Let's see how far we've come

So last night on my commute home from school I was listening to Rob Thomas's "Let's see how far we've come" song (Thanks Carren). And I had just watched the film "Milk" for a social justice club meeting. And so I really started to ponder how far I've come personally and how far we've come in the world. IN my short thirty years on life I have seen the Iron Curtain fall, a great feat. I have seen a part black man be voted into the highest position of power. Whether we are on either fence of politics it still is fascinating to me. Hate crimes laws have been passed in all fifty states.

I remember in Romania after one of the members had treated quite rudely a gypsy and I called him on it he said "It's just like how you treat the black population in America." And I said, um yeah like forty years ago (not to say that it still doesn't happen). So honestly when Obama won I thought of how much hope that might give the gypsies and I thought of the Romanians and how there view might differ of the gypsies.

We have HD and TiVo and DVR. We have the Internet and computers. We have cell phones. All happened in my thirty years of life. WOW

Anyway, just thinking about things a little. We've seen a lot of things happen in the world for the better and I'm excited to see what the next thirty have.