I wonder what's going to happen with the events in the middle east, after this attack of a U.S. ship. The news just said that eleven people were still missing, and we don't really know who did it yet or what we're going to do. My brother was talking about World War III, which I'm fairly certain is a hyperbole, but you never know. The turmoil of the world frightens me, but I think that it's impossible to make me lose sleep over it--and to make other teenagers that I know even think about it--because the danger is not here and immediate. It's thousands of miles away, over the ocean, on a continent I've never seen, happening to people I've never met. Am I apathetic because I'm only depressed over all the death and war going on and not crying? And are the people who don't even feel depressed apathetic? I don't know... I just think that there are people of my same age over there, getting caught in the crossfires of this war that they didn't even start. It makes you want to lose faith in humanity, when you see things like this... but even so, I always hope that in the end, somewhere along the line, people are going to realize that we don't have to kill each other to get things done.

...I sound as idealistic as Kaitlyn.

must be the fever.