Nothing.

Has anyone ever considered that nothing is an unproven concept? Today, President Barack Obama was inaugurated. I look out over the white into the crowds... and see nothing.

What was that nothing?

It was the hyped-up media, the cameras and recorders, ready to scribble down and analyze everything said.

It was the hyped-up emotions, inspired by our new president's glittering speech, unspecific and only words.

It was the black truth of our situation, a gaping hole in the world.

We need to act, and act now. Think of our new president. He can not, and will not, do this for us.

We need to do something. Not everything- everything is an unproven concept even more than nothing is.

We need to shut those useless corporations and industries down that keep polluting our air.

We need to shut them up so that we, in THIS generation, are not having to scramble around at the last minute to find answers to what THEY did.

People say this world is a messed-up place.

They are dead wrong, and the biggest idiots (for lack of a better word... hm...) in the known and unknown worlds.

This world is a beautiful place. They are the ones messing it up.

This world is our world. And I do NOT mean "ours" as in "the human race," because most of the human race does not deserve it.

Some do, and those are the people who reuse things, who recycle, who CARE about this world, their family, their descendants, and the rest of their fellow humans.

Those who do not, get out and leave us to fix your mess, because all you will do is destroy it.

Every 3 months Americans trash enough aluminum cans to rebuild the entire U.S. air fleet.

Every second, Americans trash 700 plastic bottles. That's enough to make 2 million fleece sweaters every day.

There are a lot of things you can do, however, and they have more of an impact than people realize. For example, recycling just ONE aluminum can saves enough energy to power a TV for three hours.

What are we going to do? There is a difference. For goodness' sake, people, use your brains! You CAN make a difference. You CAN do something.

Like our single aluminum can.

I look over the white into the crowds... and see nothing.

I see the blank, depressing hole of nothing right in the middle.

What do we do? This hole is in the crowds, it exists in all of us... and it is about to penetrate our entire world.

And no one cares.

I look over the white into the crowd... and see something.

I see the hope not of our country, not of our nation, not of our world... but of it and its people. We are ready to stand up for what we believe in. We are ready to face down the challenges we have before us... and we are ready to win.

What do we do? We fill this hole in not with our hope, nor power, but our determination to win.

Oh, and Lyorah? Thanks for typing this for me... while I sat there and dictated what to type.