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.

Politics or something like it...

So I decided to take time out of my busy school schedule to put some thoughts down.

My colloquium (a fancy way to say "seminar") class is in US Economic History specifically focused on The Public Interest. So my professor has assigned us various readings on different topics all relating to what constitutes the "public interest".

This week our reading is on the rise of the New American Right, which for all you non-history buffs arose, largely, out of Orange County, CA in the 1960s.  But this week is also the week where myself and a couple others have to bring in extra documents (specifically articles) discussing this topic as recently as today. So in reading all this literature on the New Right I find that my opinion still stands as:  The ONLY position a political leader should take is a Moderate one.

This is why:

What I've been thinking about lately...

So, I haven't written in a while and so far I haven't written much about school.  Probably should, it is a very central part of my daily life.  Takes up more time than anything else, save for parenting.  With that said here's some food for thought:

                           Writing is Thinking, anything else is just Daydreaming

That was the profound statement my professor made the other day in class.  I believe I have heard the first part before, "writing is thinking", but it never really hit me until he stated that.  So I began thinking, er, daydreaming about it.   Of course once I begin to actively apply my critical thinking skills, my brain won't shut off!  I end up laying in bed contemplating the wonders and mysteries of life and the universe until some ungodly hour. So what did I decide to do?

Relationships

Been thinking a lot about relationships lately... So this is just some of my random thought process in words.  Why?  Because its a fascinating subject. One that is both very personal and very general at the same time.  So much "relationship advice" can cover the majority of relationships.  Communicate. Be Honest. Give and Take Equally. Be Good to Each Other.  And so on and so forth, and its advice applicable across the board whether a romantic bond, a friendship, a familial association, many have the same kind of traits and same kind of rules.  But the one that fascinates me the most, as it probably does most people, is the romantic one.

I just marvel at the extent of people to "need" another person.  To feel needed, to feel wanted.  So much so that you see expressions of desire to points where its either super disgusting or ridiculously pathetic.  Teenagers seem to demonstrate both these things far exaggeratedly, especially on Facebook with their lamenting words like: "Oh I can't stop thinking of you. I NEED you.", "I can't live without you I miss you so much", etc... I just wonder at where this need, this desire comes from to have someone there.  Why do we feel it?  Because we all do, some of us more than others.  But, my big question is: is it really necessary? Do we really need to have someone to "complete" us?  Can't we be complete on our own?  Wouldn't that be better anyway?