Make Kony Famous in 2012!!!

Who is Joseph Kony?

Joseph Kony is the world’s worst war criminal. In 1987 he took over leadership of an existing rebel group and renamed it the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).
The LRA has earned a reputation for its cruel and brutal tactics. When Joseph Kony found himself running out of fighters, he started abducting children to be soldiers in his army or “wives” for his officers. The LRA is encouraged to rape, mutilate, and kill civilians–often with blunt weapons.
The LRA is no longer active in northern Uganda (where it originated) but it continues its campaign of violence in Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, and South Sudan. In its 26-year history, the LRA has abducted more than 30,000 children and displaced at least 2.1 million people.

What is the goal of KONY 2012?

Invisible Children has been working for 9 years to end Africa’s longest-running armed conflict. U.S. military advisers are currently deployed in Central Africa on a “time-limited” mission to stop Kony and disarm the LRA. If Kony isn’t captured this year, the window will be gone.

We are taking action to ensure these two things:

1) That Joseph Kony is known as the World’s Worst War Criminal.
2) That the U.S. military advisers support the Ugandan Army until Kony has been captured and the LRA has been completely disarmed. They need to follow through all the way and finish what they have started.

Why are we making Joseph Kony "famous"?

Invisible Children’s KONY 2012 campaign aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice. In this case, notoriety translates to public support. If people know about the crimes that Kony has been committing for 26 years, they will unite to stop him.

Secondly, we want Kony to be famous so that when he is stopped, he will be a visible, concrete example of international justice. Then other war criminals will know that their mass atrocities will not go unnoticed or unpunished.

When being "friends" suddenly gets hard...

So this is not going to be one of those nice conversations.
There will be some bad words used.
Some old wounds torn open.
But I have to let my words speak for my heart and what is going on in it...

What the fuck man? Why is being "friends" so hard now? I swear in Middle and High School the shit was mad simple but now as a 27 year old adult this shit is borderline maddening...but perhaps I should explain myself a little better...

So I am sitting here the other day just basically taking a mental inventory of my friendships the other day and just examining if you will where I stood with the people that are most important to me...

And then something stuck out...some of my friendships were solid as the day they were forged and some of them have so many conditions on them you would wonder if you were observing whether or not we were even friends. Confused yet? I will give you examples.

One of my best friends is still living in the tiny town near our school. I am not sure if I could ever do her justice by describing her. Like I knew from the moment I met her that we were always going to be cool. The only problem? I didn't realize that she was one of my very best friends until I had moved 6000 miles away...and now it hurts just a little inside because we had all the time in the world (2 years) to really work on being awesome friends (which we were to a degree) but we never did...blame our relationships...social life...schoolwork...jobs...whatever...but the opportunity was forever wasted and it is so hard to forgive myself for that. Like to this day she has been one of only 3 or 4 people that I can talk  to about anything...and I mean anything...and I totally fucked up by not being the friend that I could have been.

Then there is my other friend who...well we just didn't get off to the best start. We will just say that. You ever have a situation where you have a chance to make an impression but you fuck it completely to shit? This is what went down. So without a full rehash of the story we didn't talk to each other for years...and then we just got back in contact and we get along really well...and this is someone I could talk to about almost anything...except...I still have issues concerning this person. So it is one of those situations where I just have a bunch of shit to say and I just haven't been able to...and texting or whatever won't cut it for what I need to say and every time I bury that shit something pops up and just makes it bad all over again. The really sad part? I can't even blame anyone because again...I had my chances to make the shit right and I didn't.

So the third and fourth friends will be forever intertwined together...and is wrong part of me wishes that shit never happened. Imagine two of YOUR bestfriends getting together. That is either going to go really well or turn into a fucking disaster. I will give you a wild guess what happened. So I went from being super close to both of them to things just being odd because they just turned into oil and water overnight (unless they are separated and then things go ok...until they try to mix again and then we are back to square one). I love them separately but together it is just...a fucking chaotic mess.

So we are halfway through this note and the four of my best friends from college all are close to me still...but not the way I want for various issues...and this has me BORDERLINE psycho...but wait I am not even done...

So here I am way out here in Portland Oregon...and I am trying to bring new folks into my life and start new friendships and things are nuts out here lol...

The person who is probably my best friend out here isn't really eligible to be any closer to me than she is. Is that her fault? Absolutely not. She loves sports, always is reliable, and has honestly never let me down. Ahhhh but there is a catch. She is the best friend to the Ms. So I can't talk to her about anything too serious or even anything too crazy cause I don't wanna put her in a bad position and I don't want to worry about her repeating anything I say you know....? So there is another one lol...

There are some other people I have gotten close to lately but I just dunno...everytime I reach out it's one thing or the other. Like I am just starting to wonder if maybe it's me. There are some REALLY wonderful people that I am starting to talk about on a regular basis but after all of the chaos listed above I just am scared I guess to even try anymore for fear or someone being fake towards me or me just screwing up.

Here is what I think I want in a friend...

I want cool people that I can be myself around...
Without having to edit every word that I say...
That actually are willing to listen for as much as they are willing to talk...
Can be reliable when it counts...
and are consistent with how they act...
and are not rude and obnoxious (to me at least lol) for no reason.

Is this too much to ask for???

I dunno. When did friendship get so hard...?

SN: There are some folks I left out. It was not intentional and don't take it that way. I just wrote about what I thought about tonight....