Change Of Plans

I was writing a post that would address the negative vibe from my birthday post, but then the rebuttal post became overwhelmingly negative. I started going on and on about financial stress, bad decisions, and shell-shock. I was hoping to end the post with some positive words, or thoughts but the negativity kept seeping back in. So I scrapped it.

Then this morning I wake up to pictures and videos of people partying in the streets! Facebook statuses celebrating! Osama Bin Laden is dead! That's a good thing, I guess. He was the cause of so much grief and tragedy! He wounded this country and her citizens so deeply! I'm okay with his death. I'm not gonna run out into the streets and start swinging from streetlights, or crowd-surfing though. The evil SOB is dead, but do we need to throw a frat party to celebrate?

Oh, and I'm disturbed by the images of young children celebrating and holding up homemade poster board signs that usually would read, "I love Justin Bieber!" or "The Wiggles Rocks!" but today the sign reads, "Yeah, Osama is Dead!" That's weird.