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English 103
This class has been extremely difficult and I often complain and bitch about how difficult it is. But after taking a step back I have seen how much I’ve actually learned. It is a critical thinking course, but I thought of it as just another English class. This made me wonder why our essays were on politics, media bias, and stereotypes.
These assignments forced me to look at what happens around us and you know what? It isn’t pretty. I may not have the best grade in the class, but I’m learning to pay attention to what is happening and question it.
“Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power and to withhold from them information, without which power is abused. A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with power which knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.” -James Madison
Sudden realization
My mom once told me “you have to take care of what you have before you can want something else.” I really didn’t pay much attention to what she said.
Now I see that that statement applies to all things: clothes, home, work, car, etc. I don’t know why, but I just realized how much I really appreciate my truck. Without it I couldn’t get to work or school and definitely would not be able to go to my job in Yosemite. I really never knew much about what it took to make my truck do what I needed it to do. I recently replaced my clutch to fix my overheating problem (my clutch is attached to my fan and so when that went out, my fan no longer worked). Today I noticed that my truck was over heating again and I realized that my coolant was low.
My point of this ramble is this,
Don’t take what you have for granted. Your job may be boring or suck, but its a job. Your house may be small and in a bad neighborhood, maybe even infested with insects, but its a home. Dinner may not taste good, but its food. Every day people take these things for granted, wanting something better; most people forget that there are many people who go without these things.
Take care of what you have, appreciate what you have, and stop bitching. You never know when you might not have them anymore.
Horse
Soooo I was in a horse accident 2 days ago… Lot if fun. The doctor won’t clear me for work till Wednesday…. Damnit
Life
It’s amazing. I have come to find that the friends that I once had, the ones I thought would be there forever, are now gone. I was always told to not grow up too fast, because you’ll miss what you have. I never believed that, until now.
My friends are married, moved away, or dead… I don’t like this realization. I just wish that I could go back and change things, spend more time with people, delay growing older… but there is no going back.
I’m happy for my friends that have moved onto bigger and better things, but I miss the good old days.
