Extremely Late. Let myself go..

Well I guess I'm catching up. I'm gonna try to do this weekly because I'm not a great fan of doing these all at once.

The first one I have missing is:

Topic 3: Movies
MOVIES ARE AWESOME. I love all different types of genres, and find it fun to go to the theater and check out all different types of movies. The only thing that I've noticed lately is that the writers have kind of been lacking in good scripts and story lines lately. I feel like there hasn't been an AMAZING mind blowing movie out in awhile that everyone loves and wants to own. I remember when I was little there were all KINDS of movies that people wanted to own and loved for example 'Finding Nemo'. Everyone wanted that movie and thought it was the greatest movie in the world, but maybe since I was a little kid, I could just be imagining things. But still, you get the point. Besides the fact, I have enjoyed some movies that have been coming out lately like 'Alice in Wonderland' and (Sorry if you hate it) 'Shutter Island'. I seem to love the movies that everyone hates. I loved Shutter Island. It had a good story line and a good twist at the end, which I wasn't expecting and that to me is a good movie. Maybe suspense is just my genre, but I loved it.

Topic 7: Spring Break
To tell you the truth I don't understand the point of spring break, but hey, I don't mind the week off from school. I think that spring break is a good relief from the February to June stretch of school where we get barely any days off. Or so I think that is the reason of spring break. But besides the reason, I usually don't do anything on it. This years spring break was extra lame because I literally did nothing. I have gone on some vacations on spring break in the past but I honestly find it easier to go on vacations in the summer because your schedule is more flexible.

Topic 8: What's Missing?
What is missing from my life? Hmmm that is a tough question. I think as of right now, I feel like I am somewhat losing my best friend. I feel like I'm a backup, which is causing me to feel a huge chunk of myself is missing since she's practically my other half. But I've had times much worse than now and I guess I'm just lucky for right now, but I definitely hate the feeling I've felt like I am missing affection from family members, or missing that comforting feeling in me. Also sometimes I am confident, and sometimes I get so down on myself which causes me to think that there is something missing that might push my confidence over the edge and make me happy, but again, they come in phases. I feel like sometimes people go through life looking for that one 'missing' piece that will make their puzzle complete and will therefor complete their life and make them happy, but in my opinion, you just have to let that piece find you. When I feel like many things are missing in my life, I usually tell myself that life is hard and that things can only get better, unless you stay in that state of mind where everything is depressing and complain about how horrible your life is. I used to do that. And although it may sound cliche, being positive really makes things better. I've found that out over time, and although it took me awhile, I think it's one of the big lessons of life.

Topic 9: Sexism
Sexism is everywhere. And if you're against it, look around you it's everywhere. T.v., Radio, Books, Magazines, etc. The media is FULL of sexism. For example: On commercials for household objects such as dish soap, vacuums, laundry detergent and cleaning products, do you see MALES doing the job of the product? No. It's always the "Stay at home mom", which makes me mad because if they're gonna do that then they might as well just make products like 'Mr.Clean' Mrs. Clean because it makes more sense. The Same goes for yard work appliances and car products, There isn't a woman even hired for those commercials, unless it's some model with barely any clothes on trying to attract the men. It is everywhere. Even kids today are sexist and have it locked in their brains that guys can do everything better than girls because they're more fit for it. Here's the typical stereotype for men and women: Man wakes up for work and makes the money for the household while Woman stays at home and cleans for the Man while taking care of the children. Man comes home to nice tasty meal and gets catered by the wife and so on and so forth. BULL. Here's how it was in my family. Both my parents went to work until my dad retired, but since my dad worked 24 on 48 off, HE did all the house and yard work and catered to my mom. It's NEVER changed in my family. My mom probably hasn't cleaned since I was a toddler. And I'm not the only kid who has a family like that. Although I could go on about this forever, I think that I've made my point that women and men both share a lot of the same roles, and people don't even realize it, they're just still stuck in the 1950's.

HALFWAY THERE!!!

Topic 10: Hidden Beauty
There is a lot of hidden beauty in the world. I really liked the video that Mr. Humphrey posted for this topic, because as you can see, that violinist was amazing, and out of the hundreds of people that walked through the building, only 1 really stopped to listen, and only a few gave him change. If you think about it, only ONE person out of HUNDREDS of people saw the beauty of that situation. Even thinking of this topic, I've looked back on my day and thought of all the beautiful things around me that I didn't even notice. And now that I think about it, it's kind of sad... Why don't we realize these things more often? It's horrible because one day, those things could be gone, and like they say, you don't really appreciate things until they're gone. I try my best to love and cherish the things around me that people overlook like clean water, food, and a roof over my head but I guess people may just realize it at a later time in life. I sometimes overlook things, everybody does it's just human nature, but some people don't realize it at all, which I think really hurts our world, but that's life, and hopefully one day we can change it.

Topic 11: Topics
Topics for this blog are, not gonna lie, sometimes really difficult... But sometimes they make me really think about my answer and kind of make me question other things and what I do and don't want to share. I guess that's kind of the point but sometimes I don't enjoy the blog topics at all. I read on someones blog, I don't remember who, but same topic that they thought you should pick a quote, and write what it means and what it means to you. I think that is a really great idea, and I really like that idea. In Mrs. Horn's class she has a 'Quote of the Day' thing and you have to write a response to the quote posted and although it had nothing to really do with my class, it's still and awesome exercise that gets you thinking and I would really enjoy it if that same kind of idea was a blog topic. You could even do multiple quotes if one wasn't enough for you, like pick your top 3 favorite quotes and write a response on them, but the topic is really flexible and you could get a lot of interesting answers from it.

Topic 12: Responsibility
This is probably the hardest blog I've came to yet, because if you think about it, responsibility is really unclear. What kind of responsibilities do you gain when you get a year older every year? do you get more? less? what is it? Parents always say "It's your responsibility to do this" but who says that? Are you going to become less of a person if you don't do it? I mean minus the chores and tasks they give you but for example: "Once you turn 16 you it's your responsibility to get a job" Why? is it because 16 is the minimum hiring age and people just expect that? Why is that a responsibility? Personally, I think getting a job at 16 is good, but again i don't think it's a responsibility. Of course certain actions come with consequences and responsibilities I understand that, but what I don't understand is the rock solid ones of our society. Who made them up and why are they still around today? Do we have responsibilities that are MUSTS?


DONE. And I apologize to Mr. Humphrey for being so late on the blog. As you can see, I've had so many topics that I had a topic for every color in the rainbow. Which is NOT good. That's seven blogs. Well I blame myself, but maybe the colors will make it a little nicer...

-Lauren
:)