so much for my "unlimited" imagination.

[via Beth/OurHome Europe]

LH's said in the video that this John Lennon song is his all-time favorite, and he ended the performance remarking he wished he'd written it. well, i can't agree with half the words of the song but i can appreciate its sentiment about removing borders that divide mankind. (i know it's a hugely popular song, but it's not "up there" for me la.. well, even Lennon had admitted that "Imagine — an absolute equality created by the dissolution of governments, borders, organized religion and economic class — was "virtually the Communist Manifesto.""[via] so yeah, erm, not my favorite ideology)

perhaps there's a little envy in me that LH's not lost his idealistic outlook, because I certainly have! let's face it, the world will not get better. the Bible said that "in the last days, people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—having a form of godliness but denying its power." I don't need imagination to know that this is true.

/random rant/ anddd this just in, what do you know, the US Senate blocked gun control reform. seriously, i don't get what's wrong with these people. the Senate is a stupid (i know, what a "mature" choice of word right) joke and a failed system. "the world's greatest deliberative body" my @$$. /end rant/

so, the world's not getting better. BUT it's not all bleak. we've seen beauty in ashes. we are still at war, inside and out. for every battle lost, there'll be one won. we will celebrate every small victory. there's hope. and in the end, everything will be made right.
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in my youth I was an optimistic idealist, now older I have become a pragmatic realist.