People are such complicated and fragile beings. Tonight I tried that whole "open, honest communication" thing. You know, where you're really scared to say something, but you go ahead and say it anyway. I'm not sure what I hoped to gain by doing so, reassurance I suppose. I sort of got it, but more importantly it prompted the other person to be more open, which helped us both sort out some misunderstandings.

It's just hard to be riddled with all the fears and insecurities that come along with being human. Not that we were ever meant to live like this, with the strain and the abuse of a satanic system and over 2,000 years of dumb homosapien ideas. When you consider things like capitalism, atom bombs, and chia pets, it's really no wonder that some people think we descended from apes.

But as fragile as we are, and as silly as we are, we've got a secret weapon. God made us in his image, and his name means "he causes to become". We have just the shadow of that power in that we are highly adaptable creatures. We weren't built for this system; for stress and for death and for loss of family and for loss of identity and for overwork and overplay and jacked up food and imperfect brain functionality... We weren't built for it, but we were built strong. We were built to last. God calls us his sheep, and while sheep are generally considered to be somewhere on the level of highly clever dirt clods when it comes to brains in the animal kingdom, there are over 1 billion sheep on the planet. Clearly you don't have to be smart to make it in this world. You just have to use what god gave you. You have to pull on your woolies when the cold wind blows.