Freakishly Happy

I am very disappointed...

Joni has a gift.

Joni has the gift of frustration and the deep sense that the world is a mess. Not everyone has this gift of vision.

It also means that she has a responsibility to lead us. To ask questions. To get us thinking.

Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.

She's trying to understand why American's consume as much as they do. She's trying to figure out why people do things that are bad for them. She's trying to figure out why people are greedy and hurt eachother.

How can this even be a soap box? Over-consumerism is a big problem in America. Obesity, drug-abuse, gluttony, and other habituals are a big problem in America. People hurting each other and stealing from eachother is a big problem in America.

If she's genuinly trying to figure out how these things come about, then KUDOS to her! She has the passion for it. So rather than squashing her passion by attacking her because "she has been so fortunate and is spoiled" we need to encourage her and help her to find the answers to her problems. I've met a lot of people that have the same types of views as Joni, and not all of them have had "fortunate" lives, they are also asking these types of questions.