The three biggest problems facing the world today

It hard to really break down all the problems that’s going on in the world into only three, from the ongoing wars in the Middle East, the economic problem around the world, the entrance into a new age great depression and much more, but the main three problems I’m going to talking about are the problems I’ve witness with my own eyes that is a world know problem but is ignored by many. Domestic abuse towards young women, ignorance, and well that’s the main problems I see facing the world today.

During my three years of college life I haven’t met and known young females between the ages of 18 – 23 that has been and still are in abusive relationship (and I’ve always believed things like that only happened on lifetime). To me it seemed like after the incident between Chris Brown and Rihanna really opened my eyes because afterwards close friends and family members started reaching out for help. The first time I’ve encountered a situation like this was with my best friend, who of course will remain anonymous, it was freshman year we we’re 18 and I never thought it was something really serious  I even joked about it with friends at her expense. I remember it was me, a guy friend and her went to Tulane to watch a play and her boyfriend kept calling my phone to talk to her and he was fusing at her so badly and loudly that me and the guy could hear him over the phone and him and I joked about it right in front of her, the guy was really possessive and didn’t like her to go anywhere without him. He founded out she was at school and came there and told her to come outside, so she was gone far a while and she came back kind of roughed up in the sense  that her hair was everywhere and she was out of breath.  When she came back she was eager to leave and come back to school by me. So she slept over at Xavier with me and then told me that the boy was upset that she was hanging with me and kicked her in her chest and was slapping her around in the car and he even had his friends in the car with her. She was crying, and didn’t know what to do because she loved him and didn’t want to leave him, I tried to explain to her she didn’t need him and so fort but of course that next morning she was with him again and he beat her again for being with me. This went on for awhile and then towards the end of sophomore year she finally ended it but still talks to him. Fast-forward to 2009, about two weeks ago a girl I know (age 20) ex boyfriend broke into her house and beat her damn near to death, but luckily my aunt came to the girl house and stopped it. I didn’t see her face myself but my aunt said her eyes were almost swollen shut and her face was bloody and swollen as well (till this day she’s staying by my aunt cause she’s afraid to go home). Now since Hurricane Katrina Majority of my family relocated to other states, but because Mardi Gras is on its way they all are coming down to visit. Saturday the weekend of Mardi Gras my cousin ( 23 or 24 can’t remember ) came down with her son and boyfriend they all stayed in a hotel cause no one wanted her boyfriend to stay with her (can you guess why?).  So Saturday her boyfriend left his key in the hotel room and called my cousin to hurry up back to let him into the room, because he’s a no good bastard and my cousin is dumb and taking care of him he couldn’t just go downstairs to get another key cause his name wasn’t on the room, so he had to wait until she come back to let him in. When she got to the hotel and let him in he (excuse my language) fucked her up pretty bad cause she took all day. So she leave and stayed by my cousin house where I was there getting my hair done. The both of my cousins leave to go to the mall to buy clothes for themselves and their children to wear on Fat Tuesday. So well out my cousin told me the abuse disappeared off somewhere while they was in the mall so she went looking for she and she found her at the check-out line buying the guy who just beat her yesterday in her hotel room clothes. My older cousin was so mad at her and lied and said it was for her son (who is only 7 and she was buying men’s clothes).  So later on that night she went back to the guy.  All of these events happen all within one month had me confused and terrorified because most of these are smart girl one who goes to Tulane, the other one is 20 years old and able to provide for herself and her child without help from no one and the same goes for my cousin and the all fell for the wrong guy and keep going back to them and why?? How can you love someone so much that puts you down  and make you feel like you’re not worthy of anything, but at the same time you are capable of doing so much because you’re the one taking care of your abuser. It’s scary to me to know what women would do and go through to not just be alone. If it can happened to them I know it can happen to me, but if it does will I too stay because I’m in love.

Ignorance, just like air its everywhere. I’m too am unaware about the many things that are going around in the world so I am ashamed to say but I am also place into this category and what’s a bigger problem is that I know I am but I going to change. I choose to pick people’s lack of interest in education as a world problem because of the stupidity my ex boyfriend told me yesterday.  Now he’s a pretty well educated guy meaning he has the book smarts to succeed in life, but life wises he’s (excuse my language again) Fucking dumb!!!!! He’s a I think broader line senior at Loyola who likes to study in his free time because he has big dreams to be the best and he well make it cause he has the determination, but he’s stuck in this mode to be perceived as being “real” or the stereotypical black person you know the one’s must white people are scared of when they walk by their car so they slowly lock their door when we pass. Anyways he was in the club with his cousin and friends a dunking white guy leaned up against him but instead of ignoring it and just moving the guy away from him he felt the need to prove something to the boys he was with and shove the guy onto the ground. While the guy got back up and pushed my ex back and my ex punch the guy really hard and the guy fell to the floor again and then his cousin started kicking the guy in his face then other people who also had no part in the easily avoid altercation jumped in as well and kicked the guy while he was on the ground and my ex said he felt very bad after the incident cause he didn’t think it would go that far he just wanted to look cool so he joined in with the rest of these people and abused the guy who was laying on the ground defenseless. I was so pissed and what made me more upset is that he did all this to impress other people he was with. This is the type of ignorance I’m talking about, everyone during stuff to go along with other people to impress the world and wanting to stand out but really just blending into the crowd. What is the big problem of just being you? Who is society to tell you this is not normal this is the way you are to act to dress and talk. Example someone who’s black, you must talk using slang, listen to rap or r&b, dress in a urban fashion to be real black and if not that person is trying to be another race. So many people seem confined to act a certain way to not be judge and picked on. The must irresponsible thing to do in life is trying to please everyone else instead of oneself. The more a person being to accept themselves the more they would start enjoy life.

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