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Problematic

I spend a great deal of time on the internet and as I am on it quite often what I’ve discovered is that the internet seems to be obsessed with is discovering every single dirty secret a person might have, exposing them, and holding it over their heads. Someone is uninformed and accidentally says something offensive, the internet automatically jumps on them acting as though they committed some unforgivable crime. I think we are sometimes really tough on people, we jump on every fault we see. Why do people do this, does it make us feel better about ourselves? As I am an extremely defensive person who sometimes does not respond well to criticism, I thought it would be prudent to be open and honest early on; So, before this gets too far, I want to confess…I’m problematic. I’m not vegan, which some people would claim is problematic in and of itself, and I’m not really vegetarian either and while some people may claim that that is horrible and promotes animal cruelty, I’ve never conside

Passion and Power

I think most people have things that they are passionate about, whether it is sports, music, literature, or even your favorite television show, there is something that most of us like to put our whole being into and we enjoy talking about it. There is nothing that can make us feel more satisfied or frustrated than the things we are passionate about. One of the things that I am passionate about is politics. When I was younger, people used to tell me that I should be a politician when I grew up; of course, this was before I developed anxiety. However, while I realize that any aspiration of being a United States senator or representative is little more than a pipe dream and not one I think I would even truly want, I think as a citizen being passionate about politics and social issues is important. I’m going to be honest, this past presidential election did not go the way I wanted it to, not even in the slightest. However, something that gave me hope was seeing so many people around

Diversity of Experience

When I was younger, one of my high school teachers had a small, framed motivational poster that read “Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is costly,” for some reason or another that always struck me. At first looking at it made me annoyed, I thought it just another one of those quotes claiming that younger people know absolutely nothing and older, more experienced individuals knew everything. As a teenager, nothing was more irritating than individual looking down on you and minimizing your abilities due to your age; however, as time went on I realized that it didn’t necessarily mean that. My older sister died in a car accident in October of my senior year of high school. She had been my life line and I felt completely lost without her; to be honest, sometimes I still feel lost without her. We had both struggled with mental health issues in high school we understood each other in a way that most of the people around us were unable to. We lived in the same house, experi