Blogging Around

My first comment was to Angela Poulos' blog called An Inconvenient Truth: Wars & Hatred. This blog was addressing the issue of people hating and criticizing one another. An issue that is prevalent everyday in all of our lives.

Comment: I completely agree with you. It's so sad that our culture is based off of striving in the downfalls of others. This is especially prevalent in high school because of the different groups and cliques that people are involved with. Most people also strive on building themselves up by rating others down. Which is so sad and mean :( And you're definitely right it's not about to get better any time soon. Especially with the killing of Osama. This is a perfect example of the issue you are trying to bring forward. The Americans are celebrating his death, which to me is very morbid. I feel that what we are doing is disrespectful and instead of celebrating we should be thankful of the accomplishment and move on. I really hope that one day world peace can be come true.

The second comment I made was to Katie Taylor's blog titled Connection: Challenging the status quo/ happiness. This blog is directing an issue that we face everyday by interacting with people and living out our lives. Challenging the status quo is so hard to do right now as we are all fixated to a schedule. In my response to her blog I tried to think out possible ways to enrich our happiness by challenging the status quo at the same time.

Comment: I've learned to this year that in order to achieve happiness and be content with yourself it is important to spend time with yourself. In high school our lives are so wrapped around a tight schedule that includes our normal hang out times with our friends but often leaves out yourself. The status quo is what we're used to, the constant schedule and repeating of events. But by challenging the status quo and doing things out of spontaneity maybe your happiness could prosper. I'm trying to accomplish this right now, and just keep my mind guessing because it is so much fun to live in the moment, not around a schedule.