Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Monday, May 31, 2004
@HOME. It's been a great weekend just hanging out around the house. Last night Justin and I went out to dinner and then out for a few drinks at Amsterdam's Bar. It was a quiet evening overall. I'm glad that it's going to be a short week.
Ok so after a day of having the comments turned on, I've decided to turn them off. I has someone make a comment about living a pathetic life and blah...blah...blah. Well what it comes down to is that my life is exactly that, mine. I don't really need to have people telling me how pathetic my life is and how I should be living my life. There are plenty of dictators in 3rd world countries willing to do that and where has that gotten anyone? Frankly people can say all they want about the evils of capitalism and everything else that's going wrong with the world, but what it boils down to is that people have a choice. People always have a choice. That choice may be more difficult for some but it still exists. No matter what your situation you can always change it. I like to complain sometimes about my situation but deep down I know that when I'm willing to change it, I can. This holds true for the rest of the world. I sometimes think where the problem lies is that the change desired is not the change possible. Now granted, this may be the case, but in any event change is possible.
So with that said I'm not allowing people to comment on my blog anymore. If someone wants to comment they can go through the trouble and send me an email instead. The reason that I write is primarily to use this as a journal to express my feelings and keep track of what's been going on in my life. It's amazing to go back and read things from 3 years ago and be emersed in the feelings that I had at that moment. That's the greatest part of writing. I think everyone should do it. And the last think I'm going to say on this subject is that not everyone is going to agree what people write about. Not everyone is going to agree how others live their lives. It's never going to happen. Hell, I don't agree with what half the things other people do, but the difference for me is that I don't tell them they cannot or should not be doing it. My long standing feeling has been that people should have the freedom to make their own decisions and choices in life. I'm going to stick by my saying that "...I know many people have opinions about others and their choices but wouldn't it be a better world if you just keep it to yourself and let people live their lives however they see fit?"
Anyway I guess I better get back to my pathetic little life as the gym is calling me again. (I personally don't believe it's pathetic ... I actually happen to enjoy my life right now)
