Tired of Being Tossed

I promise no soap box here, I just have to be frank...

The views of one man with a camera do not reflect the views of a nation. This one man isn't even willing to stand behind his own work, and fess up. I am so tired of small-minded people making irresponsible moves and painting a picture for the mass of people who don't see it that way. Social Media gives us a hidden power to lift up our voices and give a more accurate representation of how we feel as a nation. Stop allowing life to just happen to you. We have been given the power to effect change quickly, and more accurately. Push for peace by sharing how you feel, we are the innocent mass that will be punished for the actions and ideas of a minority. Use the tools given to you to determine your own reality.

I am referring to the anti-Muslim film that supposedly stirred up the trouble in Libya. I will be the first to tell you, I can't stand politics. There is this dirty dishonest feeling I get anytime I get to embroiled in it, so I am not going to start getting all political in my posts or anything.  But the politics of the nation have an affect on my "Utopia," so I have to say something.

I am so tired of being tossed by the waves that are created by hateful, and ignorant people. I know this is probably going to be viewed as an, "innocent notion," to think that we can fix something by saying how we feel on our social media avenues. Is it so crazy though? Here we are given the task of choosing a President that will have the back bone, and skill to dig us out of this horrible economy. Really, how much can the government do? How fast can they change this? Who really has the power to effect this change? We do. I am referring to the "We" of the world who don't hold political positions. These are not issues that involve only the United States. Social Media allows the house moms, grocery store checkers, students, factory workers, salespeople, network marketing business builders - THE gray "middle class." If the middle class is the biggest percentage then why are we not able to actually change the way things are going?

I earned a degree in Public Relations and Communications in College. However, I feel like the bulk of my classes were how to responsibly and professionally represent my cause, it seemed like for the most part we already had access to most of the tools we needed to access the general public. So, why aren't more of us effecting the change?

I titled this post tired of being tossed. I meant to say I am tired of feeling like one little grain of sand getting tossed in the waves of an ocean. The direction my life is decided by a wave of people unaware of the power we hold. When will we start to determine our own direction. I am not saying I am going to branch out and be a lone grain of sand, after all I am not going anywhere if I don't have the wave of water to travel in. I am saying, we need to DECIDE what direction we want our wave (community, state, nation...) to go in and move it ourselves.