Alrighty, let's start this by saying I don't normally let other's know what happens between my boyfriend and I except for my best friend. If you feel compelled to stop reading, go right ahead, but this may save some relationships. Trust me.

OK, so about half an hour ago (it is now 8:45) my boyfriend Tom and I got into an argument over what I had written on the board. We'll skip the minor details and go right into the important stuff. I'm half canadian, and I let ya know it every chance I get because I do not feel at home in the United States. (Or maybe it's just pennsylvania) So, this didn't affect me as it possibly should have. Plus, everyone making it sound like Bush was only out to bomb bin Laden and would bomb the whole country if he had to to get him, made me feel even more cold hearted to the situation. I thought that there could have been away to solve it without all that violence. I mean what does violence solve, eh? It can solve somethings. In this case, it probably can. I'm not quite sure. I don't see any other possibilities, now that my boyfriend made me think about it. What hurt him was what I felt about this. Well, guess what? He was hurting me with his Canadian jokes. Lovely, eh? We both hurt eachother about the countries we feel passionatly about. Neither of us did it because we knew it would hurt, far from it. We both love each other and wouldn't do that. Just perhaps were a bit absent minded in trying to see what the other would feel if we wrote/said something about one of those countries. I realize that sometimes, we cannot see things in a different point of view, but only because we are stuck seeing it our way because we are too stubborn to care. I tried to see it his way, and now I understand, and can see this "War on Terrorism" in a whole new perspective from my last post. And now he can see why his jokes hurt me.

I know it's long. *bows* Gomen nasai. But take the time and look at your perspective of something and then someone else's. You may surprise yourself, and save a lot of relationships with friends. But please, be open with them, and let them know what you are feeling WHEN you are feeling it. Waiting is not going to help.

That is all. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for actually reading and paying attention to what I had to say. And if there's one thing you get out of this, plz let it be that your opinion is only one of many.