Women, pffffft jk

I always try reallllly hard to come up with something good to blog about. Its always feels like you gotta be deep, you don't want to look shallow. step it up. when in the end all you got is nothing, whats to say then? (see what i did there?)

    I sat down the other day at a friends house, and saw from across the room a bookshelf filled with....you guessed it... books. My friends mother is very religious and as it seems from her bookshelf also very family orientated, or at least she tries to be. All of these books revolve around relationships and understanding people, like "how to know he's the one," maturing boys (she raised two sons), stuff on dating, stuff like that. Of course i had to pick up the book about my own kind and i skimmed it for about a half an hour and came up with this.

   First thing i noticed was that the book was written by one from the female sex, and the obvious question came to mind, what does she think she knows about guys. I guess a lot, the book was pretty big. lol. It was filled with random tidbits of information from boy or girls anywhere between the ages of 6 to 19, plus she threw in some psychological stuff to help put it all together.She asked these kids to take a survey from anywhere between what you don't get about girls/guys, to what do you think you do better. Some boys wrote the immature thing, like for the question  "what are girl good at?" some boys wrote cooking, cleaning, losing, things like that. I think girls are good at caring, maybe sometimes a little bit too much, but i wish that sometimes i could be as sensitive. I find myself to be a little cold, and probably to truthful when i have to deal with someone crying. I also ask you guys the same question if anyone bothers reading this, what are girls/guys better at doing that you wish you could do.

   Another thing in this book was about emotions. A lot of girls responses were about how they wished guys would open up to them more, or talk about their feeling more often. As a child, specifically a male child, boys don't share their feelings, they punch dance through them. (hot rod reference watch the movie) Through out the early childhood i think guys are raised to hide their feelings and be a man, maybe not always by the parent, but by friends as well. If a boy would cry at school for any reason there picked on, being a baby, but girls on the other hand are socially accepted to be allowed to cry. I'm not asking permission to be allowed to cry lol i just think its wierd the way we are raised by some and than begged by others later to open up. Idk about you guys but I've only seen my father cry once, and i never learned why i just remember being scared.

Lost, Books, and the topic of the day 9/11

After too much time trying to convince my girlfriend about how the movies i like aren't actually that bad, like the Lord of the Rings trilogy or equally nerdy movies, i got her to watch the Lost television series on netflix. Although i was trying to focus on the show i was really thinking about what the hell i was going to write about in this blog that's due in approximately one hour from now for my Comp 2 class. *enter Sawyer,* one of the most interesting character in my opinion in the Lost series. If you know anything about Lost, you'd know that Sawyer doesn't actually use anyone's name at all through out the series but instead calls them by what they look like, basically judges the book by its cover. Well, in the episode i was watching Sawyer gets into a fight with Sayid, an Israeli soldier, and during the fight he called him a terrorist which perfectly relates to today and the perspective of my community and how i believe you shouldn't have the right to call some one out on the basis of what they look like.

I don't remember much on September 11. I wouldn't of been able to tell you what grade i was in when it happened, i just trust my classmates when they said it was 3rd grade. People can tell you "yeah at the time i was eating a ham sandwich when i heard it on the news" when chances are i was playing with blocks, during school, without ever knowing what was happening, why it was happening, or who caused it.

A few years of schooling later you learn things. About  terrorist groups, who led them, what purpose they had, ect. Im not really good with history so ill probably get this wrong, but i think there was a time during the korean war when they were separating the asian from the rest of the population in America because of fear of communism, spies and so forth. Im not saying it got that bad here, but alot of people were afraid and judged people who looked like they were from the middle east like they were terrorist. which at the time i think was a reasonable fear, for atleast awhile.

I live in Oostburg, a small town in WI, very religious. When a group of people decided that they wanted to build a muslim church close to the community, people were upset and this was only last year. pitiful. When this church needed to go to the town board in order to gain documentation to have the right to use the building as a mosque the Oostburg community showed up. The community didn't use any reasoning for why the building couldn't be used for the way it is now, they could only say they are Muslim, they could kill us. It was all fear and ignorance, i thought that saying "don't judge a book by its cover" was meant for children. Its time to grow up, and i hope people have