Sunday, October 14, 2007

No brain

Sleeping in your car sucks. Sucks really bad. 'Specially when it's freezing outside.

I remember sitting on the floor with the lights off, sprawled out in my third grade class. My teacher, Mrs. Bosley, read us books every week. They were never books I had heard of though and little did I know being only 8, that each book she picked out was to affect us later on in life.
I remember around the beginning of autumn and october, she read to us a book about a little boy who was living a terrible life.
How people had enslaved him, taken him from his home, killed his family, took his house, took him from his country, and so on and so forth.
Turns out the man who did it to him was Christopher Columbus.

con·tro·ver·sy /ˈkɒntrəˌvɜrsi; Brit. also kənˈtrɒvərsi/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kon-truh-vur-see; Brit. also kuhn-trov-er-see] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun, plural -sies.
1. a prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; disputation concerning a matter of opinion.
2. contention, strife, or argument

She challenged what every other 3rd grade curriculum page said about Christopher Columbus and tried to show us how everyone's opinion isn't necessarily correct.

I applaud her for that now.

It seems that's what our generation is really about; Controversy.
Unfortunately, I do not know what is right and wrong.
It seems to be what we think is right is wrong, and what we think is wrong is right.
And sometimes I think people just see it like that, because they want to be different, not because they truly believe in their cause.

My head is searching for something reliable to grasp onto.
SOCIETY DO YOUR MAGIC AND LET THAT HAPPEN.
I'm not trying to say that I can't think for myself. But it's almost like whenever I voice my opinion, it has to automaticly be challenged, and for once I would like someone to just talk to me about my opinion and understand why I think the way I do, and share with me theirs.

I just want knowledge.
Too much to ask?

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