Sarah Kruzan: Sentenced to Life Without Parole at Age 16

This story is very sad. When children don't know any better or don't have a decent 'stand up' adult in their life, what are they to do when they feel as if they have no protection or anyone to look out for them? They begin to fend for themselves and or consider the first person that shows them some type of "love" and or attention as a type of 'parent figure'. I am not in any way saying that what Sarah did was right, but at the same time I don't think that her situation was really taken into into consideration by the court. She was a minor in trouble, fighting for her life.

Therefore, in my opinion under the grim circumstances she should have been prosecuted as a juvenile. She made a choice to take back her life, but in the process took the life of another. She knew what she was doing, but they are several plea bargains that she could have taken. I noticed in the video that Sarah kept apologizing saying she knew it wasn't right to take G.G.'s life and that she knew deserved punishment. Okay! That's a given, if a crime is committed, yes you should be reprimanded; BUT for every "I'm sorry" that came out of her mouth, who should be held accountable for all the emotional, physical, and mental abuse that she suffered growing up?

In the beginning of the video it was said that her mother was on drugs and she abused Sarah. Where there any reports made, was Sarah ever removed from her home? Was she ever in the custody of the state?; Or was Sarah one of the children that the system failed and let slip through the cracks? Sarah is now 29 so she has been incarcerated for 13 YEARS! This is a shame! Rapists can commit a slew of crimes serve a few years and be released. There is something seriously wrong with this picture! TBC...

Reasons Reasons and more Reasons!

Everything happens for a reason...

That's a familiar quote we've all heard before, right? RIIIGGHHHHHTTTT!

It's usually lobbed at you like a soft blanket after something OR someone rips through your heart like an iron fist, or a jagged piece of metal, or broken piece of glass..u get it..whatever the pain felt like to you..LOL

It's a quote I've had mixed thoughts about. Not because I haven't looked back upon the many times I've been told this and thought, "Damn, they're right." Because that's happened. But it doesn't mean I still can't abhor the notion of such a quote.

Of course everything happens for a reason. If everything didn't happen for a reason then life would be a series of random events thrust haphazardly together.(boring right?) Which could very well be the case. Yet, because as human beings we define things with order, we classify meaning to these random events. This gives them weight. And giving them weight allows reason. Or at the very least, emotional significance.

It's only in due time do you look back on that heart-wrenching moment and realize that "Yes, this event did happen for a reason." But did it really? Or are you merely past the emotional resonance of the situation now that you've gained some distance and is it only now that you have fully separated yourself that you can slap a different insight onto the event?

Maybe not everything actually happens for a reason.... Maybe it's merely because life is led in pivotal moments. We reach crossroads, two paths diverging in opposite directions. We can choose path A or path B. Each will lead us to a different place. And regardless of which path we choose, you can never go back and take the other course. Therefore, inevitably, choosing the first path does end in a specific result. And being human, and assigning reason, we assume that everything along this path did happen for a reason.(silly us ALWAYS looking for some type of answer or reason huh) lol

What if both paths ultimately led to the same destination? Would that alter this perspective? No, because while the ultimate destination may be the same, it is the path by which you got there that is vastly different.

So you see, everything only happens for a reason because we say it happens for a reason. Unless you believe in destiny-- that life is predetermined and that every event is preordained to occur exactly as it has. It's a theory many replicate when talking about the ideas of time travel. How you can never truly alter the past, because the past is unalterable. No matter what you choose to do during a second go-around, you will ultimately wind up where you left off. With events happening exactly as they did.

I think this is a pessimistic way of looking at time travel. And while it may not be "scientifically plausible", it is the more enjoyable version. The version that provides for the idea of free will. The idea that we choose our own fate. That the actions we set forth upon determine our path. It's this free will that determines the reason for everything that occurs. Because it is us who through free will chose path A over path B. That's the reason behind everything. It's the free will.

For instance, when Marty returns home in BACK TO THE FUTURE to find that his family's (and his own) life is better. It is the more enjoyable movie.

It's the reason that why after making some good and bad decisions, blowing people off, overly expressing myself or maybe too little, tolerating too much shit for whatever reasons lol from too many people... especially within the past couple years that I look back and can reasonably say that, "Yes, everything did happen for a reason." ... but did it, really?...yep...That free will is something else, ain't it!

LESSONS LEARNED!! That's why at the end of the day I (thanx to mi madre) have gotten to the point where I ask myself "What did i learn today"? Ask yourself and see what you learned or didn't...

All in all to put it simply..Shit does happen...shit will happen..life is filled with the good the bad and the oogly..tha grass ain't always greener on the other side...yada yada yada..learn from it, keep it pushin...live in the moment! be in the moment! Car pe Diem! AND more so KEEP GOD 1st!

That's all! Adios mofo's! xoxo