you know, as The Great Countdown begins, the number of people/how often people rant about their lives exponentially increase. hey, you might say what's new? well you know what's new? i tell you what's new. instead of merely hearing it face-to-face, over the phone, on msn, blogger, now with the information explosion, we see it not only on traditional, modern modes of communication, but new, modern forms of communication, like twitter, facebook, wordpress, where in the days of smartphones and data-plans, you can be instantly informed the moment your friend (or distant friend [or acquaintance {or someone you don't even know}]) rants about his/her life one more time.

no i digress. the focus here is not how easily one might be kept informed of one's friend(distant friends [acquaintance {someone you don't know}]) rantings, but rather why they are ranting in the first place. when you say things like my life sucks, please first consider the little fact that at least you have a life for it to suck in the first place. and however much studying is a chore and a bore, it is nothing compared to that of a child soldier in Africa, one of the poor miners down in the Chilean mine, or even bin Laden, for goodness sake. he's probably in some pakistani cave right now, freezing his 60 year-old ass off every night, fighting for the greater good (or so he thinks), while here we are ranting about our A levels in the comforts of our air-conditioned room! A little perspective, people.