely not...

Now that I have touched on the situations that may cause us to enact, I would like to touch on something else. And possibly my more conservative readers can help me out with this (if there are any). My question is: What are you afraid of? I stopped by the library this morning and there was a rather odd assortment of political literature. Scattered along the shelf were a few titles I could agree with: One by James Carville and another by Garrison Keillor (which I ended up checking out). A majority of the other titles though, were insistent on how the left, liberals, people like me; were/are/will destroying/destroy this country.

So I ask again: What are you afraid of? As conservatives...

Because you really seem to be afraid of your own shadows. As one part of the country wants and does move forward culturally, fiscally, socially- You seem to be the child who pouts in the corner because 'I don't want to go!' you'd say. So please, let me know, because aside from possible partisan political bias, both of our cultural ends need each other. We [Liberals] will not/can not, change this country alone. And frankly, we don't want to do it alone, but change need to and will be made regardless if we want them to or not. 2009 will be an excellent year for that, the new president (whether Democrat or Republican), will be a nice sort of reboot for us. Perhaps Things will work, perhaps we'll agree on something for once.

Here's to hoping...