Why's it Gotta' Be So Crazy?

This is purely from my own perspective and is subject to change on a daily basis, but just for the sake of today....HOLY CRAP! In the last month I have seen a change in attitude not only in the social aspect of this country, but in the people that I choose to call friends, my family, and I guess more importantly...myself. Seems there is a lack of patience and tolerance for the new political regime,(which if memory serves me right we tolerated the Bush Administration for 8 years) it also appears to be accompanied by a sense that everyone is holding their breath. Experience has taught me that you COULD die if you don't breathe, but you basically just turn your lips blue,pass out,and wake up with a helluva headache. There is a sense of fear that is motivating people's choices and the way we treat one another. My relationships are suffering due to this apparent tension. I have been a "little fish" in this big ocean ever since I was born, and so I feel I have developed a form of resignation as to my position in life. This does not mean that I am willing to conform to an institution's laws that are unjust, nor does it mean that I will allow myself to be cheapened, beaten, coerced, bullied, brutalized, or manipulated by another human being or system, at least not without my express permission. I feel it boils down to the choices I implement and how I choose to view myself in relation to the changes that so often happen in life. Isn't that what life is all about anyway? Ebb and flow, up and down, forward and backward, with a whole lotta sideways thrown in for Good Full Measure? The older I get the more I realize the only reason I get up anymore is to see what life is going to throw at me next and my battle cry is "COOL, BRING IT THE F@$K ON" as I go screaming loudly into my day with a big-assed "YEE HAW!" I don't really have a specific point, only to suggest that all of you that I love (and I mean this worldly) for crying out loud don't forget to put your seat belt on, sit back, and try to figure out which ride you got stuck with for the day. And for goodness sake, be nice if at all possible, not just to others but to yourselves as well. Where do we think we are all going to in such a rush? We all end up the same way eventually right...nothing but dust. Let the rich and famous be rich and famous, the poor(if you decide to help them) be not so poor, the students help them learn (we are all students by the way), and let the teachers teach, preachers preach, artists and writers express,the peacemakers be at peace, and although I hate to say it, let the hate mongers monger. All of these things I have recognized I will not change, nor is it up to me, what is up to me is how I choose to live my life while I still exist in the presence of life, whether I am deemed unrealistic or altruistic, hey that's the hand I've drawn for the day. Is Life truly all about the motivations of Politics, Religion, Money, and Power determining our placement or position in life, or is it more about accepting the fact that if we are graced with living one more day we should do all that we can to experience and connect with one another to see what, if anything, we can come up with together to make this whole ride a bit more comfortable, quite possibly share the exhilaration, and if nothing else...the experience of being human?