Liberty Bell

When I was about six/seven I wanted to hang out with my sisters (one’s six years older, the other’s 2 and eight months) and their friends. And I didn’t want to be the girl who pulled on their hands and asked to sit on their laps or pleaded for a piggyback ride. No, I wanted to be one of them. I was spoiled and young and I was wrong.

Needless to say, I drove my sisters crazy. They’d drum it into my head that I was too young and eventually I’d go away sulking.

I got older. I decided I didn’t need my sisters. I left them alone.

Then I had a birthday. One which kids long for and life for (before 21). I was a teenager. I was one of them. One of the people I had spent the last few years avoiding.

It’s hard to mend that kind of damage. I didn’t hate the others - I just didn’t know how to interact with them. The years I had spent by myself or with the little kids I had spent thinking. Sometimes dreaming, but thinking. Not about politics - not back then - but about life, school, how things work, why the world is how it is. Then I would dream of a better place.

The teenage groups I’m usually around think about movies, life, clothes, boyfriends - something I’m in no need of at this age, and not much else.

There’s a saying I know:

Small minds discuss people,
Average minds discuss events,
Great minds discuss ideas.

I’m not accussing them of being ’smallminded’ but I’m not comfortable with that kind of thinking.

I guess that’s part of what drew me, a teen, to political blogging. I’ve always held strongly to my opinions unless proven wrong in a debate (and then I’ll quickly learn more facts about the other side.) And the political blogosphere produced an atmosphere, that although I was (am…) towards the bottom, I’m expected to be thinking. About life, and what people can do to make life better. And then I care share my views with the world

I spent some time this afternoon messing with Liberty Bell’s look. I’m finally getting over the fever thing (I hope! - it’s been five days) but I’m not up to a full school load or even leaving the house. So I’ve been spending some low-thinking time online, and decided to work on Liberty Bell.

I’m not sure if I like it. Hey, if I decide I don’t I’ll just change it. Though if anybody has an opinion on it I would really appreciate to hear from them.