The Price of Procrastination

It's been over a month since my last post.

The delay is a direct result of a tumultuous student lifestyle,
of feeling often overwhelmed with the everyday,
not knowing how to start and where go with it...

But there's more to it also.

When we were offered the opportunity to set up a blog for Citizen Journalism class,
a thousands ideas ran through my head...
From covering local art galleries, to doing a showcase of Montreal-based festivals, etc.

And while those we passionating subjects on their own terms,
I needed something more.

You see, I've got this overwhelming feeling.
There's a certain sense of urgency, like there's a train leaving and we're all going to miss it.

We're all living in these comfortable little bubbles.
And the world is passing us by.
There's a bandwagon waiting on a vast number of crucial issues,
like taking the environment seriously, ending world hunger,
trying to stop the spread major diseases (AIDS, Malaria, SARS, you name it).

Information media has been shrinking our worldly distances since the Gulf War.
No longer is the next town, next state, next country, next continent - a conceptual no man's land.
It's time we start acting as members of a human race, instead of nationalities and ethnicities...