Onwards...

So I realized the other day how long it had been since I posted something... so here I am posting something.

Last time I was here I was anticipating the end of an era, now I'm here to say that the era has finished and a new one has begun.
For a minute there I thought I was going to have to change the title of my blog... eliminate the "college" part, but lucky for me that's not the case.

So yes, all my worries about the future and what would happen next have, for the time being, been resolved.

Now, with a Bachelor's degree in hand (two if I want to be specific and since I worked my ass off for that double major, I usually do) I am now facing the world in a new capacity:  Grad Student.

the end of an era approaches...

I've been thinking about writing for a while now.  Thinking about what to write and what to put out there and what not to... so anyway here goes.

They say all good things must come to an end.  Well, I believe it.  Watching tonight's series finale of "Desperate Housewives" (a show I swore I'd never watch then got hooked on this season... damn you TV drama!) inspired me to sit down and write.  That and the fact that I'm not very tired and my belly is still full from our Mother's Day BBQ... but I digress... the point is that no matter what, everything changes or comes to an end.

Some things we are grateful to have end.  Some changes are supremely difficult but have happier endings than we could have ever anticipated.  Others leave us wishing for life as it was before. And some remain unclear until the last moment when they blossom into a new adventure. Still, no matter what the case time will march forward and the past will become a memory.  Funny thing time... the older I get the more profoundly I feel it...

Why can't we all just get along?

So for whatever reason the Universe seems to align itself with the courses I am currently taking.  This time around I am diving head first into Sociology as I check off my last remaining course requirements.  My attention has been turned towards social justice and social inequalities by virtue of one class and social movements by another.  Conveniently for me there is plenty of real-world, real-time events taking place (ie. #occupy).  Still as I study these things one question emerges:

Why can't we all just get along?

It seems like a simple enough question with a simple enough answer.  After all didn't our parents teach us to share, be respectful and mindful of others?  To agree to disagree on issues that become too heated or work to find a shared vision so that we all may benefit as equally as possible?  I know mine did but I guess not everyone was so lucky.

I find myself again and again becoming heated over issues of equal rights and fair treatment of all people.  Maybe its just because those that are the most extreme are the ones yelling the loudest. Regardless there is so much hostility on both sides of these issues that people are failing to see the middle ground.