Hi Nicnoto, great posts and by the way, you did not come across as bitter at all.

Enjoy your week Nicnoto.

Nicnoto: I can understand your frustrations of substance abusers. In order to live our lives in peace, we need to learn to accept. I studied this passage for a few days before I understood what it meant. It is used all over, with some difference in the sentences.

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the difference"

This message is used quite a bit to help people through depression, struggle, sickness, hope, etc.

We cannot change the 'wrongs' in our world, not immediately anyway, we cannot change people unless they WANT to change. We can try our best to help them change. If we fail, at least we know in our hearts, that we have put in 110% effort into helping make the situation better.

Alcohol and nicotine are not the only problems. There are so many other daily consumption that is not good for our bodies. Kids that do not get a proper diet, already start their young lives out wrongly.Of course this is the responsibility of the parent. How many parents fuss over what their child eats here?

Jamie Oliver won the TED award for trying to change children's diets. I remember watching his TV show on how ignorant western(UK & US) children were about food. This I have only seen in western cultures. As an individual, the amount of changes he has been able to do around the world deserves respect.

Change the children for a better future.. most adults are too damaged and stubborn.

we are unique - thank you, I hope you have a great weekend, I haven't checked BOM yet but I'm also hoping it'll be nice and sunny.

Jinny - I agree, in order to keep ones sanity there does need to be a degree of acceptance. Heres hoping that one day, things will change for the better.

I can't stand seeing kids being given a massive amount of sweets, or fast food. I'm no health advocate but a child needs a healthy start in life. I'm not one to judge either but sometimes I do. I have just breeched my 20's (with no desire to reproduce) and I see parents giving in to their screaming kid and buying them that lolly bag, I know kids wear you down but consistency is key, don't reward tantrum behavior, easier said then done right.

I get pretty angry at the parents who walk around the shopping centers with a trolley full of crap, an obese child and not one vegetable in their shopping. That in my book is abuse.
Set them up with diabetes, great start in life isn't it.
There is way too much bad going on it's hard to focus on what to change.

Nicnoto: I understand your frustrations. You need to learn that you cannot change the way the world works right now. You need to learn how to accept society. There is not point of you getting upset when you see these things happening. You have no right to intervene in situations like those you mention. But, you can do something, for the future.. start a group, a website, work with schools, to educate others what you know, and they do not. The reasons why these abuses are happening is because they do not know any better.

They are happening because people let it happen.

It's become accepted behavior, we frown about it and silently shake our heads but do we actually say or do anything.

And of course they know better, they just don't take the effort to change because its too difficult.