Stream-of-Consciousness

What are our ideals, and to what extent does it seem within our power to realize them?
The perfect America. The perfect world even. For me, nobody will be hungry. There won't be no person in the universe who is hungry. There won't be one person who is homeless. Violence will be no more. Violence will not be a word in the dictionary. There would be no more wars. Every person will be safe knowing they can step out of their doorway and not have to worry about being blown up. Families won't have problems. There wouldn't be any divorces. No left kids heartbroken from the fact that their mommy and daddy don't love each other anymore. In the perfect America, there will be no economic crisis. Everybody can get a job...no problem. No lay offs. Parents and come home knowing that they work really hard to keep a roof over their kids heads and food on thier plates. The perfect America would be like no other. This is really out of the realm of reality. None of the stuff I mentioned is possible.

How much are we in control of ourselves?
That just depends with the person, I guess. Some people allow other people to control them. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. Because in some cases people (children) allow thier parents to control them. Parents do have a huge impact on thier childrens lives. In the earlier life lessons, a child learns right from wrong just from thier parents actions. Knowing right from wrong is really important. It keeps people from fights and out of jail. You thier are consequences for your actions. So it is a good thing parents influence you. That is if they're good parents. In the exception when it's bad if other people control you, is peer pressure in teenagers. Just say no! If you say yes you allow other people to control and influence your actions and they're not aloways good they're bad. If you are in control of yourself you become a stronger individual. You will stick out from a crowd...which can be a good thing.

How well do we even know ourselves?
I'm not quite sure. I'm not quite sure if I'm even sure of myself. It's like some instances you might think you know a person but it turns out you don't. They end up pulling the wool over eyes. But that doesn't have anything to do with how you know yourself.