Spinning, Spinning, Spinning...

"No wonder I'm dizzy, the world keeps spinning in circles."

I don't know about you, but at this moment in my life this quote feels very real to me. Really, one could spin (no pun intended) this quote in many ways. My life feels crazy right now, or more profoundly: this world is crazy right now. Sad, but oh so very true.

To go the first route, my life does feel insane at the moment. I'm a Sophomore in high school this year. My workload is insane, I have more "extra" activities than I think I was prepared for. Sometimes I wonder if I'll get by. I'm already starting to feel overwhelmed and I really don't want to get behind.

But all that seems so inconsequential when you think about route number two.

Our world is crazy at the moment. This country, or the world in general. It truly saddens me when I take a moment to analyze the variety of information thrown in our faces twenty-four seven. The state of this world is depressing. Just last night I was out to eat with my family and the Mexican place we went to had a news segment on homosexual people playing, and it showed just a little bit to much footage on the subject if you get what I mean.

This month the Planned Parenthood clinic here in my town is going to start servicing abortions for the first time in over 20 years.

Only few hours drive away from me is the largest city in America for human trafficking. And that's scary, because I could give you the names of and estimated numbers for cities all across America and you'd be scared to let your children out of your sight ever again.

All of the world people are dying. Be it here in in America (through abortion, or a living death of slavery), or be it in the Sudan, or hundreds of places. The very thought sickens me.

And then you get to the decline of normally excepted morality.

You don't know how many books, marketed toward children or teens, I've seen lately talking about the social issues of being lesbian as a child or teenager. About how hard it is to be lesbian, but how it's all okay because it's good to be different.

There's rampant teenage (or sadly even younger than that) sexual activity that results in unwanted pregnancies.

There is the more and more widely excepted view that "there are no absolutes".

Or you could get into the political world and start talking about health care or the national debt.

And so much more...

Seriously, how could you not take this quote to heart. I'm only fifteen and I know I feel it.

"No wonder I'm dizzy, the world keeps spinning in circles."