Tantrums, Tangents and Turmoil

Tantrum's, tangents and turmoil have been the theme of today. I'm at my wits end and just want to escape today. 

Liam has discovered tantrums. You say the word "no" and he goes of the deep end. Starts a crying screaming fit that results in retching and him running to his bedroom to get even louder. It's not even 5pm and he's had 4 tantrums today. On one hand I am thankful that he is acting his age and able to throw such fits. On the other hand, I just want some peice and quiet. 

Just about everyone is going off on tangents today. Justin over the fact that some one backed up into his truck and that it's in the shop now. Luckily their insurance is fixing it but that isn't doing much for his anxiety so every little while he's going off. 

I've gone off on a few tangents myself today. There's just so much going on right now. I'm stressed and just need a break. If love a really good pair of noise canceling head phones. 

The country is in turmoil with the Brown case in Fergusson MI. It's upset so many people, understandably. People are grieving on both sides of this. It's a tragedy but we can't use a tragedy as an excuse to riot, vandalize and loot. Don't cause chaos because it will only make the situation worse. 

Rioting, vandalizing and looting won't change the grand jury's decision. All it will do is take presidence over the actual problem. Everyone will be so focused on the riots that the cause of this turmoil will hide in it's shadow. Please, use your voice and your words. They will go further and make more of a difference than this chaos will. 

I believe that we should not be treated differently based on our skin color or our religion/beliefs or sexual preference. We should all be treated equally. I believe that just because a situation involves both a white person and an African American person that it shoudnt be automatically considered a race issue. It's unfair to all sides to consider these issues a race issue.

Let's stop making everything a race issue. Let's start treating everyone how we would want to be treated. Let's treat everyone equal.