A Rosier World

I have heard many times in my 35 years on this planet (give or take a few years) that I need to remove my rose colored glasses and see the world for what it is.  I admit it, I think I look at the world differently than others.  Maybe not the world, just life in general.  I take off the glasses every once in awhile, but don't usually like what I see.  I prefer to live in my rosie world.  The latest attempt at looking at the world showed me the following things:

1) A college student at Rutger's University jumped off of a bridge and killed himself.  He jumped because some jackasses decided to post a video that showed him with his partner in an intimate way.  He was so humilitated that he decided to end his life. 

2) A family on the east side of the country was set on fire.  Some people decided to rob them and forced them to withdraw money from their accounts.  The father was beaten and tied up in the basement.  He escaped, but not in time.  Help arrived, but just in time to watch the house go up in flames.  They were set on fire while they were alive. 

3) A 13 year old girl was "sexting", yes, there is such a thing now.  Some of the stuff she was sending ended up in the wrong hands and was spread all over her MIDDLE SCHOOL.  She decided to hang herself rather than go to school.

4) A friend has a brother who works for the Detroit Police Department.  Homocides are down in Detroit.  Good news, right???  Not so much.  He says homocides may be down, but shootings are still high, they are just saving more people.  That same friend had her wallet stolen at a concert in Detroit.  It was stolen by a group sitting behind us, pretending to have a great time with us.  Dancing, singing...made me sick!!!! 

5) In my own life, closer to home, joblessness is at an all time high, people are losing their houses to foreclosure, there were girls in the locker room at my school drinking gatorade and vodka...good lord, I could go on and on...

I prefer not to though.  I prefer to go to cnn.com and click on the entertainment section and see what is happening in Hollywood.  I like to go to soapoperadigest.com and see what happened on all my soap operas the day before.  I prefer to wear my rose colored glasses and live in a world where all this kind of shit doesn't happen.