People.

I'm sitting here in my lecture and I'm watching the Inauguration of the new President Obama. People are hanging on to every word that he says. People chanting "O-Bam-A" at the top of their lungs. As they show people of all shapes and sizes in the crowd of hundreds of thousands, I can't help but wonder what people sacrificed to be there. How much they paid to travel, find a spot, take off work, find babysitters, what did people sacrifice to hear a man talk? I find it astounding that people can be so amazed with one person talking for fifteen minutes.

We put so much faith in each other. We expect, people to be the answer to our questions, to make us feel better, to solve our problems, and to give us as much as we give them. But all of this isn't true. Were all messed up people. I've let so many people down, and I've been let down by so many people, when will we learn our lesson? We just can't put our faith into people because they will inevitably let us down. Just as I have let down so many people, so will people let me down. So we need to put our faith in ourselves, and in something bigger than ourselves at the same time.

Hope? Change? These things don't come through placing our faith in a new politician. I believe we can only place our trust and faith in God, because all humans do is screw things up.