My day job (while making this piece) is making pizza on a college campus. Four to five days a week I have the luxury of serving and overhearing privileged college students constantly whine and complain about the most miniscule of problems. After reading the morning paper, I would learn about the death toll of innocent women and children in Iraq, ethnic cleansing in Africa, or the treatment of Mexican immigrants who are risking their own lives to come here and work the worst jobs we have to offer, simply to provide a better life for their families. When a 19 year old sorority girl wearing $300 sunglasses and a $1500 purse comes to my counter and orders a slice of pepperoni pizza (never getting off of her cell phone I might add) and proceeds to bitch and moan about the most miniscule of issues. If one did not know what the young woman was talking about you would think she just received news that both of her parents died tragically in a freak accident. This used to infuriate me to no end. How could someone with all the advantages that America has to offer be so emotionally and mentally feeble? Then one day I realized that she is not a horrible human being. She has just lost any and all proper perspective on life. She has allowed herself to focus almost all of her attention on meaningless issues. What purse did Jessica Simpson buy last week? Are Brittney and Kevin breaking up or just having another baby? I am not saying that in America bad things don’t happen. I am just proposing the following: as a culture maybe we should spend less time sweating the small stuff and spend more time working on being the best us, we can be. In viewing this piece you have to make sure you obtain proper perspective. A Godzilla-esque monstrosity is not threatening this bear. Actually when you put them next to each other a 1000 pound Kodiak bear on a motorcycle would annihilate a ten-inch octopus on pencils, and this is the reality of so many of our "huge" issues. Proper Perspective consists of pencil and acrylic renderings encased in epoxy resin. This piece has been sold to Mr. Lewis Freed. Thanks!