Why I started to "Occupy"

It just hit me, as I was trying to think about how to start the blogging series that I am about to begin. I simply want to describe the complex and various things that I've recently experienced.  :P  I started this 'occu'-journey over 6 and 1/2 months ago because things are just SOO messed up in the world, SOO wrong, that I didn't know of anything better to do than to join up with others who felt the same. It has been an unforgettable experience that has been very enlightening and (imo) necessary.

99% is Too Big to Fail!
We are the 99% only if We Stand Together.

The wonderful (along with the difficult-to-deal-with) people that I and many others have met through this process have made this experience worth it. It is not easy being around a bunch of highly eccentric people who you have just met. Yet, the Occupy Wall St. Movement has been successful for the very fact that it brought a bunch of like-minded and like-hearted strangers together. What will come out of this giant 'meet-n-greet' of people who desperately want to change things (based off of a perceived need) has yet to be written.

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