If things weren’t bad enough already, all these new things had to happen. I mean…we had war looming on either side of the United States. There were earthquakes all over the world killing hundreds of people. Natural disasters that there was no relief from and now a huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is going to fuck shit up for quite a while. And then, there were the people.
People are just being less patient with each other. Nobody wants to give anybody the time of day. Nobody cares anymore forgetting that everybody else is just as human as you. We all have the same needs pretty much. We all wake up under the same sun and we sleep under the same moon. Yet there is always something making the ‘select few’ feel a bit more privileged. It’s coming to be that there will always be somebody who is more than willing to take away from you, what you have earned.
Just skimming the news I’d hear reports of robberies and home invasions becoming more frequent. Muggings would take place in the day now as well, not just early morning or early evenings. These select few would get more and more brazen and I think the law enforcement would think “let’s nip this in the bud and scare them all straight”. When and if applied, I think this only resulted in overuse of power and people behaving aggressively towards anybody trying to keep the peace. I think that’s what bummed me out as well.
I guess I can understand too though that people were just getting tired of their situations. Sometimes, many don’t have a reasonable alternative to their situation and so they just get mad and react. Take these clowns on TV for example…one of the local news stations is reporting that small crowds of people are mugging tourists and other natives down in Rosarito, Mexico. According to the reporter lady, beach front hotels are emptying out. People going out to eat and even watching the surfing competitions were attacked for whatever food they had on them. Whoever was there was bugging out and according to one person’s account:
“People are just saying, ‘No way.’ They don’t want to deal with the risk,” said hotel owner Jon Fleck.
I guess you couldn’t really blame them either. If a bum came at me and tried to take my burger, I wouldn’t want to stay at that place either. Normally I only watch the news for the weather report even though I can’t stand the weather lady. The only reason I was paying attention to any of this is because Rosarito was going to be one of the stops my parents are making while vacationing in Mexico.
See…my dad worked hard all his life and all he wanted was a quiet retirement in Mexico. However, he always wanted to ‘tour’ Mexico and fish for a couple of days before settling in my grandfather’s house in Guanajuato. My dad and my ma took off to Mexico about 3 days ago and had already hit up Sonora. Last I heard (my cousin heard from my aunt who told my other aunt who then told my cousin who told my girlfriend who told me) was that one of the spots my dad planned on staying at was some place in Rosarito. He wouldn’t be able to get to the Gulf as the oil spill had messed up a lot of the fishing businesses down there. U.S. government not letting them near their regular fishing areas and the Gulf becoming a no entry zone allowed for no touristy stuff to even occur there really.
I kept emailing my cousins in Salamanca who would in turn try to call my dad’s cell but he wasn’t answering.
Back on TV, the reporter lady continued that attacks like these were more common nowadays as recent reports of other attacks on crowds occurred in Toronto’s G20 Summit meetings. Apparently there, while some of the crowd was protesting, several of the protestors themselves were beaten and roughed up from other protestors! A similar thing happened at the oil spill press conferences, there were mobs of people attempting to help clean up but some of the people within those mobs also attacked others when they were all being forced back by police. Another account of people being attacked was at the conflict near the Gaza Strip where soldiers reported seeing people on both sides of the blockade attack one another as they neared the Rafah border crossing area. Officials suspect it may be just tensions running high due to the actual events occurring but whatever, people attacking people while military is present is just scary. I’d imagine the military getting tired of all of that at one point and mowing everybody down. The reporter then went into the new vampire movie and how tweens are going to love this newest installation in the trilogy. You just have to love local news channels. Fuck my life.
This July is my 33rd birthday. I don’t know how I feel about that just yet. My parents aren’t nearby and I can’t readily reach them. My brothers are all with our cousins taking a road trip around who knows where. My gf is taking her sweet ass time getting home today.
I promised my dad I’d start keeping a journal because I’ve seen and been through some pretty exciting things. He thought I should start documenting it before I forget it. Well here it is. I didn’t really expect this first entry to be such a downer. I’ll try better next time.
I tried calling my dad’s cell but no answer.
Goddamnit.
