I've noticed, lately, that I am becoming more and more conflicted with the human race as a whole. It's different with individual people, I either like them or I don't, but people in general? That's a whole different ballgame. We are, as far as I know, the only living creatures on the planet with so many opposites. We've cured smallpox, put a man on the moon, written poems, and done many other wonderful things. We've also created bombs powerful enough to destroy whole cities, killed millions and millions of people in the name of peaceful, loving Gods. We've even created four-door Jeep Wranglers, and think that Justin Beiber has talent. We have so much potential, yet we use almost none of it. A doctor can go to work, listen to your chest as you cough, run a few more tests, figure out what's wrong with you, give you some pills and you are fixed! The human body is extremely complicated, yet we have people who can fix it right up, like a car. Yet that same doctor will leave his work to go get some food, drive to a supermarket, and drive up the wrong lane. This means that the same person who understands the mysteries of one of the most sophisticated pieces of machinery on the planet is incapable of reading an arrow! I love people, and I hate them. I love us for our ability to love, share, show kindness and mercy, create, and many other things. I also hate us for our selfishness, cruelty, pettiness, greed and stupidity. Then again, maybe THAT is what truly makes us different from all other living things. Animals are black and white. A dog will always be a dog and has no desire to be anything other than a dog. The same is true for horses, spiders, fish, and any other living thing you can think of... except people. People are black, white, and as many different shades of grey as you can imagine. I'm not quite sure how to end this, so I'll just say that human beings are my favorite AND most hated animals. Humans in general and Christians in particular have at least one thing in common as far as I'm concerned. Sometimes I'm very proud to be one, other times I am very, very ashamed.