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#100DaysOfHopper Day 44-45

Day 44: Serious question: Isn't Yoga, Cross fit, Running, Spartan Races and simply going to the gym supposedly a great stress release? Just asking, because all the people that bore the **** out of us with these posts always seem to follow it up with negative, misinformed posts throughout the day.

How about you take a little of your early morning feel the burn time off and read a book, maybe over a cup of chamomile tea and exercise the only muscle that really matters. Quite possibly, your mood, chi, Zen or Namaste or whatever you call your "state," might improve on the inside and do more than simply garner likes from friends on Facebook. #100DaysOfHopper

Day 44 Part 2: (Told you I was ready) Why the hell are the same morons (yes, some of my friends are really dumb) who believe that guns don't kill people, people kill people, the same ones ranting and raving about the parents leaving their kids or pets in cars? They are using arguments like "you should have to pass a test to have a child" and "are these people mentally stable" or are they even smart enough to handle that responsibility?

So let me get this straight. You are all for tests to drive a car. You want people who aren't mentally stable, smart enough or capable of raising a child or owning a pet to be tested and background checked, but you are all for handing these same people weapons to use when they "feel" threatened? The problem is one is actually a constitutional right and one isn't and if you were smart enough to understand that, you probably wouldn't be going on and one with these incessant posts of horrible stories.

And another thing. Where was your outrage when all these kids were shot? Individual acts of stupidity costs a life and some of you post the article as many as seven different times, but a school full of women and children are murdered and you say nothing. I swear, if we all unfriended people for idiocy, some of you would have some really lonely news feeds. You know, aside from pictures of your and your neighbor's kids holding sparklers that burn at 1100 degrees. #100DaysOfHopper

 Day 45: Think for a minute.
4.5+ billion people get by on less than $10 a day
2.5+ billion people lack adequate sanitation
2+ billion have no access to medicine
1.2+ lack clean water
850+ million people are malnourished
650+ million lack shelter
200+ million adults have no income

Recently (mine is last) on Facebook
My washer & dryer aren't working
I'm stuck in traffic
I missed my flight
My kids are so noisy in the other room
I had to wait 25 minutes in the drs office
My coworker was rude
When is this rain going to stop
I can't believe it's only Wednesday
Why does the WiFi work in all ten rooms of this house, but the one I'm in.

Does anyone else feel guilty?
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