Batarangs and Pink Nail Polish

Alright, so as an 18 year old female living in one of the most economically jacked up states in America (pardon my vulgarity), you can only imagine that I have my share of oppinions. I was recently asked to start writing a blog for my English class. We were told to chose a topic and just write. Well, although this may be easy for some, for me it posed a great task. I mean, how am I supposed to pick ONE theme and write about it once a week for 13 weeks? Well, naturally I managed to bend the rules here a little bit. I have WAY too many issues to address than to provide me any specific limitations. So my "theme", so to speak, is going to be very informal. This way, I can talk about the oh so many different topics that I am concerned with. Mind you, before I begin to state my thoughts, I'd like to state beforehand that my oppinions mean no distress to anyone reading and my central goal with this is to motivate people to actually put themselves in other people's shoes and keep an opened mind while listening to other people's output on life. I will try my best to refrain from insulting any person or persons in my writing, (though of course with some people it is difficult to avoid pointing out the obviously dim-witted). My intentions are to try to give people a better understanding of the things they feel so passionately about. Often times, when someone feels passionately enough about a topic, they tend to completely omit others' feelings or perhaps worse, cold hard facts. I merely feel that if you are to feel fervently about something, you better have your information correct. Debating a topic does not require getting hot-headed and telling somebody the views they have are incorrect. The point of my blog is to turn the reader into a critical thinker. In order to do this, you must be able to ask questions about the issue in which you are stating. I'm sure that some of these topics will engage some harsh words but I'd like to humbly ask that we try and keep it PG13 and respect others opinions even if you do not agree with them. We must analyze a topic from all viewpoints before we blindly declare where we stand. Hopefully, I can get you all to listen instead of just hear, and if I can successfully pull this off, I can help the you to examine your own views before you put down someone elses'. Another thing, we are human. We make mistakes. It is better to admit that mistake, rather continue feebly through an argument that you do no longer agree with.



As I go through my everyday life, I notice more and more that people argue about fairly simple things. I am one to discuss an issue before raising my voice or throwing a tantrum. Not everbody thinks the same way I do, but I find that with my way, you don't waste time trying to convince someone that is too angry to even consider your oppinion. A dicussion can easily turn into a yelling match, and that is something I like to avoid. As I go through my week, usually something will spark my interest and I'll discuss it in my blog. Whether this will be my sister complaining about my mother being too controlling, or a friend's parents saying that they disapprove of gay marriage because of their religion. I could go for hours on these topics, people. I simply want to address problems and issues that come up casually in my every day life that I feel the need to talk about.



I'm going to try to keep this as informal as possible because I'm crazy indecisive and I get bored easily and I want to keep this as interesting for you as possible so excuse my lack of an exceedingly extended vocabulary. Another thing I tend to do, is give advice. It may seem like just some random rambling but I usually have a person in mind that needs to hear what I'm saying and sometimes, things just look better when written out.
 (Another thing I'd like to do is provide you all with some sort of inspirational quote that pertains to the topic discussed in the blog I choose to write.)




"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge." -Elbert Hubbard