ODE TO 2000

This has got to be the wierdest 31st December ever! It rained last night, it's not supposed to do that!!! It's all dull and grey this morning and it looks more like August than December but the temperatures a bit lower too, so I'm not complaining :)

Well, so this is it..the end of 2000, the end of the century..the century in which we were all born. It's amazing how fast this year went by. Sometimes I think to myself, hey slow down this can't be good. But time goes on.

I think the last 100 years have been the best as well as the worst for mankind. On one hand man has never had it so good, telephones, cars, electricity, anesthesia, records, cd's were all invented in this century and we loved all these new inventions and accepted them with open arms into our day to day lives so much so that they're an indispensible part of our lives now. On the other hand, we humans demonstrated how evil, savage and dangerous we can be. We had WWII, we dropped nuclear bombs on helpless people, we had ethnic cleansing..it's been awful. For the first half of the century the British thought they could rule the whole bloody world, thats the sort of attitude they have these days too!

We've treated mother earth horribly, we've killed her animals, we've polluted her oceans, lands, made a whole in the ozone layer! The western civilzed world has been responsible for dumping toxic wastes everywhere except near themselves, for hunting down animals, for polluting the air, for using up the world's rescources like a hungry hyena and now finger's are being pointed and we all suffer.

I guess it's human tendency to imagine there's always something good around the corner. Thats what keeps people going on and on, the very reason of existence. Maybe we'll never have peace on earth (atleast maybe not in our lifetimes), maybe the earth will remain injured, hurt, brutally raped and robbed of all it's wonderful gifts, maybe the Tiger will become extinct. Only time will tell. Still we move on hoping for the best.

Technological triumphs are one thing, Humanity has been the major loser this century. There have never been greater attrocities against humans in such large numbers in any previous century. We don't seem to learn, we still have religious fundamentalists everywhere in the world. You just need one crazy leader to trigger of a World war!

Racism still exists in the world, racist people are lesser human beings, god sent them to earth with a major piece of their brains missing. Alas, I think we'll always have racist bastards in this world.

Thats it. Thats what I think of the last century. We've made life very enjoyable for Millions of people and we continue to do so. And we've made life miserable for hundreds of millions of other people. Spare a thought for the millions of poor, homeless, hungry people who won't have a bite to eat this 31st December! Thanks a lot humanity... Have a great New Years..oh yeah..and don't forget to check out my postcards page..It's finally up!