Do you think it's strange that people pay money, sometimes ridiculous amounts of money, to speak to a person who knows absolutly nothing about them? It's sad to think that for these people, they feel as if they don't have a single person in their life who they can express themselves to. They have no one to leaks their secrets to. No one to confide in. No one to listen...except this person who is being paid to do so.

On a larger scale, you begin to think...if America is this wonderful, beautiful country that everyone has misconstrued it to be, why are so many of its citizens depressed and spending millions of dollars to strangers to try to put the pieces of the puzzle back together?

Okay, that's way too broad. Obviously there are many reasons for society to be as fucked up as it has become. But what is it about people in our communities that makes individuals feel as though they can't turn to each other? Maybe it's not even that. Maybe it's that people grow and change as time goes on and they realized they've become different people. And out of fear that the person they've become will be rejected by the companions who knew them before the change, they feel as if they can't share these new attitudes or feelings with the same people. Whatever image of these individuals that has been crystalized into the minds of those who perceive them will be shattered if they were to somehow present conflict by vocalizing how their views have changed.

Everyone changes though. And I think that no matter how much a person changes, they still possess the original being who affected those who he came into contact with throughout his entire life. If it suddenly poses conflict that someone actually has an opinion that doesn't agree with GREAT! That's why America was labeled as a wonderful country. Because people are able to express diverse views and opinions about anything. Because we don't have to walk on eggshells constantly.

Ok, that turned into something way different than intended. I'm stopping now.