Primero

Yes, I am using this as a soap box but I am going to try only to share my own views and not speak for others. A good friend once told me, I often speak for others who do not share the same view as I do. I only think they do. This blog is not only a learning experience of personal knowledge and the ability to share it with others but a learning experience of accurately sharing my opinion. I am looking for a way to voice my opinion without coming off as dissatisfied with everything or worse griping. Many of the things I want to write about may sound like advice. If this is the case, the advice may be more for myself than anyone else. I just wish to share my thoughts and hope in some way, someone else can benefit from them as well.

Life seems to be a string of learning experiences. For an exam this past semester, I read a writer’s essay about her life. She wrote; interpret life not as a compartmentalized chain of stages but as a continuous, changing and living being, because we are. This mindset not only helps to learn from experiences but it also helps you change as a person. Personalities do not have to fit into seasons or times of life but can change based on your preference and most likely the best way to convey and describe your true self. Actions becoming habits is a difficult concept to grasp. Far too often I (and others) would view the habit as a single, unimportant action rather than a damaging habit. The personal experiences to insert into this vague situation are undoubtedly different but many must have experienced this situation. Many of us have ignored our single actions becoming habits but accepting this occurrence could help understand what habits bother us and which do not. Seeing our life as a continuous act, like understanding when our actions become habits, could make us more realistic.

Going into my junior year of college this coming semester, I wanted to try being more realistic. I hold many strong opinions and carry many developing ones. One foolish opinion, I have held is a strong distaste for Dave Matthews Band. I have always thought they are overrated and less talented than their worshipping followers think. Their new album has reversed my opinion. While some could find songs like “Funny the Way It Is,” and “Lying in the Hands of God” melodramatic, I think both evoke great emotion and thought. The lyrics remind me of things I used to think. It made me wonder why it was a past thought and not still an opinion I held. Funny the way it is, if you think about it, somebody is goin’ hungry and someone else is eatin’ out. This line from the chorus from “Funny the Way It Is,” does make me want to think about these hypocrisies that exist in our global society. I used to think about it, but then I felt like an idealist or a worse: naïve. Yearning to be more realistic, I want to find a balance in this thinking, balancing empathy for others with a realism of the circumstances. Writing it out, actually makes it seems more plausible than mulling it over.