I Choose

the act or an instance of selecting. CHOICES. We makes choices everyday of our lives, what to wear, what to eat, who to talk to, where to go etc. We have little choices like between cheese or hawaiian pizza and big choices like who do I live with after the divorse? or which university do I apply to? 

Choices can come and go, others haunt us until we die or correct them, we make them every day and I would like to ask a question about choices.


Who gives you the right to make choices for other people?

When you're little, your parents decide what you wear and what you eat and what you do. The government controls things you can do such as driving, loitering, and drinking. Your morals control what your opinions are and how you act upon situations in real life.

But when it comes to topics such as divorse, such as abortion, or even war who gets to decide?

Although I have my opinions, and I believe certain things, I have come to realize that I have no right to make choices for other people. How can i support anti abortion laws when I have never been in the situation where I could need one? How can I frown upon divorse when I come from a home with a biological mother and father? How can debate war when I didn't know anyone that died in 9/11.

I guess what I am trying to say is that we all come from different places, we all have different knowledge bases but we are all still people, we all have feelings and we all have passions. Just because you feel strongly about something doesnt mean you're right, but it doesnt mean you're wrong. Maybe your decision is good for you and your beliefs, but it may not be right for everyone else. So the next time you feel that your beliefs are right maybe stop and think about if they would be right for the majority of people, maybe they aren't and if not don't pressure them on other people.

For we make choices everyday, sometime there wrong and sometimes there right, it makes people strong to cope with the bad choices and turn them into positive expierences.

So mess up and fix it, make better choices in the future, learn from every bad expierence and make it a good one and never makes choices for other people      because if it happens to be a bad one it may be harder to fix if it does not just affect yourself.

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Between Facebook , Twitter, and Texting. We have created the empire that is known as Social Networking. In past years there was no such thing as e-mail or facebook, yet in todays society it is critical to keeping in touch and even in places of education (considering I am blogging for a grade here). The digital revolution afffects us all and in different ways. For instance, years ago when a boy wanted to ask a girl on a date he would go up to her and ask; while now a days a guy would text her and ask. We eliminate the face to face interaction replacing it with a blackberry.

 Those heart to hearts that used to take place when consoling a friend, now happen over facebook when you see the sad tweets that they had posted. To get in touch with your dad who's at a business meeting in Denver you log in to Skype and face chat; when you use to send a letter or pay a very pricey long distance call. Social networking does a great job of keeping us in touch with our friends and loved ones who cant be with us all the time but is the price we are paying really worth it?

No one ever asks the question "what is wrong with social networking" because we all love it so much, so how could there possibly be a flaw?

Well the truth is, as great as social networking is we are creating a youth that is literally addicted to it. There are people who tweet over 100 times a day, some who update there status to "walking the dog" and "going pee" and the problem with this is we are teaching our youth that it is ok to ignore the reality unfolding before us and tweet about it instead. Imagine going skydiving and facebooking - you update your status to "Skydiving OMG" and you take a quick picture and make it your display picture and by the time you finish you realize - crap I should probably pull my shoot before I hit the ground. And splat your dead. Obviously thats a crazy highly unlikely situation but I have seen some pretty accurate ones occur, for instance watch some of the videos 7 commercials. Getting hit with a baseball, not noticing your wife in a cute outfit and falling while running. I am not saying I do not use facebook or text, but should we really spend all of our time trying to let everyone be in the know to the point where we are unable to get off the moving path at the airport? Maybe I am overlooking the purpose and taking into account the extreme situations. But I did just spend 20 minutes setting up this blog so that someone would read it, didn't I.

Skydiving

Airports and Cell phones dont mix...