This has nothing to do with politics...

...but everything to do with you.

This is a story about change, hope, and happiness. I still have a day job (God is that still hard for me to type or admit) and at this day job I assist in managing a couple residential properties in Hollywood, CA. On Monday and Tuesday of this week, we had the LA Housing Department visit to do inspections in all 205 units at one of the buildings. I had first hand experience to see how 205+ different people live. It wasn't pretty. Some of the residents took great care of their possessions and where they live, but I saw some that were nightmares. Some apartments had so much crap inside that you couldn't see the furniture. For all I know, the crap was the furniture. One apartment was literally consumed with every news publication in the history of the printing press. WHY does one need to keep all of this? WHY do people clutter their lives so much that their life becomes clutter and then they die.

That's right, they die in clutter. Once one's life is cluttered it will never change unless they change. In comes Barack Obama. The symbol of change and hope. Have people expected him to unclutter their lives, take out misery, and give them a clean slate? I had a discussion with one of the residents at this apartment building about two months before the presidential election. This woman praised the difference Obama would make and how much better life would become. Obama was elected yet she remains the same. She was a miserable person before and is a miserable person now. The only difference besides Obama being elected, she's pregnant. In her cluttered apartment, she had many complaints about the building and not the inside of her apartment. This basically sums up the whole story, CHANGE COMES FROM INSIDE YOU AND NOT OUTSIDE INFLUENCES. Before she complained of the political climate, while she didn't take control of her self. Now that she can't complain about the political climate, she has others things to blame her misery on. BUT Obama was supposed to make her happy. NO. YOU are the captain of yourself my friend. OR ELSE, you'll end up living throughout 100 years of history, 100 years of newspapers piling up in your apartment that you were afraid to leave for the last 50 years of your life for fear of change. You welcomed and rooted for change outside of you, for Obama, for Gay rights, for natural preservation, for reduced gas prices, for higher employment rates, for your favorite tv shows, you welcomed all of these things you thought would make your life better. These things may come and go throughout history, throughout your life, taking the form of a sound wave. But they will never BE your life. No change on the outside can alter your circumstances unless you change YOURSELF on the inside. You are your own. You make your life. Stop wasting your energy on the outside if you reserve none for the inside. Stand up for YOURSELF.