if only it were this easy.......

You can hardly turn on a newscast lately without finding out more than your share of skirmishes that lead to rocket fire, and eventually to recorded deaths. It seems the world has gone mad. The Middle East maddest of all, lately. All the while, the collected heads of other "states" ponder over what must be done to stop this nonsense.... to somehow return to rational thinking, diplomacy.... or whatever other tactic will appease each side. Where are the Super Heros when you need them?

Well, this is nothing new. Every generation behind us thought the same about their times.... and for good reason. It's been a proven fact that man cannot get along with his own species very well. Call it territorial or call it the nature of the beast, we've gone out of our way to bring the act of conquering to a fine art. It probably started out during the cave days when man was first learning to walk upright. His brain, just larger enough and capable of thought process, had the caveman just humming about while spotting a nicer or newer cave. Hence the first neighbor against neighbor skirmish. He who has the better cave has a better chance of survival, yes? And on it went to bigger and better things, such as food and clothing. It escalated from there to land beyond that of known territory, and now we have events that throw God , as a pariah, into the mixture..... adding fuel to an unnecessary fire. What's different about these times is that we watch it unfold before us everyday, all day, even if it doesn't affect us personally. The bombs are more sophisticated and better built. Heck, in most cases you don't even have to show up at the battlefield, just aim and point from whatever distance away you are. It's bound to do destruction, and cause death.

It's not the end of times, I don't believe, but it sure feels like it somedays, doesn't it? Between the weather being as screwy as it is, bombings across the continents on innocent cities by terrorists, and the general hopelessness we feel over the leaders we entrusted to take care of these problems, it's difficult to see any hope out of the situation. But there is hope. Remember..... it was the last gift out of Pandoras box after all the other ills were released into the world. At this point, it is all we have as a coping mechanism.

The world is not full of Super Heros to dig us out of this mess, but enough smaller heros make a difference here and there. What we really need is an understanding amongst the kooks and mongers out there that life is more precious, because it was a gift of God.... whomever they perceived Him to be. We should survive as a species because we have the best abilities of any animal that has walked the face of the earth so far. We were put here to do good things. There has to be more of a reason, other than to destroy ourselves, why we exist at all. And a few people do realize this concept, except they are out-numbered by ones who apathetically stand by or actively work against it. Remember that it is nowhere written that the species of man can go on forever, but it is something we can have a hand in taking care of now. If only it were easy enough for us to leave it up to the Super Heros..... but it's not.