April 30, at 1998

What would life be like if there was no hardship? No hunger, no child abuse, no sickness. No war. It wouldn't be life, but if you could live like that, would you? That's a weird question to be asking no one.

Let me start over.

War is a strange thing. It can be silent; mere threats between two sides. It can be silly; an argument between friends about who actually came up with the idea of pranking Mr. Filch with a dung bomb. It can be deadly; a long series of bloody battles between two sides. It can be sneaky; not really a war, a group of people who take control with fear, blackmail, and killings.

The last kind of war, to me, is the worst kind. It is the kind which causes one to live every day in fear. It is the kind that makes you want to give up on it all. It is the kind I live in. If you were to live in this kind of war, which side would you be on? I'm asking questions to no one again.

I CAN SEE YOU LOOKING OVER MY SHOULDER MICHAEL CORNER. I WOULD SUGGEST YOU GO BACK TO YOUR GAME OF CHESS UNLESS YOU WOULD LIKE A NEW BRUISE.