Frustrated By Your Apathy

So I have recently become reattached to Alanis Morissette. In high school, her album Jagged Little Pill was the best album ever. Now, in my thirties, I’m realizing that it is even better than I remembered.  Now I have a history of life, analytical skills to read through things, and of course agency to make my opinion on why I believe something to be so.

What really gets me about this album currently is the song, ‘All I Really Want’. Coming out of a progressive grad program, and having a pent-up-frustration because I am no longer having daily conversations about all these issues that matter, this song vocalizes all of my most skin deep feelings.  Unfortunately, I don’t have a lot of ways to express them lately but this song is helping.  Here are some of the songs lyrics that speak loud…

“consumed by the chill of solitary”

“frustrated by your apathy”

“to find a soul mate, someone else to catch this drift'”

“a place to find some common ground”

Most importantly, I currently think we all need to just be better. We must be better in order to establish sustainability for humankind as well as all living things on this planet.  We have to give a shit.  Two articles have come up recently that support my thought process.  One is “The Day a Dozen Parents and Children Killed a Baby Shark for a Selfie“. The other was a recent blog post by the Huffington Post entitled, “Ferguson is All of Us“. Both do a great job of sharing how we all, no matter what we already currently do, can do better.